• Diversified Healthcare Trust’s SHOP Delivers Strong Results

    Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) announced fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2025 results, and its SHOP segment delivered. Same-property SHOP NOI in the fourth quarter jumped 27.6% year over year to $38 million, and full-year SHOP NOI climbed 31.3% to $129.3 million. Same property SHOP occupancy reached 82.4% in Q4, up 90 basis points from... Read More »
  • Lease Option Closes for High-Performing CT SNFs

    A long-time regional owner/operator looking to secure capital for future redeployment into the skilled nursing sector approached Blueprint to market two skilled nursing facilities. The high-performing assets sit 40 miles apart in southern and western Connecticut with 301 total beds. The non-union facilities were generating $4.4 million of EBITDAR... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Acquires North Carolina Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A few seniors housing communities in North Carolina were recently divested by a North Carolina owner/operator. The three assets total 61 independent living units and 173 assisted living and memory care beds. The independent living component was developed by the seller. The buyer, a not-for-profit with more than 30 years of experience acquiring... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Owner/Operator Secures Its First HUD Financing

    In a transaction that marks the third time Berkadia has secured financing for the asset, the company arranged a $35.4 million HUD financing for a 189-bed skilled nursing facility in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The asset was developed in three phases between 1996 and 2007. It has been owned by a Louisiana-based owner/operator of skilled nursing... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Receives Financing

    MONTICELLOAM provided financing to three seniors housing communities in Illinois. Originated by Karina Davydov, the package includes up to $44 million in bridge financing with a 36-month term. The portfolio offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. The sponsor, a Midwest-based senior living operator... Read More »
Cadence Living Making Moves in Arizona

Cadence Living Making Moves in Arizona

A Scottsdale, Arizona-based senior living operator is set for a major expansion into its home state, joining other builders in the booming Phoenix metro market. Cadence Living and its San Diego-based development partner Global Seniors Housing acquired the 7.7-acre plot in the town of Chandler (about 20 miles southeast of Phoenix) and is set to start construction on the project later this year. Estimated about a cost of $46 million, or about $240,000 per unit, the community will feature 191 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The community will join Cadence’s brand-new community in Glendale, which opened this March with 165 senior living units, plus two... Read More »
Solvere Living Adds Three More Communities

Solvere Living Adds Three More Communities

After 10 years in business, Solvere Living continues to expand its portfolio of managed senior living communities, recently adding three more in Texas and Florida to bring its total to 15 properties across eight states. The Texas community is located in Plano near three major medical centers. It features 44 assisted living and 21 memory care units on a four-acre campus. Then, Solvere added two Florida facilities. One, with 83 assisted living and 38 memory care units, is located in Jensen Beach (Port St. Lucie area) and features amenities including a pool, salon, spa, putting green and an outdoor entertainment center, among others. There is also an in-house rehabilitation clinic for... Read More »
Flashback Friday: The Seniors Housing Development Boom Begins

Flashback Friday: The Seniors Housing Development Boom Begins

Seven years ago, this month, the first signs of life in the seniors housing development market showed themselves after a barren few years following the depths of the Great Recession. We’re sure none of you want to get back in the recession mindset, but the myriad economic issues facing the industry meant that a construction comeback was by no means a sure thing that soon into the recovery. We detailed some of those issues too in the May issue of The SeniorCare Investor: “After all, what lender would want to take on the risk of the unknown in an uncertain economy with a still weak housing market? In addition, feasibility studies may have  been  able  to  pinpoint  market demand six years... Read More »
The Transitional Care Take-Over?

The Transitional Care Take-Over?

We’ve written about the bifurcation in the skilled nursing market between the traditional SNFs, which tend to be older, feature smaller, semi-private rooms and heavily rely on Medicaid revenues, and the new transitional care facilities, which cater almost exclusively to the Medicare and private pay patients. These feature large private rooms and come with many of the bells and whistles of modern senior living communities. Not surprisingly, these newer properties are developed and sold at much higher values than the traditional SNFs. Indeed, according to our recently-published Skilled Nursing Acquisition & Investment Report, facilities built in the last 20 years (which would include... Read More »
CREATIVCAP Closes First Loan

CREATIVCAP Closes First Loan

Scott Kavel of Greystone fame has set up his own lending shop at CREATIVCAP, and less than two months since forming the business, he has already closed his first transaction. On behalf of Vista Pointe, an Oregon-based senior living operator, Mr. Kavel arranged $8 million in financing from a life company that featured a seven-year term and an all-in fixed interest rate under 5%. With the financing, Vista Pointe will be able to enter the Washington State market with a to-be-built, 56-unit senior living community, expected to open in early 2020. CREATIVCAP’s correspondent, GG Finance, also made a small equity investment in the project, adding to its portfolio of equity and mezzanine... Read More »
Capital One Finances Caddis Construction Project

Capital One Finances Caddis Construction Project

A large senior living community being developed by Caddis in partnership with operator Solvere Senior Living is going up in Venice, Florida thanks in part to a construction loan provided by Capital One. Totaling $35.7 million, the loan will finance the 181-unit project, which will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services upon completion in Summer 2020. Although managed by Solvere, the three-story community will operate under Caddis’ “Heartis” brand. It boasts water views, and will feature large common areas, a beauty/barber shop and game rooms, among other amenities. Read More »