Searstone
Searstone, also written SearStone, is a nonprofit continuing care community at 17001 Searstone Drive in Cary. It opened in 2013 and offers a Type A life care contract, which means your monthly fee stays at the independent living rate, plus a set dining fee, if you later move to assisted living, memory care, or nursing on campus.
Searstone at a Glance
What Does Searstone Offer?
Searstone is a continuing care community. You move in while you can live independently, and the Brittany Place health center on campus provides assisted living, memory care, and nursing if you need them later.
Independent living
About 280 apartments in one and two bedroom and two bedroom with den layouts, plus 38 Estate Homes of one to three stories with attached two car garages. Homes include a washer and dryer and updated kitchens.
Health center
Brittany Place has 29 assisted living units, 14 memory care units, and 49 skilled nursing beds. Every state nursing home inspection posted since 2014 found no deficiencies.
Life care
Under the life care contract, residents who move into the health center keep paying their last independent living monthly fee, plus a monthly dining fee set out in the state filing.
What Daily Life Looks Like
Independent living residents get a quarterly dining allowance to use across several venues, including a lakeside dining room, a bar and grille, a marketplace, a chop house open a few nights a week, and chef's table dinners.
- Housekeeping and linen service every two weeks
- Electricity, water, heat and air, cable, and internet included
- Scheduled local transportation
- Interior and exterior maintenance and landscaping
- Fitness and wellness programs and a life enrichment coordinator
- Pet friendly homes and grounds
How Does Searstone's Pricing Work?
Searstone charges an entrance fee plus a monthly fee. New residents choose a 100 percent refundable contract, where the home portion is refunded after your residence is resold and the life care portion declines to zero over 50 months. Searstone doesn't publish its rates, and a waitlist spot costs $5,300, of which $5,000 is refundable. You can read the latest disclosure statement filed with the state. Ask me for current pricing and I will walk you through it.
How Are Searstone's Health Center and Finances?
Every state nursing home inspection of the Brittany Place health center posted since 2014 found no deficiencies, most recently in October 2025. You can see them on the state nursing home record for Brittany Place.
Searstone's 2025 financial filing shows independent living nearly full at about 98 percent, and the community met all of its loan requirements. It also shows an accumulated deficit of about $103 million, operating expenses about 12 percent higher than revenue in 2025, and assisted living and nursing occupancy of roughly 49 and 66 percent while the new health center beds fill. Losses are common while an expansion fills up, but they are worth asking about.
What I'd Ask on a Tour
These are the questions I make sure get answered when I tour Searstone with a family.
- How full the assisted living and nursing beds are now, and the plan to fill them
- How the 2025 financial results affect future monthly fee increases
- What the health center dining fee is today, and what else is extra under life care
- How long the waitlist is for the home you want
- Whether the health center accepts Medicare for short rehab stays
Similar Communities Nearby
- Glenaire: near downtown Cary, a nonprofit continuing care community with a 5 star nursing center
- Brier Pointe Retirement Community: Morrisville, an all inclusive monthly rental with no entrance fee
- Modena Cary: Regency Parkway, an independent living rental
- Waltonwood Cary Parkway: SE Cary Parkway, a rental with assisted living and memory care on site
Searstone Questions
Is Searstone a life care community?
Yes. Searstone offers a Type A life care contract, so residents who later move to assisted living, memory care, or nursing on campus keep paying their last independent living monthly fee, plus a monthly dining fee in the health center.
Who owns Searstone?
Samaritan Housing Foundation, a nonprofit, owns Searstone. Searstone RLA, a private company affiliated with Retirement Living Associates, manages it.
Does Searstone have memory care?
Yes. The Brittany Place health center includes 14 memory care units, along with 29 assisted living units and 49 skilled nursing beds.
Who can move into Searstone?
Residents must be 62 or older and able to live independently. You also need Medicare Parts A and B with supplemental coverage, and you must qualify financially.
Is Searstone pet friendly?
Yes. Searstone says its residences and grounds are pet friendly. Ask about any size or number limits.
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Ask Me About Searstone
This is not the community's official website. Triangle Senior Placement is an independent placement service. Details come from the community's own materials and North Carolina state records, and you should confirm them on your tour.