• Blueprint Closes Two Texas Portfolio Transactions

    During the NIC Fall conference in Austin, Blueprint announced a couple of portfolio transactions in Texas. First, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso facilitated the sale of five skilled nursing facilities located throughout the Texas Hill Country and Houston. All five facilities are within four hours of each other, offering scale and operational... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Minnesota Receivership Sale

    A senior care campus in Pine Island, Minnesota, with some operational issues in the past has found a new owner thanks to Jake Anderson, Dan Geraghty and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Set on 6.8 acres, the campus includes Pine Haven with 70 skilled nursing beds and Evergreen featuring 24 assisted living units. Pine Haven was... Read More »
  • PACS CFO Resigns

    PACS Group saw another potential setback to its public image, announcing that its CFO Derick Apt resigned on September 2 after it was determined that he had accepted a series of high-value items from individuals associated with a group of related entities with which PACS does business. The company was in the middle of its previously disclosed... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded REIT Acquires in Austin

    Not far from the NIC venue in Austin, Berkadia closed the sale of Village on the Park Onion Creek, a 124-unit independent and assisted living community located in an Austin suburb. Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Ross Sanders and Dave Fasano closed the deal on behalf of Bridgewood Property Company, a Houston-based developer, owner and operator and... Read More »
  • Long-Term Owner/Operator Divests in Rural Utah

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of Heirloom Inn, a 67-unit assisted living community in Price, Utah. The seller, which developed the community over 20 years ago, was independent owner/operator Shauna O’Brien. At the time of sale, the property was performing well albeit with opportunities for expense management and revenue growth.... Read More »
New Venture Secures Acquisition Financing and Purchases Active Adult Community

New Venture Secures Acquisition Financing and Purchases Active Adult Community

Newmark arranged the sale and financing for a seniors housing community in Huntington Beach, California. The seller, Bascom Group, was represented by Newmark Vice Chairman Dean Zander, who worked on the deal with Voit Real Estate Services’ Joe Leon and Nick Ingle. Huntington Breeze is a 114-unit, 103,000-square-foot active adult community that was built in 1987 and renovated in 2017.  Newmark Executive Managing Directors Vincent Punzi and Lowell Takahashi facilitated acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, WSW Property Ventures, a new venture headed by Steve Wasserman, Pamela Scott and George Wu. WSW plans to unlock additional value through strategic initiatives, including the... Read More »
BWE Arranges Bond Financing for California IL/AL/MC Community

BWE Arranges Bond Financing for California IL/AL/MC Community

Ryan Stoll and Taylor Mokris of BWE arranged $65 million in bond financing for Ivy Park at Milpitas, a seniors housing community with 199 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in Milpitas, California. The financing was secured on behalf of a joint venture between Blue Mountain Enterprises and SRM Development. Oakmont Management Group is managing the property.  The loan was structured as a 15-year bond issuance, credit-enhanced by a letter of credit from Poppy Bank, and features five years of interest-only payments along with a favorable covenant structure. The financing provides the sponsor with enhanced flexibility and a long-term runway to complete lease-up and drive... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Acquisition and Bond Financings

Ziegler Closes Acquisition and Bond Financings

Ziegler announced that it advised on an acquisition loan and closed a bond financing. Ziegler was the capital structure advisor and hedge advisor in the placement of a $52.5 million acquisition loan on behalf of a regional owner/operator. The acquisition financing was used to acquire five independent living communities in Michigan. The portfolio surrounds the Metro-Detroit MSA and has a total of 631 units and 695 beds. Christopher Utz advised and negotiated the transaction for the borrower and placed the loan with Oxford Finance. Ziegler’s Structured Products Practice placed an interest rate cap through a competitive bid process, ultimately executing the cap with Goldman Sachs. Ziegler... Read More »
Joint Venture Recapitalizes Massachusetts Class-A Portfolio

Joint Venture Recapitalizes Massachusetts Class-A Portfolio

Northbridge Companies and Taurus Investment Holdings recapitalized their portfolio of six Class-A seniors housing communities in the Boston suburbs for $227 million, or $447,700 per unit. The recap comes five years after the joint venture acquired the portfolio for approximately $200 million, or $394,500 per unit, which was Taurus’ first investment in the seniors housing sector. Welltower (NYSE: WELL) was the seller at the time, having been represented by the team at Newmark, which also helped facilitate debt for Northbridge. That same Newmark team represented Northbridge and Taurus in the 2025 recap. Featuring 507 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, the portfolio... Read More »
Ziegler Places Two Bank Loans for Phorcys Capital Partners

Ziegler Places Two Bank Loans for Phorcys Capital Partners

Ziegler served as the capital structure advisor in the placement of two bank loans totaling $21.795 million on behalf of Phorcys Capital Partners. The first financing was used to acquire Superior Residences of Clermont, a not-for-profit assisted living/memory care community in Clermont, Florida that was held and operated through a court-appointed receivership. Built in 2002, the community has a total of 114 units (140 licensed beds), comprised of 74 assisted living and 40 memory care units. The acquisition closed in April 2025, with Ziegler placing the acquisition and capital expenditure loan with Stride Bank. SRI Management is the third-party manager of the community. The second financing... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Secures Refinancing

Not-For-Profit Secures Refinancing

Ziegler announced the closing of a large bond financing on behalf of Sequoia Living, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation that serves seniors throughout Northern California. Sequoia, originally known as Northern California Presbyterian Homes, and its related entities own four CCRCs and three affordable housing communities. The CCRCs, the revenues of which are pledged to the payment of the bonds, include The Sequoias Portola Valley, The Sequoias San Francisco, The Sequoias Tamalpais and Viamonte Senior Living. They contain 844 independent living units, 146 assisted living or memory care units, and 112 skilled nursing beds. The bonds totaled $151.555 million issued through... Read More »