• Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    by | Apr 24, 2024 8:44 am | Acquisitions

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »

  • Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:56 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »

  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:54 pm | Acquisitions

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »

  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:48 pm | 60 Seconds

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »

  • More Shareholder Activism

    by | Apr 22, 2024 9:04 am | Opinion

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
NHI Expands Comfort Care Partnership

NHI Expands Comfort Care Partnership

by | May 23, 2019 4:11 pm | Acquisitions

National Health Investors expanded its relationship with Comfort Care Senior Living, adding another Michigan assisted living community to its existing portfolio with the operator. The collaboration began in 2018 when NHI acquired two assisted living communities in Bridgeport and Saginaw, Michigan for $17.1 million, or $164,400 per unit. Those properties, both built within the last five years, were then leased to Comfort Care at an average yield of 8.1% with CPI-based escalators. Now, NHI is acquiring a brand-new, 73-unit assisted living/memory care community in the town of Brighton at a price of $13.5 million, or $184,900 per unit. Comfort Care is assuming operations under a 10-year lease... Read More »
NHI Expands Comfort Care Partnership

National Health Investors Invests in Michigan

by | Jun 22, 2018 7:01 am | Acquisitions

National Health Investors entered into a new relationship in Michigan, after acquiring a pair of assisted living communities from, and leasing them back to, affiliates of Comfort Care Senior Living. The targets were built in the last five years around Saginaw, Michigan, and include a 51-unit assisted living/memory care community in Bridgeport and a 53-unit AL/MC community in Thomas Township. National Health Investors bought the properties for $17.1 million, or about $164,400 per unit, with a cap rate just below 9% based on estimated EBITDA, and leased them to Comfort Care at an average yield of 8.1% with CPI-based escalators. NHI also obtained a purchase option on two additional... Read More »