• Ensign Announces Eight Acquisitions

    by | May 2, 2024 4:19 pm | Acquisitions

    April showers apparently brought The Ensign Group acquisitions this May, as the publicly traded provider announced eight separate deals, including four where its captive REIT Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT acquired the real estate. Two of the deals in Kansas and Arizona were profiled here, with Senior Living Investment Brokerage handling the... Read More »

  • SLIB Handles Kansas and Arizona Deals

    by | May 2, 2024 4:17 pm | Acquisitions

    In The Ensign Group’s recent slew of acquisition announcements, it was revealed that the provider was the buyer in two transactions that were handled by Senior Living Investment Brokerage. First, Nick Cacciabando, Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul were engaged by a local owner in its divestment of its only senior care facility.   Hillside... Read More »

  • Newmark Announces Two Transactions

    by | May 2, 2024 4:12 pm | Acquisitions

    The team at Newmark announced a couple of closings, including the sale of an eight-property seniors housing portfolio located across the country. Dubbed Project Kandy, the portfolio features 1,024 total units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, with an average age of 14 years.  In addition, Newmark sold a seniors housing... Read More »

  • Fortress Investment Group Purchases in Arizona

    by | May 2, 2024 4:10 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Marcus & Millichap was engaged by a private, family office merchant builder in its divestment of a fully stabilized seniors housing community in Arizona. Built in 2019, Inspira at Arrowhead comprises 165 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in Glendale. Nick Stahler, Hamid Panahi and Steve Gebbing of Institutional... Read More »

  • CFG Secures Bridge Refinance for Ohio Portfolio

    by | May 2, 2024 4:08 pm | Financings

    Capital Funding Group announced the closing of a $65 million bridge loan to support the refinance of nine senior care facilities in Ohio. The portfolio includes one independent living community, one assisted living community, and seven skilled nursing facilities totaling 709 beds. The financing was closed on behalf of a nationally recognized... Read More »

Occupancy Increases in 4th Quarter

by | Jan 13, 2015 5:35 pm | 60 Seconds, Opinion, Statistics

Assisted living and independent living occupancy rates continue to increase. It’s always nice to start the New Year with a little good news, and the good news I am talking about is the sequential and year-over-year increases in occupancy rates across seniors housing. The NIC MAP data has shown the largest increases to be in independent living, which makes sense since there are fewer new units coming on stream. The odd thing from the data is that occupancy levels in the primary 31 markets averages about 40 to 50 basis points lower than the other 68 markets covered by NIC MAP. A similar phenomenon exists with construction starts as a percentage of supply. In the top 31 markets, trailing... Read More »

The Village at Orchard Ridge gets bond financing

by | Jan 8, 2015 8:02 pm | Developments, Financings

The Village at Orchard Ridge, a National Lutheran Community in Winchester, Virginia, is a CCRC that is ready to undergo Phase II of construction with the help of a $67.8 million tax-exempt bond issue. Phase I, which opened in 2013, featured 51 IL cottages, 127 AL units, 18 AL/MC units and 10 private skilled nursing units. With Phase I’s success, National Lutheran Communities & Services (NLCS) is ready to start construction on Phase II this month, which will include an additional 104 IL units, 10 private SN suites, a 15,000 square foot wellness center with an indoor pool and a 150-seat dining expansion. The financing, which will also partially fund 18 IL cottages set to open this month,... Read More »

Seniors housing growing rapidly in Tulsa

by | Jan 8, 2015 8:01 pm | Developments

Wichita, Kansas-based Oxford Senior Living, which has four assisted living/memory care communities open in Texas (2) and Kansas (2), is entering the Oklahoma market, having recently purchased land in Oswasso (Tulsa MSA) to build a 36-unit memory care community for $6 million, or $166,700 per unit, which is about average for memory care in the state according to our data. Oxford found a partner in CarrBaierCrandall Real Estate Group, based in Kansas City, Missouri, to help finance the project, which is expected to be completed in August 2015. Tulsa-based ECO Enterprises Inc. is the general contractor, while Wichita-based LK Architecture was brought in as the architect. The Tulsa area has... Read More »

Opportunistic Texas developers growing in-state and out

by | Jan 8, 2015 7:59 pm | Developments

Civitas Senior Living is flexible when it comes to its growth. With the right deal and the right partner, the company develops assisted living/memory care communities with the intent of owning and operating them outright, co-owning with a development partner or being brought in as a third-party manager with a smaller ownership stake. They’ll build independent living where it’s needed too. With three properties open, and two of them stabilized in Winnsboro (East Texas) and Mesquite (Dallas MSA) with 94% occupancy, Civitas has five communities under construction, with two set to open in March 2015 in Midlothian (North Texas) and Austin, two in June 2015 in Flower Mound and Allen (both Dallas... Read More »