• Diversified Healthcare Trust’s SHOP Delivers Strong Results

    Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) announced fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2025 results, and its SHOP segment delivered. Same-property SHOP NOI in the fourth quarter jumped 27.6% year over year to $38 million, and full-year SHOP NOI climbed 31.3% to $129.3 million. Same property SHOP occupancy reached 82.4% in Q4, up 90 basis points from... Read More »
  • Lease Option Closes for High-Performing CT SNFs

    A long-time regional owner/operator looking to secure capital for future redeployment into the skilled nursing sector approached Blueprint to market two skilled nursing facilities. The high-performing assets sit 40 miles apart in southern and western Connecticut with 301 total beds. The non-union facilities were generating $4.4 million of EBITDAR... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Acquires North Carolina Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A few seniors housing communities in North Carolina were recently divested by a North Carolina owner/operator. The three assets total 61 independent living units and 173 assisted living and memory care beds. The independent living component was developed by the seller. The buyer, a not-for-profit with more than 30 years of experience acquiring... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Owner/Operator Secures Its First HUD Financing

    In a transaction that marks the third time Berkadia has secured financing for the asset, the company arranged a $35.4 million HUD financing for a 189-bed skilled nursing facility in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The asset was developed in three phases between 1996 and 2007. It has been owned by a Louisiana-based owner/operator of skilled nursing... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Receives Financing

    MONTICELLOAM provided financing to three seniors housing communities in Illinois. Originated by Karina Davydov, the package includes up to $44 million in bridge financing with a 36-month term. The portfolio offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. The sponsor, a Midwest-based senior living operator... Read More »
Bridge Investment Group Bags Benton House Portfolio

Bridge Investment Group Bags Benton House Portfolio

HFF used all of their Southeast expertise to sell an assisted living portfolio located in Georgia (3), Florida and South Carolina. The communities were previously owned by Principal Senior Living Group (PSLG) and operated under the Benton House brand. They were built between 2014 and 2018 and featured strong occupancy, except for the brand-new South Carolina community that was still in lease-up. Close to a third of the 326 units were reserved for memory care residents. Bridge Investment Group paid approximately $79 million, or over $240,000 per unit, for the portfolio, which will continue to operate under the Benton House brand. Ross Sanders and David Fasano along with senior managing... Read More »

Build with Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

A brand-new seniors housing community is being built in Aiken, South Carolina (Augusta, Georgia MSA) with the help of a construction loan arranged by Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group. The 74-unit/80-bed to-be-built community is being developed by Principal Senior Living Group and will feature the “Benton House” brand name. Grandbridge originated a $10.66 million loan through BB&T Bank on behalf of the community. Read More »

Developer investing in Kansas City area

Four years ago, Hunt Midwest, a real estate developer with a focus on industrial, commercial, retail, mission critical, multifamily, residential and senior living, invested $32 million to build four assisted living/memory care communities in the Kansas City metro area, all to be managed by Principal Senior Living Group under the “Benton House” brand. The final community of that investment just opened in Tiffany Springs, Missouri, but Hunt Midwest isn’t stopping there. The developer has already broken ground on two communities in Raymore and Blue Springs that will open later this year. Plus, there are two more set to break ground in Lenexa and Kansas City, which will bring the total for... Read More »