• Newmark Facilitates Morgan Stanley/MorningStar Deal

    by | Dec 6, 2025 12:28 pm | Acquisitions

    Morgan Stanley Investment Management made a splash in announcing the acquisition of three Class-A seniors housing communities in the Denver, Colorado MSA. The communities comprised 463 units and were previously owned by Kayne Anderson Real Estate. They were managed by MorningStar Senior Living, which is based in Denver and staying on as operator... Read More »

  • Town Lane Announces First Deal with Arcole Platform

    by | Dec 6, 2025 12:26 pm | Acquisitions

    Town Lane, a real estate investment management firm, and Atlas Senior Living, a Birmingham-based seniors housing operator, acquired The Overlook at Suwanee, a 175-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Suwanee, Georgia. The community was formerly Heartis Suwanee, which was built in 2018 by Caddis. Tremper Capital... Read More »

  • Evans Senior Investments Handles Two-SNF Trade

    by | Dec 6, 2025 12:25 pm | Acquisitions

    Two skilled nursing facilities in northeast Pennsylvania found a new owner, after its independent owner/operator decided to fully exit the business. Evans Senior Investments was the exclusive sell-side advisor on the deal, which featured the 133-bed/unit Ellen Memorial Health Care Center in Honesdale and the 115-bed Carbondale Nursing & Rehab... Read More »

  • Alabama AL/MC Asset Sells

    by | Dec 6, 2025 12:23 pm | Acquisitions

    Daniel Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of an assisted living/memory care community in Anniston, Alabama. The property underwent a full interior renovation in 2025 and was being sold by a Southeast-based owner that was exiting the industry. A publicly traded REIT, leveraging one of its existing... Read More »

  • SVN Senior Living Advisors Sells Two Texas SNFs

    by | Dec 6, 2025 12:22 pm | Acquisitions

    A regional owner/operator was looking to grow its portfolio in Texas and acquired two skilled nursing facilities totaling 188 beds in the state. SVN Senior Living Advisors (SVN SLA) represented the private seller, which had been referred to SVN SLA by one of its institutional lender clients. Managing Director Josh Salzman led an efficient and... Read More »
Dissecting the Jump in Average Assisted Living Values

Dissecting the Jump in Average Assisted Living Values

by | Oct 30, 2019 5:51 am | Statistics

It’s amazing the difference that one deal can make. We are talking about Welltower’s $1.76 billion sale of its entire Benchmark Senior Living portfolio to KKR and its impact on the average private per assisted living unit sold in the most recent four quarters. That sale, which came in at $425,400 per unit across the 48 properties, pushed the sector’s weighted average up to $252,900 per unit, a 23% increase from the most recent four-quarter period ($205,900 per unit) and 36% from calendar year 2018 ($186,400 per unit), according to The Seniors Housing Acquisition & Investment Report. We should note that this average is likely to change as more deals from 2019 float to the surface, and... Read More »
Deals Down So Far in 2017

Deals Down So Far in 2017

by | May 24, 2017 7:00 am | Opinion, Statistics

Long-term care has experienced a dip in M&A, but after nearly three straight years of 80+ transactions per quarter (starting in Q3:2014 with 83), with a couple exceptions, it is about time the M&A juggernaut slows down a bit. The first quarter’s volume fell to 76 deals, down from 93 in the previous quarter and from 84 in the year-ago quarter. And as of May 23, 2017, deal volume has so far not kept pace compared with the same period in 2016 with just 118 long-term care transactions recorded compared with 145 in 2016, a 19% difference. However, spending has nearly doubled (to $7.52 billion so far in 2017 from $4.37 billion in 2016), thanks to a few large deals that were announced in... Read More »

Sentio Healthcare Properties Agrees To Sell

by | May 5, 2017 7:02 am | Acquisitions

In breaking news, Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement to buy Sentio Healthcare Properties, which is partly owned by KKR (NYSE: KKR), in a transaction valued at $825 million.  Kayne is paying $14.37 per Sentio share in cash about 11.5 million shares) with some upward adjustments that will most likely take the price to $14.65, with the deal expected to close in the third quarter. Sentio is a public, non-traded REIT that owns a mix of seniors housing properties and MOBs. Citigroup Global Markets and Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (nice month they are having) were the financial advisors to Kayne, and Robert A. Stanger & Co. and UBS... Read More »

Decker joins Board of Directors

by | Oct 2, 2015 8:30 am | Opinion

Brookdale Senior Living announced that its Board of Directors appointed Daniel Decker as a Class I director and as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, effective October 1. Mr. Decker previously served on the boards of several REITs and other seniors housing companies, including Omega Healthcare Investors, Sentio Healthcare Properties, Health Care REIT (now Welltower) and Forum Group. Recently, he joined with KKR and Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company to acquire the operations of Sunrise Senior Living in 2013. Mr. Decker will succeed Jeffrey Leeds in his position as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Read More »