• Brookdale’s Portfolio Stumbles in February

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its February 2026 occupancy numbers, and if the remaining cold weather months even closely resemble what the company has posted so far this winter, they will need to do some serious heavy lifting this summer to progress in its census rebound.  All of its reported occupancy figures, including consolidated and... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The State of the Healthcare M&A Market

    I attended the McDermott Will & Schulte Healthcare Private Equity Conference in Miami Beach last week, and the buzz mostly centered around increased investment in outpatient care, AI in healthcare and a persistent bid-ask spread that has kept healthcare M&A relatively steady, and down when comparing it to the seniors housing and care... Read More »
  • Newmark Reports Slew of February Deals

    The Newmark seniors housing team reported an active February, with six investment sales and four significant debt transactions. First, outside of Chicago, the team sold Clarendale of Mokena, a 156-unit seniors housing community featuring independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The community was built in 2015 by Ryan... Read More »
  • Improving SNF Sells to Newer Skilled Nursing Entrant

    A regional skilled nursing owner/operator divested one of its senior care facilities in western Nebraska after deciding to refocus its operational efforts in a more condensed regional footprint. The owner/operator engaged Michael Segal and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint to run the process.  Built in 1960, Monument Rehabilitation and Care... Read More »
  • AEW Capital Management Divests to Joint Venture

    Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare handled the sale and financing of The Sheridan of Green Oaks, which Town Lane and Arcole acquired, marking the joint venture’s fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Built in 2016 by Senior Lifestyle Corporation, the Class-A community comprises 78 independent... 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 »