• Sonida Senior Living On The Move

    It has taken a while, and a lot had to be done to strengthen the balance sheet over the past two years, but Sonida Senior Living is now on a path of growth, and recent announcements have shown it.  On May 9, the company closed on its first acquisition of the year with the purchase of a 100-unit assisted living and memory care community in... Read More »
  • Maryland SNF Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    First Citizens Bank’s Healthcare Finance business served as lead arranger for a $260 million loan to refinance a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities in Maryland that comprise over 1,500 beds. The borrower, a new client, is a Midwest-based healthcare real estate investment and management company. It invests in a variety of post-acute... Read More »
  • REIT Divests Eight Connecticut SNFs

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a Connecticut skilled nursing portfolio comprising eight skilled nursing facilities in the Hartford MSA of Connecticut. The transaction, executed on behalf of a West Coast-based REIT, amounted to $60.0 million, or $54,000 per bed, for the real estate only. The existing operator was chosen as the... Read More »
  • Two Standalone Memory Care Communities Trade Hands in Illinois

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of two standalone memory care communities in Quincy and Centralia, Illinois. The seller was a regional developer/owner/operator while the buyer was an Illinois-based owner/operator with an existing presence in the state. It has experience with the Supportive Living Program and intends to... Read More »
  • Helios Secures Working Capital for California AL/MC Community

    Helios secured working capital for a Southern California assisted living provider. The working capital loan is for The Artesian, a 64-unit assisted living and memory care community in Ojai, California. It was constructed in 2020 and consists of four, 16-unit buildings that utilize a universal worker model.  A capital infusion was required to... Read More »
Helios Handles Sale, Recap and Financing

Helios Handles Sale, Recap and Financing

Helios Healthcare Advisors structured the sale and recapitalization of an assisted living and memory care provider in Wisconsin. Through the provider’s lender, a publicly traded regional bank with $23 billion in assets, Helios was brought into the process to advise all stakeholders on a viable path to exit the credit and assets associated with the organization. The first step was divesting the non-performing assets to regional operators including behavioral health providers in Wisconsin, which Helios handled. Then, they repackaged the remaining performing assets, brought in a new operator, and arranged the debt to recapitalize the portfolio, keeping the existing financial partner involved... Read More »
Partnership Adds Another Georgia Asset

Partnership Adds Another Georgia Asset

Scribner Capital, LLC and William James Group, LLC (WJG) added to their Georgia holdings by acquiring Insignia of Newnan, a 40-unit assisted living/memory care community in Newnan, located between Atlanta and Columbus. Bradley Clousing and Daniel Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. The community will be rebranded as The Haven at Newnan and added to an existing joint venture that previously acquired two Georgia seniors housing communities.  Those assets included River Place (40 units) in Forsyth and Sunny Grove (34 units) in Barnesville. Scribner and WJG had purchased them in July 2022 for an undisclosed price. In that deal, Scribner provided... Read More »
Meridian Reports First Quarter Transaction Volume

Meridian Reports First Quarter Transaction Volume

The first quarter is in the books, and Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, closed $575 million in transaction volume in the first three months of the year, following more than $5 billion closed by the platform in 2023.  Most recently, the team sold six skilled nursing facilities comprising 517 beds in Indiana for $37.5 million, or $72,500 per bed, and arranged $34.8 million in financing from a finance company along with an $8.5 million A/R line for the acquisition. They also arranged $29.5 million in financing from a commercial bank to refinance a New Jersey property totaling 85 assisted living and 34 memory care... Read More »
LSS Absorbs Diakon

LSS Absorbs Diakon

Two large not-for-profits announced that they were combining to create the 12th largest not-for-profit senior living organization in the country. Lutheran Senior Services, based in St. Louis, Missouri, signed an agreement to bring Diakon Senior Living operations and four CCRCs under its umbrella. Both organizations were described by Adam Marles, LSS President and CEO, as financially healthy, not-for-profit organizations that are coming together strategically in the interest of better serving seniors. That has been a common theme among not-for-profits since the pandemic, as they have often required scale to survive in a lower-occupancy and lower-margin environment. But not all have been as... Read More »
SNF Under Receivership Is Acquired in Kansas

SNF Under Receivership Is Acquired in Kansas

Marcus & Millichap was brought on by a limited liability company in the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Topeka, Kansas, that was under receivership. The facility, Providence Living Center, comprises 78 beds across 24,000 square feet and focuses on senior residents with mental health needs. Rod Llanos and Colby Haugness handled the transaction, receiving multiple offers. Ultimately, a qualified buyer with experience in caring for this resident type was selected to acquire the facility. No other details were disclosed. Read More »
Chicagoland Portfolio Finds New Owner

Chicagoland Portfolio Finds New Owner

A value-add senior care portfolio in Chicagoland traded with the help of Blueprint’s Ryan Kelly, Connor Doherty, Alex Florea, Lauren Nagle and Brooks Blackmon. The team worked on behalf of a national developer/investor, which had engaged Blueprint to create an exit strategy for more than a dozen geographically disparate, older-vintage communities that had been purchased in a sizable portfolio transaction before the pandemic.  The Chicagoland portfolio featured three senior care campuses with a mix of 290 assisted living/memory care units and around 40 Medicare-only skilled nursing units. The assets opened between 1994 and 2000 and were geographically clustered in affluent Chicago suburbs.... Read More »