• 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 »
IPA Sells “A” Property in California

IPA Sells “A” Property in California

High-quality “A” level assisted living communities may have taken a back seat to the “B” properties in the 2018 M&A market, according to new statistics in our soon-to-be-published Seniors Housing Acquisition and Investment Report, but the team at IPA Seniors Housing (a division of Marcus & Millichap) sold one in a Sacramento, California suburb. Opened in September 2015, it was previously owned by a family company based in the Northwest. Its 85 assisted living and 32 memory care units were occupied in the mid-90s, and the community produces strong cash flow. An owner/operator with a strong presence on the West Coast that was looking to add high-end assets to its portfolio ended up... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield’s Strong Start to February

Cushman & Wakefield’s Strong Start to February

Cushman & Wakefield’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team has been closing a lot of business in the shortest month of the year, negotiating the sale of a couple of portfolio transactions on opposite sides of the country. First, out West, the team of Rick Swartz and Jay Wagner advised Focus Healthcare Partners in their sale of two seniors housing communities in Portland, Oregon. Including a 127-unit independent living community built in 2006 and a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2007, these communities both recently received significant capital improvements. The AL community interestingly was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company went into... Read More »
Blueprint Keeps the Closings Coming

Blueprint Keeps the Closings Coming

Fresh off them taking the top spot in our broker rankings for number of deals closed in 2018 (with 85), Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced a slew of transactions at the start of February, including two large portfolio sales. First, Ben Firestone and Michael Segal handled the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in northeast Wisconsin as part of a larger portfolio restructuring by the publicly traded REIT seller. Totaling 250 beds, the facilities were the only ones managed by the national operator in the state of Wisconsin, which prompted the sale. One location in downtown Green Bay is the largest licensed SNF in its market with 136 beds, while the other 114-bed facility... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Closes in Connecticut

Evans Senior Investments Closes in Connecticut

Evans Senior Investments traveled to Danbury, Connecticut to sell an assisted living community with a lot of room for improvement, operationally. Built in 2000, the 48-unit community was independently owned and operated but ran with unusually high expenses. Cash flow was still positive, but the operating margin fell just below 12%. Occupancy averaged 85% over the last 12 months, with a 100% private pay census. The new Maryland-based owner/operator expects to immediately improve profitability and paid $9.75 million, or $203,000 per unit, for the property. Read More »
CareTrust REIT Adds to Its Illinois Portfolio

CareTrust REIT Adds to Its Illinois Portfolio

Seeking to expand a partnership that is clearly working, CareTrust REIT tacked on an extra senior care campus to its existing seven-property master lease with WLC Firm, LLC. Located in the southern Illinois town of Mt. Carmel (and right in WLC’s geographic wheelhouse), the facility features 90 licensed skilled nursing beds and 38 supportive living beds. WLC will replace the outgoing operator, which is leaving behind a sold four-star rated facility. The initial annual cash rent for the property is expected to be about $853,000, and the lease comes with a 15-year term, plus two five-year extension options. CareTrust used cash on hand to pay to purchase price, which came out to about $9.0... Read More »