• 12 Oaks Senior Living Appoints New CFO

    by | Jul 8, 2025 3:44 pm | Uncategorized

    12 Oaks Senior Living appointed Elliott Westerman as CFO, effective immediately. Westerman has more than two decades of leadership experience across senior living, healthcare, and real estate sectors. As CFO, Westerman will oversee all aspects of financial management, including financial planning and analysis, capital structure strategy,... Read More »

  • Ensign/Standard Bearer Adds Two Facilities

    by | Jul 8, 2025 3:42 pm | Acquisitions

    The Ensign Group acquired a couple of skilled nursing facilities through its real estate subsidiary Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT. The first purchase was for Duncanville Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, a 124-bed SNF in Duncanville, Texas, which will be operated by a third-party operator subject to a long-term, triple-net lease. Ensign... Read More »

  • HTG Closes Two Separate SNF Transactions

    by | Jul 8, 2025 3:28 pm | Acquisitions

    Healthcare Transactions Group (HTG) recently closed two transactions in Missouri and Maryland. The Show Me State deal involved Baptist Home of Independence, an 118-bed skilled nursing facility and 20-bed Residential Care Facility in the town of Independence. Built in 1977, the campus received a major renovation in 2021 and was 65% occupied. ... Read More »

  • VIUM’s New H1 Record

    by | Jul 8, 2025 3:27 pm | Financings

    VIUM Capital completed the first half of 2025 with an impressive $780 million in transaction par value. That volume was closed across 32 transactions, 51 separate properties and 14 states, comprising both bridge and permanent debt. It represents the strongest first half of the year in the company’s history. Part of that activity was more than... Read More »

  • Kiser Group Launches Seniors Housing Division

    by | Jul 8, 2025 3:23 pm | Acquisitions

    Kiser Group, a leading multifamily brokerage firm, has announced the launch of its new Seniors Housing Division with the addition of industry veteran Mark Myers as Partner. This strategic expansion reflects the firm’s commitment to meeting the evolving needs of investors and operators in the growing senior living sector. With more than 30 years... Read More »

Senior Care Valuation Market Weirdness

by | Feb 17, 2016 2:57 pm | 60 Seconds, Opinion

Asset valuations are out of whack amid continued investor appetite for properties but not companies. I will be honest, sometimes I just don’t get it. I know some of you think I do, but the level of weirdness out there is greater than I have seen in my 30 years covering this sector. In today’s world, you have a group of investors that will pay a publicly traded company $325 million for their owned properties, but the entire company, including the owned properties, has a market value of only $100 million. Healthcare REITs, the most efficient buyers and owners of real estate, are trading at yields that would make a junk bond salesman blush, even though in most cases they have a lot of good... Read More »