• Stand-Alone MC Community Trades in Arizona

    Blueprint represented an institutional seller in the sale of its stand-alone memory care community in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona MSA. Built in 2009, the asset features 48 units with 60 beds and received approximately $2 million in recent capital improvements. There is opportunity for occupancy growth and rental rate optimization. ... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Its Acquisition Streak

    Clarion Partners continued on its acquisition streak, adding two communities in California to its growing portfolio. The latest deal featured The Commons on Thornton and The Commons at Union Ranch, two seniors housing communities totaling 198 units in California’s Central Valley. They were previously owned and operated by MBK Senior Living, which... Read More »
  • Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

    M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory... Read More »
  • Olympus Retirement Living Expands

    The Zett Group closed the sale of a 63-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Boise, Idaho market. Set in the town of Emmett, Meadow View Senior Living was trending positively in its operations, but there was still some work to be done. An owner/operator engaged Blake Bozett and Spud Batt to sell the community to an undisclosed buyer.... Read More »
  • Large Senior Care Portfolio Trades Hands

    A portfolio comprising senior care assets across Washington State recently sold with the help of JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage. At first, only one of the assets was brought to market, but an offer emerged for the entire nine-facility portfolio. The price for the skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses ranged... Read More »
NHI Finances CCRC Expansion Project in Phoenix

NHI Finances CCRC Expansion Project in Phoenix

The Phoenix, Arizona market has been a hotbed of senior living construction activity thanks to its rapidly growing retiree population, and a large CCRC catering to high-income residents is looking to capture part of that growth with an independent living expansion. Sagewood already has 316 independent living units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. Demand for independent living was strong (with the IL units fully occupied in 2018), so ownership decided to build a Phase II, which included 101 more units. It was clearly the right decision, as 96% of the new IL units are already presold, with entrance fees projected to average $700,000. Recently, the... Read More »
Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

No stranger to big senior living projects, Big Rock Partners (BRP) announced it will be building its second senior living community in Palm Beach County, Florida, at an estimated cost of $150 million, or over $530,000 per unit. BRP kicked it off with the $9 million acquisition of a 15-acre site in Delray Beach, where it will build 185 independent living, 50 assisted living and 44 memory care units. LCS will operate the community upon completion in 2021. Trez Forman Capital financed the land acquisition, and Al Rex of Walker & Dunlop is the project’s financing advisor. Last year, BRP opened a 320-unit community in Lake Worth at a cost of $106 million, which means the company’s total... Read More »
Multicultural Senior Community Under Construction in Midwest

Multicultural Senior Community Under Construction in Midwest

A unique senior living community is nearing completion in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg Township, Illinois, under the guidance of active adult developer Aman Living. Designed to appeal to varying cultures, including Indian, Asian and American, this community will feature a continuum of care that includes 55 townhomes in 12 buildings, 75 condominiums in a five-story building, an 80-unit assisted living/memory care building and a 20,000-square foot clubhouse, all on an 11-acre campus. It is being built at a cost of $43 million, or around $200,000 per unit. The townhomes, 11 of which have already presold, are expected to be completed next year. The condo building and the assisted living... Read More »
Zom Living Enters the Senior Living Market

Zom Living Enters the Senior Living Market

A major seniors housing development is about to break ground in Palm Beach County, Florida, after the developers finalized the purchase of a 46-acre plot in a transaction handled by Charlie Hilding, Mark Myers and Josh Jandris of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap. Additionally, Ryan Nee of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office was the broker of record for the transaction. Originally owned by a partnership and entitled for 462 units of seniors housing, the land sold for $23.25 million to a joint venture between Zom Living and Liberty Senior Living. This is multifamily developer Zom’s first seniors housing deal, and North Carolina-based Liberty’s... Read More »
Another Civitas Development in the Lone Star State

Another Civitas Development in the Lone Star State

Civitas Senior Living may have already expanded outside its home state of Texas, with three existing communities and four more on the way in Florida, Kentucky, Colorado and Arizona, but the Fort Worth-based company is coming home for its latest development. The 188-unit community, located in the Red Oak suburb of Dallas, will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services and will join the 32 other properties currently owned and operated by Civitas. To finance the development, HJ Sims invested $5.85 million of preferred equity, which it funded by placing corporate taxable bonds. The subordinate financing was structured to meet the requirements of the senior lenders... Read More »
CCRC Expands With Help From HJ Sims Financing

CCRC Expands With Help From HJ Sims Financing

A not-for-profit CCRC in Sandy Spring, Maryland that has been in business since 1962 was looking to expand and obtained financing from HJ Sims to fund the project. On a 62-acre campus, the community (called Friends House) features 32 independent living units and 75 low-income rental apartments, 82 comprehensive care beds and 21 assisted living units. However, ownership saw the need to replace the low-income apartments with a new 80-unit low-income housing building in a joint venture with Homes For America (HFA). But that’s not where the future changes stop. The CCRC will also renovate and expand the existing communal building, remove two vacant cottage units, and develop 14 new cottage... Read More »