• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... 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 »