• ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
  • Optimism across the Board in BBG’s Investor Survey Results

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee, Senior Managing Director – Seniors Housing & Healthcare National Practice Leader of BBG Real Estate Services, to discuss the biggest takeaways of BBG’s fifth Annual Investor Survey. Read More »
  • Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

    Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Detroit-Area Deal

    Berkadia closed the sale of Oakleigh of Macomb, an 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Macomb, Michigan (Detroit MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 55 assisted living and 30 memory care units. It was 91% occupied, so given its vintage and performance, we imagine it attracted significant investor interest. Berkadia represented the... Read More »
  • Developer Divests MC Communities to Kalesta Healthcare

    G Capital helped facilitate the sale of two memory care communities in Silicon Valley in an off-market transaction. Calson Management, a developer/operator based in Vacaville, California, had acquired Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park and Crescent Oaks Memory Care in Sunnyvale several years ago as value-add opportunities. The firm... Read More »
The Forgotten Middle

The Forgotten Middle

There may be more than 14 million boomers that will not be able to afford seniors housing plus their health care needs. It is time to address the issue. We have been saying it for years. The largest unmet need in seniors housing is the bulging middle income cohort, which some researchers have defined as between the 40th and 80th percentile in terms of financial resources. In other words, the largest cohort. When they really start to need it in 10 years, more than 14 million seniors will not be able to afford the current assisted living or independent living models, plus the other health care needs they will have. Unfortunately, this has not been a secret. But it is one that has largely... Read More »
The Forgotten Middle

Active Adult Communities – The Future?

Active adult communities are taking on a new role in the senior living continuum, and new ones are sprouting up. Find out who is buying and selling, at what cap rates, who is developing and why,  and how these communities may evolve. You have all been hearing the chatter about active adult communities, something that has been around for several decades but is taking on new meaning, and significance. Next week, we will be hosting a webinar on this topic, where you can find out who is buying, selling, and at what cap rates, the risk of building today and what demographic they are really focused on and why. Will these newly developed active adult communities, with few amenities, be the... Read More »
The Ensign Group to Split Up

The Ensign Group to Split Up

Talk about a surprise move. The Ensign Group announced that it will be spinning out its home health and hospice business and substantially all of its senior living operations, plus its mobile diagnostic and clinical lab operations, into a separate publicly traded company called The Pennant Group. Ensign will become a stand-alone skilled nursing company but will also continue to own the real estate of 28 of the senior living communities and lease them to Pennant. The remaining 23 senior living properties are leased from third parties. While it makes sense for Ensign to want to focus just on skilled nursing because the business is getting increasingly complex, we are not sure why they want... Read More »
The Forgotten Middle

Class Act for Washington State?

Washington has passed its version of a long-term care insurance bill, sort of, using a payroll tax to fund it. Unlike the misconceived Class Act that was originally part of the Affordable Care Act, which was designed to rob Peter to pay Paul, Washington State has just passed its own version, The Long-Term Care Trust Act. While the intent is worthy, I don’t think it will accomplish its goals. As now passed, the Act will be funded by a payroll tax of 58 cents for every $100 of salary. For someone making $20 per hour, that comes to about $240 per year, and they can least afford it. I have seen no mention of an employer match, but I am sure that is coming. The sponsors claim that family... Read More »