• 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 »

Now’s the time for Baby Boomers

If you have been reading The SeniorCare Investor in the past couple of years, you know that we have not bought into all of the talk of demographics so popular in the industry today. The oldest Baby Boomer is 69 now, and we do not believe they will be moving en masse into the communities being constructed today for another 15 or 20 years. And as they live longer, though unhealthier, technology and health innovations may be able to keep them in their homes for even longer. Plus, there’s the issue that the Baby Boomers may not even want to move into the product being built today, much less the communities constructed 10, 20 or 30 years ago. However, the tragic irony is that today may be the... Read More »

PinPoint spins off to focus on seniors housing

PinPoint Commercial, a national boutique development partnership that has created over $600M in industrial, medical, retail and senior housing assets, is creating a new company, PinPoint Senior Living (PSL), to focus on the development of new senior living communities. We have written before of Pinpoint Commercial’s “Legacy” brand of seniors housing (see: Assisted Living technology at its best), and the company has so far developed eight properties in Texas, New Mexico, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida. This July, Legacy at Highwoods Preserve in Tampa, Florida is set to open, with 60 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, to be operated by Thrive Senior Living. But with this new... Read More »

Another property for Shamrock

A joint venture developing a portfolio of senior living communities in Northern California is adding its sixth property to its partnership, called The Shamrock Alliance. Portland, Oregon-based Shamrock Holdings, together with CB|Two Architecture and Construction and Artēgan Senior Living, is planning to build a 130-unit rental CCRC in Folsom, California (in the Sacramento area). Just breaking ground last week and expected to open next summer, the community will feature 85 independent living, 26 assisted living and 19 memory care units, to be managed by Artēgan. Typically, the projects are in a 140,000 sq. ft., three-story building located on an infill site. To fund the development,... Read More »

Occupancy and rising development

What do the occupancy numbers recently released by Brookdale Senior Living portend for the seniors housing industry? As expected, the company announced a decline in its occupancy, posting an 80 basis point drop from the previous quarter at its legacy Brookdale properties, and a sequential 110 basis point drop at its legacy Emeritus properties. When compared to the first quarter of last year, the decline is even more pronounced, with occupancy at both groups of properties falling 110 basis points and 200 basis points, respectively. Even when taking into account the expected negative effects of the Emeritus merger at the community level, an especially harsh winter and a relatively... Read More »

Bourne Financial Group makes push into seniors housing

Founded in 2014 by Robert and R. Kyle Bourne, Bourne Financial Group (BFG) is set to open its first 10 assisted living communities across the country by the end of 2016, representing an investment of over $200 million. Not short on experience, BFG’s leadership, all formerly of CNL Financial Group, has over 90 years of combined of experience in seniors housing, health care, and real estate finance and investments. In their first two funds, BFG has raised over $45 million in equity, which will go towards building eight communities in various locations across the country. Typically, in a secondary market, their development costs will start around $200,000 per unit, and go up to $240,000 in... Read More »

Would you buy a Certificate of Occupancy?

There is always a good amount of risk when purchasing a seniors housing community at Certificate of Occupancy. While you avoid the risks associated with development and construction costs, you are saddled with the burden of fill-up. But Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) is up for the challenge, having recently purchased, along with its joint venture partner Harvard Management Company, a 92-unit/109-bed assisted living/memory care community in Tampa, Florida. The newly opened community was developed by a joint venture between Walt Chancey and Rookis Development Company and presold to CSH prior to breaking ground for an agreed price of $20 million, or $217,400 per unit. CSH has brought in The... Read More »