• 60 Seconds with Swett: Navigating the Next Five Years in Seniors Housing M&A

    by | Dec 2, 2025 3:48 pm | 60 Seconds

    Are we entering the golden age of seniors housing? Next year, the first baby boomers will start turning 80, and with the current lack of new construction, occupancy rates are already rising before the real demographic wave hits. Many investors, both veterans and those new to our space, will feel pressure to grow their seniors housing holdings to... Read More »

  • Blackstone Sheds Another Asset from Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

    by | Dec 2, 2025 3:47 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint handled a couple of sales in Florida and Nevada. The first in Florida involved a global private equity firm selling a 145-unit assisted living and memory care community in Boca Raton, Florida. Ben Firestone, Dillon Rudy and Jacob Ghel of Blueprint facilitated The Atrium at Boca Raton’s ownership transfer. The community presented certain... Read More »

  • CareTrust REIT Establishes SHOP Platform

    by | Dec 2, 2025 3:44 pm | Acquisitions

    Three Texas seniors housing communities with 270 assisted living and memory care units were acquired by CareTrust REIT, Inc. The publicly traded REIT purchased the communities for $40 million, or $148,100 per unit. This marks the first investment of CareTrust’s SHOP platform. The communities were 86% occupied at the time of acquisition and will... Read More »

  • Ensign Grows Through Separate Transactions in Three States

    by | Dec 2, 2025 3:43 pm | Acquisitions

    The Ensign Group, Inc. increased its portfolio through three separate acquisitions in Kansas, Arizona and Colorado. The publicly traded provider expanded its growing Midwest footprint through its Kansas acquisition of the real estate and operations of Willow Point Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a 45-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas... Read More »

  • Developer/Operator Divests to PE Firm

    by | Dec 2, 2025 3:42 pm | Acquisitions

    A developer and operator sold Rivertown Ridge, a Class-A seniors housing community in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming, Michigan, to a private equity firm. This community, built in 2020, features 152 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, and has exhibited strong performance.  The seller, Redstone Homes, was... Read More »
Dwight Capital’s Active Fourth Quarter

Dwight Capital’s Active Fourth Quarter

by | Jan 9, 2020 6:53 pm | Financings

Dwight Capital reported a very active fourth quarter, with more than $116 million of HUD and bridge loans closed for senior living and skilled nursing clients. One of the largest transactions saw Adam Sasouness and Adam Offman finance a $16.5 million bridge loan for a 375-bed skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that features both short- and long-term rehabilitation, a secure memory care unit and a recently renovated dialysis unit. Mr. Offman also originated a pair of bridge loans in Rhode Island, including $16.4 million for a 167-bed assisted living/memory care/skilled nursing facility in Greenville and an $8.16 million loan for a 100-bed SNF in Pascoag. Another highlight... Read More »
Dwight Capital Refinances Large New Jersey SNF

Dwight Capital Refinances Large New Jersey SNF

by | Dec 4, 2019 8:30 am | Acquisitions

A skilled nursing facility in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (Philadelphia MSA) with a wide variety of service offerings, just refinanced through HUD with the help of Dwight Capital. Built in phases from 1986 to 2002, it now totals 246 beds with five distinct units, including a 40-unit behavioral management unit, a 20-bed ventilator care unit, a substance abuse facility and a dialysis unit, in addition to providing short- and long-term rehabilitation and nursing care. Its clinical specialties also comprise physical, occupational, speech and IV therapies, wound care, pain management, tracheostomy care, dementia care, cardiac care, a pulmonary specialty and hospice care. In addition, there are... Read More »
Mid-Atlantic Health Care Makes An Exit

Mid-Atlantic Health Care Makes An Exit

by | Jun 14, 2017 7:01 am | Acquisitions

Mid-Atlantic Health Care is exiting the skilled nursing market with the sale of its eight remaining facilities in Pennsylvania. The company was still growing its portfolio (which at one point numbered over 20 facilities) as recently as December 2015, so this move, and its sale of 14 skilled nursing facilities late last year, marks a precipitous divestment. Back to the June 2017 deal, while the real estate will continue to be owned and leased by Colony NorthStar (the REIT product of the merger between Colony Capital and NorthStar Asset Management Group), Mid-Atlantic sold the operations to Lakewood, New Jersey-based Mima Healthcare. Five of the facilities are located in Philadelphia (three... Read More »