• Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
  • Omega Healthcare Investors Acquires Performing AL/MC Asset

    Omega Healthcare Investors announced that it acquired a seniors housing community in Alabama for $10.3 million, or $128,750 per unit. The community appears to be Proveer at Grande View, which has been rebranded as The Ridge at Grandeview. Blueprint was engaged by the seller in its divestment of this community.  Built in 1999, The Ridge at... Read More »
  • T7 Capital Hits the Ground Running

    Founded by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson in 2025, T7 Capital has hit the ground running, announcing more than $3 billion in closed transactions in their first year. And the team continued at that same pace into 2026, closing more than $200 million of transaction volume in January. T7 Capital, which advises clients on financing and investment... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living Adds San Antonio Asset

    Ventas found a new operator for its Villa De San Antonio Senior Living community in San Antonio Texas, bringing on Stellar Senior Living, a Utah-based family-owned senior care owner/operator, to manage the community. The addition of this community, which was built in 2006 and features 219 independent living and assisted living units, expands... Read More »
  • Harrison Street Acquires Class-A Communities in Fairfield County

    A couple of new, high-end seniors housing communities in affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, traded with the help of Jay Wagner, Rick Swartz, Aaron Rosenzweig and Jim Dooley of JLL Capital Markets’ seniors housing investment sales and advisory team. They represented the sellers, Virtus Real Estate Capital and LCB Senior Living, although LCB... Read More »
HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

A CCRC in Overland Park, Kansas is planning a large expansion to its independent living services. Perhaps they read Marcus & Millichap’s National Seniors Housing Report, which reported average IL occupancy steady at 91.7% in 2016, and predicted it will rise 10 basis points in 2017. That is close to the census peak in 2008, when IL communities averaged 92% occupancy, before the Great Recession reared its ugly head. The Overland Park’s IL census is very strong too, at 98%, which prompted the 76-unit expansion effort. Built in 2000, the community already features 64 IL villas, 54 assisted living units, 52 skilled nursing units and 36 memory care units. Census was in fact strong all... Read More »
Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Two Portland, Oregon-area seniors housing communities received financing from Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, headed by Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis. Starting in Portland proper, the team closed a $12 million non-recourse loan for a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community that at one point was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The original TIC investors then sold the community in late 2015 to Chicago-based Focus Healthcare Partners. Artegan began managing the 10-year old community, which was 85% occupied and earning over $630,000 in EBITDA at the time of the sale. Focus... Read More »
Dealing in Dallas

Dealing in Dallas

We’ve all heard the warnings of overdevelopment in Texas, particularly of new assisted living and memory care communities. One of those MSAs that has seen plenty of groundbreakings is Dallas, with nearly 5,000 units built from Q4 2012 to Q4 2016, according to NIC MAP. While the market is in better shape than Austin, Houston and San Antonio in terms of construction versus inventory, occupancy has been consistently low in Dallas, hovering around 85% for the past few years. We wonder how well those new communities have been filling up. That was probably on the mind of an out-of-state buyer when it purchased a recently built assisted living/memory care community in Allen, Texas, an affluent... Read More »
What Are the Memory Care Investors Saying?

What Are the Memory Care Investors Saying?

On March 9th, we hosted a webinar entitled “Building or Buying Memory Care,” with moderator Steve Monroe and panelists Clint Malin of LTC Properties, Mark Myers of Marcus & Millichap, Michael Stoller of LCB Senior Living and Matthew Turner of MorningStar Senior Living. The panelists covered a range of topics (you can listen to the discussion here) including the risks of overbuilding, effectiveness of memory care conversions and fill-up risk, among others. But our audience also chimed in, answering three poll questions throughout the webinar. First, when asked if they would build stand-alone MC, assisted living with MC or stand-alone AL, 60% preferred the mix, 32% would build... Read More »
Memory Care: Buy or Build?

Memory Care: Buy or Build?

Investors in seniors housing have been flocking to the memory care market, as the sector has experienced unprecedented growth since the Great Recession. They are attracted to its need-based demand, higher rents, private payors and apparent dearth in supply in a number of markets (though given the amount of construction in the last few years that is becoming less and less true). But those investors that are interested in getting into or expanding their holdings in this market are faced with a question: do they build memory care, or buy? That is the topic of our upcoming webinar this Thursday at 1PM aptly named, “Buying or Building Memory Care.” Our moderator Steve Monroe and panelists Clint... Read More »