• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • 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 »
Private Equity Firm Buys High-Medicaid Assisted Living Community

Private Equity Firm Buys High-Medicaid Assisted Living Community

Despite having a nearly two-thirds Medicaid census, an assisted living community in Bellingham, Washington still maintained a healthy profit margin and sold to a California-based private equity firm. Built 40 years ago, the 66-unit community features mostly studio units, with 10 one-bedroom units, and was 93% occupied. Private pay residents only made up 30% of the total census, and yet, the community posted a 27% EBITDAR margin on approximately $2.22 million of revenues. That’s impressive from the previous independent owner/operator, who sold the community for $7.025 million, or about $106,400 per unit, with an 8.5% cap rate. There is still room for improvement for the incoming private... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Southern Illinois Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments Sells Southern Illinois Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments is on a tear in 2018, having just closed a portfolio sale in southern Illinois on behalf of the independent owner/operator seller after already closing three other deals earlier this month. The “Legacy Place” portfolio consists of four assisted living/memory care communities and 200 total units (149 AL and 51 MC) spread out across southern Illinois. Each community was purpose-built in the last eight years and operated well, with a combined 95% occupancy, 100% private pay census and 34.3% EBITDAR margin on approximately $7.72 million of trailing revenues, portfolio-wide. A regional owner/operator stepped in as the buyer, paying $32.63 million, or about $163,000 per... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Lands A Triple

Evans Senior Investments Lands A Triple

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) showed its range in closing three transactions across the country, totaling over $20 million. First, in its home state of Illinois, ESI represented the seller, an independent owner/operator, in the sale/leaseback of its 30-unit assisted living community in Winnebago (near Rockford, Illinois) for $4 million, or $133,300 per unit. Just 10 years old, the community was operating well, with 97% occupancy, 100% private pay census, and a 33% operating margin on about $1.225 million of revenues. A publicly traded REIT added the property into a master lease in which the seller already managed other communities on behalf of the REIT. Moving South, ESI handled the sale... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Facility Receivership Ends With Sale

Skilled Nursing Facility Receivership Ends With Sale

A Kansas skilled nursing facility in receivership recently sold with the help of Evans Senior Investments, for an undisclosed price. Built in 1977, the facility has 67 skilled nursing beds and 15 residential care units, and it was 81% occupied. However, despite its location five blocks away from the area’s only community hospital, it was in receivership at the time of listing. ESI represented the court-appointed receiver in the facility’s sale to an experienced operator that plans to use its economies of scale to increase revenues and improve the operating margin. Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Value-Add Assisted Living

Evans Senior Investments Sells Value-Add Assisted Living

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) successfully sold a 92-unit assisted living/memory care community, for an undisclosed price, in Greendale, Wisconsin (about 10 miles south of Milwaukee). Built in 1998, with additions in 1999 and 2010, this three-building campus includes 92 units of assisted living and memory care, licensed as a Community-Based Residential Facility. Occupancy has been increasing since January 2016, and now sits in the low-90s, with a significant Medicaid census. Chicago-based SHA Capital Partners was the buyer and brought in Matthews Senior Living to operate the community, which is considered to be a value-add opportunity for them. ESI represented an independent owner in the... Read More »