• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

Caddis Partners and Singerman Real Estate have divested another seniors housing community, Heartis Fayetteville. This comes shortly after the joint venture’s sale of Heartis Venice and Heartis Longview. Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare represented the seller in all three transactions.  Heartis Fayetteville is a 167-unit, Class-A asset in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA, that offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The marketing process was highly competitive, with Capitol Seniors Housing selected as the ultimate buyer. The company will rebrand the community as Village Park Fayetteville and bring... Read More »
Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the communities in October and was able to stabilize operations. The company is targeting an additional 15 properties to acquire in 2026. The Berkadia team also closed the sale of The Waters of Eden Prairie, a 156-unit full-continuum seniors housing community in the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA. The property was sold by an institutional private equity firm and... Read More »
Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The financing supports the continued expansion of a high-quality seniors housing platform backed by Braemar Partners and operated by The Arbor Company. Construction projects are still getting done (and financed), as long as they are catering to high-income seniors in high-growth markets, with best-in-class operators, of course. Next, TCG closed... Read More »
Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility was generating large annual losses due to empty beds, as well as other factors. But there was strong interest in the property, with not-for-profit Essential Health selected as the buyer. Essential Health had been consulting with the not-for-profit medical system-seller, Southwestern Vermont Health Care, for two years on a turnaround plan, and... Read More »
Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the transition period. The assisted living community had been foreclosed on by its lender and placed into receivership as a result of operational and financial underperformance under the previous owner. The receiver made incremental improvements, but at the time of sale there was still plenty of upside potential.  The financing was originated through... Read More »
NHP Sets Sights on Seniors Housing

NHP Sets Sights on Seniors Housing

National Healthcare Properties drew attention when it decided to debut on the public markets, and it made its private pay seniors housing ambitions clear with its recent agreement to divest a large outpatient medical facility (OMF) portfolio. The 86-facility portfolio will be sold for $528.2 million, including $278 million of secured debt to be defeased or assumed by the potential buyer, and proceeds will likely be put towards SHOP acquisitions. That is yet another institutional player putting meaningful capital to work in the sector, with more likely on the way. The OMF portfolio divestment, along with several of NHP’s signed purchase and sale agreements for SHOP assets, have already... Read More »