• 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 »

High cost memory care development in Florida

It’s not often you see a new senior living development cost over $400,000 per unit to build. Nevertheless, Cypress Cove Health Park Florida, a not-for-profit CCRC built in 1999 with currently more than 550 residents on 48 acres in Fort Myers, Florida, is adding 44 memory care units for a cost of approximately $18.5 million, or about $420,500 per unit (in a state that averages $213,000 per unit to build new assisted living/memory care or standalone memory care communities, according to our data). The new two-story building, scheduled to open in 2016, will feature four households each with 11 private apartments that each average about 250 square feet. There will be a significant amount of... Read More »

Big players entering the stage

The seniors housing development market is increasingly drawing attention from investors outside the senior living world. Some of you may have seen multifamily investor Drever Capital Management, with a portfolio of 170,000 apartments for middle income families, entering the seniors housing business with a plan to spend upwards of $500 million over the next 10 years in acquiring and developing senior housing properties, including independent living, assisted living and memory care projects. This isn’t the first foray into seniors housing world for Drever, which in 2012 purchased a 4-year old independent living community with 124 units in Lexington, South Carolina when the community was 50%... Read More »

Build or buy?

In our 2015 Senior Care Acquisition Report, which will come out later this month, we dissect over 70 statistics in the senior housing and skilled nursing M&A market. Here is a sneak peak at one of them. It was no surprise that the Northeast region topped the charts in terms of the average price paid per unit in seniors housing (independent and assisted living), at $281,700 per unit. But, all regions, including the perennial lowest cost North Central region with $147,000 per unit, significantly increased in value on a price per unit basis from 2013 to 2014. However, on the development side (looking at seniors housing developments since early 2013), the most expensive region to build was... Read More »

Integral Senior Living growing

Carlsbad, California-based Integral Senior Living is making a big move outside of its home state. Strictly a third-party manager, ISL was founded in 2000 by Sue Farrow (formerly of Aegis Living, Sunrise Assisted Living and Transamerica Senior Living) and is now one of the largest providers of senior care in California. But in addition to adding five more California communities to its management portfolio in the coming year, ISL is making a big push across the country. ISL already has a presence in 10 other states outside of California, but will manage new communities in Texas (3), Missouri (2), Colorado (2), Utah (1), Nevada (1), Tennessee (1) and Georgia (1). The properties, which will be... Read More »

Balfour opens in downtown Denver

A 275,000-square foot, 205-unit senior living community with five stories of independent living and three stories of assisted living and memory care opened this month in Denver, Colorado, coming with a $78 million, or $380,500 per unit, price tag. The Balfour at Riverfront Park’s urban setting, located in downtown Denver, makes it unique in the senior living world, being walking distance to theaters, restaurants and shops. The building features 112 IL units (which opened in October 2014 and are half-filled so far), 65 AL units and 28 MC units, which are on a separate secure floor. Michael Schonbrun, the developer and owner, opened his first Balfour Retirement Community in Louisville,... Read More »

Big investment from Capitol Seniors Housing

Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH), a real estate investor/developer specializing in seniors housing, recently announced that it had invested over $90 million in four senior living developments, all set to open in 2015. For roughly $34 million, or $312,000 per unit, CSH plans to open a 109-unit assisted living/memory care community (which includes a 39-unit freestanding memory care community) this month in Torrance, California, to be managed by Integral Senior Living. In May, a 79-unit AL/MC community (with 54 AL units and 25 MC units) is expected to open for a total cost of approximately $23 million, or $291,000 per unit. The building is located in Marlboro, New Jersey, which is about 30 miles... Read More »