• 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 »
Cushman & Wakefield Closes CCRC Sale

Cushman & Wakefield Closes CCRC Sale

Allen McMurtry and David Kliewer of Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa office sold The Barrington of Carmel, a 267-unit CCRC just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, for $61 million, or $228,500 per unit/bed. The Type A entrance-fee community has 137 independent living units, 56 assisted living units, 26 memory care units and a 48-bed nursing facility. There is also the potential to expand by another 20 to 25 IL units, but that will be on the buyer, Baptist Homes of Indiana. The buildings comprise 372,000 square feet on 19.5 acres. Built in 2013 with approximately $112 million in tax-exempt bonds and $7 million in taxable bonds, less than six years later its not-for-profit sponsor, Mayflower... Read More »
Avenida Partners with Passco on Two New Projects

Avenida Partners with Passco on Two New Projects

Active adult developer Avenida Partners teamed up with Passco Companies, a California-based commercial real estate company, on its two latest projects in Palm Desert, California and Germantown, Tennessee. Collectively, the developments will cost around $97 million, and each community will feature 161 units and a host of resort-inspired amenities, including a pool, indoor and outdoor yoga spaces, a fitness center and plenty more. In addition, the Palm Desert community was designed in the mid-century modern style, and the Germantown community will take advantage of its location on the banks of Lake Nashuba (part of the Wolf River greenway trail system connecting to the Mississippi River)... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Adds to Illinois Portfolio

Cascade Capital Group Adds to Illinois Portfolio

Three acquisitions in the last month counts as a spree, right? Well, Cascade Capital Group is in the middle of one, having announced its acquisition of two Chicagoland skilled nursing facilities through its affiliate Legacy Healthcare. The deal included a 214-bed SNF in Streamwood and a 215-bed facility in Wheeling. Both fall under the Bella Terra brand, which has one other location in the Chicago area (Morton Grove) along with Montana and Utah. Last month, Cascade also added a 156-bed SNF in Aurora, Illinois, and a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities in Florida, which sold for $49 million, or $106,500 per bed, at a 13.3% cap rate. Legacy took over management of the Aurora... Read More »

Two Senior Care Centers Facilities Sell in Texas

Two Texas skilled nursing facilities formerly operated by the now-bankrupt Senior Care Centers (SCC) found a new owner with the help of Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Both built in 2008, these two SNFs each have 128 licensed beds, 51,000 square feet, and are located in growing central Texas submarkets. They were the only two SCC-operated facilities owned by a local real estate owner. One facility, in New Braunfels, was 75% occupied, while the Round Rock SNF was just 64% occupied. Not surprisingly, the operating margin was far below SNF standards, at 3.5%. Overleverage and expensive leases contributed to Senior Care Centers’ bankruptcy filing in December 2018... Read More »
Ensign Expands in Idaho

Ensign Expands in Idaho

The Ensign Group grew its Pacific Northwest portfolio with the purchase of a 119-bed skilled nursing facility in Rexburg, Idaho (near the Wyoming border). The facility provides speech, physical and occupational therapy, wound care and dialysis care in addition to traditional long-term care. Pennant Healthcare, Inc., Ensign’s portfolio company based in the Pacific Northwest, will take over operations. No purchase price was disclosed, but the deal included both the real estate and operations, continuing a strategy of Ensign to own more of the real estate in its portfolio. This is the company’s first Idaho deal this year, after it acquired three facilities and 244 total beds in the Gem... Read More »
Atlas Senior Living Acquires in Alabama and Georgia

Atlas Senior Living Acquires in Alabama and Georgia

Birmingham, Alabama-based Atlas Senior Living added two unique senior living communities to its growing portfolio, which the company expects to number 17 properties across the Southeast by the end of the year. Located in Savannah, Georgia and Madison, Alabama, the communities both feature 104 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. They were developed in the last couple of years by the seller, Miami Beach-based Lucky Shepherd. As with other Lucky Shepherd communities, they feature amenities like a greenhouse, over 15,000 square feet of spa and wellness space, farm-to-table dining and animal therapy. Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin of Meridian Capital Group handled the... Read More »