• Diversified Healthcare Trust’s SHOP Delivers Strong Results

    Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) announced fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2025 results, and its SHOP segment delivered. Same-property SHOP NOI in the fourth quarter jumped 27.6% year over year to $38 million, and full-year SHOP NOI climbed 31.3% to $129.3 million. Same property SHOP occupancy reached 82.4% in Q4, up 90 basis points from... Read More »
  • Lease Option Closes for High-Performing CT SNFs

    A long-time regional owner/operator looking to secure capital for future redeployment into the skilled nursing sector approached Blueprint to market two skilled nursing facilities. The high-performing assets sit 40 miles apart in southern and western Connecticut with 301 total beds. The non-union facilities were generating $4.4 million of EBITDAR... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Acquires North Carolina Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A few seniors housing communities in North Carolina were recently divested by a North Carolina owner/operator. The three assets total 61 independent living units and 173 assisted living and memory care beds. The independent living component was developed by the seller. The buyer, a not-for-profit with more than 30 years of experience acquiring... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Owner/Operator Secures Its First HUD Financing

    In a transaction that marks the third time Berkadia has secured financing for the asset, the company arranged a $35.4 million HUD financing for a 189-bed skilled nursing facility in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The asset was developed in three phases between 1996 and 2007. It has been owned by a Louisiana-based owner/operator of skilled nursing... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Receives Financing

    MONTICELLOAM provided financing to three seniors housing communities in Illinois. Originated by Karina Davydov, the package includes up to $44 million in bridge financing with a 36-month term. The portfolio offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. The sponsor, a Midwest-based senior living operator... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Acquires Catholic Health Care Campus In California

CareTrust REIT Acquires Catholic Health Care Campus In California

CareTrust REIT bought a California senior care campus and brought on a new tenant in its latest transaction. Formerly owned by the Catholic not-for-profit Our Lady of Fatima, the Saratoga campus consists of 85 skilled nursing beds and 37 assisted living units, with both components well occupied. It sold for $19.0 million (which includes transaction costs), or $152,500 per bed/unit, with a roughly 12.8% cap rate. Under the management of CareTrust’s new lessee, Kalesta Healthcare, it is expected to bring in approximately $1.7 million in cash rent for each of the next two years, which thereafter escalates based on CPI. The lease term comes with an initial term of 15 years and two five-year... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes $400 Million Bridge Financing

Lancaster Pollard Closes $400 Million Bridge Financing

There’s no such thing as a summer lull for Lancaster Pollard, which recently announced the closing of $400 million in bridge financing for 27 skilled nursing facilities located throughout California. The borrower was a large skilled nursing operator based in California, Plum Healthcare, that previously had a corporate term loan credit facility on the portfolio. Grant Goodman, Jason Dopoulos, Joe Munhall and Elliot Kaple led the way for Lancaster Pollard, which served as syndication agent on the transaction, while Credit Suisse served as the lender. Upon the transaction’s closing, Lancaster Pollard immediately began work on refinancing through HUD. Meanwhile, Rob McAdams of Lancaster... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Acquires Catholic Health Care Campus In California

CareTrust REIT Acquires in California

CareTrust REIT is on a tear this year, having acquired 33 senior care properties since the start of 2017 and bringing its portfolio to 184 total properties. In all of this activity, CareTrust has also not been limited to a specific geography, making acquisitions in 10 states across the country. Despite being headquartered in San Clemente, California, CareTrust waited until Halloween to make its first Golden State acquisition of the year, and entered into a new tenant relationship at the same time. The REIT announced it had bought three skilled nursing facilities, totaling 528 beds, in Southern California for approximately $69 million, or about $130,700 per unit. Operating the facilities... Read More »
Diving Into CareTrust REIT’s Latest Virginia Acquisition

Diving Into CareTrust REIT’s Latest Virginia Acquisition

When CareTrust REIT announced a spate of deals at the beginning of this month, on top of an already busy year, one deal in particular stood out, mainly for the fact that it did not involve a skilled nursing facility. With a couple of exceptions when the REIT purchased a few memory care communities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2017 has mostly seen a build-up of CareTrust’s skilled nursing portfolio, including 20 facilities in five transactions announced so far this year. However, CareTrust bucked its recent trend and also acquired a portfolio of three assisted living communities in Virginia from Amerisist Assisted Living for an undisclosed price. Located in Culpepper, Louisa and Warrenton... Read More »

CareTrust REIT Keeps It Up

CareTrust REIT is heading closer and closer to the 200-facility mark, currently sitting at 181 properties in 23 states, as it continues to purchase senior care facilities across the country. Just last month, the REIT bought 13 skilled nursing facilities in Washington, Texas and Idaho, all formerly operated by affiliates of Kindred Healthcare. Now, CareTrust has added three more Kindred facilities in Washington State to its growing portfolio. Located in Arden, Lakewood and Vancouver, the facilities total 268 beds. CareTrust added them to its existing master lease with affiliates of Five Oaks Healthcare, which has a remaining initial term of about 13 years, two five-year renewal options and... Read More »