• Novellus Divests in Colorado

    Evans Senior Investment arranged the sale of an assisted living community in Denver, Colorado, representing Novellus Living in the transaction. ESI previously facilitated the sale of the community less than two years ago. Originally built in 2002, Novellus Cherry Creek comprises 66 units and operates on a 59% private pay basis. In 2022, occupancy... Read More »
  • CBRE Secures Financing for Washington Asset

    CBRE secured financing for a seniors housing community in Tacoma, Washington, on behalf of a joint venture between Harrison Street, PMB and GenCare Lifestyle. Built in 2020, GenCare Lifestyle Tacoma at Point Ruston comprises 159 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The community fully opened in the fourth quarter of 2020 and... Read More »
  • Live Oak Bank Returns to Santee Seniors Housing Campus

    Live Oak Bank closed a $27.0 million refinance with a repeat client for an assisted living/memory care community, The Ridge at Lantern Crest, situated on a larger campus, Lantern Crest, in Santee, California. Lantern Crest, operated by Lantern Crest Senior Living, is a 34-acre seniors housing campus developed by The Grant Companies. It offers... Read More »
  • The Current Lending Environment for Senior Care Properties

    The financing process has killed dozens (and hundreds) of deals in the last couple of years, and yet M&A activity is near record levels in the seniors housing and care industry. So deals are getting done, and not just with cash. Who has been lending and at what cost to the borrower? What hurdles have to be overcome? And when capital costs do... Read More »
  • Lument Arranges Tennessee SNF Sale (& Loan Assumption)

    A skilled nursing facility in Tennessee that was struggling to maintain debt service and other loan obligations sold with the help of Laca Wong-Hammond and Isabel Carta of Lument Securities serving as exclusive financial advisor to the seller. Located in Rocky Top, about 25 miles from Knoxville, Summit View of Rocky Top is a 117-bed skilled... Read More »

Seniors Housing Weekly Update – CCRCs And Employment Growth

June 16, 2015. 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe. Everyone reported that CCRCs are going to have explosive job growth in the next five years, but are they missing the boat? CCRCs And Employment Growth As you have probably figured out by now, I like numbers and statistics, but too often, people report on numbers that are released by others without stepping back and asking if they make sense. One such number received some press recently. CareerBuilder came out with various industries that were expected to have the highest rate of job growth in the next five years. Surprisingly, CCRCs came in eighth place, with an estimated growth of nearly 94,000 jobs between now and 2019, for an increase of 21%.... Read More »

CBRE arranges financing for 15-CCRC portfolio

Aron Will, Mitchell Kiffe and Matthew Whitlock of CBRE arranged $410 million in financing on behalf of NorthStar Healthcare Income and The Freshwater Group/Watermark Retirement Communities to purchase a portfolio of 15 rental and entrance fee CCRCs. The seller, Fountains Senior Living, a subsidiary of Arcapita, had previously hired Watermark as the day-to-day operator of the portfolio, which consists of six entrance-fee and nine rental CCRCs with 3,663 total units (with 2,330 independent living units, 945 assisted living units, 156 memory care units and 320 skilled nursing beds in 232 rooms). NorthStar will lease the entrance fee properties to affiliates of The Freshwater Group, pursuant... Read More »

Arbor enters the seniors housing bridge lending game

With decades of experience in providing bridge loans for multifamily and commercial properties, Arbor Commercial Mortgage recently closed on its first bridge loan in the seniors housing industry, from its Arbor Realty Trust’s bridge loan product line. Jeff Ringwald of Arbor originated the $5.55 million bridge acquisition loan, which featured a three-year term and a floating rate spread 500 to 600 basis points over LIBOR, for Fields Senior Living to purchase an 88-unit independent living community in Medford, Oregon. The community was built in 1984 by Holiday Retirement Corporation and was owned and operated by the original financier for the project. Occupancy had dropped from near... Read More »

The largest just got larger

The largest provider of skilled nursing in the country, Genesis HealthCare, increased its facility ownership to 23% of its inpatient sites with the acquisition of 24 skilled nursing facilities with 3,056 total beds for $240 million, or $78,500 per bed. The facilities, owned by Revera, Inc. and generating approximately $280 million in 2014 revenue, are located in New Jersey (8), Vermont (5), Washington (3), Connecticut (2), Massachusetts (2) and one each in Maryland, Virginia, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Under the agreement, Genesis will acquire the real estate of 20 of the 24 facilities, and will enter into long-term lease agreements with Health Care REIT for the remaining four. In the... Read More »

Where’s the beef?

There’s a lot of talk of hot, new technologies in the senior care industries that are poised to revolutionize delivery of care and drastically improve the lives of residents. But which of these innovations will be a flash in the pan, and which will show results? One serious issue that many seniors in assisted living face is the loss of strength and balance from a relatively sedentary life. One company, HUR, has developed computerized SmartCard exercise machines to help combat that loss of strength. Studies have shown that progressive resistance and balance training can significantly reduce the number of falls, and by increasing resistance by quarter-pound increments, the HUR machines make... Read More »