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

    by | Apr 29, 2026 8:15 am | 60 Seconds

    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

    by | Apr 28, 2026 4:45 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | Apr 28, 2026 2:38 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    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

    by | Apr 28, 2026 2:37 pm | Financings

    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

    by | Apr 28, 2026 2:35 pm | Financings

    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 »
Lument Arranges Bank Loan For Watercrest Community

Lument Arranges Bank Loan For Watercrest Community

by | Mar 19, 2021 9:38 am | Financings

Lument arranged bank financing for Watercrest Senior Living’s newly built senior living community in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Steve McGee, managing director at Lument since joining the team in 2020 to head its debt syndication group, led the transaction, which took out construction debt at the property. Opened in 2018, Market Street East Lake has 64 units of memory care and joined Watercrest’s growing portfolio, which currently numbers 13 properties across the Southeast.  The new bridge-to-agency loan totals $12.3 million and covers about 70% of the property’s value. That puts the community at around $275,000 per unit in value. The debt came with a floating interest rate for a five-year... Read More »

Blueprint Booms In June

by | Jun 16, 2017 7:02 am | Acquisitions, Developments

Adam Sherman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors brought several parties together to arrange the capital for a $30 million assisted living/memory care development in Kissimmee, Florida. Located on a 3.4-acre site in the Osceola Corporate Center, a 900+ acre master planned mixed use development, the community will feature 104 units/114 beds of assisted living and 24 private memory care units, in addition to multiple dining venues and amenities. The developer, Providence One Partners, LLC, and the operator, Watercrest Senior Living, expect to open the three-story community by late summer of 2018. Construction began immediately after Mr. Sherman arranged the capital stack, which... Read More »

Watercrest Senior Living Breaks Ground in Florida

by | May 29, 2015 9:00 am | Developments

Vero Beach, Florida-based Watercrest Senior Living Group, and its development partner Starling Senior Living, celebrated the official groundbreaking of a 90-unit assisted living community in Jacksonville, Florida. It will have 66 assisted living units and 24 memory care units totaling 79,000 square feet. All of Watercrest’s memory care associates are Certified Dementia Specialists. The building was designed by PQH Group.   Read More »

Southwest Florida booming

by | Jan 21, 2015 8:49 pm | Developments

REDICO, a Michigan-based real estate development and investment company, announced its next American House project, called Coconut Point, in Estero, Florida. The project is the second for REDICO in southwest Florida and will include 54 independent living units, 76 assisted living units and 64 memory care units. It’s in a prime location, as across the street is a 140-store mall, and just north of Coconut Point will be Lee Memorial Health System’s planned $140 million Estero healthcare village, which is scheduled to open in 2017. American House is based in Michigan and currently has over 40 communities open in that state, mostly in the Detroit metro area, and after it became an affiliate of... Read More »