• Selectis Health Divests SNFs to Journey

    In January, Selectis Health, Inc. completed the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Georgia, including 71-bed Providence of Sparta Health & Rehab and 110-bed Warrenton Health & Rehabilitation. The assets sit less than 30 miles apart in Sparta and Warrenton, respectively. The buildings were initially constructed in the 1960s but were... Read More »
  • PE Group Divests to Regional Owner/Operator

    An East Coast-based private equity group divested two seniors housing communities in Mississippi to a regional owner/operator pursuing expansion across the state. The communities total 108 assisted living and memory care units and offer operational synergies, given their close proximity in Oxford and Southaven. The communities were purpose-built... Read More »
  • T7 Capital Closes Array of Financings

    Founded in 2025 by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, T7 Capital announced more than $320 million in recent financings closed across multiple transactions on behalf of healthcare operators and sponsors across the country. They included a combination of refinancings, acquisition loans and working capital facilities for both skilled nursing and... Read More »
  • Two Western Closings from The Zett Group

    The Zett Group closed a couple of seniors housing sales in the western United States. One deal was in the Reno, Nevada MSA, and featured a 65-unit assisted living/memory care community owned by a regional operator. The community boasted high occupancy and strong revenue, but there was room for improvement on the expense side. A local... Read More »
  • Dwight Capital Announces Q1 Activity

    Dwight Capital, its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust (DMT), and Dwight Healthcare Funding (DHF) reported an active first quarter, closing a combined $294 million in senior care financings across a mix of HUD, bridge, and revolving line of credit (RLOC) financings, spanning 11 states. Among the featured HUD transactions was $46.9 million in... Read More »
ASHA and Stifel Nicolaus Meetings

ASHA and Stifel Nicolaus Meetings

What we heard about industry trends 3,000 miles from home. After spending three days at the American Seniors Housing Association meeting and the Stifel Nicolaus “2020 Seniors Housing & Healthcare Real Estate Conference, other than jet lag, there were a few takeaways. First off, on a few panels stand-alone memory care communities came up, and not in a good way. Because they tend to be small, a few resident deaths can have an outsized impact, the former over-development has still left a bad taste, and stand-alone anything is viewed by many as too risky. Speakers believed cap rates were at least 100 basis points higher than for assisted living.  One thing we did hear is that... Read More »
Genesis Healthcare Surges

Genesis Healthcare Surges

Wow. It is amazing what a short analyst report can do to a stock, when it upgrades the recommendation to “Buy” with a price target that is 50% above the current price. That is what happened to Genesis Healthcare yesterday, after Chad Vanacore of Stifel wrote about the company and the improved outlook for skilled nursing in general. The previous closing price was $1.31 per share, and it surged by 26% to $1.65 in early trading on heavier than usual volume. Why? Signs of stabilization in the company’s core portfolio, improved reimbursement outlook for 2019 and beyond, a de-levering of the balance sheet and the divestiture of 55 facilities with unprofitable leases. That doesn’t mean it is... Read More »
ASHA and Stifel Nicolaus Meetings

The Warning Signs Were There

With assisted living occupancy now at an eight-year low, the reasons seemed very obvious a few years ago. I am a hoarder. I like to keep reports, articles, magazines and anything else of interest pertaining to seniors housing and care. So, last night I was cleaning up some papers stacked in my office and came across one of Jerry Doctrow’s first blogs since retiring from Stifel Nicolaus in 2015. Dated January 6, 2016, it was called, “Why Near-Term Trends Could Spell Trouble for Senior Housing.” As I re-read it, all I thought was, why didn’t more people see the problem back then? NIC MAP had just come out with its most recent quarterly data on occupancy and construction, and while not... Read More »