• Healthpeak Properties Jumps Back into Seniors Housing

    by | Jan 9, 2026 8:52 am | Acquisitions

    Ever since Healthpeak Properties essentially exited the seniors housing market in 2021, we had wondered when they would come back. We even thought they could have jumped back in just a year later when rumors were circulating that Brookdale Senior Living was in talks about a potential sale.  The M&A opportunity in seniors housing, and the... Read More »

  • Blueprint Handles Washington State Bankruptcy Deal

    by | Jan 9, 2026 8:50 am | Acquisitions

    Fresh off a phenomenal 2025 (we’ll see where they ended up in the Broker Rankings next month), Blueprint announced a few end-of-year closings this week. First, Michael Segal, Dan Mahoney, Amy Sitzman and Daniel Waldhorn ran a bankruptcy sale for the real estate of three skilled nursing facilities in Washington State. They were engaged by the... Read More »

  • Another Record Year for VIUM

    by | Jan 9, 2026 8:49 am | Financings

    VIUM Capital keeps raising the bar in transaction volume, announcing another record-setting year in 2025, closing 96 transactions totaling over $2 billion in par value, representing the largest total of financings closed in the firm’s nearly six-year history. Most of that volume came from bridge loans originated by VIUM through its joint venture... Read More »

  • Ventas Divests to Joint Venture

    by | Jan 9, 2026 8:48 am | Acquisitions

    Berkadia announced that it handled the sale of a California seniors housing community, and refinanced a separate Montana community. Atria Park of San Mateo, a 135-unit assisted living and memory care community in San Mateo, California, sold to an institutionally capitalized partnership. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders of... Read More »

  • Behavioral Buyer Gets Vacant VA Asset

    by | Jan 9, 2026 8:47 am | Acquisitions

    Some brokers have been taking advantage of behavioral health providers’ desire to grow in order to sell vacant seniors housing assets, and getting higher prices for their clients as a result. Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage arranged the sale of Mayfair House, a 53-unit assisted living community in Portsmouth,... 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 »