• 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 »
Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop expanded its senior care investment sales business in a big way, bringing in Managing Directors Mark Myers and Josh Jandris and Vice Presidents Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice and Mike Surak of IPA Seniors Housing, a division of Marcus & Millichap. The Chicago-based team will build on W&D’s existing multifamily property sales platform by bringing a new focus on seniors housing and skilled nursing property sales, building on W&D’s existing multifamily platform. They will also work closely with Walker & Dunlop’s senior housing financing group, which originated over $900 million in debt financing in 2018. Prior to making this move, the IPA team had closed over... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

We wrote of Chicago Pacific Founders’ acquisition of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area portfolio of independent living communities last week but have now learned that IPA Seniors Housing handled the transaction. The team of Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers, plus Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Pennsylvania, Sean Beuche, represented the seller, a partnership between Graziano Construction and Sweetbay Senior Living. Two of the communities were recently built, one in 2017 and the other opening earlier this year. The third property was developed in 2009 and is the only one that is fully stabilized. Totaling 384 units, the portfolio sold for $75 million, or $195,300 per unit. Jordyn... Read More »
De Paul Health Care Divests Three Philly-Area SNFs

De Paul Health Care Divests Three Philly-Area SNFs

De Paul Health Care sold three of its Philadelphia-area skilled nursing facilities, leaving the New Jersey-based provider with four SNFs in its portfolio, in addition to its existing medical office building and residential community businesses. Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of IPA Seniors Housing represented the De Paul family in the transaction, which included a 49-bed skilled nursing facility and a 120-bed SNF in Philadelphia, and a 162-bed facility in Absecon, New Jersey (adjacent to Atlantic City). These facilities were operating at breakeven, despite solid occupancy, which leaves some room for added value for the new owner, Paramount Care Centers. Christopher Utz of Ziegler Seniors... Read More »
CCRC With Potential Sells in Northern Virginia

CCRC With Potential Sells in Northern Virginia

The team at IPA Seniors Housing highlighted a CCRC’s highly desirable location in the affluent Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, to sell the asset to an affiliate of Focus Healthcare Partners. Andrew Hilding, Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris represented the seller, Thompson Associates, in the sale, which did not disclose a price. The property, built in phases from 1980 to 1986, consisted of 306 total beds, including 96 skilled nursing beds and the rest coming with either independent living or assisted living services. Age apparently is holding the community back from competing well in the high-income market, so Focus plans to complete a substantial renovation of it. It has the... Read More »
Original Owner Exits Two AL Communities in Illinois

Original Owner Exits Two AL Communities in Illinois

The original developer of two assisted living communities totaling 135 units in Illinois (St. Louis MSA) is finally exiting the assets, after more than 10 years of ownership, with the help of Mike Surak and Matthew Andriano of Marcus & Millichap and Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of IPA Seniors Housing. Operated under the Fountains Assisted Living brand, the properties are located in Granite City (built in 2000) and Godfrey (built in 2006), or about 23 miles apart from each other. They were previously owned by a local investment group that featured a large number of individual investors. The out-of-state buyer, an affiliate of Triloma Seniors Housing, will look to use their operating... Read More »