• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »
Capital Senior Ventures Acquires Final Kindred Skilled Nursing Facility

Capital Senior Ventures Acquires Final Kindred Skilled Nursing Facility

Capital Senior Ventures made a bet on the Las Vegas skilled nursing market, acquiring a state-of-the-art skilled nursing facility in the city for an undisclosed price. Built in 2015, the facility is the last SNF owned by Kindred Healthcare. It consists of 160 beds, including 118 private and 21 semiprivate rooms. In addition to there being private showers in all patient bathrooms, there were some units with bariatric lifts as well. Other amenities include multiple dining areas, a movie theater, four therapy gyms, outdoor courtyards and a transitional home therapy suite. Sounds like a Marriott we would want to move into. Plus, the facility is ideally located next to Spring Valley Medical... Read More »
Senior Care Stocks Swoon….Again

Senior Care Stocks Swoon….Again

The 2017 Trump rally has left senior care and healthcare REIT stocks behind. It looks like the so-called Trump stock market rally is continuing into 2018. Weirdly, several senior care stocks shot up in the first day of trading yesterday. Where were investors last year? Unfortunately, 2017 was about as bad as it gets for our sector. Only one company posted an increase in price, and that was Kindred Healthcare, which is actually exiting our sector with its last sales of its SNFs. So, everyone else declined, and almost all of them by double digits, in a year when the rest of the market posted extraordinary returns. The NASDAQ Composite was up 28.2%, the Dow was up 25.1% and the S&P 500... Read More »
Senior Care Stocks Swoon….Again

Kindred Healthcare Sold and Dismembered

The Carlyle Group, TPG and Humana are buying Kindred Healthcare and splitting the company apart. I know I am supposed to be full of holiday cheer this time of year, but yesterday’s official announcement that Kindred Healthcare will be sold to Humana, TPG and The Carlyle Group, and dismembered for just $9 per share, well, that has just made me a little down. Why? Because I was an early believer in Kindred’s goal to be the post-acute provider of choice, with its home health and hospice, skilled nursing, LTAC and rehab businesses, all in about 17 concentrated locations. There was no other company quite like it, anywhere, and they were way ahead of the curve. Perhaps too far ahead, and that... Read More »

CareTrust REIT Keeps It Up

CareTrust REIT is heading closer and closer to the 200-facility mark, currently sitting at 181 properties in 23 states, as it continues to purchase senior care facilities across the country. Just last month, the REIT bought 13 skilled nursing facilities in Washington, Texas and Idaho, all formerly operated by affiliates of Kindred Healthcare. Now, CareTrust has added three more Kindred facilities in Washington State to its growing portfolio. Located in Arden, Lakewood and Vancouver, the facilities total 268 beds. CareTrust added them to its existing master lease with affiliates of Five Oaks Healthcare, which has a remaining initial term of about 13 years, two five-year renewal options and... Read More »

KeyBank, Kindred and BlueMountain

BlueMountain Capital Management has been steadily working to close its large acquisition of 96 skilled nursing facilities from Kindred Healthcare (a deal valued at approximately $700 million). For its latest tranche of closings, the firm received $128 million in acquisition financing originated by Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Mortgage Group. The term loan funded the purchase of 13 facilities including nine in California, three in Massachusetts (that are nearing approval) and one in Nashua, New Hampshire. Of the California facilities, five are located in San Francisco, plus one each in Salinas, Stockton, Walnut Creek and Livermore. This marks... Read More »