• 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 »
Harrison Street Exits Oregon Assets

Harrison Street Exits Oregon Assets

The Springs Living successfully recapitalized its exiting equity partner, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, in a couple of senior living communities with the help of a bank loan secured by Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing. Originally acquired as part of larger $65 million four-property portfolio in 2012, these two properties are located within the Portland, Oregon MSA. With an average age of about 15 years, they currently feature a total of 145 independent living, 82 assisted living and 41 memory care units. The Springs (TSL) and Harrison Street had invested a significant amount of capital into the properties to make them the top competitors in... Read More »
Lending in Leominster

Lending in Leominster

KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged a first mortgage through Fannie Mae on behalf of a Sunrise Senior Living property in Leominster, Massachusetts. Originally built in 1996 with 48 assisted living units, the property added 23 memory care units in 1999 and converted 10 existing AL units into nine MC units in 2013. In that most recent project, the owner also added a common room and dining room to the community. Now, to refinance existing debt, Carolyn Nazdin of KeyBank arranged a non-recourse $12.2 million loan, with a 10-year interest-only term. Read More »
Monarch Advisors Sources Acquisition Financing for SLIB Deal

Monarch Advisors Sources Acquisition Financing for SLIB Deal

Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a 71-unit memory care community in Vista, California for $22.8 million, or about $321,000 per unit. Helping to push up that price was first, the location in the high-barrier-to-entry market of San Diego County, and second, its solid operations with a 29% margin on $5.85 million of revenues and an 88% occupancy rate. It was built in the last 10 years too, which helps. The single-asset, local owner decided to exit the industry, prompting the sale to a private equity group located in Colorado that owns several other senior living properties and some commercial assets around the country. SLIB’s affiliated... Read More »
Meridian’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quarter

Meridian’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quarter

The team of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson of Meridian Capital Group had quite the Q1, closing more than $500 million across 17 transactions in nine states. Helping them reach that impressive mark were a couple of large financings for skilled nursing portfolio sales, including $126 million in both debt and equity arranged for Summit Healthcare REIT to purchase 14 skilled nursing facilities in Indiana. A finance company provided the $96 million loan, while an institutional investor funded the $30 million in equity. Then, on behalf of a private skilled nursing owner, Meridian arranged a $90 million loan (also provided by a finance company) to fund the acquisition of 12 SNFs in... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Finances New (and Stabilized) Community in California

Cushman & Wakefield Finances New (and Stabilized) Community in California

Aaron Rosenzweig, Jay Wagner and Sam Dylag of Cushman & Wakefield helped a joint venture between Blue Mountain Enterprises Inc. and Calson Management to obtain first mortgage financing for their 148-unit assisted living/memory care community in Fairfield, California. PNC provided the loan from their agency platform. Built just a few years ago and stabilized, this community was the second ground-up development for the JV. Read More »
KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

Private REITs may have taken a significant step back from their heady M&A days around 2014 and 2015, but one private REIT has been pursuing a growth strategy lately. Founded last February by George Chapman (former CEO of Health Care REIT, now Welltower), ReNew REIT (or ReNew Investors) now has 61 seniors housing communities and 5,645 units in 11 states in its portfolio thanks to several large portfolio acquisitions, including a 16-property purchase in Michigan and a RIDEA agreement with Southeast-based operator Phoenix Senior Living. So far in 2019, the company has closed four more acquisitions, adding eight additional communities and 813 units in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia to... Read More »