• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT Grows Its Southern California Portfolio

Sabra Health Care REIT Grows Its Southern California Portfolio

Sabra Health Care REIT has teamed up with Scottsdale, Arizona-based owner/operator Cadence Living to grow its senior living portfolio with the purchase of an assisted living/memory care community in Poway, California (San Diego MSA). Located adjacent to a 149-bed skilled nursing facility and near the Palomar Hospital, the community is spread out on 32 acres with seven separate buildings. It is unique in that it offers a horticultural-therapy program that grows more than 20,000 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables on several fields and greenhouses located throughout the property. There are of course many benefits to this program, from the obvious farm-to-table meals to providing excess... Read More »
OREC Securities Leads Cape Cod Sale

OREC Securities Leads Cape Cod Sale

Late last month, we learned of Walker & Dunlop’s involvement in structuring acquisition financing for a senior care campus on Cape Cod. Now, it’s revealed that the OREC Securities team of Laca Wong-Hammond, Chad Elliott, Kevin Laidlaw and Aaron Becker led the sale on behalf of the seller. Located in the town of Brewster, Massachusetts, the property consists of a 135-bed skilled nursing facility built in 1995 and a 59-unit assisted living community that was added in 2007. Both were well occupied, but the owner/operator, Joshua Zuckerman, wanted to retire from the business. OREC, the investment banking affiliate of Lancaster Pollard, was originally brought on to sell the SNF and AL... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Structures Sale of Brand-New Tampa Community

Evans Senior Investments Structures Sale of Brand-New Tampa Community

A publicly traded REIT picked up a brand-new senior living community in Tampa, Florida, and we mean brand-new. Opened just this summer, the community was developed by Lindell Investments Inc. and Solutions Advisors, whose affiliate Solvere Living was also the operator. Featuring 64 assisted living and 38 memory care units, its total development cost was estimated to be $27.5 million, or around $270,000 per unit. The census, although still in fill-up, is 100% private pay. Amenities include a bistro and bar, a fitness center, and a salon and spa. The REIT buyer paid $28.75 million, or $281,900 per unit, for the community and will bring in a regional operator to manage it. The first task,... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 22, 2019

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 22, 2019

Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Publicly traded REITTessera of Westchase$28.75 million Cambridge Retirement LivingTrinity OaksN/A Reign Residence Management, LLCThe Residences of United Home Care$16.5 million The NHP FoundationEdwin Berry Manor Apartments$4.9... Read More »
NHP Foundation Grows Its Chicago Holdings

NHP Foundation Grows Its Chicago Holdings

The NHP Foundation, a New York-based not-for-profit organization known for preserving and developing affordable housing, just acquired its first Chicago-area senior apartment building, and fourth property overall in the metro area. Built in 1991, the Section 8 community has 57 total units in the Woodlawn neighborhood, near the new Obama library. It sold for $4.933 million, or about $86,500 per unit. To fund the purchase, NHP secured $4.515 million in financing from Low Income Investment Fund and $817,000 of its own equity from NHPF Equity. The $400,000 above the purchase price was for transaction and closing costs, plus HUD-required repairs. Through partnerships with financial... Read More »
SLIB Closes Illinois and Maine Transactions

SLIB Closes Illinois and Maine Transactions

The deals keep on coming from Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul first announced the sale of a supportive living facility in Jacksonville, Illinois on behalf of a regional owner/operator who was looking to retire from the industry. Built in 2004, the community features 86 units, including studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom options. At the time of marketing, an application was submitted to the state for certification in the SLP Dementia Care Program, which was approved during the closing process, allowing the new owner to add 10 memory care units in a part of the building that was purpose-built for them. Occupancy was 90% at the time of the sale, but there is not... Read More »