• Public REIT Divests to Owner/Operator

    by | Oct 14, 2025 3:16 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint facilitated the sale of a Massachusetts skilled nursing facility on behalf of a public REIT in the senior care sector. The REIT determined that the facility was a strong candidate for sale due to its location. Plus, the former operator was switching focus to other assets in its mutual portfolio.  Purpose-built in 1982 with... Read More »

  • Development Company Acquires Through Membership Buyout

    by | Oct 14, 2025 3:15 pm | Acquisitions

    A Missouri-based real estate developer engaged Blueprint to facilitate its membership buyout of a joint venture partner. Brooks Blackmon, Ben Firestone and Lauren Nagle handled the transaction. Four years ago, the firm was brought on to raise capital, ultimately sourcing an institutional capital partner to develop a private pay seniors housing... Read More »

  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Previewing Our Capital Markets Conversation

    by | Oct 14, 2025 3:09 pm | 60 Seconds

    We know that the capital markets have made the biggest impact on M&A activity and property valuations in the last several years, changing the size of possible deals, the makeup of the properties sold and the buyers that could actually buy. Now that the capital markets have substantially improved and are getting better, barring a sudden and... Read More »

  • Seller Exits Seniors Industry with Divestment to REIT

    by | Oct 14, 2025 2:59 pm | Acquisitions

    A single-asset seniors housing owner is exiting the industry with the sale of their property in Murrieta, California. Built in 2016 and 2018, Renaissance Village Murrieta has 142 units of assisted living and memory care in three stories. It was operating just below 70% occupancy, so there is plenty of room for a new owner to improve performance... Read More »

  • Deal Closes Following Buyer Withdrawals

    by | Oct 14, 2025 2:58 pm | Acquisitions

    After a long process that saw multiple buyers pull out from the deal, the sale of Sarah Neuman Skilled Nursing Facility in Mamaroneck, New York, has closed with the help of Mark Myers at Kiser Group. Owned by a religious not-for-profit organization, The New Jewish Home, the facility features 301 beds and was losing money. Myers had previously... Read More »

Summit Healthcare buys at peak pricing

by | Sep 7, 2016 8:20 am | Acquisitions

We write in the September issue of The SeniorCare Investor that after a four-year surge, skilled nursing valuations may be at a peak. We give many reasons why the sector is currently valued so high (rightfully so) but also why it probably won’t rise any higher. But in the meantime, high-valued deals are still closing, including Summit Healthcare REIT’s acquisition of an interest in two Delaware skilled nursing facilities for a total purchase price of $54.1 million, or $162,952 per bed. The REIT made the acquisition through a joint venture between its wholly owned subsidiary, Summit Healthcare Operating Partnership, LP and Best Years, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese... Read More »

LTC Expands with Thrive

by | Jul 20, 2016 8:30 am | Acquisitions

LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) expanded its relationship with Thrive Senior Living, acquiring and then leasing another property to the Atlanta-based operator for $14.3 million, or $204,286 per unit. Receiving its Certificate of Occupancy in May 2016, the community in Athens, Georgia was actually developed by a joint venture between Thrive, Paragon Real Estate and Summit Healthcare REIT. It features 50 assisted living and 20 memory care all-private pay units, and was added to an existing master lease agreement at an initial incremental yield of 8.0%. This expands LTC’s relationship with Thrive to three communities, with two additional development projects expected to open by the end of... Read More »

Four Green Bay-area properties sold

by | Nov 25, 2015 8:30 am | Acquisitions

Jacob Gehl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors led the sale of a portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities in Wisconsin for $18.35 million, or $146,800 per unit, with an 8.7% cap rate. Included in the portfolio were three properties in Green Bay, including a 20-unit stand-alone memory care community, and one in Appleton. Combined occupancy stood at 92% at the time of the sale, and the portfolio generated approximately $1.6 million in trailing EBITDAR on an annualized basis. Senior Housing and Healthcare Capital was the seller, while Summit Healthcare REIT was the buyer, which will lease the properties for a 12-year term to an affiliate of Compass Senior Living, an... Read More »