• ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
  • Optimism across the Board in BBG’s Investor Survey Results

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee, Senior Managing Director – Seniors Housing & Healthcare National Practice Leader of BBG Real Estate Services, to discuss the biggest takeaways of BBG’s fifth Annual Investor Survey. Read More »
  • Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

    Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Detroit-Area Deal

    Berkadia closed the sale of Oakleigh of Macomb, an 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Macomb, Michigan (Detroit MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 55 assisted living and 30 memory care units. It was 91% occupied, so given its vintage and performance, we imagine it attracted significant investor interest. Berkadia represented the... Read More »
  • Developer Divests MC Communities to Kalesta Healthcare

    G Capital helped facilitate the sale of two memory care communities in Silicon Valley in an off-market transaction. Calson Management, a developer/operator based in Vacaville, California, had acquired Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park and Crescent Oaks Memory Care in Sunnyvale several years ago as value-add opportunities. The firm... Read More »
Oregon and Idaho Communities Sell

Oregon and Idaho Communities Sell

Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group sold a 48-unit independent living community in Pendleton, Oregon, on behalf of a local owner/operator who was exiting the business. Built in the 1970s, the community was well occupied but could improve its overall operations. Still, there was positive momentum in the NOI, which rose from $320,000 in the trailing-12 months to $470,000 in the trailing-three months annualized.  The property was on the market for only three days, and the deal closed 106 days after LOI execution. A regional independent living owner/operator stepped in to purchase the asset for $5.35 million, or $111,500 per unit, at an 8.8% cap rate based on the trailing-three... Read More »
Owner/Operator Purchases AL/MC Assets from Public Company

Owner/Operator Purchases AL/MC Assets from Public Company

A publicly traded company sold its portfolio of eight assisted living/memory care communities located throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, engaging Blueprint’s Kyle Hallion, Lauren Nagle and Ben Firestone to handle the deal. Each community included a smaller footprint, with 153 units total across the portfolio. The S&P 500 company owner ultimately sold the portfolio to an established owner/operator with an existing Wisconsin presence. That buyer emerged from multiple qualified offers from buyers active in the Midwest. Read More »
Inland Acquires Class-A Asset

Inland Acquires Class-A Asset

Inland Real Estate Acquisitions announced its acquisition of a high-end seniors housing community in Monument, Colorado (between Colorado Springs and Denver). We heard about the Class-A transaction about six weeks prior, when Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced their handling of the deal.  Built in 2017 within a master-planned development, Jackson Creek Senior Living features 132 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It was the only seniors housing community in the builder/seller’s portfolio, but it was a strong operator. Occupancy hit 95%, and the community operated at a nearly 40% margin on... Read More »
Institutional Investor Acquires Oklahoma SNF at Record Price

Institutional Investor Acquires Oklahoma SNF at Record Price

A private investor looking to exit the skilled nursing business to focus on other ventures recently sold its Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, asset. The building is one of the newest skilled nursing facilities in the state.  The facility had a strong census at the time of sale, but there was some upside with a shift in the operating model. Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial Real Estate handled the deal, highlighting the potential for a new buyer to add value to a skilled nursing facility with a high-quality physical plant in a prime location. An institutional investor ultimately secured the opportunity, engaging an operator with a focus on short-term stay skilled nursing and with which it has... Read More »
PE Firm Sells Community in Texas

PE Firm Sells Community in Texas

A seniors housing community in the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA recently traded with the help of Nick Stahler, Austin Diamond and Hap Knowles of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. The large community, which features more than 200 units and 230,000 square feet, includes 163 independent living, 42 assisted living 15 and memory care units. Built in 1982, it had recently benefitted from physical improvements, and while occupancy was improving and recently surpassed 50%, there is still work to do to stabilize the asset. It was sold by a mid-sized private equity firm that had operated the community through a third party management platform.  Hap Knowles served as the referring... Read More »
DST Investor Buys Idaho MC Community

DST Investor Buys Idaho MC Community

A leading DST investor recently acquired a memory care community in northern Idaho. Set in the town of Rathdrum, about 25 miles northeast of Spokane, Washington, Generations Memory Care features 48 private units and is managed by Senior Services of America, an experienced regional operator with 15 properties in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It was built in 2005 with expansions in 2007 and 2013. It had previously sold in 2017 for $8 million, or $166,700 per unit, to an investment group based in northern California. 1031 CF Properties acquired the community for an undisclosed amount and plans to invest in operational enhancements and capital improvements intended to optimize occupancy,... Read More »