• West Coast and Northeast Skilled Nursing Facilities Sell

    Walker & Dunlop’s Gideon Orion has announced several recent skilled nursing sales on the West Coast and the Northeast. First, he teamed up with Tony Cassie to sell a 69-bed skilled nursing facility in Bellevue, Washington, on behalf of a family office seller. The facility could use some operational improvements. An undisclosed buyer paid... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Community Out of Receivership  

    Fortress Investment Group acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Palm Coast, Florida, in a court-approved sale process. Built in 2018 just a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, the community features 130 units on an 11.4-acre site. There are 86 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, along with 22 “enhanced” assisted living... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Deals Close Across Several Markets

    Coming off of a successful 2025 with 32 separate transaction closings totaling more than $900 million in volume, the Walker & Dunlop investment sales team is off to a strong start in 2026 with a number of seniors housing and healthcare real estate transactions closed in the first quarter, so far. The deals spanned several markets, and the... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Divests Two SNFs to Journey

    Selectis Health is selling two skilled nursing facilities in Georgia to the skilled nursing operator Journey. The deal included the 101-bed Glen Eagle Healthcare in Abbeville and the 100-bed Rehab and Eastman Healthcare and Rehab in Eastman. Journey-affiliated entities will purchase the pair for $15.7 million, or $78,100 per bed, subject to... Read More »
  • Sonida Closes CNL Acquisition, Reports Q4 Results

    On the same day as fourth quarter and year-end 2025 financial results were announced, Sonida Senior Living closed on its previously announced acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties (CNL). The transaction value was approximately $1.8 billion and included a combination of cash (32%) and stock (68%). Because Sonida’s share price had risen above... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia’s Steve Muth and Austin Sacco arranged the refinance of a 135-unit seniors housing community in Kensington, Maryland. Modena Reserve at Kensington was opened in December 2021 in an affluent area with 62 independent living, 47 assisted living and 26 memory care units. The high-end, resort-style community also includes fine dining, a bistro and lounge, an art studio, full-service salon and spa, a theater, full-service bar, fitness centers, and an outdoor courtyard including walking paths, fire pits, and more. Solera Senior Living operates the community, which helped the community reach stabilized occupancy within two years of opening. The owners, including Solera, McCaffery and a... Read More »
NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

National Health Investors appears set to get off the M&A sidelines, “sidelines” being relative for the REIT which has engaged in a fraction of new investments compared with pre-pandemic years. So far in 2024, NHI has closed on $56.6 million of investments with an average initial yield of 8.4%, split between both existing and new relationships. In addition, NHI signed LOIs on another $155.4 million, also with an average yield of 8.4% and is evaluating around $270 million of potential investments, excluding portfolio transactions and mostly within seniors housing (which is where the opportunities mostly lie for value-add transactions). The signed LOIs include primarily sale/leaseback... Read More »
CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativCap closed a lifeco refinance for an existing, Class-A assisted living/memory care community in Northbrook, Illinois. Consisting of two buildings, the community opened in 2014 with 188 units. It leased up well and underwent a $16 million expansion and renovation in June 2019 that added a separate 44-unit memory care building and converted the MC units in the main building to AL. Management has remained in place since opening, and the community is currently achieving high rents and occupancy is in the upper 80s. The owner/borrower is a fund that invests exclusively in seniors housing on behalf of institutional investors, working with the community’s operator.  Working on behalf... Read More »
CIBC Secures Refinancing for North Carolina SNF portfolio

CIBC Secures Refinancing for North Carolina SNF portfolio

CIBC Bank USA and a Greystone Monticello affiliate, along with other co-lenders, recently provided 980Investments, owned by Simcha Hyman and Naftali Zanziper, with $137.0 million in total financing. The credit facilities were used to refinance a North Carolina portfolio of skilled nursing facilities that comprise 1,135 beds. CIBC additionally provided a $6.5 million revolving line of credit to support the ongoing operations of the third-party tenant.  Financing was handled on behalf of Greystone by Karina Davydov and Danny Sweeney, and on behalf of CIBC by Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel. Read More »
Not-For-Profit Secures Financing For Michigan Facilities

Not-For-Profit Secures Financing For Michigan Facilities

Ziegler announced the closing of Sunset Manor Inc.’s $52.1 million Series 2024A and Series 2024B bonds through the Public Finance Authority. Sunset Manor is a 501(c)(3) organization that owns and operates four facilities in Jenison, Grandville and Grand Haven, Michigan. The bonds consist of four sub-series: $20.7 million in revenue refunding bonds (Series 2024A-1), $6 million in revenue bonds (Series 2024A-2), $20.4 million in revenue refunding bonds (Series 2024B-1) and $5 million in revenue bonds (Series 2024B-2). The proceeds of the Series 2024 bonds will be used to refinance its existing debt, finance $11 million for capital expenditures, and pay for costs of issuance associated with... Read More »
CareTrust Announces Latest Investments

CareTrust Announces Latest Investments

Building on its active investment year, so far, CareTrust REIT announced a major loan origination in the form of a $260 million senior mortgage loan and a $43 million preferred equity investment in connection with the borrower’s acquisition of a 37-facility skilled nursing and seniors housing portfolio in the Pacific Northwest. The portfolio comprises 2,713 operating beds/units with 21 skilled nursing facilities and 16 seniors housing facilities located in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, California, Montana and Nevada.  The borrower, a joint venture between a large health care real estate owner and a subsidiary of PACS Group, acquired the 37 facilities, which will be operated... Read More »