• Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
  • Omega Healthcare Investors Acquires Performing AL/MC Asset

    Omega Healthcare Investors announced that it acquired a seniors housing community in Alabama for $10.3 million, or $128,750 per unit. The community appears to be Proveer at Grande View, which has been rebranded as The Ridge at Grandeview. Blueprint was engaged by the seller in its divestment of this community.  Built in 1999, The Ridge at... Read More »
  • T7 Capital Hits the Ground Running

    Founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson in 2025, T7 Capital has hit the ground running, announcing more than $3 billion in closed transactions in their first year. And the team continued at that same pace into 2026, closing more than $200 million of transaction volume in January. T7 Capital, which advises clients on financing... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living Adds San Antonio Asset

    Ventas found a new operator for its Villa De San Antonio Senior Living community in San Antonio Texas, bringing on Stellar Senior Living, a Utah-based family-owned senior care owner/operator, to manage the community. The addition of this community, which was built in 2006 and features 219 independent living and assisted living units, expands... Read More »
  • Harrison Street Acquires Class-A Communities in Fairfield County

    A couple of new, high-end seniors housing communities in affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, traded with the help of Jay Wagner, Rick Swartz, Aaron Rosenzweig and Jim Dooley of JLL Capital Markets’ seniors housing investment sales and advisory team. They represented the sellers, Virtus Real Estate Capital and LCB Senior Living, although LCB... Read More »
Giannini Closes Savage Senior Living Deal

Giannini Closes Savage Senior Living Deal

Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin office, along with Associate John Klement, worked on behalf of a local developer to sell a 94-unit senior living community in Savage, Minnesota (Minneapolis MSA). Why sell a community that since opening in 2015 has seen occupancy soar up to 94% and operating margin stabilize at just over 35% on about $4.2 million of revenues? The seller, which has previously developed a number of seniors housing co-ops in the area, hopes to take the proceeds of this successful transaction to further grow its business in the Minneapolis market. Much of the credit for the quick lease-up can be chalked up to Ebenezer Management Services, which... Read More »

Minnesota Building Boom

Construction of seniors housing communities seems to be speeding up in Minnesota, with a slew of groundbreakings announced in the last month. Two developments in the Minneapolis/St. Paul MSA will be managed by Ebenezer Management Services upon completion. The first, a 105-unit community with 80 independent/assisted living and 25 memory care units, is being developed by Oppidan Investment Company. The second is an 84-unit community (with 60 IL/AL and 24 MC units) which is being built at a cost of $16 million, or $190,500 per unit. That is about $27,000 less than the state average for seniors housing ($217,200 per unit), according to our database, which includes developments since late 2013.... Read More »