• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... Read More »
Legend Senior Living Adds Allentown-Area Asset

Legend Senior Living Adds Allentown-Area Asset

A Class-A, well performing property outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania, traded to a joint venture between Legend Senior Living and a new capital partner. Alex Florea and Kevin Lukehart of Blueprint handled the transaction. Legend had been operating The Vero at Bethlehem, which opened in July 2023 and stabilized within 18 months. At the time of marketing, the 124-unit assisted living/memory care asset achieved industry-leading occupancy and margins, which we would guess were in the high-90s and high-30s range, respectively.  The builder of the project, KBE Building Corporation, listed Columbia Pacific Advisors as the developer. Given the community’s outstanding performance and trajectory,... Read More »
Legend Senior Living Adds Allentown-Area Asset

Outcome Healthcare Acquires Pennsylvania SNF

Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of Mahoning Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 142-bed skilled nursing facility in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The seller, an independent owner, faced increasing financial and operational pressures in today’s skilled nursing environment. The selected buyer was a regional operator with a growing presence in the state and will rebrand the facility as Mahoning Post Acute Nursing and Rehabilitation.  According to Time News, Lakewood, New Jersey-based Outcome Healthcare was the buyer, and the seller was a mom & pop, Mike and Devon Mickey. The pair purchased the SNF in 1999 from Norman Berger, who had owned it since the... Read More »
Sonida Senior Living Increases Its Presence in Texas

Sonida Senior Living Increases Its Presence in Texas

Sonida Senior Living finalized its acquisition of a seniors housing community in Texas. Built in 2016, the community features 62 assisted living and 36 memory care units. It shares a driveway with senior-centric healthcare providers and referral sources, and is across from a 294-bed hospital in Mansfield. The property is near existing Sonida assets, bringing the company’s Dallas-Fort Worth portfolio to nine assets and 21 total in the state. This community is Sonida’s highest quality physical plant in this market, but still has a similar profile in services, unit mix and size.  Sonida Senior Living intends to invest additional capital to refresh common areas and amenity spaces over the... Read More »
Performing Class-A Asset Trades in Pensacola

Performing Class-A Asset Trades in Pensacola

Berkadia handled the sale of Summer Vista, a seniors housing community in Pensacola, Florida. Managing Directors Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare closed the transaction. Built in 2016, the 89-unit assisted living/memory care community has always been a strong performer. In fact, after opening in February 2016, it had reached stabilization after just five months.  According to LevinPro LTC’s M&A database, a 2017 sale of Summer Vista to CNL Healthcare Properties had occupancy at 95% (it sold for $21.4 million, or $240,400 per unit at the time). Then in February 2020, Summer Vista and a 92-unit AL/MC community in... Read More »
Ziegler Handles Unique Operator Transition

Ziegler Handles Unique Operator Transition

A high-end seniors housing community that caters to the Japanese-American population in the San Francisco, California, area completed a delicate operational transfer, with the help of Ziegler. Kokoro Assisted Living is located in the heart of San Francisco’s historic Japantown and is known for providing culturally sensitive care and an environment that blends Japanese and American heritage through meaningful activities, celebrations and cuisine. The main structure was originally a synagogue and has since converted to seniors housing, expanding in the early 2000s. It had decent occupancy, but operations were never optimized, operating just above breakeven. Sequoia Living, another... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two Texas Portfolio Transactions

Blueprint Closes Two Texas Portfolio Transactions

During the NIC Fall conference in Austin, Blueprint announced a couple of portfolio transactions in Texas. First, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso facilitated the sale of five skilled nursing facilities located throughout the Texas Hill Country and Houston. All five facilities are within four hours of each other, offering scale and operational efficiencies. The portfolio features 469 beds and has a diverse payor mix with a strong track record of financial performance. The facilities were generating over $2.2 million of in-place cash flow, with portfolio-wide occupancy at 71% and trending upward at the time of marketing, so there is room for an incoming investor to reduce expenses and... Read More »