• CBRF Trades in Wisconsin

    A community-based residential facility in southern Wisconsin came under new ownership. The seller had acquired the facility a couple of years ago and brought it to stabilization. They also conducted renovations in 2025 on the physical plant, which was originally built in 2001. The ultimate buyer was a Midwest ownership group that was looking to... Read More »
  • Watch The SeniorCare Investor’s Q1 Investor Call

    The SeniorCare Investor convened a panel on April 23 to discuss key topics front and center for investors. Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, moderated the discussion. Blueprint sponsored the Q1 2026 Investor Call webinar, with Kyle Hallion, Senior Director at Blueprint, joining. Investment firm perspectives came from Natalie... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Joint Venture Acquires IL Community

    Blueprint closed the sale of Parkwood Retirement, a 147-unit independent living community in Bedford, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth MSA). Sitting adjacent to the Texas Health HEB hospital campus, Parkwood has demonstrated consistent and strong operating performance, with occupancy hovering around 95% for several years. There was still some meaningful... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures HUD Financing

    A senior care portfolio secured $64.96 million in HUD financing for the refinance of three properties in Pennsylvania. Greystone provided the financing, with the deal originated by Christopher Clare and additional team members including David Young, Ben Rubin, Ryan C. Harkins, Parker Nielsen and Liam Gallagher assisting on the transaction. The... Read More »
  • National Health Investors’ CFO Retires

    National Health Investors’ John Spaid, Executive Vice President and CFO, will retire effective July 1, 2026. The company will appoint Todd Siefert as Executive Vice President Corporate Finance, effective June 1, 2026, and he will succeed Spaid as CFO. Also as part of the transition, Dana Hambly has been promoted to Senior Vice President of... Read More »
Grandbridge’s San Diego Team Announces Tucson CCRC Closing

Grandbridge’s San Diego Team Announces Tucson CCRC Closing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s new San Diego-based seniors housing investment sales team including David Rothschild and Mary Christian closed the sale of a Tucson, Arizona CCRC. The not-for-profit community originally opened with 40 skilled nursing beds in 1963 to provide care to the local Jewish community.   It received numerous additions over the years, most recently in 2015, and now includes 74 skilled nursing beds, 12 independent living units, 80 assisted living units and 10 memory care units on over six acres. This was the not-for-profit’s only senior living community, so both census and operating margin likely could be improved under ownership with some... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Two Seniors Housing Sales

Grandbridge Arranges Two Seniors Housing Sales

Not long after making the move from Cushman & Wakefield to Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, the Tampa-based team of Allen McMurtry, Dave Kliewer and Jay Jordan announced a couple of seniors housing sales. First, they were tapped by the owner of an independent living/assisted living community near Springfield, Massachusetts to run a bankruptcy sale process.   Built in the 1990s with 187 units of independent living and assisted living, including 129 cottages, the community was around 65% occupied. With a stalking horse bid of $9.0 million, the virtual live auction in late September 2020 resulted in more than 100 rounds of live bidding, with a final sale... Read More »
Grandbridge Gains Investment Sales Team

Grandbridge Gains Investment Sales Team

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital is making a big jump into seniors housing investment sales with the addition of three veterans highly experienced in the space. Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa, Florida team, led by Allen McMurtry, David Kliewer and Jay Jordan, made the move to Grandbridge’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, which is headed by Richard Thomas in Atlanta, Georgia.   They will bring experience representing sellers of seniors housing communities across the country, spanning over 190 properties in 35 states. Recently, the former C&W team arranged the $105 million sale of The Clare in downtown Chicago in December 2019, cementing its status... Read More »
Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale

Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale

Earlier this year, we learned of the sale of an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Pensacola, Florida. Now, it has been revealed that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged the acquisition financing for the deal.  Previously owned by CNL Healthcare Properties II, the property was sold alongside a 92-unit AL/MC community in Tampa to Waypoint Residential for a combined $48.85 million, or about $270,000 per unit, at a roughly 5.5% cap rate. These were the last two properties owned by CNL II, whose shareholders had approved the company’s plan for dissolution in September 2019. Both communities were... Read More »
Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Utilizing Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards financing product, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged a $25.5 million acquisition loan to fund the purchase of a 93-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia. Focus Healthcare Partners’ dedicated senior housing fund was the borrower and will retain The Arbor Company as the community’s operator. This type of transaction seems to have become a recent specialty of Grandbridge’s, as the firm so far in 2018 has closed nearly $300 million in financings through Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards program, across 13 properties, which is the most among Fannie Mae DUS lenders... Read More »