• 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 »
Welltower Makes Major M&A Moves

Welltower Makes Major M&A Moves

Welltower made M&A waves in its latest earnings report, announcing a major disposition of its Benchmark Senior Living assets but countering that with several large acquisitions and development agreements. The company signaled that despite the Benchmark sale, it is not lowering its position in the senior living market, offsetting the 48 properties sold with a total of 46 acquired, not including the developments promised in a couple of massive pipeline agreements. The big news was the Benchmark sale, which consisted of all 48 assisted living properties and 4,137 total units located throughout New England, or 100% of the Welltower-owned portfolio. The transaction was structured as a... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop expanded its senior care investment sales business in a big way, bringing in Managing Directors Mark Myers and Josh Jandris and Vice Presidents Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice and Mike Surak of IPA Seniors Housing, a division of Marcus & Millichap. The Chicago-based team will build on W&D’s existing multifamily property sales platform by bringing a new focus on seniors housing and skilled nursing property sales, building on W&D’s existing multifamily platform. They will also work closely with Walker & Dunlop’s senior housing financing group, which originated over $900 million in debt financing in 2018. Prior to making this move, the IPA team had closed over... Read More »
Local Doctor Buys Rural Texas Assisted Living

Local Doctor Buys Rural Texas Assisted Living

Using his expertise in the Texas M&A market, Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold an assisted living community in rural east Texas for $2.8 million, or $56,000 per unit. Originally built in 1994, the 50-unit community is the only licensed assisted living property in Franklin County. It includes 68 licensed Type A beds, and at the time of marketing, it was about 58% occupied, generating about $50,000 annually in EBITDAR on over $840,000 in revenues. Its independent owner/operator was looking to exit the seniors housing industry, ultimately selling the community to a local doctor. That medical knowledge can’t hurt in turning the community around. Read More »
NHI Grows Its Colorado Portfolio

NHI Grows Its Colorado Portfolio

National Health Investors has added another property to its growing portfolio. Paying $7.6 million, or $149,000 per unit (including $100,000 of closing costs), the REIT acquired a 51-unit assisted living community in Pueblo, Colorado. Built in 1997 with an addition in 2008, the community was 96% occupied at the time of the sale. Cappella Living Solutions, which is owned by the not-for-profit Christian Living Communities and operates a portfolio of 26 communities, will take over the lease, under a 15-year term and an annual lease rate of 7.25%. The agreement included a CPI-based escalator with a floor of 2% beginning August 2020. NHI funded the deal with proceeds from its revolving credit... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

We wrote of Chicago Pacific Founders’ acquisition of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area portfolio of independent living communities last week but have now learned that IPA Seniors Housing handled the transaction. The team of Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers, plus Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Pennsylvania, Sean Beuche, represented the seller, a partnership between Graziano Construction and Sweetbay Senior Living. Two of the communities were recently built, one in 2017 and the other opening earlier this year. The third property was developed in 2009 and is the only one that is fully stabilized. Totaling 384 units, the portfolio sold for $75 million, or $195,300 per unit. Jordyn... Read More »