• 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 »

Seniors Housing: Build or Buy?

In this strong seniors housing acquisition market, when does it make sense to build a brand new community or buy an “A” quality community? Based on seniors housing construction projects since 2013 (which includes independent, assisted living and memory care, or some combination of the three), the average cost to build a new project is approximately $209,000 per unit. New construction, of course, comes with certain benefits. You will have a brand-new community with all the bells and whistles that can help attract attention. But you then have to fill it up, staff it and deal with the increasingly potential risk of a competitor opening up down the street. And to buy a stabilized, “A” level... Read More »

New Fund hits development market

Blue Moon Capital Partners, a seniors housing private equity investor founded by industry vets Kathryn Sweeney and Susan Barlow, just announced the first project for its $175 million fund, Blue Moon Senior Housing I LP (BMSH). In December 2014, Blue Moon secured a $175 million capital investment from Scout Fund II through Hawkeye Partners, LP. Kicking off development will be a 180-unit seniors housing project in Northville, Michigan being developed with The Damone Group, which has developed over 120 projects in the last 40 years. With 96 IL units, 44 AL units and 40 MC units, the community will be built by the developer’s construction arm, Damone Construction, and operated by its... Read More »

Build it and they will come

If your marketing team presells 75% of all units within two months of initiating pre-sales (and that number nears 95% pre-sold just after groundbreaking), then you clearly did your homework in determining local demand. Either that or what you offer is just better than any competitor around you. That is what Greenbrier Development has experienced as it breaks ground on Phase II on Beacon Hill at Eastgate, a CCRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. First opened in 2010 with 114 independent living units, 40 assisted living units, 35 memory care units, 29 skilled nursing beds and 20 rental apartments, Beacon Hill filled to 95% occupancy within just two years. Now, Greenbrier is adding 56 independent... Read More »

Zenith on the rise

Zenith Capital is expanding its investment in the Seattle-area yet again, with a $23.5 million assisted living/memory care project in Covington, Washington. The company, which specializes in providing alternative financing for the senior housing industry, is partnering with Seniority, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABHOW, which is itself currently affiliated with the be.group. The community’s 98 units will include 64 for assisted living and 34 for memory care. At a cost of $23.5 million, or $239,800 per unit, the project pretty much equals the average cost to build like-facilities in the region (at $238,600 per unit), which is pricier compared to the rest of the country. Having closed... Read More »

Expansion project receives funding

A retirement community in Dallas, Oregon originally planned to expand its campus in 2007, but had to put in on hold during the Great Recession (bet that’s not the first time you’ve heard that). But now, the project is off the ground thanks in large part to a $27.6 million bond issue underwritten by Cain Brothers. Already with 45 independent living garden homes, 73 IL units, 65 assisted living units, 20 memory care units and 121 skilled nursing beds, the community, sponsored by the not-for-profit Mennonite Retirement Community, Inc. and operated by Life Care Services, was looking to add 40 new lodge-style IL apartments, a 21,000 square foot clubhouse and various new amenities. The proceeds... Read More »

New entrant into Georgia memory care market

James Deupree, an independent seniors housing developer, is entering the Georgia market with his Westminster™ branded memory care community in Dallas, Georgia (Atlanta MSA). The third Westminster™ property in the Southeast, the community will feature 48 private units separated into four “neighborhoods” with common and dining areas in each. The community will also be the only one to offer memory care services in the town of Dallas. Riverwood Retirement Management, a senior living management and consulting firm based in Orange City, Florida, will operate the community with a 5% management fee. CDH Partners is the architect, while Beacon Construction Company is the contractor for the project,... Read More »