• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:18 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »

  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:17 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »

  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:13 pm | Acquisitions

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »

  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:12 pm | Uncategorized

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »

  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    by | Feb 3, 2026 3:47 pm | Acquisitions

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... Read More »

Ensign Expands Into Texas and Wisconsin

by | Jun 28, 2017 6:01 am | Acquisitions

The Ensign Group boosted its position in two markets with the acquisition of five assisted living communities previously operated by Brookdale Senior Living. First, in Texas, where the company already owns nearly fifty properties, Ensign acquired two 37-unit assisted living communities located in the towns of Lancaster (Dallas MSA) and Paris (rural east Texas). Lately, Ensign has only acquired skilled nursing facilities in the state: one San Antonio SNF in February 2017 and two others previously owned by National Health Investors in April 2016, to name a couple. So, while Ensign may have veered slightly from its recent Texas strategy with those two communities, the company doubled down in... Read More »

Ensign crosses the Mississippi…East

by | Aug 5, 2015 8:32 am | Acquisitions

An operator of skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities primarily in western states, The Ensign Group made its first eastward crossing of the Mississippi in a big way, by acquiring the operations of 15 assisted living communities with 687 total units in Wisconsin. Bridgestone Living LLC, Ensign’s seniors housing subsidiary, assumed a long-term master lease on the properties, which includes an option to purchase all of the real estate. The portfolio, with a combined occupancy rate of 83%, is expected to be mildly accretive to earnings in 2015. In addition, the next day Ensign bolstered its already strong presence in Southern California with the acquisition of two... Read More »