• 60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care’s PR Problem

    Recently, we have seen stories circulating about the connection between REIT ownership and the way skilled nursing facilities provide care, stemming from a study written by the nonprofit journalism outlet KFF Health News. We’ve seen this before, headlines like “real estate investors profit while patients suffer,” usually with graphic cases of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sets Pricing Record in New York State

    Blueprint advised a repeat private equity client in a record-setting sale of two standalone memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry submarkets in New York State. Combining for 104 units, these assets were purpose-built in the late 1990s and were stabilized at the time of the deal. Not only that, they were generating cash flow in excess... Read More »
  • CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

    CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April,... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

    VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a... Read More »
  • Lument Secures HUD Express Lane Transaction

    Lument closed a refinance through HUD’s Express Lane for a 120-unit seniors housing community in Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 2017, Pemberly Place Senior Living features 132 licensed beds and offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It also has an on-site medical clinic to offer a range of other healthcare services. The... Read More »
Presbyterian Senior Living Selling Two Communities to Tryko Partners

Presbyterian Senior Living Selling Two Communities to Tryko Partners

In an effort to expand their already large portfolio of more than 6,000 skilled nursing and assisted living beds, Tryko Partners has entered into a contract of sale under which they will purchase two senior care communities from Presbyterian Senior Living, a not-for-profit senior care provider.  The target communities include Westminster Village, a 178-bed CCRC in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Heritage Run, a 34-unit independent living community in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon the anticipated summer 2021 closing, Tryko plans to launch a capital improvement program to fully modernize Westminster Village, which was built in 1967 and saw additions in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 2008. The Baltimore... Read More »
Tryko Partners Developing Pittsburgh Seniors Housing

Tryko Partners Developing Pittsburgh Seniors Housing

Selected by The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh to redevelop a former school in the city to serve the needs of both low-income and middle-income seniors, Tryko Partners just obtained a gap financing commitment from the Pittsburgh Housing Authority to help fund the project.   Formerly the Fairywood School in the city’s west end, the site will include a total of 46 one-bedroom units with covered porches, including 39 reserved for low-income residents. There will also be a community building where residents can take advantage of financial literacy, nutrition and exercise programs, health screenings, and other support services for seniors. The project would also anchor a... Read More »

Tryko Partners Adds Pennsylvania SNF to Portfolio

Tryko Partners acquired a 121-bed skilled nursing facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the greater Philadelphia region and is planning a significant capital investment project to the 40-year-old building. Set on five acres, the four-star facility is located about 12 miles from downtown Philadelphia and is within a 10-mile radius of nine short-term acute-care hospitals. It had been previously owned by a faith-based not-for-profit for 50 years, and Timothy Bonjo has been the facility’s administrator for 36 years. It’s not often you see that kind of tenure in this industry.   Planned upgrades to the three-story building, which should cost around $2.5 million,... Read More »
Tryko Partners Buys Two SNFs

Tryko Partners Buys Two SNFs

With more than 4,500 skilled nursing and assisted living beds under management, plus another 2,000 independent living units, Tryko Partners, and its operating affiliate Marquis Health Services, is certainly becoming a senior care powerhouse in the northeast and mid-Atlantic areas. And they keep on adding to their portfolio, even during the pandemic.  Most recently, they purchased a 173-bed facility on six acres in Springfield, Pennsylvania called Harlee Manor and Springfield Commons. The campus is located 12 miles west of downtown Philadelphia, and joins three other Tryko-owned facilities in the greater Philadelphia market. There are 100 skilled beds and... Read More »
Tryko Partners Marches Into The South

Tryko Partners Marches Into The South

With most of its acquisitions located between Maryland and Massachusetts, New Jersey-based Tryko Partners has expanded its reach into Virginia with the purchase of three skilled nursing facilities with a total of 563 beds. They are located in Alexandria, Richmond and Colonial Beach, and represent the company’s first acquisition in the state.  No purchase price was disclosed, but historically Virginia has been a relatively high-priced market, with an average price per bed over the past five years north of $100,000. That kind of state details will be in our soon-to-be-published Senior Care Acquisition Report.   Tryko plans on investing close... Read More »