• 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 »
Dwight Capital’s Active Fourth Quarter

Dwight Capital’s Active Fourth Quarter

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

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

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 »