• 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 »

California CCRC in the works

Life Care Services (LCS), together with local companies Villaggio Communities, John Madonna Construction and RRM Design Group, announced plans to build a 350-unit entrance fee CCRC in San Luis Obispo, California (located about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco) as part of a $500 million mixed-use project that would cater to seniors. In addition to the CCRC, which would be the first in its county, the project will include between 150,000 and 350,000 square feet of commercial retail space, 200 apartments and 60-100 single-family detached homes. Villaggio Communities, a seniors housing developer, is in the process of acquiring 111 acres from John Madonna Construction. The proposed... Read More »

In Indiana

Life Care Services (LCS) recently announced it was breaking ground on the Clarendale of Schererville in Schererville, Indiana, the third “Clarendale” property for LCS and construction partner Ryan Companies. The community will feature 177 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care at a cost of $40 million, or $226,000 per unit, to build. The two other “Clarendale” properties are located in Illinois: a 186-unit community in Algonquin and a 156-unit community in Mokena. While the newest property will be ready to open in spring 2017, it will not be short on company. There has been plenty of building going on in the state of Indiana, particularly in the Gary and Indianapolis... Read More »

Go with Propero

For operators looking to own their own facilities while minimizing the amount of capital committed to construction, Lancaster Pollard offers a program that may help them do just that. Launched in 2012 and led by Craig Jones, LP’s Propero™ Senior Housing Equity Fund has provided a total of $88 million in gross investments spanning across the acuity spectrum, from IL/AL to memory care to skilled nursing. The way it works is the Fund invests in seniors housing properties as the sole owner and then triple-net leases them to an operator. The operator, therefore, doesn’t have to invest as much equity in the project or acquisition and can then choose from a predetermined purchase option schedule... Read More »

A lot of building, but what’s the cost?

Taking a look at the NIC MAP® Construction Monitor as of Q2:15, which examines seniors housing construction in the Top 99 MSAs, we noticed on the AL side there were 22 MSAs with a construction vs. inventory ratio above 10%. If that doesn’t show a frothy development market, then what does? But, what is the cost to build in some of those MSAs? The Sarasota market, which has gotten a good amount of attention for its development pace, has eight assisted living properties under construction, and 893 units, representing a construction vs. inventory ratio of 30.7%. According to our data, which tracks senior living construction projects since 2013, majority-AL communities in the Sarasota market... Read More »

Mix of financing funds project

An assisted living/memory care community to be built in North Seattle’s Bitter Lake neighborhood has plenty of supporters, financial or otherwise, wanting to help it fill up and succeed. Zenith Capital, a Seattle-based leader in alternative financing for the seniors housing industry, is planning to build a 100-unit community, with 79 units of assisted living and 21 units of memory care. To operate, Zenith brought on Village Concepts, which manages 15 senior communities in Washington with over 1,400 residents. We will have to wait and see how fill-up goes, but it certainly helps this project that the “newest” seniors housing community in the area was built in 2006, with the majority dating... Read More »

Active developer at it again

Smith/Packett Med-Com, a developer of seniors housing across the Southeast but concentrated in Virginia, is adding a 102-unit assisted living/memory care community to its portfolio. Located on a high-visibility spot in Yorktown, Virginia, The Crossings on the Peninsula will feature 68 assisted living units and 34 memory care units, in addition to an in-house rehabilitation and therapy space for its residents. Working with Cushman & Wakefield/Thalhimer, Smith/Packett closed on the 8.43 acre site in June for $1.16 million and has begun clearing the site for construction. When the community opens in the summer of 2016, to the tune of nearly $16 million, or $156,900 per unit,... Read More »