• Regional Owner/Operator Secures Acquisition Financing

    Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare arranged a $24.75 million bridge financing for the acquisition of a 140 unit seniors housing community in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on behalf of a Memphis-based repeat client. The purchase represented the buyer’s 10th community in Mississippi and was funded with 1031 exchange... Read More »
  • 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 »
Koelsch Communities Expands with New California Community

Koelsch Communities Expands with New California Community

Koelsch Communities has opened a new independent living community in Elk Grove, California. The community broke ground in May of 2019, but completion was delayed due to the pandemic. The $75 million Park at Laguna Springs sports 135 senior apartments and 16 casita apartments.  Koelsch is vertically integrated with a construction arm, and three memory care communities have come online in the last 12 months: an 80-unit community in Kirkland, Washington, a 72-unit community in Elk Grove, California, and a 72-unit community in Puyallup, Washington.  Koelsch has been adding independent living and assisted living offerings, preferring to build out continuum-of-care options on a given campus... Read More »
Another Home Builder Launches New 55+ Brand

Another Home Builder Launches New 55+ Brand

Dream Finders Homes (DFH), a publicly traded homebuilding company, is expanding into the active adult market with a new brand of communities called “Reverie.” The company is leveraging its sales success in their existing active adult community, Reverie TrailMark, in the St. Augustine, Florida area. The word “reverie” means daydream and reflects the idyllic lifestyle that DFH hopes to represent with their amenity-laden properties. The company is not alone in seeing robust demand from empty-nesters and those 55 and over (really 75 and older) as an avenue of growth and hopes to leverage their experience with homebuilding to provide well-planned communities. A competitor of theirs, Toll... Read More »
Toll Brothers Invests in Active Adult Communities Nationwide

Toll Brothers Invests in Active Adult Communities Nationwide

On the heels of a busy 2021 for new development projects, Toll Brothers, Inc. unveiled plans for its first Regency 55+ active adult community in the Pacific Northwest. Regency at Ten Trails will be a community of 403 single-level homes set within the Ten Trails master plan in South King County in Washington state. The community will offer four housing options ranging from approximately 1,300 to 2,200 square feet, with pricing anticipated from the low $700,000s. Amenities will include a 10,000-square-foot resort-inspired clubhouse and fitness center, an 11,000-square-foot dog park with washing station and sheltered areas with fireplaces.  But this isn’t the only recent news from the... Read More »
Five Star Senior Living Rebrands As AlerisLife

Five Star Senior Living Rebrands As AlerisLife

Five Star Senior Living is rebranding itself as AlerisLife Inc. effective immediately. With the name change, the company’s common shares will now trade on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol “ALR.”  “Aleris” is a Latin word meaning “to foster, nourish and develop,” and is intended to signify the company’s intent to continue fostering, developing and expanding its lifestyle services. It also follows its desire to offer lifestyle services to younger “choice-based” consumers while exiting the skilled nursing business entirely in November 2021. Other recent developments include growing its Ageility rehabilitation and fitness products, entering into a dining services collaboration... Read More »
Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Expands Into Colorado

Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Expands Into Colorado

Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America has broken ground on their newest CCRC, Aberdeen Ridge, thanks to the recent successful closing of their $140.02 million Series 2021 bonds issued through the Colorado Health Facilities Authority and underwritten by Ziegler. This is PMMA’s first venture into Colorado. The faith-based, not-for-profit corporation is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas and operates 15 senior living communities and two hospices across Kansas and Missouri, serving over 2,400 residents. In 2018, PMMA acquired a Texas not-for-profit corporation, which owned an undeveloped 15.25-acre site within 1.5 miles of Garden of the Gods National Park, and which already had the permits and... Read More »
Active Adult Community Set to Break Ground in Texas

Active Adult Community Set to Break Ground in Texas

Edison Equity Management Corporation, a Texas-based developer and acquirer of active adult communities, has purchased land for a 182-unit development in the Houston MSA. The project is set within a master-planned community called Cypress Creek Lakes, and will sit on an eight-acre plot of land.  Named 55 Resort at Cypress Creek Lakes, the community will feature a gym, fitness studio, library, resort-style pool and hot tub, and a restaurant with a coffee and wine bar. 55 Resort will also provide a program director for various activities in and around the community. Unit prices range from approximately $1,900 to $2,500 per month. Edison Equity Management currently has four listed active... Read More »