• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Problem with CMS Interpretive Guidelines

    by | May 27, 2026 8:23 am | 60 Seconds, Opinion

    Just a day after we highlighted the potential downsides of overregulation of assisted living from the federal level, a case of regulatory overreach involving a nursing home just headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District in hopes of overturning a $1.8 million civil monetary penalty. Without getting into the minutiae too much, the... Read More »

  • Kayne Anderson Fund Tops Target

    by | May 27, 2026 8:21 am | Uncategorized

    The familiar refrain continues, with more capital continuing to flow into the seniors housing industry, property prices should keep rising. Kayne Anderson Real Estate, the real estate private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., has closed the largest opportunistic equity fund in its history, at more than 70% above its initial... Read More »

  • Well-Performing Full-Continuum Community Sells

    by | May 27, 2026 8:20 am | Acquisitions

    Blueprint announced its role in the sale of Morningstar at Golden Ridge, a seniors housing community in Peoria, Arizona (Phoenix MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 38 independent living, 65 assisted living and 35 memory care units. It is nearly fully occupied. The community is one of the newest and most well-appointed assets within a... Read More »

  • Kaplan Development Divests to Cedarwood Group

    by | May 27, 2026 8:17 am | Acquisitions

    Cedarwood Group closed its acquisition of Saranac Village at Will Rogers, a 75-unit independent living community in Saranac Lake, New York. The seller was Kaplan Development Group, which took over Will Rogers after the first year of it being open as a senior living community. The community was originally built in 1928 as a Tudor-style... Read More »

  • Omega Welcomes New CEO and CFO

    by | May 27, 2026 8:16 am | Uncategorized

    Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.’s President, Matthew Gourmand will become the REIT’s Chief Executive Officer in conjunction with the planned retirement of Taylor Pickett, effective October 1, 2026. Pickett will also step down from the Board of Directors upon his retirement, and the Board of Directors intends to appoint Gourmand to the Board,... 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 »