• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
Busy Berkadia Closes Two Transactions

Busy Berkadia Closes Two Transactions

Berkadia has been busy this August, closing the sale of one senior living community and arranging financing for the development of another one. Joe Leon and Michael Thagard handled the sale, which featured a 310-unit independent living community in Westminster, California. The seller was the Zinn Group, controlled by the Zinngrabe family which had owned the community for over 30 years. The local market around Westminster and Huntington Beach is strong, with occupancies averaging above 98%. So the buyer, an experienced owner/operator, will be able to hit the ground running. Then, to the development, for which Monica Newman originated a $31.76 million construction loan through HUD for a... Read More »
Blue Moon/LCS Refinances Texas Development

Blue Moon/LCS Refinances Texas Development

Three and a half years after entering into a joint venture to develop a 207-unit senior living community in Katy, Texas, Blue Moon Capital Partners and LCS have turned to CBRE to refinance the property. Situated on 10.35 acres, the community was developed using the Blue Moon Senior Housing I LP Fund, a $250 million fund for which Blue Moon secured a $175 million capital commitment from Hawkeye Partners, LP in December 2014. Now, the fund is fully invested in 12 assets totaling 1,824 units in nine states. Featuring independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the project also represented the first between Blue Moon and LCS, which took over as manager of the property under its... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Arranges Two Western Financings

Lancaster Pollard Arranges Two Western Financings

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company arranged Fannie Mae financing for a couple of clients, totaling nearly $56 million. Ross Holland, Doug Harper and Casey Moore led the larger transaction, closed on behalf of The Ridge Senior Living to refinance two of its communities in Salt Lake City and Holladay, Utah. The $49.1 million in financing also provided cash out for The Ridge. Then, in Vacaville, California, Messrs. Harper and Moore were joined by Grant Goodman to arrange a $7.85 million loan for a brand-new, 50-unit memory care community owned by Vaca Valley Living. The transaction included an interest-only feature and recapitalized existing debt, in addition to providing equity out for the... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Luxury Texas CCRC

CBRE Refinances Luxury Texas CCRC

Four years after he arranged construction financing for a to-be-built rental CCRC in Houston, Texas, Aron Will of CBRE is refinancing the property on behalf of its owners, joint venture partners Bridgewood Property Company and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. Located in the affluent Houston neighborhood of River Oaks, the property opened in 2017 with 198 units, the majority being independent living, with assisted living and memory care units too. Bridgewood’s wholly-owned management affiliate, Retirement Center Management, operated the community since inception. In 2015, Mr. Will had arranged a $49.7 million floating-rate loan, with a six-year term, 48 months of interest only and an... Read More »
Propero Funds Mission Development

Propero Funds Mission Development

Lancaster Pollard’s Propero Seniors Housing Equity Fund III helped fund the construction of a new independent living community in Reno, Nevada. Mission Senior Living is building the community, which will feature 130 total units when it opens in the summer of 2020. A combination of equity provided by Propero and a bank loan funded the $22 million, or $169,200 per unit, construction project. The Propero structure allowed Mission to minimize the amount of upfront capital needed for the development and provides a clear path to ownership. Read More »
Maximus Healthcare Gets Mezzanine Financing

Maximus Healthcare Gets Mezzanine Financing

Contemporary Healthcare Capital has been on a roll lately, closing mezzanine loan after mezzanine loan for clients across the country. Its latest transaction saw the firm refinance a 165-bed skilled nursing facility in Newfane, New York owed by Maximus Healthcare Group, LLC. Maximus had announced its intent to acquire the aging facility in November 2014, closing the deal in January 2016 at a purchase price of $7 million, or $40,000 per bed. The facility was built in 1963 and was acquired by Eastern Niagara Hospital in 1997. When Maximus took over, the facility was losing money, with occupancy at 83%, and the hospital was looking to sell off its ancillary assets. Since acquiring it, Maximus... Read More »