• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Two Bond Transactions

Ziegler Closes Two Bond Transactions

Ziegler announced the closing of two separate bond transactions. First, it closed Mennonite Village’s $86.22 million Series 2026AB bonds through the Hospital Facility Authority of the City of Albany, Oregon. Mennonite Home of Albany, Inc., doing business as Mennonite Village, is an Oregon-based not-for-profit owner/operator in Oregon. It operates a CCRC that is situated on a 275-acre campus in Albany, in the Willamette Valley. The campus began as a 24-unit nursing home in 1947, and today consists of 299 independent living cottages, 18 independent living apartments in a building known as Ashwood Court II, 42 skilled nursing beds in Mennonite Home, 96 assisted living apartments in Quail Run,... Read More »
Not-for-Profit to Expand Its California CCRC

Not-for-Profit to Expand Its California CCRC

Ziegler announced the closing of Odd Fellows Home of California’s $101.7 million Series 2026AB bonds through the California Statewide Communities Development Authority. This financing marks Ziegler’s first with Odd Fellows Home of California.  Odd Fellows Home of California, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation, owns/operates two senior living communities that provide residential living, assisted living and skilled nursing. One community is in Saratoga, California, doing business as Saratoga Retirement Community (SRC), and the other community is in Napa, California, doing business as The Meadows of Napa Valley (The Meadows).  The borrower has been operating its... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Refinance for Full-Continuum Community

Joint Venture Secures Refinance for Full-Continuum Community

CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced Harvard Square by Cogir, a full-continuum seniors housing community in Colorado owned by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group and operated by Cogir Senior Living. Built in 1982 and significantly renovated several times over the last 10 years, the community has 41 independent living, 144 assisted living and 40 memory care units on a 6.5-acre site. It is set about eight miles southeast of downtown Denver. Aron Will and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the financing through a national debt fund, originating a three-year, floating-rate loan. The transaction represents the third successful financing of the... Read More »
Class-A AL/MC Communities Trade on Long Island

Class-A AL/MC Communities Trade on Long Island

BWE Investment Sales’ Seniors Housing Team announced its involvement in the sale of Village Green Senior Living and Village Walk Senior Living, both in high barrier-to-entry locations on Long Island. BWE represented the seller, The D&F Development Group, in the disposition of the Class-A assets, which had the goal of building, leasing up and selling the communities. The buyer was a joint venture between Atria Senior Living, Fundamental Advisors and Scribner Capital.  Built in 2020, Village Green is in Levittown and offers 57 units of assisted living and 46 units of memory care across three levels. Village Walk is in Patchogue and was completed in 2018. It totals 146 beds,... Read More »
Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory care units. Both buildings have an effective age of 35 years and reported an average occupancy rate of 75%. The financing was handled by Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel with CIBC. Next, the same pair closed a new $5.7 million commercial mortgage term loan for a regional operator’s acquisition of a 114-bed senior care facility in North Carolina.... Read More »
Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and operated by Seattle-based Leisure Care. After being presented multiple options, the borrower obtained low, fixed-rate, long-term debt from Freddie Mac that funds a capex plan, extends the loan maturity and right sizes the capital stack. The loan took out bank debt and provides cash-out proceeds for future development. It has a 10-year term, five... Read More »