• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: What Do People Really Think?

    In our Second Quarter 2025 investment webinar, moderator Ben Swett asked our audience of a few hundred what they thought about several important topics. Overwhelmingly, 82% of the attendees indicated they would rather buy than build in today’s market, which was surprising given two facts. One, the current inventory is aging and showing it, and... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT Acquires in Minnesota

    Lee & Associates’ Senior Housing team, led by Robert Black, represented a Scottsdale, Arizona-based developer in the sale of a Class-A seniors housing community in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Developed by the seller in 2019, the building features 101 independent living, assisted living and memory care units.  There was strong interest in the... Read More »
  • Ivy Healthcare Group Divests to Regional Owner/Operator

    Engaged by Ivy Healthcare Group, Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. Ivy at Gastonia comprises 50 beds and has a strong operational foundation. ESI secured a regional owner/operator as the buyer. The incoming operator is expected to benefit from a favorable reimbursement... Read More »
  • Denver-Based Owner/Operator Grows in Colorado

    Blueprint represented a court-appointed receiver in the sale of a seniors housing portfolio in the Grand Junction, Colorado MSA. The portfolio comprised two assisted living communities with around 50 units, and a standalone memory care community built in the mid-1990s with around 20 units. The portfolio was 65% occupied and breaking even on a... Read More »
  • Ohio Skilled Nursing Facility Changes Hands

    Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint closed the sale of a 61-bed skilled nursing facility located southeast of Columbus, Ohio. While the facility was experiencing operational challenges at the time of marketing, it had a long-standing reputation for providing quality care to the community. Blueprint’s marketing process emphasized the... Read More »
Denver Developer Doubles Down on Active Adult

Denver Developer Doubles Down on Active Adult

Denver-based Headwaters Group announced its intention to increase its development and acquisition activity within the active adult market. The company recently launched its middle-market active adult initiative and will focus on for-rent communities for adults aged 55 and older in the western half of the United States, initially, with plans to expand nationwide. Headwaters and an unknown joint venture partner plan to build a 169-unit active adult community in Centennial, Colorado and is also under contract for land in Northglenn to build a 169-unit active adult community. In addition to these two Colorado communities, Headwaters is currently in the works for two more projects in Longmont... Read More »
Link Senior Development Building Albuquerque Community

Link Senior Development Building Albuquerque Community

A luxury senior living community is going up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the help of construction financing secured by JLL Capital Markets. Alanna Ellis led JLL’s Debt Advisory team on the transaction. Link Senior Development is building the three-story community to include 144 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, along with a host of amenities. It is situated on 6.5 acres adjacent to a new ambulatory urgent care center and an MOB. Link received a $51.8 million loan to fund the project. Assuming more conservative leverage on the transaction, the construction cost could be between $550,000 and $600,000 per unit. Read More »
Ziegler’s Construction Financing in Minnesota

Ziegler’s Construction Financing in Minnesota

Ziegler announced the closing of $47 million in construction financing for a new senior living community in Corcoran, Minnesota (Minneapolis MSA). Saint Therese of Corcoran, LLC, and its sponsor, Saint Therese, will comprise 99 independent living units, 34 assisted living units and 20 memory care units and sits on a 13-acre site. The financing comprises $18.2 million of Series 2022AB and $28.8 million of Series 2023 Senior Living Revenue Notes placed with Bremer Bank. Campus-wide amenities will include restaurant-style dining, outpatient therapy and wellness areas, as well as indoor and outdoor social gathering spaces. Organized in 1965 as a single-site nursing home in New Hope, Minnesota,... Read More »
Active Adult Development in Texas

Active Adult Development in Texas

Grace Management, Inc, a subsidiary of CPF Living, and Padua Realty Company have announced the groundbreaking of The Lakes at Woodhaven Village, its newest active adult community in Conroe, Texas. The community will complement the existing 171-unit Woodhaven Village Campus which comprises 27 independent living cottages, 60 IL units, 24 memory care units and 60 assisted living units. The 130,000-square-foot community will sit on five acres just north of Houston and is expected to open in spring 2024. Working on this development are developers Padua Realty Company, its affiliated construction company Dorado Builders, Grace Management, Investwell Architects, interior design firm Lizabeth... Read More »
A Ventas-Priority Life Care Turnaround Success

A Ventas-Priority Life Care Turnaround Success

We all know that seniors housing census has pretty much increased across the board since the bottom was hit in March 2021, nearly two years ago. But the pace of that increase has been slowing. A case in point is Brookdale Senior Living’s stall in October and November, and we have not even hit the worst flu months yet, and this one is supposed to be a doozy. Late last year, after Ventas removed the operator for its Eclipse Senior Living portfolio (the former Elmcroft Senior Living portfolio) and basically shut down the management company, the REIT dispersed the management of the roughly 90 communities in 20 states across eight other operators. Maybe some old-fashioned TLC from smaller... Read More »
Ziegler’s Construction Financing in Minnesota

Latest Seniors Housing Development Activity

We have tracked multiple seniors housing projects announcing their groundbreakings across the country this past week. In East Chicago, funding for a $51 million affordable seniors housing development has been secured by several investors. Lakeshore Manor will comprise 206 units across two separate four-story buildings. DTM Real Estate will develop the new affordable seniors housing project, which will replace the 1972-built John B. Nicosia Senior Housing high-rise that stood nine stories tall for the past 50 years. In a separate development, we have learned that the 2,200-acre, 3,500-home development along Lake Travis, just outside of Austin, Texas will include seniors housing units. The... Read More »