• National Health Investors Reports Its Most Active Year

    by | Mar 2, 2026 8:42 am | Uncategorized

    National Health Investors released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, and it made significant strides in 2025. The REIT completed $392.4 million in investments, marking its most active year yet. Its SHOP portfolio expanded from 15 communities to 26 during the year, and has kept the momentum going into 2026. So far this year, the... Read More »

  • American Healthcare REIT Continues Its Momentum

    by | Mar 2, 2026 8:41 am | Uncategorized

    American Healthcare REIT expanded both its Integrated Senior Health Campus and SHOP segments in 2025, completing $950 million of new investments across the two. The ISHC portfolio grew from 126 properties at year-end 2024 to 147 by the end of 2025, while the SHOP segment increased from 70 to 83 properties.  Same-community ISHC properties... Read More »

  • Town Lane and Arcole Acquire Their Fifth Community

    by | Mar 2, 2026 8:38 am | Acquisitions

    Town Lane and Arcole made the fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Town Lane is a real estate investment firm, and Arcole is a recently launched seniors housing platform that partners with operators to acquire newer-vintage, full-continuum communities in high-growth markets. The joint venture will... Read More »

  • NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

    by | Mar 2, 2026 8:36 am | Developments, Financings

    Ziegler closed River’s Edge, the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transaction to date, totaling more than $600 million. River’s Edge is the first CCRC project in New York City and will be located on the campus of its sponsor, not-for-profit RiverSpring Living, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. An affiliate of the sponsor, RS Services,... Read More »

  • LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    by | Feb 26, 2026 4:18 pm | Acquisitions

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... Read More »

Ventas SNF spin-off gets in the game

by | Sep 4, 2015 8:32 am | Acquisitions

Just a couple of weeks after Care Capital Properties officially was spun out from Ventas and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the newly formed post-acute/skilled nursing facility REIT announced its first acquisition, and it was a big one. With eight skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community and 1,174 beds in the Shreveport, Louisiana market, the portfolio featured an average occupancy of 88% and a 47% quality mix. Also included in the portfolio was a rehab therapy company, four hospice agencies and an interest in an affiliated pharmacy provider. CCP will triple-net lease the portfolio to pursuant to a 15-year master lease containing annual rent escalations... Read More »

CareTrust bucks the trend

by | Aug 14, 2015 6:31 am | Acquisitions

Since its formation in June 2014 when it was spun out from The Ensign Group as a publicly traded REIT, CareTrust REIT has largely taken part in small one- to three-property acquisitions with prices as small as $6.6 million but never larger than $18 million. Then the REIT surprised us (and others we presume) by announcing a $175 million acquisition of 14 senior care properties, valued at $139,110 per bed/unit. The portfolio, owned and operated by Liberty Nursing Centers, includes 1,102 operating skilled nursing beds and 156 assisted living and independent living units throughout the state of Ohio. Stepping in to operate these facilities will be Indiana-based Pristine Senior Living, which... Read More »

The meaning of a move

by | Aug 14, 2015 6:29 am | Opinion

So why does a successful CEO of a healthcare REIT leave to become the chief investment officer of a larger REIT? Since Justin Hutchens arrived at National Health Investors (NHI) in 2009, the REIT has posted positive returns in every year from 2010 on, including three years with total returns between 28.1% and 34.5%. And in 2010 it was the number one performing healthcare REIT. While we could joke that he yearned to return to the West Coast, the real reason had to be what his new employer, HCP, Inc., had to offer. He will be in charge of all the seniors housing and care portfolio, which is the majority of HCP and alone dwarfs the total NHI portfolio. Bottom line, it is a much bigger playing... Read More »