• 60 Seconds with Swett: DOGE, The Budget and Healthcare Spending

    DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, has been making the biggest splash in Washington, D.C. these days in terms of attention-grabbing headlines, and it appears it will try to target waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid spending as part of its efforts. Such a move could have a major impact on thousands of facilities’ bottom... Read More »
  • Apollo Acquires Bridge Investment Group

    Apollo and Bridge Investment Group Holdings have entered into a definitive agreement for Apollo to acquire Bridge in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $1.5 billion. Bridge has $50 billion of AUM in complementary sectors aligned with Apollo’s long-term growth strategy. Bridge’s seniors housing portfolio totals 62... Read More »
  • Brightview Divests to Joint Venture in Maryland

    Solera Senior Living, through a joint venture with Focus Healthcare Partners, acquired a seniors housing community in Bethesda, Maryland, from Brightview Senior Living. Built in 2019, Brightview Bethesda Woodmont comprises 92 assisted living and 21 memory care units. Occupancy was around 86% at closing, and Solera will take over operations. It... Read More »
  • Six Active Adult Communities Secure Freddie Mac Financing

    Walker & Dunlop secured a $200 million Freddie Mac financing for six active adult communities. The communities comprise more than 1,100 units in Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington D.C. Average occupancy across the communities was 95% at the time of the financing. The fixed-rate, full-term interest-only loan is... Read More »
  • Focus Healthcare Partners Acquires in Minnesota

    Focus Healthcare Partners acquired a seniors housing community that comprises 288 units in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Located 12 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis, the community, SilverCreek on Main, was built in three phases between 2015 and 2024 by Ryan Companies.  The original independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
American Healthcare REIT Expands Cogir Relationship

American Healthcare REIT Expands Cogir Relationship

American Healthcare REIT, which went public earlier this year, and Cogir Management USA expanded their relationship to 14 communities with AHR’s latest acquisition of four communities in Washington State. AHR acquired Mallard Landing in Battle Ground, Orchard Pointe in Port Orchard, Blossom Valley in Wenatchee and Blossom Creek in Wenatchee. Combined, the communities offer 207 units of assisted living and memory care. With this acquisition, Cogir now operates communities in Washington, California, Utah and North Carolina for AHR. Cogir, which acquired Cadence Living in late 2022, also now manages 22 communities in Washington and 84 communities across the United States.  Read More »
Eads Announces Four Deals in Four States

Eads Announces Four Deals in Four States

It was a productive summer for Eads Investment Brokerage, which closed four deals across four states and nine properties. There was a mix of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets, as well as seller types. The first deal, a June closing, featured Johnson Christian Village, a senior living community 25 miles south of Bloomington, Indiana. An out-of-state, faith-based not-for-profit sold the property to a local investor that has experience in managing Indiana Medicaid waiver programs.  Around the same time, Eads also sold a recently renovated skilled nursing facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The out-of-state operator was divesting the property in order to focus on its core markets, but... Read More »
SLIB Sells in NY and KY

SLIB Sells in NY and KY

Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced the closing of two separate seniors housing transactions in New York and Kentucky. First, Patrick Burke and Dave Balow facilitated the sale of an adult home and Assisted Living Program (ALP) community in upstate New York.  The community, built in 1999 and renovated in 2019, comprises 60 units and 120 beds in an attractive sub-market in western New York. It benefits from the ability to attract private pay residents in the area, as well as those with Medicaid as the payor for the ALP beds. There is room for improvement operationally, as occupancy was at 65.7% at the time of closing and the community was just under breakeven.  The seller was a... Read More »
W&D’s Busy First Half of the Year

W&D’s Busy First Half of the Year

Walker & Dunlop has had a good first half of the year, having closed 17 transactions. These transactions involved 28 assets spread across California, Colorado, Idaho, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. The assets comprise 2,955 units and total transaction volume YTD is $599 million, with the average transaction size $35.23 million and the total under agreement $361 million.   In July, W&D facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, on behalf of a regional developer that has developed approximately 15 seniors housing buildings in the Philadelphia MSA. Built in 2022, Crescent Fields at... Read More »
Berkadia’s Recent Activity

Berkadia’s Recent Activity

Berkadia has had a busy few months, filled with financing transactions and an investment sales closing. First, Jay Healy was engaged by three separate sponsors to finance four loans that total $66 million.  At the end of June, Healy closed a $20 million bridge-to-HUD loan to refinance a maturing construction loan for PruittHealth. The three-year loan, structured in partnership with a publicly traded REIT, is interest only and prepayable at any time. The property is a 90-bed skilled nursing facility in North Tampa, Florida. PruittHealth developed the community in 2022 and has operated it since. In July, Healy closed a $12.3 million bridge-to-HUD loan for a Fort Worth, Texas-based... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care M&A: Ready to Explode?

60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care M&A: Ready to Explode?

The industry seems to be on the brink of a breakout M&A period, which is an astonishing thing to say when we are already in the midst of a record-breaking period of transaction activity.  The promise of an interest rate cut, even a 25-basis point cut, could usher a number of buyers off the sidelines, and if a few lower cap rate deals get announced, then a few more owners of high-quality communities could be tempted off the sidelines too. On our webinar last week covering the mid-year update of our M&A and valuation statistics, our panelists seemed to believe that a number of large deals were looming, which could help break the logjam of mostly small deals closing in the... Read More »