• Public REIT Divests to Owner/Operator

    by | Oct 14, 2025 3:16 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint facilitated the sale of a Massachusetts skilled nursing facility on behalf of a public REIT in the senior care sector. The REIT determined that the facility was a strong candidate for sale due to its location. Plus, the former operator was switching focus to other assets in its mutual portfolio.  Purpose-built in 1982 with... Read More »

  • Development Company Acquires Through Membership Buyout

    by | Oct 14, 2025 3:15 pm | Acquisitions

    A Missouri-based real estate developer engaged Blueprint to facilitate its membership buyout of a joint venture partner. Brooks Blackmon, Ben Firestone and Lauren Nagle handled the transaction. Four years ago, the firm was brought on to raise capital, ultimately sourcing an institutional capital partner to develop a private pay seniors housing... Read More »

  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Previewing Our Capital Markets Conversation

    by | Oct 14, 2025 3:09 pm | 60 Seconds

    We know that the capital markets have made the biggest impact on M&A activity and property valuations in the last several years, changing the size of possible deals, the makeup of the properties sold and the buyers that could actually buy. Now that the capital markets have substantially improved and are getting better, barring a sudden and... Read More »

  • Seller Exits Seniors Industry with Divestment to REIT

    by | Oct 14, 2025 2:59 pm | Acquisitions

    A single-asset seniors housing owner is exiting the industry with the sale of their property in Murrieta, California. Built in 2016 and 2018, Renaissance Village Murrieta has 142 units of assisted living and memory care in three stories. It was operating just below 70% occupancy, so there is plenty of room for a new owner to improve performance... Read More »

  • Deal Closes Following Buyer Withdrawals

    by | Oct 14, 2025 2:58 pm | Acquisitions

    After a long process that saw multiple buyers pull out from the deal, the sale of Sarah Neuman Skilled Nursing Facility in Mamaroneck, New York, has closed with the help of Mark Myers at Kiser Group. Owned by a religious not-for-profit organization, The New Jewish Home, the facility features 301 beds and was losing money. Myers had previously... Read More »
Private Equity Firm Buys High-Medicaid Assisted Living Community

Private Equity Firm Buys High-Medicaid Assisted Living Community

by | Feb 21, 2018 7:01 am | Acquisitions

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

by | Feb 16, 2018 7:01 am | Acquisitions

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

by | Feb 7, 2018 7:01 am | Acquisitions

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

by | Dec 5, 2017 9:00 pm | Acquisitions

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

by | Nov 2, 2017 8:41 pm | Acquisitions

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 »