• Stand-Alone MC Community Trades in Arizona

    Blueprint represented an institutional seller in the sale of its stand-alone memory care community in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona MSA. Built in 2009, the asset features 48 units with 60 beds and received approximately $2 million in recent capital improvements. There is opportunity for occupancy growth and rental rate optimization. ... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Its Acquisition Streak

    Clarion Partners continued on its acquisition streak, adding two communities in California to its growing portfolio. The latest deal featured The Commons on Thornton and The Commons at Union Ranch, two seniors housing communities totaling 198 units in California’s Central Valley. They were previously owned and operated by MBK Senior Living, which... Read More »
  • Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

    M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory... Read More »
  • Olympus Retirement Living Expands

    The Zett Group closed the sale of a 63-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Boise, Idaho market. Set in the town of Emmett, Meadow View Senior Living was trending positively in its operations, but there was still some work to be done. An owner/operator engaged Blake Bozett and Spud Batt to sell the community to an undisclosed buyer.... Read More »
  • Large Senior Care Portfolio Trades Hands

    A portfolio comprising senior care assets across Washington State recently sold with the help of JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage. At first, only one of the assets was brought to market, but an offer emerged for the entire nine-facility portfolio. The price for the skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses ranged... Read More »
Breathing Room Gets Bigger for Sonida Senior Living

Breathing Room Gets Bigger for Sonida Senior Living

Three months ago, Sonida Senior Living announced a comprehensive loan forbearance agreement with Fannie Mae covering 37 mortgaged communities. Part two occurred last week, which was the signing of loan modifications for these loans. It appears that the terms from three months ago remained in place. All maturities under the 37 loans have been extended to December 2026 or later. Principal payments have been deferred for three years or waived until maturity, resulting in $33 million in deferred payments. A near-term interest rate reduction for all 37 loans will result in $6.1 million in cash interest rate savings from June 2023 to May 2024. As part of the agreement, Sonida paid down $5... Read More »
Colliers Secures Construction Loan For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Colliers Secures Construction Loan For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Christopher Fenton, Catherine Eby, Nick Skarich and Kevin McMahon of Colliers Mortgage closed a $19.4 million construction loan for the development of an independent/assisted living and skilled nursing campus in Hudsonville, Michigan. Expected to open in spring 2024, the 107-unit community will feature a combination of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units.  Amenities will include a bistro, lounge and large community spaces. The loan comes with a 48-month term with one 12-month extension option. Read More »
BWE Adds Seniors Housing Investment Sales Group

BWE Adds Seniors Housing Investment Sales Group

There’s a new seniors housing and care investment sales group in town. BWE Investment Sales, LLC (BWEIS), the investment sales organization that works closely with BWE, a national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, announced today the launched its new seniors housing platform, dubbed BWEIS Seniors. It will be headed by Charles Bissell, most recently a Managing Director with JLL’s Capital Markets Group and a veteran seniors housing leader with over 30 years of experience in the industry. The BWEIS Seniors team will partner with the BWE seniors housing debt and structured finance team to offer a full suite of capital markets solutions to their best-in-class clients across... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: 2023 Deal Volume at 2019 Levels

60 Seconds with Swett: 2023 Deal Volume at 2019 Levels

Dealmakers have a lot to be frustrated with in the M&A market right now, with valuations low, deal processes taking longer than ever, scarcity in the debt markets and other headwinds making their impact. But despite it all, deal volume was actually historically healthy in the third quarter of 2023.  There were 115 publicly announced transactions in the quarter. That is down from the 120 deals made public in Q2:23 and the 140 from last year’s third quarter. But the average deals per quarter for 2023 at 115 is equal to the average deals per quarter in 2019, a time of cheap and abundant capital and before anyone knew what COVID-19 was. Plus, on an annualized basis, Q3’s total would... Read More »
TJM Properties Re-enters Senior Living Sector

TJM Properties Re-enters Senior Living Sector

In 2013, Clearwater, Florida-based TJM Properties sold 15 of its 19 senior living communities to Fortress Investment Group/Holiday Retirement for $220 million, effectively exiting the sector to focus on the hotel industry and its remaining senior living communities. However, TJM has recently re-invested in the sector through the acquisition of five separate senior living communities in Florida in 2023. Interestly, these five communities were part of the 15-community portfolio that the company had previously divested. TJM initiated its return to the sector in February with the purchase of Bayside Terrace, a 162-bed senior living community in Pinellas Park, Florida. The acquisition was... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: New NORC Study Great for Senior Care PR

60 Seconds with Swett: New NORC Study Great for Senior Care PR

The seniors housing and care market is fighting an often uphill battle to fix its public perception, and providers got a significant tool in their marketing arsenal when NORC at the University of Chicago released a study on how frailty levels among seniors ultimately decline after their moving into seniors housing or skilled nursing properties. NIC funded the study through a grant, and it will certainly be highlighted heavily throughout the upcoming Fall conference, and for good reason.  In a review of Medicare claims of residents from more than 14,000 senior living properties and using a frailty index developed by Harvard University that measures rates of chronic conditions, acute... Read More »