• Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

    Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk.... Read More »
  • Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

    Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior... Read More »
  • PE Group Enters Oklahoma after Medicaid Rate Bump

    A skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma that recently benefited from the state’s Medicaid rate bump sold to a national private equity firm looking to enter the state. Built in 1967, Maplewood Care Center features 180 beds on over three acres in Tulsa. It is located close to several major hospitals and healthcare campuses, but occupancy was sitting... Read More »
  • Community Purchased through HUD Assumption

    Chad Mundy of the Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lewiston, Idaho. Built in phases in the early 2000s, the community featured five separate buildings, one of which was vacant after sustaining damage from a flood. As a result, occupancy was lower, based on the 89 licensed beds,... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Rounds Out Q4

    The Zett Group closed out Q4 with several closings in the Pacific Northwest. First was the sale of Fox Hollow, a 58-unit seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the community features 51 assisted living units and seven independent living “cottage-style” units. Set in a nice area of Eugene, it was owned by... Read More »
Expensive Expansion for Washington State CCRC

Expensive Expansion for Washington State CCRC

Emerald Heights, a large, not-for-profit CCRC founded in 1992 in Redmond, Washington, officially broke ground on an assisted living expansion project. The building will include 54 one-bedroom units, along with a new dining space, activity rooms, an outdoor patio and a centralized courtyard. Its cost is reportedly $55 million, or over $1.0 million per unit, which is very high for new construction, let alone for an expansion project. The community expects to finance the expansion with a bond issue from the Washington State Housing Finance Commision.  Sponsored by the not-for-profit Emerald Communities, the community previously expanded in 2022 with a brand-new, three-story, 42-unit... Read More »
Diversified Healthcare Trust Provides SHOP Update

Diversified Healthcare Trust Provides SHOP Update

With its upcoming August 30th shareholder vote on its merger with Office Properties Income Trust, Diversified Healthcare Trust provided some discouraging news on its seniors housing portfolio. It is almost as if they wanted to have bad news, since the dissident shareholders have been touting the recovery of DHC’s SHOP portfolio as one of many reasons to reject the proposed merger as undervaluing DHC. The reason why we say that they seemed to want to share bad news is that they keep on comparing results with 2019 performance, as in July occupancy was 750 basis points below July 2019. Yes, we all know that most operators have not fully recovered from pre-pandemic census levels, but is it... Read More »
Foundry Commercial Adds 16 New Managed Communities

Foundry Commercial Adds 16 New Managed Communities

Foundry Commercial continues to expand its seniors housing portfolio, recently adding 16 new seniors housing communities to be managed by Spring Arbor, its in-house operating platform. With the new contracts, Spring Arbor now manages 40 communities in 10 states across the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Midwest. In addition to North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, where Spring Arbor was already operating, Foundry now has a management presence in South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. Also with these added communities, Foundry and its affiliated joint venture operating partner, Cascadia Senior Living, now operate 54 communities in 12 states.  Four... Read More »
Gardant Management Solutions Grows By 45%

Gardant Management Solutions Grows By 45%

Gardant Management Solutions has just taken over management of 25 assisted living communities in Illinois (22) and Ohio (3) with nearly 1,375 units. With this addition, Gardant’s size will increase by about 45%, something that will not be too easy to transition in the current operating environment.  The company will now operate more than 80 communities with nearly 7,200 units. Prior to this new management contract, Gardant’s average community size was 106 units. Now it is closer to 90 units since the new 25-community portfolio averages about 55 units each. The Bourbonnais, Illinois-based company focuses on affordable assisted living, and many of these 25 communities were designed to... Read More »
Civitas Developing New Active Adult Community

Civitas Developing New Active Adult Community

Civitas Capital Group, a Dallas-based alternative investment manager focused on U.S. real estate, announced it has closed on a new development project to expand its presence in the seniors housing space. Terraces at Tree Farm will be developed lake-side in Basalat, Colorado, within the economic hub of Roaring Fork Valley. It will be a Class-A, 72-unit active adult community surrounded by shops, restaurants, trails, offices, condos, apartments and a hotel.  The development of this community qualifies as a rural project, or a Targeted Employment Area project (TEA), which allows for EB-5 investors to obtain access to set-aside visas and priority processing under the EB-5 Reform and... Read More »
Lisa McCracken Joins NIC

Lisa McCracken Joins NIC

Lisa McCracken will be taking her research and analytics expertise to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) effective October 1. She will be the head of research and analytics for NIC. She had a similar job at the investment banking firm Ziegler, where she was director of senior living research and development for the past six years, and SVP for the four years prior. Earlier this summer Beth Mace “retired” as NIC’s chief economist and director of research and analytics, and while no one can fill her shoes, it looks like Lisa will take over the research side of things while Beth slows down and tries to ease into retirement working part time for NIC with her... Read More »