• Live Oak and Berkadia Team Up on Bridge Loan

    Live Oak Bank recently closed a $34.3 million bridge loan in partnership with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for a two-property portfolio owned and operated by BrightSpace Senior Living. The communities are located in the Nashville, Tennessee, and Boise, Idaho MSAs. The loan was structured in an A/B arrangement, with Berkadia funding the... Read More »
  • California Memory Care Communities Receive HUD Loans

    Lument closed two HUD loans totaling $20.7 million to refinance two memory care communities in northern California. Doug Harper, managing director at Lument, co-originated the loan with Grant Goodman of G Capital. The two communities are Crescent Oaks Memory Care, which features 22 units and 36 beds in Sunnyvale, and Silver Oaks Memory Care,... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Two Seniors Housing Transactions

    Berkadia closed the sale of two separate assets in Florida and Georgia. First, Berkadia was engaged by a national owner/operator in the sale of a CCRC in South Florida. The property appears to be Abbey Delray, a 505-unit community originally built in 1979 in Delray Beach that features 327 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 30... Read More »
  • Fortress Buys Large Seniors Housing Campus

    Fortress Investment Group just purchased one of the largest rental seniors housing communities in the country, adding The Village at Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida, to its portfolio. Regionally anchored by the University of Florida and the innovative UF Health network, and located directly across from SantaFe College, the 100+ acre campus... Read More »
  • Interview with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services to talk about the findings from BBG’s annual investor survey. DeBee shares his thoughts on what was surprising about the results and highlights the points he agrees with. You can view the survey results here. Read More »
Bob Jones University Divests AL/MC Community to Joint Venture

Bob Jones University Divests AL/MC Community to Joint Venture

Dan Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Greenville, South Carolina, on behalf of Bob Jones University. BJU is exiting the business to focus on its core values. With a solid long-term foundation of financial performance, the asset offers an opportunity to capitalize on existing cash flow with potential for profitability enhancement.  Built in 1927 with renovations completed between 1960 and 2014, Shepherd’s Care Assisted Living and Memory Care Community sits on 5.7 acres with 60 units across 65,762 square feet. The community was 88% occupied at the time of sale.  After reviewing several offers, the... Read More »
Cougar Capital Management Acquires in Tennessee

Cougar Capital Management Acquires in Tennessee

Berkadia sold the final property in a 16-property seniors housing portfolio, completed through 11 separate transactions over the past 12 months. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders represented the publicly traded REIT seller.  The portfolio comprised 16 assisted living and memory care communities, totaled over 1,200 units and spanned nine states. Eight buyers, primarily regional or local owner/operators, acquired the properties within the portfolio. The final property, an 86-unit AL/MC community in the Knoxville, Tennessee MSA, was purchased by Cougar Capital Management. Read More »
Regional Provider Purchases in Michigan

Regional Provider Purchases in Michigan

Michael Segal and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint were engaged by a Michigan-based owner/operator to facilitate the off-market sale of two of its skilled nursing facilities in Michigan. The facilities were deemed geographic outliers, motivating the seller to shift focus to its holdings in metro Detroit and the greater Saginaw submarkets.  The sale included 110-bed Aria Nursing & Rehabilitation in Lansing and 82-bed Allegra Nursing & Rehab Center in Jackson. At the time of sale, both facilities were generating positive cash flow with combined census and quality payor mix above 80% and 30%, respectively. Blueprint approached a limited number of potential buyers, procuring an... Read More »
Focus Healthcare Partners Secures Acquisition Financing

Focus Healthcare Partners Secures Acquisition Financing

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed on a $36.25 million facility for Focus Healthcare Partners to finance the acquisition of a seniors housing community in Bethesda, Maryland. Focus will bring on Solera Senior Living to manage the community.  Built in 2019, Brightview Bethesda Woodmont comprises 92 assisted living and 21 memory care units and will be rebranded as Modena Reserve at Bethesda. Occupancy was around 86% when Focus acquired the community. Newmark handled this transaction and arranged the five-year acquisition financing, with a three-year interest-only period, from BMO. Read More »
Superior Living Foundation Acquires SNF Portfolio in Texas

Superior Living Foundation Acquires SNF Portfolio in Texas

Superior Living Foundation, Inc., a Maryland-based nonstock, not-for-profit organization focused on providing affordable inpatient and outpatient healthcare, residential, and housing services to vulnerable populations, completed the acquisition of 14 skilled nursing facilities in eastern Texas. The transaction was valued at approximately $250.2 million. The private owner/operator seller will continue managing the facilities under the terms of the agreement. Superior Living Foundation is financing the deal through a public offering of approximately $247.3 million in tax-exempt bonds together with private debt that was purchased by the seller. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. served as sole... Read More »
CCHI Acquires and Repurposes MC Community

CCHI Acquires and Repurposes MC Community

Blueprint was engaged by a public REIT in its divestment of a seniors housing community in Highland Park, Illinois, that was vacant at the time of sale. A not-for-profit organization, The Collaborative Community Housing Initiative, acquired the memory care community. CCHI will transform the community into a 45- to 50-unit co-living space for adults with disabilities in an environment designed for inclusion and independence through independent living, social engagement and recreational and educational activities. Ben Firestone and Lauren Nagle handled this transaction. Read More »