• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Another LTC Properties Sale

Blueprint Closes Another LTC Properties Sale

After representing LTC Properties in its five-phase sale of a 2,500-bed skilled nursing portfolio, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors went back to the well, handling LTC Properties and Senior Lifestyle Corp.’s sale of two large seniors housing campuses in Arizona. The deal closed on April 21, with Humair Sabir, Amy Sitzman and Jacob Gehl leading the way.   One campus is located in Peoria (northeast of Phoenix) and features approximately 430 units in a prime location near regional medical centers. The other campus is in Yuma and totals about 150 assisted living and memory care units. Both properties could use some capital improvements, offering an opportunity to add value to the... Read More »
HJ Sims Closes Three Transactions

HJ Sims Closes Three Transactions

After a COVID-19-related change, HJ Sims closed the refinance of a CCRC in Atlanta, Georgia, along with a couple other transactions. After refinancing in 2016 and obtaining a 2018 pre-development financing, the community recently broke ground on an expansion that will add 53 independent living residences scheduled to open in 2022. The $107 million project comprises 39 units in a five-story building and three buildings each with four or five units, all ranging between 1,700 and 3,200 square feet. It will bring the campus’ total number of units to 479, including independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing services.  On behalf of the borrower, HJ Sims coordinated a request for... Read More »
Blueprint Wraps Up LTC Properties Portfolio Sale

Blueprint Wraps Up LTC Properties Portfolio Sale

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the final three phases of LTC Properties’ portfolio sale that sold to multiple buyers and closed from late-2019 to the first quarter of this year. It was revealed that seven skilled nursing facilities and about 550 beds in Iowa sold to a private owner/operator. Five of the facilities were located around Des Moines, and all seven offered upside to the new owner if they focused on certain geographical and management-level efficiencies. Humair Sabir and Jacob Gehl of Blueprint handled the deal, which closed in the first quarter.  That same pair then sold three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado, with two located in the Denver MSA and one... Read More »
MBK Senior Living Buys Orange County Community

MBK Senior Living Buys Orange County Community

California-based MBK Senior Living just acquired an assisted living/memory care community near its Orange County headquarters, with the Cushman & Wakefield team of Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Bailey Nygard handling the deal. Originally built in 1999 with a $1.1 million renovation completed in 2019, the community features 48 units and 59 beds of assisted living and memory care. Since the capital improvements, it has since stabilized and experienced a competitive bidding process.  The seller, a joint venture between Cadence Living and an institutional equity partner, previously acquired this community from the not-for-profit HumanGood in 2017. Back then,... Read More »
CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For HJ Sims/Voralto Living Purchase

CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For HJ Sims/Voralto Living Purchase

The CBRE National Senior Housing team arranged acquisition financing for a North Texas assisted living/memory care community. A joint venture between HJ Sims and Voralto Living was the buyer, obtaining a four-year, floating-rate loan with 24 months of interest only from a national bank. Featuring 60 units, the community was a newer vintage and will join Voralto’s six other communities in Texas, and one in Georgia. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg handled the transaction for CBRE.  It’s been a busy year already for CBRE’s Senior Housing Debt and Structured Finance team, which has closed over $515 million in debt and equity originations across 15 separate transactions. In the months... Read More »