• 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 »
NHI Primes For Investments

NHI Primes For Investments

It looks like National Health Investors may be in the buying mood again, as the REIT just entered into a $300 million bank term loan with a five-year maturity from a syndicate of banks. Proceeds from the new loan were used to reduce the outstanding balance on NHI’s $550 million revolving credit facility and to increase NHI’s available liquidity for making new investments. The terms of the loan are substantially consistent with the REIT’s existing credit facility and term loan dated August 3, 2017, and comes with an initial variable interest rate of 30-day LIBOR plus 125 bps. Wells Fargo Bank acted as Administrative Agent, while Bank of America, N.A., KeyBank National Association and... Read More »
National Health Investors Invests in Michigan

National Health Investors Invests in Michigan

National Health Investors entered into a new relationship in Michigan, after acquiring a pair of assisted living communities from, and leasing them back to, affiliates of Comfort Care Senior Living. The targets were built in the last five years around Saginaw, Michigan, and include a 51-unit assisted living/memory care community in Bridgeport and a 53-unit AL/MC community in Thomas Township. National Health Investors bought the properties for $17.1 million, or about $164,400 per unit, with a cap rate just below 9% based on estimated EBITDA, and leased them to Comfort Care at an average yield of 8.1% with CPI-based escalators. NHI also obtained a purchase option on two additional... Read More »
Public Companies Trade Assisted Living Portfolio

Public Companies Trade Assisted Living Portfolio

National Health Investors purchased from LTC Properties a portfolio of four assisted living communities and an AL/memory care community in Pennsylvania and Ohio for $67.5 million, or $210,900 per unit. Known as the Sunrise Portfolio, these communities will now be operated by Bickford Senior Living at an initial rate of 6.85% with annual fixed escalators and a 15-year maturity. Rental revenue under the lease for the four months ended April 30, 2018 was approximately $1.5 million. The properties, located in Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania, are also due to receive $1.75 million in capital improvements. KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and CS Capital Advisors, LLC acted as... Read More »
Another Texas SNF For National Health Investors

Another Texas SNF For National Health Investors

National Health Investors added another Texas skilled nursing facility to its portfolio with the purchase of a 121-bed facility in Waxahachie for $14.4 million, or about $119,000 per bed. The acquisition is the second of four that NHI had previously committed to and will be added to the existing master lease with The Ensign Group at an initial rate of 8.2%, plus annual escalators based on inflation. This brings Ensign’s Texas total to 16 skilled nursing facilities. Explaining the high per-bed price is the facility’s age, having just opened in November 2016. NHI funded the deal with proceeds from its revolving credit facility. Read More »
National Health Investors’ Latest Purchase Option

National Health Investors’ Latest Purchase Option

Executing on a purchase option, National Health Investors acquired a 32-unit assisted living/memory care community in Durham, North Carolina, for $7.6 million, or $237,500 per unit. The impetus for the deal goes back to February 2017, when NHI purchased two adjacent AL/MC communities in Hendersonville, NC (about 20 miles south of Asheville) and entered into a new operating relationship with Ravn Senior Solutions at the same time. Ravn, which stepped in to operate the two communities under a new 15-year lease (with an annual lease rate of 7.35% and annual fixed escalators), was founded by a group of industry veterans, including Steve Morton (co-founder of Southern Assisted Living, Inc. and... Read More »