• 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 »
Joint Venture Secures Construction Financing

Joint Venture Secures Construction Financing

Live Oak Bank announced a couple of construction loans closed on behalf of seniors housing borrowers. First, in December, Live Oak Bank provided a $40 million senior loan in partnership with a $39.6 million CPACE loan provided by Nuveen Green Capital for a joint venture between Harbert Senior Housing Fund II and Harbert South Bay Partners. The loan provides financing for the ground-up construction of a 140-unit Class A assisted living and memory care community in California and features a five-year term with 42 months of interest-only payments.  We also learned that Live Oak Bank led, jointly arranged with Huntington National Bank, and closed a construction loan for a joint venture... Read More »
EBSC Lending Funds Los Angeles Development

EBSC Lending Funds Los Angeles Development

EBSC Lending has secured funding for a high-quality seniors housing community under development in Los Angeles. Brian Stark, manager of information technology at EBSC, led the transaction. The community obtained $31.2 million in construction financing The development will feature a new 172,163-square-foot community owned and operated by a senior living provider in the Southeast, with a primary focus on Florida. The community will offer a total of 198 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in three buildings spread over a 7.8-acre campus. It will also feature restaurant-style dining, boutique hotel décor, and a variety of luxury amenities. Based in Irvine, California,... Read More »
Texas Gets New IL Community

Texas Gets New IL Community

The McFarlin Group just broke ground on its newest active adult community in Dallas, Texas, The Blake at Bent Tree. Featuring 200 units, the community is McFarlin’s 17th development in Dallas, and the company is based in the city, as well. The Blake was developed as an active adult community but offers a future buyer the ability to convert it to full-service independent living, if they choose. It will offer food, programming and laundry services, as well as amenities such as an outdoor BBQ and entertainment area, a golf simulator, outdoor pool with hot tub, pickleball court and professional concierge services, among others. Greystar will operate it under the Elate brand. Berkadia announced... Read More »
Ziegler Prices Bonds for North Carolina CCRC

Ziegler Prices Bonds for North Carolina CCRC

Ziegler announced the pricing of Carolina Meadows, Inc.’s Series 2024 bonds. Carolina Meadows is a North Carolina not-for-profit that was incorporated in 1983 to develop, own and manage a CCRC in Chatham County, North Carolina, just south of Chapel Hill. The community comprises 476 independent living units, 78 assisted living units (with 95 beds in operation) and 79 skilled nursing units (with 86 beds in operation). It is the 20th largest not-for-profit single-site CCRC in the United States, according to the 2023 LeadingAge-Ziegler 200.  Carolina Meadows plans to develop, own and operate a replacement skilled nursing facility that will total approximately 122,000 square feet. The... Read More »
AOG’s Foray into The Active Adult Sphere

AOG’s Foray into The Active Adult Sphere

A few years ago, we were preparing for an influx of multifamily developers and investors to flood into the seniors housing space, particularly in active adult, which was seen as an attractive add-on to their traditional multifamily portfolios with favorable demographic trends, higher (and more consistent) rents, good occupancy rates and longer lengths of stay. Active adult may have also acted as a gateway to other seniors housing sectors like independent living and assisted living for these investors.  Then, interest rates rose above average active adult cap rate between 4% and 5%, and development became more difficult, not to mention expensive. But as we (and others) have noted, the... Read More »
S&R Handles Texas Land Transaction

S&R Handles Texas Land Transaction

Sherman & Roylance closed the sale of an eight-acre development site in Austin, Texas, which was initially envisioned for a senior living community. However, the buyer, Novak Brothers, plans to leverage their expertise and create a new multifamily development in the location. The property, previously approved by the City of Austin for a two-story, 98-unit assisted living and memory care community, faced construction delays and ultimately ended up in foreclosure by Woodforest Bank in September 2023. With the “as designed” construction halted in 2022, with the foundation in place and the framing begun, Sherman & Roylance was tasked with finding a buyer. Read More »