• West Coast and Northeast Skilled Nursing Facilities Sell

    Walker & Dunlop’s Gideon Orion has announced several recent skilled nursing sales on the West Coast and the Northeast. First, he teamed up with Tony Cassie to sell a 69-bed skilled nursing facility in Bellevue, Washington, on behalf of a family office seller. The facility could use some operational improvements. An undisclosed buyer paid... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Community Out of Receivership  

    Fortress Investment Group acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Palm Coast, Florida, in a court-approved sale process. Built in 2018 just a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, the community features 130 units on an 11.4-acre site. There are 86 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, along with 22 “enhanced” assisted living... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Deals Close Across Several Markets

    Coming off of a successful 2025 with 32 separate transaction closings totaling more than $900 million in volume, the Walker & Dunlop investment sales team is off to a strong start in 2026 with a number of seniors housing and healthcare real estate transactions closed in the first quarter, so far. The deals spanned several markets, and the... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President on March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Divests Two SNFs to Journey

    Selectis Health is selling two skilled nursing facilities in Georgia to the skilled nursing operator Journey. The deal included the 101-bed Glen Eagle Healthcare in Abbeville and the 100-bed Rehab and Eastman Healthcare and Rehab in Eastman. Journey-affiliated entities will purchase the pair for $15.7 million, or $78,100 per bed, subject to... Read More »
New Proposal for Capital Senior Living

New Proposal for Capital Senior Living

As we get closer to the voting date for shareholders to approve of the recapitalization proposal of Capital Senior Living by Conversant Capital, with the full support of Cap Senior’s management and board, at long last an alternative plan has been put forward. We didn’t think that Ortelius Advisors had much of a leg to stand on in their proxy fight without any alternative for shareholders to consider. Now we have one, as loosey-goosey as it may be.  Ortelius has proposed a new equity rights offering, which they will backstop and subscribe to well beyond their current pro rata holdings of about 12.7%. They believe that raising up to $70 million of new... Read More »

Cap Senior Shareholder Battle Continues

At this point, all we can say is that there have been a lot of pissed off shareholders of Capital Senior Living, and not just this year. It goes back several years when the stock price was just over $27 ($416 in today’s post-split equivalent price) and the market was riding high in general. Shareholders thought management and the board should take advantage of the environment and sell. The rest, of course, is history. Companies were being sold at premium values, such as the sale of Emeritus to Brookdale Senior Living (which never should have happened). And later on, the 49% interest in Enlivant sold to Sabra Health Care REIT nearly $200,000 per unit. Cap Senior’s assets were much better.... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Corrects Earnings Statement

Capital Senior Living Corrects Earnings Statement

Early today, Capital Senior Living announced revisions to its second quarter earnings report, most likely as a result of our reporting last Friday of the very misleading error, as well as management’s denial of any reporting issue during the earnings call. No one else caught the mistake, and it was not an insignificant one.  In today’s release, they called it an “inconsistency” in the preparation of the supplemental information with regard to operating expenses and operating margin. As a result, the operating margin for the second quarter was 21.5% and not 28.7% as was originally reported. The originally reported 860-basis point sequential increase in operating margin should... Read More »
Capital Senior Living, Mixed Messages

Capital Senior Living, Mixed Messages

Capital Senior Living released its second quarter earnings yesterday, and there was some good news with the bad. On the good news front, occupancy has increased from the February low of 75.3% to 81.8% at the end of July, for a whopping 650 basis point increase. That is among the best we have heard in the industry. Some of the increase came from discounting early on in the recovery, and management said these incentives have begun to decline.  The bad news on the occupancy front is that the rate of increase has significantly slowed. April saw a 143-basis point increase, followed by 134 bps in May, and then slowed to 85 in June and a paltry 25 in July. Now, as we have statistically... Read More »

60 Seconds With Steve Monroe: Capital Senior Living Butting Heads

Transcript A few weeks ago, we wrote about the proposed recapitalization of Capital Senior Living. This will give effective control to the investor, Conversant Capital, and result in a lot of dilution to existing shareholders. The investment is also very expensive. We thought that Cap Senior may have had no other choice: either this or face a major liquidity crunch, and possibly bankruptcy. One investor, Ortelius Advisors, with just under a 10% interest, thinks differently, and blasted management in writing. They think there are other ways to recap the company, and that other like-minded shareholders would be willing to help out financially as well. This may all be true, but where were... Read More »