• Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »
  • Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »
  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »
  • More Shareholder Activism

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

It was a banner year for Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team, which closed more than $5.5 billion in transaction volume in 2021, including $918 million in transactions for 56 seniors housing and healthcare facilities in 16 states over the last month to end the year.   These transactions were negotiated by Senior Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team, Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin; Managing Director, Josh Simpson; Vice Presidents, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, and Rafi Sod; and Senior Associates, Yuval Hananya, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott.  The team’s December transactions include several refinances, including a $130... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

NewPoint Acquires HHC Finance’s HUD Businesses

NewPoint Real Estate Capital LLC, a joint venture between Meridian Capital Group and Barings, announced that it has acquired certain assets of Housing & Healthcare Finance, including its FHA multifamily and healthcare origination business and its loan servicing portfolio. This deal augments NewPoint’s existing HUD lending services and also its healthcare and seniors housing financing capabilities. For HHC Finance, the firm gains the backing of NewPoint’s scale and its own range of services offered, now including a multifamily bridge lending program which was launched earlier this month to provide loans of $5 million to $50 million with... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

Meridian Capital Group Announces Latest Activity

Another month, another slew of closings from Meridian Capital Group. The Senior Housing and Healthcare team including Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, Rafi Sod, Yuval Hananya, David Gottlieb, Jacob Scott and Brett Hebert negotiated the transactions, which included several refinances, acquisition loans and two property sales.  The targets in the sales included a 103-unit assisted living/memory care community in Missouri that sold for $10.2 million, or $99,000 per unit, and a 90-unit AL/MC community in Utah that sold for $6.5 million, or $72,200 per unit. Meridian’s Avi Begun arranged acquisition financing for both properties, with an $8.3 million loan from... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare team announced another $219 million in transaction volume closed across eight skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living and memory care properties in seven states in September. The team that negotiated these deals included Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, Rafi Sod, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott.   There were a few acquisition loans, the largest being a $68 million loan from a commercial bank plus a $2.5 million A/R line for a CCRC in Michigan totaling 89 skilled nursing, 65 assisted living, 852 independent living and 31 memory care beds. Meridian also arranged the LP equity for the... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Reports Busy July

Meridian Capital Group Reports Busy July

In the month of July, Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare team has closed $863.4 million in transaction volume for a combined 60 skilled nursing and assisted living properties in 13 states. That brings the year-to-date total to $3.6 billion in volume, or already surpassing the $3.2 billion in transactions closed in 2020. Well done to Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott who negotiated the deals.  Meridian’s largest deal of the month was a $324.7 million acquisition financing provided by a commercial bank and mezzanine lender for 21 skilled nursing facilities with 2,643 total beds in New Jersey,... Read More »