• National Health Investors Sends Default Notice to NHC

    National Health Investors is addressing violations under its longstanding lease agreement with one of its largest tenants, National HealthCare Corporation. In July, NHI notified NHC/OP, L.P., an affiliate of National HealthCare Corporation and the tenant of 32 of NHI’s skilled nursing/senior care facilities and three independent living... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Increases Its Presence in Texas

    Sonida Senior Living finalized its acquisition of a seniors housing community in Texas. Built in 2016, the community features 62 assisted living and 36 memory care units. It shares a driveway with senior-centric healthcare providers and referral sources, and is across from a 294-bed hospital in Mansfield. The property is near existing Sonida... Read More »
  • Performing Class-A Asset Trades in Pensacola

    Berkadia handled the sale of Summer Vista, a seniors housing community in Pensacola, Florida. Managing Directors Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare closed the transaction. Built in 2016, the 89-unit assisted living/memory care community has always been a strong performer. In fact,... Read More »
  • Gallaher Companies Launches Management Company

    Gallaher Companies, which has decades of experience in seniors housing design and development, launched Gallaher Signature Living, a management company that will oversee operations for the company’s growing portfolio of California seniors housing communities. Page Ensor has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, bringing more than 25 years of... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures HUD Loan

    Walker & Dunlop originated $68.312 million in HUD 232/223(f) loans to refinance seven skilled nursing facilities with 380 units in Illinois and Wisconsin. The transaction replaced existing short-term, variable-rate debt. Walker & Dunlop’s FHA Finance team arranged the refinancings, led by Joshua Rosen, Brad Annis and Johnny Rice. The... 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 »
Latest Seniors Housing Development Activity

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 »
Latest Seniors Housing Development Activity

Senior Housing Development Breaks Ground in California

A major seniors housing community is going forward in Orcutt, California, with an eye toward inter-generational living. Having just received approval from the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, Ranch at Orcutt will comprise a 103-unit assisted living/memory care building, 48 independent living apartments, one single-story duplex and four two-story fourplex IL units. To combat ongoing labor concerns within the senior care industry, this development will include 20 employee dwelling units that could also be used as workforce housing. The 9.5-acre campus will also comprise a day care center for up to 36 children at a given time. The community is hoping to establish close relationships... Read More »

Ziegler Finances Chicagoland CCRC Expansion

Ziegler closed two series of revenue bonds for Plymouth Place, an Illinois not-for-profit that owns and operates a CCRC in La Grange Park, Illinois. Incorporated in 1939 on about 18.6 acres, the campus includes 182 independent living units, 52 assisted living units, 26 memory care units and 82 skilled nursing beds. Ownership wished to expand by building 59 new independent living units within one two-story building, two three-story buildings, one four-story building and related common areas, parking and equipment. The units are expected to open in early 2024. A connector building with additional common areas will also be built, along with outdoor amenities like a yoga lawn, bocce ball and... Read More »

Is The Public Option Passe?

Last month, we raised issues about Sonida Senior Living and its ability to survive through next year without additional capital. Its market cap is low ($86 million), its share price is falling as are its cash balances. G&A expenses have been way too high, but they are beginning to address that. Another company, AlerisLife, is facing similar problems, such as a small market cap ($25 million), a falling share price and G&A expense out of line with its operations ($17 million in the third quarter alone). One good thing going for the company is that it has $79.1 million of cash and just $67 million of long-term debt. And, quarter-end occupancy in the third quarter increased... Read More »