• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »

Building on the North Shore

The Chicago suburbs of the North Shore, one of the wealthiest areas in the country, will soon be getting a new assisted living/memory care community in the town of Prospect Heights, Illinois. Greenbrier Senior Living, a Chicago-based developer, is teaming up with institutional equity partner, Och-Ziff Real Estate, and Chicago-based operating partner, Pathway Senior Living, to build the 94,333-square foot building, which will feature 69 AL units and 32 MC units. To help finance the project, Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing secured a $21.41 million, five-year floating rate construction loan, with 39 months of interest only, placed through a regional bank. If we assume the loan was... Read More »

Ziegler funds reposition project

A Kentucky nonprofit with plans to renovate and reposition its skilled nursing facility in the town of Covington (Cincinnati MSA) turned to Ziegler to close a $48.7 million non-rated, fixed-rate bond issue. Incorporated in 1962, Kenton Housing has repositioned its facility several times before, most recently in 1992 when the 210-bed facility existing today was constructed on an 11-acre plot in Covington. Now, the company plans to spend upwards of $33.5 million to both renovate its existing building and construct a new senior care facility in the town of Elsmere, which will consist of 54 skilled nursing beds and 20 memory care units. Kenton Housing will transfer the CON for 34 licensed... Read More »

Serving our Veterans

As today is Veterans Day, it seems most appropriate to mention there is a new senior living community being developed in Jacksonville, Florida that will serve, among others, the large veteran population surrounding the Mayport Naval Base and Air Station. Developers David Kirkland, Carson McCall and Wayne McCall are leading the effort to build Anthem Lakes and will enlist Perry-McCall Construction and PQH Architects for the project. A majority of the units (83) will be for assisted living, while 34 will be designated for memory care and 20 for independent living. Also, a portion of the memory care wing will be set aside for veterans with mild brain trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder,... Read More »

New player in transitional care

It may sound odd to talk about a robust development pipeline of transitional care facilities and not focus on Mainstreet, which has dominated the market with plans to invest up to $5 billion in the next five years. Nevertheless, a new entrant to the transitional care market, National Healthcare Realty (NHR), is setting out to build 20 facilities in the next three years as the preferred developer for Welbrook Senior Living (not to be confused with Mainstreet’s “Wellbrooke” brand of facilities). Led by Mark Wimer, formerly of Kindred Healthcare and Sun Healthcare Group, Welbrook currently has six facilities located in California, Nevada and Utah, while also self-developing two more... Read More »

Mainstreet breaks ground in Fort Worth

Construction has recently started on Mainstreet’s latest transitional care facility. The Next Generation® property, which will cost $19.3 million, or $205,300 per bed, to build, will feature 94 beds of both transitional care (short-stay rehab and therapy) and assisted living. Typical Mainstreet properties feature a 70-30 skilled nursing-to-assisted living breakdown, so we have to assume the same for the newest San Antonio property. The project is expected to be finished by October 2016 and marks the entrance of Mainstreet in the state of Texas. Dover Construction Company is the contractor for the project, while Evansville, Indiana-based Old National Bank provided construction... Read More »

Construct with HUD

With all the construction going on today in the seniors housing and care industry, how are these developers financing their projects? Once you get past the longer lines and list of regulations, HUD has a few attractive options. Walker & Dunlop is one lender that has worked with HUD a good amount recently to fund new construction and expansion projects for borrowers across the country. One such example is a $5 million construction/permanent loan through HUD’s 232 program for TDK Companies to build a 36-unit assisted living/memory care community on its existing 82-unit AL campus is Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Primarily a build-and-hold multifamily developer, TDK forayed into the seniors... Read More »