• CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Gets Early Start on 2026 SHOP Acquisitions

    LTC Properties started the year off with a large SHOP acquisition in Atlanta, Georgia. The portfolio comprises three seniors housing communities with nearly 400 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The assets were built between 2014 and 2018, and were stabilized at the time of sale at 92% occupancy. LTC Properties will... Read More »
  • 1019 Senior Living Enters Another State

    1019 Senior Living entered a new state through its fifth seniors housing acquisition. The Indiana-based owner/operator purchased Arden Courts at Kenwood, rebranded as Belle’s Place of Kenwood, which was previously operated by Evergreen Senior Living. Built in 2002 with a new roof added in 2016, the asset sits in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Kenwood... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Ziegler announced the closing of Masonicare’s Series 2024 Taxable Loan totaling $17 million for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The loan closed December 16, 2024. Masonicare finalized an affiliation with United Methodist Homes (of Connecticut), which owns/operates five communities in Connecticut and owns The Long Hill Company, which has current operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Oregon. Together, UMH and Long Hill care for approximately 2,000 residents. The combined organization will feature over 4,000 owned and managed units, which would make it one of the largest not-for-profit senior living providers in the Northeast region.  Masonicare entered into a purchase and sale agreement... Read More »
Berkadia’s Recent Transaction Activity

Berkadia’s Recent Transaction Activity

Berkadia announced the financing of four seniors housing communities totaling $29.9 million in Mississippi, Florida and Indiana, with all the deals closing since November. Berkadia also announced the sale of two seniors housing communities.  In November, Steve Muth and Andrew Lanzaro leveraged HUD’s 232/223(f) program to close two loans totaling $8.9 million for a first time HUD borrower. The loan proceeds retired maturing bank debt on two Mississippi communities: a 40-unit assisted living community and a 47-unit assisted living and memory care community. At underwriting, one community was fully occupied, while the other had an occupancy rate of 86%. Both properties are located in... Read More »
Blueprint’s Q4 Closings

Blueprint’s Q4 Closings

Blueprint announced a couple of its Q4 closings. In one, a not-for-profit organization took over a seniors housing community in the Hartford, Connecticut MSA, from a publicly traded REIT. The buyer appears to be Masonicare, which announced its acquisition of Atria Greenridge Place in the town of Rocky Hill. Built in 1998, the 108-unit assisted living/memory care community now operates as Masonicare at Greenridge Place. Historically, it was well occupied and boasted strong cash flow, but there was near-immediate upside through strategic capital investment and marketing. The listing received five or six offers, including from private equity firms and a publicly traded company, before... Read More »
Allaire Healthcare Acquires PA CCRC

Allaire Healthcare Acquires PA CCRC

A majority-skilled nursing CCRC in Coal Township, Pennsylvania, was sold by a private PA-based owner divesting his last owned building. Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction, which saw Allaire Healthcare, a New Jersey-based owner/operator with a strong presence in eastern Pennsylvania, emerge as the buyer. Built in the 1970s, Mountain View featured 271 skilled nursing beds and eight independent living units, enough to qualify for a CCRC license. It was occupied in the 60s and operated at a significant loss. The offering was originally marketed in the winter of 2022 but took multiple years to structure the HUD TPA, CCRC licensure, and working with two... Read More »
Florida Trio Trades to AEW

Florida Trio Trades to AEW

A seniors housing portfolio that includes Watercrest Buena Vista, Watercrest Spanish Springs and Watercrest Winter Park in Florida sold to AEW Capital Management. The three communities total 416 units in The Villages and Winter Park. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team represented the seller, Titan Development, in the transaction, which saw AEW retain the current operator, Watercrest Senior Living, as the third-party operator. JLL is also handling the acquisition financing on two of the assets for the buyer, which will close in January 2025. Completed in 2018, Watercrest Buena Vista offers 224 units in a three-story, Class-A building, including 118 independent living, 74 assisted... Read More »
Struggling SNF Sells in Michigan

Struggling SNF Sells in Michigan

Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of the Villages of Lapeer, a skilled nursing facility in Lapeer, Michigan, approximately 50 miles northwest of Detroit. It was built in 1959, comprises 87 beds, and sits on 5.6 acres. Like many SNFs, the Villages of Lapeer faced operational and compliance challenges during the pandemic, which impacted census and overall performance. The seller was an independent owner/operator seeking to transition out of the skilled nursing industry. Recognizing the seller’s need to exit, ESI expedited the process by bringing in a regional ownership group active in Michigan, which executed the deal within four months from start to finish. Read More »