• 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 »
Live Oak Bank Returns to Santee Seniors Housing Campus

Live Oak Bank Returns to Santee Seniors Housing Campus

Live Oak Bank closed a $27.0 million refinance with a repeat client for an assisted living/memory care community, The Ridge at Lantern Crest, situated on a larger campus, Lantern Crest, in Santee, California. Lantern Crest, operated by Lantern Crest Senior Living, is a 34-acre seniors housing campus developed by The Grant Companies. It offers independent living, assisted living and memory care. Development occurred in three phases, with Phase I being The Ridge at Lantern Crest, Phase II being The Pointe at Lantern Crest and Phase III being The Plaza at Lantern Crest.  The Ridge, which opened in 2012, was originally built with 80 assisted living and memory care units. It was expanded... Read More »
The Current Lending Environment for Senior Care Properties

The Current Lending Environment for Senior Care Properties

The financing process has killed dozens (and hundreds) of deals in the last couple of years, and yet M&A activity is near record levels in the seniors housing and care industry. So deals are getting done, and not just with cash. Who has been lending and at what cost to the borrower? What hurdles have to be overcome? And when capital costs do lower, how can owners and operators best prepare to finance the oncoming wave of deals and demographics? Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: The Development Dilemma

60 Seconds with Swett: The Development Dilemma

The difficult thing about development right now is that it is both a very tough time to build because of higher capital costs but also may be the time that many developers and investors need to start projects. We know, easy for us to say, especially as the Fed signals that rates are likely to stay high for longer and as the 10-year Treasury rate peaks above 4.5% again. But the reality is that if indeed there will be a supply and demand imbalance in a couple of years, then the predevelopment work (if not shovels in the ground) has to start right now because of how long it would take to get those developments open and leased up by the time baby boomers begin turning 80. That process takes a... Read More »
The Benoit Group Finances Atlanta Project

The Benoit Group Finances Atlanta Project

The Benoit Group, in partnership with Atlanta Housing, received financing for the development of Englewood Senior in Atlanta. This affordable seniors housing project marks the first redevelopment phase of a master-planned, mixed-use, multi-plase community on the 30-acre site of the former Englewood Manor public housing site. Built in 1971, Englewood Manor offered 324 public housing units before the residents were relocated in 2007, followed by the property’s demolition in 2009 with HUD approval. The site is located in southeast Atlanta approximately 1.5 miles from Grant Park. Funding for this $72 million project includes federal and state equity tax credit investment by Raymond James and... Read More »
Active Adult Expansion A Hit With Investors

Active Adult Expansion A Hit With Investors

How often have we heard that new development is dead? Or that CCRCs (LPCs) are on their way out? Too often. But how often do you hear about an Active Adult expansion on a CCRC campus, and one with entrance fees? Not often enough. That didn’t stop Three Pillars Senior Living Communities and Cain Brothers from putting together a plan that may really change the 120-year-old CCRC in Wisconsin. Three Pillars was originally founded in 1905 as Masonic Home to provide care for indigent Masons. Today, it has a 50-bed nursing center, 17 memory care units, 52 assisted living units (CBRF), 75 catered living/assisted living units (RCAC) and 123 Type C independent living units.  The rents for the... Read More »
Evans Running Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Deal

Evans Running Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Deal

Evans Senior Investments was hired to run a court-appointed sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Pennsylvania, with the sale hearing scheduled (in person and via Zoom) for March 15, 2024, at 10AM Eastern.  Built in the 1980s and renovated in the 1990s, the facilities up for sale include Beacon Ridge, a 118-bed skilled nursing facility in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and The Patriot, a 100-bed SNF and 76-unit personal care/independent living community, together licensed to run as a CCRC, in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Both were losing money. There is also a 92-unit personal care community in Johnstown that has been closed, but is still included in the sale. The previous operator, Senior... Read More »