• WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

    by | Nov 5, 2025 8:16 am | Acquisitions

    Sonida Senior Living just announced what can only be described as a transformational acquisition. Since new management came in, CEO Brandon Ribar and CFO Kevin Detz, Sonida has been on an upward path of improved operations and a balance sheet that has grown stronger. Occupancy has been increasing (87.7% in Q3) and NOI and EBITDA are rising. Spot... Read More »

  • 60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

    by | Nov 4, 2025 4:20 pm | 60 Seconds, Acquisitions

    We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this... Read More »

  • Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:50 pm | Acquisitions

    Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per... Read More »

  • Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:48 pm | Acquisitions

    Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living... Read More »

  • Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:47 pm | Acquisitions

    LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the... Read More »
Helios Sells Wisconsin SNF Portfolio (and a Home Health Business)

Helios Sells Wisconsin SNF Portfolio (and a Home Health Business)

by | Jun 17, 2019 7:00 am | Acquisitions

Still less than a year after forming Helios Healthcare Advisors, Bill Janis and Mario Wilson are keeping the closings coming with a skilled nursing sale in Wisconsin, their first in the state (with Helios) but certainly not their last. The deal featured three skilled nursing facilities previously owned by a Wisconsin-based provider who decided to exit the industry after a longstanding presence in the local market. Also included in the sale was a home health company that brings not only solid revenues to the new owner, which is entering the home health business with this deal, but also another care option for their patients. That buyer ended up being a New York-based owner/operator with a... Read More »
Helios Gets New Tenants for Two Former Senior Care Centers Facilities

Helios Gets New Tenants for Two Former Senior Care Centers Facilities

by | May 30, 2019 2:40 pm | Acquisitions

Two skilled nursing facilities in Texas previously operated by the now-bankrupt Senior Care Centers found new tenants, courtesy of Helios Healthcare Advisors. Each featuring 120 beds, the Lubbock and Houston facilities are owned by a Texas-based developer that wanted to find new, more financially stable operators. Good call. Helios sourced two Texas-based regional operators to fill those roles, coming in with market lease rates and pre-negotiated purchase options. In addition, they received a short-term line of credit for CHOW coverage. With Helios’ help, they were able to smoothly take over operations. Read More »
Helios Heads to Jackson, Mississippi

Helios Heads to Jackson, Mississippi

by | Mar 29, 2019 7:00 am | Acquisitions

Jeff Rhodes and Bill Janis of Helios Healthcare Advisors, continuing Helios’ impressive start to 2019, handled the sale of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Jackson, Mississippi. Originally built in 1984 with 60 beds and expanded with another 60 beds in 1997, this facility was previously owned by a local family with a good reputation in the area. Occupancy was solid at 84%, typically with seven or eight Medicare patients at a time. The buyer, a regional operator with a large presence in the state of Mississippi, may expand the short-term rehab program going forward. They paid $10.1 million, or $84,200 per bed, for the facility. Read More »
Here Comes Helios Healthcare Advisors

Here Comes Helios Healthcare Advisors

by | Jan 25, 2019 7:02 am | Acquisitions

There’s a new brokerage business on the block, and it’s called Helios Healthcare Advisors. Founded by Bill Janis (formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital Companies) and Mario Wilson (from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors), the firm just announced its first transaction, a $6.1 million acquisition financing arranged on behalf of a California-based joint venture. With the debt and equity capital (provided by a private, non-bank lender), a Northern California-based operator and Atlantis Senior Living, based in Orange County, California were able to purchase a 145-bed assisted living community in Joaquin County (Bay Area). In addition to the acquisition financing, Messrs. Janis and Wilson... Read More »