• 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 »

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors Is Booming

by | Apr 7, 2017 7:03 am | Acquisitions

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

by | Mar 24, 2017 8:32 am | Acquisitions

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

by | Mar 22, 2017 8:31 am | Acquisitions

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

by | Aug 19, 2016 8:31 am | Developments

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 »