• 60 Seconds with Swett: M&A Activity Tops 350 Deals in H1:25

    In the second quarter of 2025, there were 176 publicly announced transactions, a preliminary number that is almost certain to increase in the weeks ahead. That brings our total for the first half of the year to 355 deals, or 710 on an annualized basis. Considering we finished 2024 with 716 total deals, which was a record by far, we are in a good... Read More »
  • Bloom Exits South Carolina’s Seniors Housing Market

    Kandu Capital, LLC, and its operating company, Bloom Senior Living, collectively known as Bloom, sold its final seniors housing community in South Carolina. The company is seeking realignment as it exits the state after a decade-long presence in the region. The 129-unit independent living and memory care community, which is in Bluffton, sold for... Read More »
  • Improving Ohio SNF Sees Strong Price

    Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage secured a strong price for a skilled nursing facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in 1965, the facility was originally licensed for 199 beds, but the decision was made to strategically reduce the beds to 167 to save on provider tax and improve the Medicaid rate.  The facility struggled for many... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Ventures Makes Major SNF Acquisition

    Stacked Stone Ventures, a real estate investment firm founded by Kent Eikanas, has made a major acquisition in the skilled nursing sector, acquiring nine skilled nursing facilities for approximately $33 million, or $66,000 per bed, at a 13% cap rate. Stacked Stone bought the portfolio in a joint venture with Praxis Capital from a large... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Announces Two Refinances

    Tremper Capital Group announced a couple of refinances at the end of the second quarter for seniors housing clients. The first was arranged on behalf of Kisco Senior Living for its 333-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Built in 2004, the campus was acquired by Kisco as part of a larger CCRC deal in 2013, and since then it... Read More »
Brookdale vs Capital Senior Living

Brookdale vs Capital Senior Living

Not that there is a competition, but since the end of 2020, Capital Senior Living has outperformed Brookdale Senior Living with a price gain of 345% compared with 93% for Brookdale. It helped that Capital Senior was starting from a very low point. But for both companies that is pretty good, and both beat the overall market.   They have both benefitted from the vaccine impact, with increases in leads, tours, move-ins and census. For each of the last three months, Brookdale has posted a 50-basis point increase in month-end occupancy, which is great, but will it be enough?  Investors think they are on the right track, and have pushed the share price up by more than 25% in the... Read More »
The Stahler Group Sells Monterey County Memory Care Community

The Stahler Group Sells Monterey County Memory Care Community

The Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap just closed the sale of a 69-unit assisted living/memory care community in Monterey County, California. Well located with strong demand and limited competition, the 22-year-old community was owned by a not-for-profit healthcare provider and originally leased by Emeritus, then ultimately by Brookdale Senior Living. Brookdale chose to not renew their lease for the community, which brought in sufficient cash flow but also offered significant operational upside with occupancy at 65%.  After multiple full-price, competitive offers, a buyer with a strong regional presence stepped in to buy the community, using acquisition debt from a regional... Read More »
Ziegler Sells Two Healthpeak Properties/Brookdale Senior Living CCRCs

Ziegler Sells Two Healthpeak Properties/Brookdale Senior Living CCRCs

Ziegler’s Dan Revie Tedd Van Gorden represented Healthpeak Properties in the sale of its last two entrance-fee CCRCs that were part of its joint venture with Brookdale Senior Living. The deal includes Foxwood Springs, a 434-unit campus in Raymore, Missouri, and Robin Run, a 457-unit campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. Both were originally part of the National Benevolent Association portfolio that went through bankruptcy proceedings over a decade ago. And after Healthpeak bought out Brookdale’s interest in the joint venture in Fall 2019, these were the only two campuses excluded from that transaction.  Subsidiaries of the Texas-based not-for-profit Boncrest Resource Group acquired the... Read More »
Bloom Senior Living Sells Two South Carolina Communities

Bloom Senior Living Sells Two South Carolina Communities

Kandu Capital and its operating affiliate Bloom Senior Living just sold two of their South Carolina assisted living and memory care communities. Bloom at Hilton Head and Bloom at Bluffton have been part of the Bloom family of communities since they were purchased from Brookdale Senior Living in 2013 for $7.2 million, or $61,500 per unit.   They were struggling at the time with just $3.5 million of revenues and Bloom turned them around and grew revenues and EBITDA significantly, with EBITDA reaching $1.2 million in 2016. Then, several new communities were opened in the market and COVID-19 appeared. Occupancy dipped but the communities remained very cash... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Bottoms Out

Brookdale Senior Living Bottoms Out

It has been a tough go for Brookdale Senior Living for several years, really, ever since its acquisition of Emeritus in 2014. But the pandemic was almost the final nail in its coffin. Now those nails are beginning to be removed, and perhaps the resurrection is in sight.  While there is work still to be done, the big O, as in occupancy, has finally ended its slide. It looks like February was the bottom, with average occupancy dropping 60 basis points to 69.4% from January, and then remained there in March but increased 50 basis points in April to 69.9%. End-of-month occupancy also bottomed out in February at 70.1%, increasing by 50 basis points by March 31 and... Read More »