• LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... Read More »
  • Portland IL/AL Community Finds New Purpose in Multi-Family

    Calaroga Terrace has traded hands, from a national owner/operator to a regional developer. The community sits is north of the Oregon Convention Center, in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built in 1968 and renovated in 2016, the 15-story high rise is situated on just under one acre and features 181 independent living and 84 assisted living units. The... Read More »
  • New England SNFs Struggling to Breakeven Sell

    Blueprint represented a private equity investor in its divestment of a 302-bed skilled nursing portfolio in New England. The facilities had challenged occupancies, however, they generated approximately $27 million in revenue. Inflated operating costs took its toll on EBITDAR, with the asset struggling to breakeven. Dubbed Project Red Coats, the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Secures Refinance

    Berkadia announced the refinancing of a nine-property assisted living portfolio spanning Ohio and Pennsylvania. Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco, Austin Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld arranged the $114.37 million financing through Bloomfield Capital Partners, LLC on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture with an experienced owner and New Perspective Senior... Read More »
  • Lument Rolls Out Seniors Housing Investment Sales Platform

    Alex Florea and Kevin Lukehart have joined the Lument team as managing director and director, respectively. This expands Lument’s real estate investment sales platform into seniors housing. Florea will lead the team, working closely with John Sebree, head of real estate investment sales, and Aaron Becker, head of seniors housing and healthcare... Read More »
HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

A CCRC in Overland Park, Kansas is planning a large expansion to its independent living services. Perhaps they read Marcus & Millichap’s National Seniors Housing Report, which reported average IL occupancy steady at 91.7% in 2016, and predicted it will rise 10 basis points in 2017. That is close to the census peak in 2008, when IL communities averaged 92% occupancy, before the Great Recession reared its ugly head. The Overland Park’s IL census is very strong too, at 98%, which prompted the 76-unit expansion effort. Built in 2000, the community already features 64 IL villas, 54 assisted living units, 52 skilled nursing units and 36 memory care units. Census was in fact strong all... Read More »
HHHunt Heads North

HHHunt Heads North

A Virginia real estate developer is making its second move north across the Potomac, though unlike the Army of Northern Virginia, it is stopping short of Pennsylvania. The company, HHHunt, already has 12 senior living communities in North Carolina, six in Virginia, and one in Severna Park, Maryland, which it opened in late-2015. Now, HHHunt has just broken ground on a development in nearby Crofton (located between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore), at a cost of $29.4 million, or $309,500 per unit. The property is situated on about 10 acres next to the Walden Country Club and will feature 95 assisted living and memory care units under the “Spring Arbor” brand. Other HHHunt developments (most... Read More »

BMO Has Georgia On the Mind

Solomon Development is building a new senior living community near the heart of Atlanta, Georgia (in Decatur, to be exact) with the help of the BMO Harris Healthcare Real Estate Finance group. Featuring 96 assisted living, 71 independent living and 33 memory care units, the project is located on a 3.5-acre lot with easy access to local shops and amenities. It is estimated to cost approximately $67 million, or around $335,000 per unit, to build, which is far above the $220,000-per unit average for seniors housing properties in the state, according to our in-house senior living development database dating back to 2013. BMO is financing approximately two-thirds of that cost with $44.2 million... Read More »

All OK in Otay Ranch

The team at Cushman & Wakefield is helping a senior living development get off the ground in the newly developed master-planned community of Otay Ranch in Chula Vista, California (San Diego MSA). Expected to break ground at the end of the month, the project will feature 85 assisted living and 26 memory care units in two stories. A joint venture between Douglas Wilson Companies and Milestone Retirement is developing the community on a 4.5-acre site, which it hopes to open by the fall of 2018. Rick Swartz, Aaron Rosenszweig and Jim Dooley of Cushman & Wakefield represented Douglas Wilson Companies in arranging $22 million in construction debt from Wells Fargo as well as over $8.3... Read More »

Ventana by Bucker Gets Off The Ground

Several years after plans were first announced for two 12-story senior living towers in the North Park neighborhood of Dallas, Buckner Retirement Services has finally broken ground on The Ventana by Bucker, a 325-unit entrance fee CCRC which is estimated to cost $136 million, or about $418,000 per unit. That tops both the national average cost to construct CCRCs ($386,500 per unit) and the Texas average ($394,700 per unit), according to our in-house database of developments going back to 2013. As such, the development, which features floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the building, boasts a number of luxurious amenities including a roof-top garden, top-floor “Sky Lounge,” heated indoor... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard Lands Financing For Nonprofit Clients

Lancaster Pollard showed its strength in agency funding, closing over $40 million in financing to help a couple of not-for-profit clients expand their services. First, in Osceola, Wisconsin, Brad Competty led the way in closing a $7.1 million HUD refinance on behalf of Christian Community Homes, a senior care provider in western Wisconsin (Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA). Originally built in 1981 as a skilled nursing facility, CCH expanded its Hudson, WI campus over the years to include senior apartments (opened in 1986), assisted living (1993) and memory care (2009). More recently, in 2011, the organization expanded on a new campus in Osceola with a 40-bed skilled nursing facility and a 20-bed... Read More »