• 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 »

KeyBank, Kindred and BlueMountain

BlueMountain Capital Management has been steadily working to close its large acquisition of 96 skilled nursing facilities from Kindred Healthcare (a deal valued at approximately $700 million). For its latest tranche of closings, the firm received $128 million in acquisition financing originated by Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Mortgage Group. The term loan funded the purchase of 13 facilities including nine in California, three in Massachusetts (that are nearing approval) and one in Nashua, New Hampshire. Of the California facilities, five are located in San Francisco, plus one each in Salinas, Stockton, Walnut Creek and Livermore. This marks... Read More »
CBRE Finances Midwest Portfolio Purchase

CBRE Finances Midwest Portfolio Purchase

A brand-new portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities gained a new owner, thanks to acquisition financing arranged by Aron Will of CBRE. These communities, featuring 285 assisted living and 155 memory care units, opened in 2016 and 2017 in the Chicago and Kansas City MSAs. And being the highest quality communities in their respective submarkets, they were filling fast, with a favorable lease-up trajectory. Chicago-based CA Ventures developed them and will also maintain an ownership interest in the portfolio, acquiring the communities in a joint venture with a global investment manager. Mr. Will secured a non-recourse, floating-rate loan, with a three-year term and three... Read More »
Grandbridge Real Estate Capital Closes Kansas City Financing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital Closes Kansas City Financing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group announced its latest closing, facilitating a $14.5 million first mortgage for a 163-unit seniors housing community in Kansas City, Missouri. An insurance company provided the loan, which came with a 20-year term and a fixed rate. Originally built in 2014, the community in question followed up on a successful lease-up by breaking ground in 2016 on an $18 million, 96-bed expansion of short-term rehab, long-term care and memory care services. It is owned by the McCrite family, which also owns senior living community in Topeka, Kansas. Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis, along with Joseph Platt out of Grandbridge’s... Read More »
CBRE Finances Midwest Portfolio Purchase

Gryphon Senior Living Group Gets HUD Refinance

Three years after acquiring a 40-unit Georgia assisted living community in receivership, Gryphon Senior Living Group is refinancing it through HUD. Built in 2000 as a licensed personal care facility in the town of Union City, an Atlanta suburb, this community features nine units of memory care and 31 assisted living units, with 50 total beds. It was operating near breakeven with 77% occupancy in 2014 and was in receivership at the time of closing. GlassRatner was the court-appointed receiver on behalf of a special lender in South Carolina, and Oak Senior Living was managing the property throughout the process. Chicago-based owner/operator Gryphon Senior Living Group then emerged as the... Read More »

Capital One Closes A Big One

Capital One flexed its banking muscles when it provided just over $551 million in financing to Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors (KAREA) for its purchase of Sentio Healthcare Properties. Announced back in May, the high-profile acquisition included all 34 of Sentio’s seniors housing and medical office properties, and was valued around $825 million. To fund the deal, Capital One provided KAREA a $251 million bridge loan and a $300 million Freddie Mac seniors housing revolving credit facility. We imagine a lot of time was spent on this large, complex transaction. Well done. Another Capital One deal came across the wires, albeit a little smaller than the KAREA deal. Joshua Rosen originated a... Read More »
Monticello Asset Management’s Newest Faces

Monticello Asset Management’s Newest Faces

Monticello Asset Management had a productive summer, hiring three experienced professionals to its staff. First off, Steven Caligor will be joining the firm as a Senior Managing Director in charge of product development, expanding banking relationships and assisting with credit and risk management. With nearly 30 years of experience, Mr. Caligor comes to Monticello most recently from Bank Hapoalim, where he led the Commercial Real Estate, Food and Commodities, and Corporate Finance loan portfolio teams. He holds an MBA in Finance and Investments and a BA in Marketing and International Business from George Washington University. Monticello also hired Corley Audorff, an eight-year veteran of... Read More »