• Inland Acquires Class-A Asset

    Inland Real Estate Acquisitions announced its acquisition of a high-end seniors housing community in Monument, Colorado (between Colorado Springs and Denver). We heard about the Class-A transaction about six weeks prior, when Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced their... Read More »
  • Institutional Investor Acquires Oklahoma SNF at Record Price

    A private investor looking to exit the skilled nursing business to focus on other ventures recently sold its Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, asset. The building is one of the newest skilled nursing facilities in the state.  The facility had a strong census at the time of sale, but there was some upside with a shift in the operating model. Daniel... Read More »
  • PE Firm Sells Community in Texas

    A seniors housing community in the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA recently traded with the help of Nick Stahler, Austin Diamond and Hap Knowles of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. The large community, which features more than 200 units and 230,000 square feet, includes 163 independent living, 42 assisted living 15 and memory care units.... Read More »
  • DST Investor Buys Idaho MC Community

    A leading DST investor recently acquired a memory care community in northern Idaho. Set in the town of Rathdrum, about 25 miles northeast of Spokane, Washington, Generations Memory Care features 48 private units and is managed by Senior Services of America, an experienced regional operator with 15 properties in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It... Read More »
  • Thrive Adds Three Assets in Georgia

    Thrive Senior Living grew its presence in its home state of Georgia, with the addition of three seniors housing communities. Developed by the Sawyer family between 2019 and 2022, the communities operated under the At Home Senior Living brand and are located in Cochran, Thomson and Jesup. Beginning in 2024, Thrive partnered with the Sawyer family... Read More »
Blueprint Closes SNF Sale in Virginia

Blueprint Closes SNF Sale in Virginia

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors continued its recent surge in closings with the sale of a rural Virginia skilled nursing facility. Located just off I-81 in the southwest Virginia town of Rural Retreat, the 120-bed facility was built in 2015 with 20 private and 50 semiprivate units. Shortly after it achieved stabilization, its operator, Traditions Senior Management, decided to execute its below-market purchase option on the facility’s real estate.   Occupancy remained strong until the pandemic when the facility like many others saw census dip. Being one of the newest facilities in the area, it was still able to attract a healthy quality mix. But financials could certainly be... Read More »
Insured success

Insured success

Fortegra Financial Corporation, an affiliate of Tiptree Financial Inc., is a specialized insurance and insurance services company that is dipping its toes in the seniors housing market. That is not to say Tiptree is a debutante to the industry, with its wholly owned subsidiary Care Investment Trust making five acquisitions for 17 properties since 2013. For Fortegra, the company is acquiring a 77-unit senior living community with independent/assisted living and memory care services in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The stabilized property was owned by a regional operator which is exiting the industry with this sale. Fortegra is paying $11.5 million, or $149,351 per unit, for the community and is... Read More »
And the vote is in…

And the vote is in…

On October 13, our editor Steve Monroe moderated a webinar called “Skilled Nursing: Buying, Selling & Valuing,” with panelists Ben Atkins, Chairman of Traditions Senior Management, Charles Bissell, Executive Director of Integra Realty Resources, Ben Firestone, Senior Managing Director & Founding Partner of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, and Stephen Graham, SVP/Director of Post-Acute Acquisition & Development of MedEquities Realty Trust. During the 90 minutes, we posed two poll questions to our listeners and got some interesting results. First, in response to “Should high acuity, subacute SNFs sell with a higher or lower cap rate than more traditional SNFs?,” 55% of... Read More »

Seven sales in North Carolina

Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap burst out of the gate in July, arranging the sale of seven senior care properties (six assisted living and one skilled nursing facility) in North Carolina in three separate transactions, totaling almost $43 million. The first was the sale by a not-for-profit foundation of five assisted living properties with 300 units (there are 60 units at each) for $22.3 million, or about $74,300 per unit. Meridian Senior Living was the buyer. Second, a group of private investors sold their 60-unit assisted living community in Wadesboro, North Carolina to Meridian Senior Living for $4 million, or $66,700 per unit. Finally, Mr. Pardoll, together with Mark Myers also... Read More »