• Sabra Health Care REIT Picks Up the Transaction Pace

    by | Apr 30, 2026 4:19 pm | Acquisitions

    Sabra Health Care REIT is ramping up its senior care M&A activity and its SHOP exposure, set to exceed the $1 billion in investments it spent in 2025. The REIT completed several transactions during the first quarter, with investments closed year to date totaling $206.1 million, with an estimated initial cash yield of 8.0%. The pipeline... Read More »

  • Clarion Partners Continues Growing

    by | Apr 30, 2026 4:18 pm | Acquisitions

    Clarion Partners is continuing on its acquisition streak, adding Legacy House of Avondale to its portfolio. The 169-unit Class-A assisted living/memory care community is in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, with a strong operational footing. Clarion Partners further expanded its relationship with MorningStar Senior Living through the deal, partnering... Read More »

  • Blueprint Handles Virginia Deal

    by | Apr 30, 2026 4:17 pm | Acquisitions

    A publicly traded company engaged Blueprint to sell a value-add independent living community in a growing submarket of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1987, the 122-unit community could benefit from investments in the physical plant. It was also not stabilized.  A competitive market generated multiple bids in multiple rounds and improved... Read More »

  • Public REIT Acquires Full-Continuum Communities

    by | Apr 30, 2026 4:14 pm | Acquisitions

    A pair of full-continuum seniors housing communities that sit approximately 10 miles apart traded in Northwest Arkansas. Village on the Park Bentonville in Bentonville and Village on the Park Rogers in Rogers offer a total of 208 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Each community also offers contiguous land for further... Read More »

  • VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

    by | Apr 30, 2026 4:12 pm | Financings

    HUD’s fiscal year 2026 hit the halfway point on March 31, and so far VIUM Capital is leading the way in closed 232 loans and by total loan volume with 41 transactions and $598.0 million in volume, respectively. That represents 22% of the program’s closed loans in the first half of the fiscal year and 19% of the total volume. And 32 of VIUM’s HUD... Read More »

Transaction trifecta

by | Jan 5, 2017 7:50 pm | Acquisitions

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors finished out the year strong with three closings, including U.S. Memory Care’s sale of four MC communities in Texas to a private investor, and a publicly traded REIT’s divestment of a 298-unit independent living community operated by Brookdale Senior Living in Southfield, Michigan. Tremper and Garbers’ final transaction of 2016 also involved Brookdale, as the company sold two of its Carolina seniors housing communities for $33 million. The Hendersonville, North Carolina community was built in 1985 and 1993 with an independent living building and a separate memory care facility. There was also a 30-year old property in... Read More »

Greystone gets it done

by | Dec 20, 2016 4:18 am | Acquisitions

We’ve written plenty on the memory care (and assisted living) development boom going on in Texas, especially in the markets of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. And we have wondered how, if everyone and their neighbor is building memory care in those areas, the communities would fill up. That will be the challenge for a private investor who just bought four recently-built stand-alone memory care communities previously owned and operated by U.S. Memory Care. Located in Cedar Park (Austin MSA), Houston, Plano (Dallas MSA) and Colleyville (also Dallas), these communities were built between 2013 and 2015 with 70 units and 75 beds. U.S. Memory Care also included a beauty/barber shop,... Read More »