• 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 »
REIT Buys Utah Senior Living Portfolio

REIT Buys Utah Senior Living Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments sold a portfolio of three new assisted living/memory care communities in the Salt Lake City, Utah metro area known as The Abbington Senior Living Portfolio. Totaling 229 units, split between 174 assisted living and 55 memory care, these communities were developed in the last five years, but two of the properties were still in the final stages of lease-up at the time of the sale. Occupancy averaged 85%, with a 93% private pay census, and the portfolio generated a 28% EBITDAR margin in the trailing 12 months. One community was subject to a long-term land lease. A real estate private equity company sold the portfolio to an East Coast-based REIT stepped in to purchase... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Structures Sale of Brand-New Tampa Community

Evans Senior Investments Structures Sale of Brand-New Tampa Community

A publicly traded REIT picked up a brand-new senior living community in Tampa, Florida, and we mean brand-new. Opened just this summer, the community was developed by Lindell Investments Inc. and Solutions Advisors, whose affiliate Solvere Living was also the operator. Featuring 64 assisted living and 38 memory care units, its total development cost was estimated to be $27.5 million, or around $270,000 per unit. The census, although still in fill-up, is 100% private pay. Amenities include a bistro and bar, a fitness center, and a salon and spa. The REIT buyer paid $28.75 million, or $281,900 per unit, for the community and will bring in a regional operator to manage it. The first task,... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Launches Senior Living Marketing Venture

Evans Senior Investments Launches Senior Living Marketing Venture

If the seniors housing industry is ever going to emerge from its current census slump, then rigorous and modern marketing efforts seem like a great way to start. However, many small regional operators and mom & pops have barely left the 20th century in their marketing strategies, and their websites show it. The truth is that they may have been operating just fine for years, but with a lot of new competition and a more tech-savvy clientele, that may not be an option anymore. And they will continue to lose out to the larger, national operators that can afford a comprehensive and state-of-the-art marketing strategy. Also, for the industry as a whole, better marketing can also improve... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells New Nashville Property

Evans Senior Investments Sells New Nashville Property

Having just wrapped up its initial lease-up, a senior living community in Nashville, Tennessee just sold to a regional owner/operator based in North Carolina. Evans Senior Investments handled the transaction, which came with a $20.05 million, or $213,000 per unit, purchase price. Built in 2017, the community features 94 units of assisted living and memory care, with a 100% private pay census. Occupancy was a strong 94% at the time of the sale. It operated at around a 20% margin on $3.57 million of revenues. The seller was an independent owner/operator. Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Closes Two Sales

Evans Senior Investments Closes Two Sales

Evans Senior Investments announced a couple of transactions last week. First, the firm represented a regional owner/operator in the sale of two senior living/skilled nursing properties in Michigan. Each community had positive cash flow at the time of sale, but with the potential for some improvement under new ownership. It should help that 100% of the senior living census at both properties was 100% private pay, and the skilled nursing featured a high mix of Medicare residents. Then, Evans headed to Anderson, South Carolina to sell a struggling skilled nursing facility on behalf of its single-asset independent owner/operator. Built in 1965, with additions in 1974 and 1980, the 181-bed... Read More »