• 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 »
  • 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 »
  • Sonida Closes CNL Acquisition, Reports Q4 Results

    On the same day as fourth quarter and year-end 2025 financial results were announced, Sonida Senior Living closed on its previously announced acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties (CNL). The transaction value was approximately $1.8 billion and included a combination of cash (32%) and stock (68%). Because Sonida’s share price had risen above... Read More »
Callison Moves To Sunrise Senior Living

Callison Moves To Sunrise Senior Living

Jack Callison Jr. has been named the new CEO of Sunrise Senior Living, after the December announcement that current CEO Chris Winkle was leaving effective April 1. Ferguson Partners led the executive search effort. Mr. Callison has spent the last seven and a half years as CEO of Enlivant, taking over the role concurrent with TPG’s take private acquisition of the company. However, he will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors at Enlivant, and current president and COO Dan Guill will take over as CEO.   Before that, Mr. Callison spent five years in the CEO position at Holiday Retirement, some of which were a bit tumultuous. Running two different national seniors housing operating... Read More »
Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured Fannie Mae financing for a portfolio of five seniors housing communities in several states operated by Enlivant. The long-term, non-recourse debt was secured by Charlie Shoop at an attractive interest rate. Plus, KeyBank’s Tim Sylvain, Paul Di Vito and Patrick Gilbreath originated and structured a balance sheet financing that extended the revolving lines of credit to other seniors housing properties operated by Enlivant.  Read More »
Enlivant Sells Vacant Assisted Living Community

Enlivant Sells Vacant Assisted Living Community

A vacant assisted living community in Caldwell, Idaho found a new owner and a new lease on life in a deal handled by Blake Bozett, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Built in the late-1990s, the community was rebranded in 2016 by the seller, Enlivant, but eventually shuttered. A local owner/operator in good standing with the state will renovate and relicense the building for assisted living. This was their seventh acquisition in the state, and they paid in cash. Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT Strengthens

Sabra Health Care REIT Strengthens

Sabra Health Care REIT continues to defy the naysayers, posting a decent third quarter overall, with its skilled nursing portfolio holding the line and its seniors housing portfolio growing revenues, cash net operating income and cash operating margin. Investors sent the shares to a new 52-week high, 56% above its 52-week low, and the forward yield of 7.3% is the lowest it has been in a while. Sabra’s skilled nursing triple-net leased occupancy remained stable at 82.4%, and the EBITDAR coverage remained at 1.24x from the second quarter to the third. While we like to see at least a 1.4x lease coverage, if not higher, the coverage appears to have bottomed out. The seniors housing leased... Read More »
Third Quarter M&A Results Are In

Third Quarter M&A Results Are In

We will be addressing the quarterly seniors housing and care M&A results in both the October issue of The SeniorCare Investor, as well as in our Health Care M&A Quarterly Report, which covers all 13 health care sectors. But, here is a preview: Although it remained above 70 deals for the quarter, seniors housing and care M&A activity fell to a year-low, tying with last year’s third quarter at 71 publicly announced transactions. Dollar volume also fell from its recent peak of $9.7 billion in the second quarter of 2017, recording $2.5 billion in transaction value based on disclosed prices. Increasingly, we have seen buyers prefer the one-off deals that come with one or two... Read More »