• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors Is Booming

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has been on a roll recently, to say the least. Perhaps this sales spurt was kick started by some new energy entering the firm in the form of Pamela Pyms and Hayden Behnke of Pyms Capital Resources, because since that announcement, Blueprint has closed seven transactions accounting for 30 facilities. We detailed the first four in this month’s issue of The SeniorCare Investor, which will hit your desks next week. Which included Blueprint’s largest transaction of the bunch, involving 18 skilled nursing facilities and some 1,843 total licensed beds. Located in Kansas (9), Missouri (6), Iowa (2) and Nebraska (1), these midwestern SNFs were part of the... Read More »

Booming Blueprint

Following Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ announced acquisition of Pyms Capital Resources, the brokerage firm highlighted its growing strength with two more deal closings in the middle of the country. First up, Christopher Hyldahl and Giancarlo Riso arranged the sale of a six-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Iowa on behalf of the local owner/operator seller. The portfolio, which includes 273 total dually-certified beds, offers a huge opportunity for improvement to the buyer, a New York-based owner/operator interested in expanding in Iowa. Built over the last 20 years by the seller, the portfolio was just 52% occupied at the time of the sale, but had a quality mix of... Read More »
Pyms Capital Resources Joins Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Pyms Capital Resources Joins Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

On the eve of NIC’s Spring Investment Forum in San Diego, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the joining of its firm with Pamela Pyms and Hayden Behnke of Pyms Capital Resources. Working together since 2011 out of Denver, Colorado, Ms. Pyms and Ms. Behnke not only bring their talent for deal making to Blueprint, but local market expertise of Colorado and the surrounding region. Pyms Capital Resources also helps developers source equity and debt, in addition to arranging partnerships among institutional investors and national operators. In Blueprint, Ms. Pyms and Ms. Behnke are joining a fast-growing brokerage firm with 45 transactions and $554 million in business closed in... Read More »

Rocky Mountain Expansion

Legacy Retirement Communities is slowly expanding out of its home state of Utah, where it already operates nine senior living communities. After opening its first out-of-state community in 2009 in Arizona, the company plans to open its second this fall in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now, Legacy has its eye on another state, having just acquired 6.73 acres in Castle Pines, Colorado for $2.1 million, or nearly $7 per square foot. Legacy plans to build a 178-unit senior living community with independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Pamela Pyms of Pyms Capital Resources represented the seller, Pinark LLC, in this transaction. Read More »