• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Expands Partnership with Senior Lifestyle and Jaybird

Healthcare Trust Expands Partnership with Senior Lifestyle and Jaybird

Healthcare Trust, Inc. (HTI), a public, non-traded real estate investment trust, announced the expansion of a strategic operational relationship with two senior housing operators, Senior Lifestyle Corporation and Jaybird Senior Living. Thirteen HTI-owned communities operated under HTI’s Addington Place brand across Georgia, Michigan and Florida will now be managed by Senior Lifestyle, bringing the total number of HTI properties operated by the company to 24. In addition, seven HTI-owned properties in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri, also operated under the Addington Place brand, will now be managed by Jaybird Senior Living. This expanded relationship brings the total number of HTI-owned... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Divests Two Florida Facilities

Healthcare Trust Divests Two Florida Facilities

Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale of two skilled nursing/assisted living facilities on behalf of the public, non-traded REIT, Healthcare Trust, Inc. These two properties represent the last of the three strategically planned majority-skilled nursing property sales in the state of Florida, after having already sold its SNF in Lutz earlier this year for $20 million, or a gain on sale of real estate investments of $3.8 million. Cushman & Wakefield handled all three property sales.   Healthcare Trust acquired one of the communities, The Addington at Wellington Green in Wellington, Florida, seven years ago. Built in 2011, it features a 120-bed... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Buys in San Diego

Healthcare Trust Buys in San Diego

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Healthcare Trust Inc. as a buyer in the seniors housing market. Well, the public, non-traded REIT has acquired a 91-unit/117-bed senior living community in San Diego, California, for an undisclosed price. There are 53 assisted living and 38 memory care units (64 beds) in the two-story building, which was built in 2015 on a 4.3-acre site. The quality of the building is apparently quite high, and the community was over 90% occupied. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard made up the Cushman & Wakefield team that served as exclusive advisor to the seller, Torrey Pines Development Group. Read More »
Capital One Bridges to Agency Financing

Capital One Bridges to Agency Financing

Capital One pulled double duty for its client, Healthcare Trust (HTI), arranging more than $145 million in total financing. First, back in December, the firm served as administrative agent and sole lender for an $82 million senior secured credit facility, which provided bridge-to-agency financing for a 23-property seniors housing portfolio located in six states (primarily Michigan and Iowa) in just five weeks. Fast forward to this month, when Capital One added seven of those properties to HTI’s existing Fannie Mae credit facility. The transaction increased the total facility by $64.2 million, to $216.6 million. Read More »