• 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 »
Big Rock Announces CCRC Development in South Carolina

Big Rock Announces CCRC Development in South Carolina

Big Rock Partners has announced the $180 million development of Seafields at Kiawah Island, a high-end CCRC on South Carolina’s Kiawah Island. The community will feature 98 one, two and three-bedroom independent living units, along with 16 assisted living and skilled nursing units. Kiawah Life Plan Village Inc. (KLPV), a newly formed not-for-profit, purchased a nine-acre site from Kiawah Partners, a subsidiary of South Street Partners. The developed property will be the first 62+ luxury life plan community on Kiawah Island. It will also feature an in-house medical clinic operated by the Medical University of South Carolina. The idea for this development was conceived after Kiawah and... Read More »
Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Link Senior Development and MedCore Partners announced the development of Ativo of Sundance, a 202-unit senior living community inside Sundance Active Adult master planned community in Buckeye, Arizona. The 1,100-home community is managed by Associate Asset Management (AAM) and boasts an 18-hole public golf course, community center and more than 20 different clubs from which homeowners can become members. It is also located in Buckeye, the fastest growing small city in the United States.  The new senior living campus will offer 103 independent living, 75 assisted living and 24 memory care units immediately adjacent to the Sundance Adult Village... Read More »
Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

Real estate giant Madison Marquette has teamed up with Saudi Arabia-based Arbah Capital to build a $37 million senior living community in Punta Gorda Isles, Florida.  This high-quality, 135-unit community has 116,000 square feet, making the total price per square foot $319. It is scheduled for completion in early 2023 and will be operated by Meridian Senior Living. Banesco USA provided the debt for the project.  Tampa-based Diaz Fritz Group is the project’s general contractor and St. Louis-based CASCO+R|5 is the architect. This is the second enterprise for the Madison Marquette-Arbah Capital duo. They previously joined together to build a 117,000-square foot, 144-unit... Read More »
Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Homebuilder Toll Brothers Announces Another Active Adult Development

Long-time luxury home developer Toll Brothers has joined a slew of other builders to break into the active adult market. It most recently announced the anticipated opening of Regency at Waterside in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, which includes 496 high-end single-family homes, carriage-style townhomes and a community clubhouse for seniors. Prices range from mid-$500,000s to upper $700,000s. Across its 227 acres of landscaping and four “collections”, buyers can choose between 23 different one- and two-story story home designs. The 10,700-square foot clubhouse contains an outdoor and indoor pool, a pavilion, fire pit, fitness center, putting green and walking trails throughout the... Read More »
Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

CanAm Capital Finances Construction Project in Florida

CanAm Capital Partners (CACP) has closed a $10 million mezzanine loan for an affiliate of Lloyd Jones, LLC to build a 159-unit active adult and independent living rental community located on a 10-acre site in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The property will operate under Lloyd Jones’ proprietary Aviva brand as Aviva, Port St. Lucie. CACP is a full-service financial firm providing EB-5 investment funds and conventional financing. The $10 million in debt for the Port St. Lucie project was reinvested from the company’s $350 million loan to Florida East Coast Industries’ Brightline rail project. The original loan was a key financing piece in the development of the high-speed passenger rail system in... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Financing for New Development

Joint Venture Secures Financing for New Development

A joint venture between Singerman Real Estate and Darnell Capital is developing a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Palos Verdes, California, thanks in part to construction financing arranged by Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard of Cushman & Wakefield. A large regional bank provided $23 million in debt at favorable terms.  Set in a three-story former office building, the community will feature 87 units and 65,000 square feet. Phoenix-based Cadence Living will operate the community upon completion.  Read More »