• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
Greystar Breaks Ground in Chicago Suburb

Greystar Breaks Ground in Chicago Suburb

Greystar is expanding its active adult presence in Illinois with the groundbreaking of Everleigh Vernon Hills, a new amenity-filled community in a northern Chicago suburb. Everleigh will offer one- and two-bedroom units, as well as two-bedroom apartments with a den and separate cottage homes set to surround the apartment building. In total, the 317,000-square foot community will offer 175 apartments and seven standalone duplex cottages with private parking as well as 218 attached parking spaces. Outdoor amenities will include a heated swimming pool and spa, event lawn, game lawn, outdoor lounge with firepits, pool cabanas and a space for pets. Inside, there will be a great room,... Read More »
Greystar Breaks Ground in Chicago Suburb

Active Adult Development Market Stays Strong

We’ve been hearing all about increased interest in the active adult sector, and we’ve been seeing a lot of it too as many new communities have broken ground or opened their doors within the past month. In July, we reported on Trez Capital providing $48 million in construction financing for a new active adult development in Sarasota, Florida, and now the project has officially begun vertical construction.  The 178-unit development named The Alloro at University Groves has been spearheaded by United Group of Companies. Development costs are estimated at $64.5 million, and project partners include Current Builders and Trez Capital. Adam Horowitz of Cooper Horowitz LLC brokered the... Read More »
Active Adult Development Breaks Ground in South Dakota

Active Adult Development Breaks Ground in South Dakota

Essex Corporation, a national developer, contractor and operator of active adult and independent living communities, has broken ground on a new community in South Dakota. The completed project, set to open in spring 2023, will be called The Parkwood and will feature 133 apartments. Amenities will include one- and two-bedroom rental apartments with the option of a den, open floor plans, walk-in closets, in-unit washers and dryers, covered balconies or terraces, climate-controlled under-building parking, coffee shop, salon, library, theater, guest suite, transportation, light housekeeping, weekday evening meal options and continental breakfasts, a dog wash station, and a car wash bay. ... Read More »
Greystar Breaks Ground in Chicago Suburb

Omega Healthcare Investors Announces Development in D.C.

In its third quarter earnings report, Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) revealed a $68 million property purchase in Washington, D.C. for a major seniors housing development. The existing 173,932-square-foot building was previously home to The Fairfax Embassy Row, a historic hotel that will now become a luxury 174-unit assisted living community called Inspir Embassy Row. OHI has entered into a single-facility lease for the property with Maplewood Senior Living through August 2045, which will be its second Inspir location after first opening a community in New York City. But this also represents Maplewood’s entry into the Washington, D.C. market. Substantial construction of the community is... Read More »
Welltower & Kisco Senior Living Break Ground in Maryland

Welltower & Kisco Senior Living Break Ground in Maryland

Welltower and Kisco Senior Living announced the groundbreaking of their large senior living community in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Set to open in Spring 2024, The Carnegie at Washingtonian Center will feature 450,000 square feet and 302 total units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It will sit on 8.5 acres next to RIO Lakefront at Washingtonian Center, a waterfront shopping center with restaurants, amenities and water activities in downtown Gaithersburg. At the community, floorplan options will range in size from one bedroom, one bath (837 square feet) to two bedrooms, two baths with a den (1,487 square feet) and a club level living option that includes concierge and... Read More »
Active Adult Development Breaks Ground in South Dakota

Toll Brothers Proposes Active Adult Development in New York

Homebuilder giant Toll Brothers has proposed the development of a 136-unit active adult community in Yorktown, New York.  The development would be built on two properties sitting on approximately 50 acres. It would contain three- and four-unit buildings, a community clubhouse and a pool. The townhouses would include a master bedroom suite, an entertaining space and two-car garages. The community would have a homeowners association and would be sold at market rate. Toll Brothers is currently focusing on speaking with the Yorktown Town Board before committing to the project, as the community would sit on the former property of Field Home Holy Comforter, an assisted living... Read More »