• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Equity for New Jersey Development

Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Equity for New Jersey Development

Acting as exclusive advisor to a joint venture between Pike Properties, Thrive Senior Living and Gallium Real Estate, the Cushman & Wakefield team of Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner and Jim Dooley arranged institutional equity capital for a to-be-built senior living community in Montvale, New Jersey. Located on an 11.5-acre site with a spacious 33,000-square foot interior courtyard, the development will feature 203 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. The $26.5 million of equity (provided by a private equity fund) will complement $54.6 million of debt financing from another seniors housing lender. Read More »
Clousing Arranges Second Savannah Sale This Year

Clousing Arranges Second Savannah Sale This Year

Closing his second senior living transaction in Savannah this year, Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a large senior living community located just 10 minutes away from the historic center downtown. Built in 1986 and 1998, the 209-unit community features a majority of independent living units (146), but assisted living and memory care rooms too. Plus, the previous owner, HJ Sims, recently converted its personal care license to an assisted living license, giving the buyer added flexibility when it comes to acuity types. That should help as they embark on a plan to increase occupancy (from its current 74%) and boost the operating margin (from about 16% on $4.9 million... Read More »
REITs Are Moving Assets Again

REITs Are Moving Assets Again

Just when we thought it was safe to go outside again, it was revealed that Welltower had transferred the operations of 20 memory care and Alzheimer’s communities from one of its formerly favored tenants, Silverado Senior Living, to a formerly much smaller tenant, Frontier Management. These 20 properties represent 50% of Silverado’s memory care operations, and the transition is obviously a serious blow. To say that people were shocked by this development would be an understatement. Of the 20 properties, 11 are located in Texas and the rest scattered among four other western and midwestern states. We understand that sometimes a REIT or a lender has to make difficult decisions to protect its... Read More »

LTC Expands with Thrive

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 »

PinPoint spins off to focus on seniors housing

PinPoint Commercial, a national boutique development partnership that has created over $600M in industrial, medical, retail and senior housing assets, is creating a new company, PinPoint Senior Living (PSL), to focus on the development of new senior living communities. We have written before of Pinpoint Commercial’s “Legacy” brand of seniors housing (see: Assisted Living technology at its best), and the company has so far developed eight properties in Texas, New Mexico, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida. This July, Legacy at Highwoods Preserve in Tampa, Florida is set to open, with 60 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, to be operated by Thrive Senior Living. But with this new... Read More »