• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... Read More »
SLIB Facilitates Owner/Operator’s Senior Living Exit

SLIB Facilitates Owner/Operator’s Senior Living Exit

A Lexington, Kentucky-based developer, owner and operator exited the senior living business with the sale of its only asset thanks to the work of Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. This community was previously an elementary school in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, but was converted to senior living by the current seller in 2014.   The gut renovation resulted in 30 spacious assisted living units. Occupancy quickly rose to 90% after opening and hovered between 85% and 90% until COVID brought census down to about 80% and the operating margin down to about 7% on over $1 million of revenues.  The owner was looking to exit the sector and... Read More »
M&T Realty Finances Virginia Acquisition

M&T Realty Finances Virginia Acquisition

M&T Realty Capital Corp. secured financing to support Irvine, California-based Avanath Capital Management’s acquisition of an affordable senior apartment community in Sterling, Viriginia (Washington, D.C. MSA). Developed in 2001 with low-income housing tax credits, the 150-unit community was previously owned by a private local investor. Set in a desirable location and featuring a quality physical plant, the community was apparently financially stable.  Emerging from several potential buyers, Avanath purchased the community for $27.2 million, or $181,300 per unit. Henry Mathies and Fletcher Hultman of Greysteel’s East Coast Affordable Housing... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Washington State Community

Blueprint Sells Washington State Community

A former JEA Senior Living-operated assisted living/memory care community in Pasco, Washington found a new owner with the help of Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir, Dan Mahoney and Blake Bozett of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Built in 1975 and owned by a private group, the community features 82 units of assisted living and memory care. It has positive cash flow and was close to 90% occupancy at the time of marketing, but its operating margin could be improved. Some capital improvements may also be needed. On a positive note, the building has been well maintained and the market has limited direct competition.   That attracted Greenlake Management, a... Read More »
Sentara Healthcare Divesting Entire Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Sentara Healthcare Divesting Entire Skilled Nursing Portfolio

As Norfolk, Virginia-based hospital system Sentara Healthcare embarks on its planned merger with North Carolina-based Cone Health, it is first divesting its entire skilled nursing portfolio. The seven facilities are scattered throughout southern Virginia, with five surrounding the Norfolk/Virginia Beach market. The not-for-profit hospital chain started looking for buyers in the first quarter of 2020, before COVID-19 set in, but the process confirmed their decision to find an owner more focused on the skilled nursing market. That new owner will be Saber Healthcare Group, a private skilled nursing operator with over 125 facilities across the country.   The... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s End of Summer Sprint

Meridian Capital Group’s End of Summer Sprint

Meridian Capital Group’s seniors housing and healthcare team is sprinting to the end of summer, with over $160 million in transactions closed in the last two weeks alone. September has been noticeably slower than even previous months, so to get that amount of transaction volume across the finish line is impressive.  Managing Directors Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin, along with Senior Vice President Josh Simpson, first arranged a $47.8 million loan from a finance company, plus a $3 million A/R line to refinance two skilled nursing facilities with 328 total beds in New Jersey.   The trio also secured a $30.2 million acquisition loan to fund the purchase of a CCRC in Florida... Read More »