Amid Turmoil, Does Skilled Nursing Have a Future in REITs?

Conflicts between major real estate investment trusts (REITs) and their skilled nursing tenants have dominated industry headlines in recent weeks. Quality Care Properties (NYSE: QCP) continues to seek relief amid its primary tenant HCR ManorCare’s failure to pay rent, while shareholders of Sabra Healthcare REIT, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBRA) attempted to derail its acquisition of the SNF-heavy […]

The Rise of the Mid-Sized Skilled Nursing Buyer

In an almost paradoxical landscape, where the outlook for skilled nursing operators remains bleak while prices for individual SNFs have never been higher, one particular type of buyer stands to benefit the most — and it’s not the big boys or the mom-and-pops. Mid-sized SNF operators and owners — those with perhaps 15 to 30 properties — are in […]