• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... 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 »