• 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 »
Evans Finds The Solution

Evans Finds The Solution

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) closed on the sale of two properties in New York known as the Robinson Terrace Portfolio. It included a 120-bed skilled nursing facility that was built in Samford in 1973, and a 55-unit assisted living community built in 2011 two miles away. Despite the rural location, occupancy had been relatively high, above 90% at both facilities.   The problem, however, was the cost structure and the fact that the Medicaid census was high in both properties. The campus was owned and operated by a not-for-profit, and maybe because they were the low-cost providers in the area, the EBITA margin was a negative 20% or worse. High staffing costs combined with low Medicaid... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard’s $88 Million Financing

Lancaster Pollard’s $88 Million Financing

Lancaster Pollard closed a large construction on behalf of Los Angeles-based Ridge Senior Living to build a new luxury senior living community in Lakewood, Colorado (Denver MSA). Once complete, the community will comprise 318 total units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. To fund its development, Jason Dopoulos, Ross Holland and Joe Munhall of Lancaster Pollard identified a national bank to act as lead agent on an $88 million construction loan, with a portion syndicated to other bank participants. The development will be Ridge’s fifth community, joining four other properties in California and Utah.   Read More »
Matthew Alley Sells 100th Texas Property

Matthew Alley Sells 100th Texas Property

Cheers to Matthew Alley, who just sold his 100th facility in the state of Texas since joining Senior Living Investment Brokerage in 2006. In what was his 69th transaction in the state, Mr. Alley (and Patrick Byrne) represented a public healthcare REIT in its disposition of a 75-bed SNF in the Texas Panhandle, in the town of Wheeler. Built in 1982, the facility has a long way to go to stabilization, and its rural location doesn’t make it easier. It was just 55% occupied and operated just above breakeven under management of the outgoing Texas-based SNF operator. The buyer is a regional owner/operator that focuses on the state of Texas too. It purchased the facility for $1.8 million, or... Read More »
Big Rock Partners Opens Second Senior Living Community

Big Rock Partners Opens Second Senior Living Community

Big Rock Partners had cause for celebration this week, as its second senior living development opened in Florida, at a total cost of $82 million, or $343,000 per unit. Situated on nine acres (purchased in 2014 with the help of a $4.5 million loan from Sabra Health Care REIT) in the Walt Disney Company-developed master planned community of Celebration (Orlando MSA), the community features 151 independent living units, 55 assisted living units and 33 memory care units. Life Care Services operates the campus, which not only is pet-friendly, but comes with a host of amenities such as gourmet dining venues, a high-end cinema, indoor aquatic center and a rooftop bar, among others. Adventist... Read More »
Building in Tampa Bay Area

Building in Tampa Bay Area

The Tampa Bay seniors housing market continues to grow, marked most recently by a brand-new assisted living and memory care community developed by Pridgen Development and equity investor Lindell Investments, called Tessera of Brandon. The $28 million, 107,000 square-foot community in the town of Brandon was funded by a $21 million, five-year loan provided by Hancock Bank and designed by Bessolo Design Group to include a total of 138 units, 89 of which are assisted living apartments, and the other 49 units are for memory care, with several different floorplans available. Its per-unit cost (at $202,900) is above the average cost for like-projects in the area, which currently stands at... Read More »
Big Year For Capitol Seniors Housing Construction Pipeline

Big Year For Capitol Seniors Housing Construction Pipeline

It’s full steam ahead for Capitol Seniors Housing’s construction strategy. The Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm just opened one assisted living community in Naperville, Illinois (Chicago MSA), but has nine more projects coming down the pike, all totaling nearly $300 million. The 95-unit Naperville community cost approximately $27 million to develop, or $284,200 per unit, and is operated by Arbor Company. It will soon be joined by another Chicagoland development in the form of an 83-unit senior living community in Glenview, expected to open later this year at a cost of $28.4 million, or about $342,200 per unit. That figure is more closely in line with Capitol Seniors Housing’s... Read More »