• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »

BMO Closes Facility for MCAP Acquisition

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed a large facility to facilitate the acquisition and renovation of nine seniors housing communities in Virginia. Totaling more than 780 beds, the portfolio will continue to be managed by Commonwealth Senior Living on behalf of the new owner, Municipal Capital Appreciation Partners (MCAP).  This was part of Invesque’s sale of its 20-property Commonwealth Senior Living portfolio, approved earlier this summer. MCAP emerged to repurchase the properties after selling them to Invesque in 2019 for $340.4 million. The whole portfolio is mostly in Virginia, with locations in Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan and Pennsylvania. To fund the acquisition and... Read More »
Stellar Turns to Acquisitions with New JV

Stellar Turns to Acquisitions with New JV

Stellar Senior Living announced the close of its first joint venture with $20 million in capital commitments. Stellar’s partner is a large private equity firm, and the joint venture will provide funding to acquire 10 to 15 seniors housing communities over its term. The first acquisition under this new venture is The Grand at Broomfield Assisted Living & Memory Care, previously known as The Gallery at Broomfield, in Broomfield, Colorado. The Class-A community was built in 2023 and features 115 assisted living and memory care units.  Stellar has managed this community for the past couple of years, and is now also a minority owner. The community leased to 100% occupancy in the first... Read More »
Zett Group Closes Full-Circle Transaction

Zett Group Closes Full-Circle Transaction

We do not see deals like this often. In a full circle transaction, Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group sold a large seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon, to a Salem, Oregon-based group in partnership with a new operator through a pre-established JV structure. Bozett represented his grandparents, Ron and Joyce Knutson, a pioneering couple who first got involved in the seniors housing space in the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest. The Eugene property was one of two communities left in the family’s hands, with the other in Spokane, Washington. Built in 1979 by the Knutsons, Churchill Estates features 241 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, one of the... Read More »
Owner/Operator Divests to Private Fund in Florida

Owner/Operator Divests to Private Fund in Florida

Bradley Clousing, Daniel Geraghty and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by a Southeast owner/operator in its divestment of two seniors housing communities that sit a few blocks apart in Wilton Manors, Florida. The buildings total 159 independent living and assisted living units, and were cash flow negative when the seller acquired them in late-2022.  Post-acquisition, the owner/operator completed extensive renovations, and then the operator, Golden Bell Senior Living, was brought on to rebuild census and significantly improve operating performance at both of the communities. The buyer, a South Florida-based private fund, will keep Golden Bell on as the operator.... Read More »
GEM Realty Capital Expands Its Active Adult Portfolio

GEM Realty Capital Expands Its Active Adult Portfolio

The CBRE Capital Markets Houston Multifamily Group and CBRE National Senior Housing handled the sale of an active adult community in Houston, Texas. Built in two phases in 2006 and 2012, Elate Royal Oaks, previously known as Camden Royal Oaks, consists of 340 units (236 were built in Phase 1, and 104 were built in Phase II). Clint Duncan, Matt Phillips, Jock Naponic, Nolan Mainguy and Philip Kerr of the Multifamily Group, as well as Aron Will and John Sweeny on the seniors housing side, represented the seller. CBRE National Senior Housing also acted as the advisor in securing acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer through its Debt & Structured Finance team. Aron Will and Michael... Read More »
New Venture Secures Acquisition Financing and Purchases Active Adult Community

New Venture Secures Acquisition Financing and Purchases Active Adult Community

Newmark arranged the sale and financing for a seniors housing community in Huntington Beach, California. The seller, Bascom Group, was represented by Newmark Vice Chairman Dean Zander, who worked on the deal with Voit Real Estate Services’ Joe Leon and Nick Ingle. Huntington Breeze is a 114-unit, 103,000-square-foot active adult community that was built in 1987 and renovated in 2017.  Newmark Executive Managing Directors Vincent Punzi and Lowell Takahashi facilitated acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, WSW Property Ventures, a new venture headed by Steve Wasserman, Pamela Scott and George Wu. WSW plans to unlock additional value through strategic initiatives, including the... Read More »