• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
Real Estate Investment Group Acquires Northern California Seniors Housing Portfolio

Real Estate Investment Group Acquires Northern California Seniors Housing Portfolio

M&A has been especially active in the first two weeks of the fourth quarter. It seems a dam, of sorts, of delayed deals had broken. There are certainly many more deals still in limbo or terminated altogether because of the pandemic, but it is an encouraging sign to see this level of deal-making considering the circumstances.  One highlight of the activity was the sale of three seniors housing communities in the Northern Sacramento Valley in California, handled by Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The deal includes two properties in Chico and one in Oroville, with a total of 85 memory care units and 131 beds.   Built... Read More »
Local Owner in Georgia Exits Senior Care Market

Local Owner in Georgia Exits Senior Care Market

Two Senior Living Investment Brokerage teams facilitated an owner’s exit of the senior care industry with the sale of two assisted living communities in Georgia to two different buyers. First, the local owner/operator sold its small community in Cartersville, northeast of Atlanta.   Built during the last assisted living construction boom in the early-2000s, the 25-unit community was renovated in 2015. Since then, it has remained well occupied exceeding 90%. A Northeast-based owner/operator looking to expand its portfolio in the Peach State paid an undisclosed sum for the community.  The other transaction saw a 58-unit community in Dalton (northeast corner of Georgia) sell to an... Read More »
SLIB Closes Columbia, South Carolina Transaction

SLIB Closes Columbia, South Carolina Transaction

Bradley Clousing and Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a senior living community in Columbia, South Carolina. Its private partnership owner was looking to exit the sector, which prompted the transaction.   Originally built in 1996, this community was extensively renovated in 2006, 2013 and finally 2016, the last of which saw $2 million invested. It now features 38 independent living, 32 assisted living and 22 memory care units, with a full range of amenities and an attractive physical plant. There are seven buildings on the 6.86-acre site. Occupancy was just 66%, while the community operated at an 8% margin on nearly $2.1 million of... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Brokers Bankruptcy Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Brokers Bankruptcy Sale

The Senior Living Investment Brokerage team of Ryan Saul, Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert put in the hours to work through a bankruptcy sale of a 130-bed skilled nursing facility in Bristol, Tennessee. Originally built in 1986 and 1990, this facility was owned by a regional skilled nursing operator. Over the last couple of years, it faced challenges with occupancy and cash flow, and as a result, both the OpCo and PropCo were placed into bankruptcy for liquidation. In came the SLIB team, which ran an extensive marketing campaign during the height of the pandemic, and despite a few extended deadlines, they found a buyer in a Mid-Atlantic-based regional skilled nursing owner with operating... Read More »
SLIB Facilitates Owner/Operator’s Senior Living Exit

SLIB Facilitates Owner/Operator’s Senior Living Exit

A Lexington, Kentucky-based developer, owner and operator exited the senior living business with the sale of its only asset thanks to the work of Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. This community was previously an elementary school in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, but was converted to senior living by the current seller in 2014.   The gut renovation resulted in 30 spacious assisted living units. Occupancy quickly rose to 90% after opening and hovered between 85% and 90% until COVID brought census down to about 80% and the operating margin down to about 7% on over $1 million of revenues.  The owner was looking to exit the sector and... Read More »