• Joint Venture Acquires and Secures Financing in Maryland

    Berkadia announced the sale and financing of an active adult community in Annapolis, Maryland. Built in 2002, Gardens of Annapolis features 106 units with 42-one bedroom/one-bathroom units, 23 two-bedroom/one-bathroom units and 41 two-bedroom/two-bathroom units. The property has been well-maintained over the last 20 years as a result of... Read More »
  • Newmark Facilitates a Sale and Refinance

    Newmark’s Senior Housing Team handled the sale of a seniors housing community in South Carolina. Built in 2021, New Haven at Little River features 154 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in Little River, South Carolina. Totaling 200,000 square feet, it has 89 IL, 44 AL and 19 MC units. No additional details were disclosed,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Refinancing

    Mesa West Capital provided a joint venture with a loan to refinance a seniors housing community in Montvale, New Jersey. The joint venture comprises AEW Capital Management, Thrive Senior Living and Pike Construction. The five-year, floating-rate $57 million loan is secured by Thrive at Montvale. Built in 2022 by Thrive and Pike, the community... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: What Could Stop the M&A Momentum?

    Last week, we recorded our 560th deal of 2024, which breaks the annual record for M&A volume across seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions. And we have more than two months to go. So there can be no dispute that we will set an M&A record this year, and by a large margin. But could 2024 actually end with a whimper? We ask that... Read More »
  • Brookdale and the Golden Age

    A lot has been made recently of the looming Golden Age of seniors housing. An analyst at Jefferies & Co. came out with a strong recommendation of Brookdale Senior Living and its potential to take advantage of the upcoming age wave. They referred to Brookdale as the leading senior living provider well positioned for this. A more accurate... Read More »
Lument Hires Chris Cain

Lument Hires Chris Cain

Chris Cain has made the move from Berkadia to Lument, joining the firm as a managing director focused on origination efforts from seniors housing and healthcare clients throughout the United States. Based in Dallas, Texas, he will report to Aaron Becker, senior managing director and head of seniors housing and healthcare production at Lument. Since 2011, Cain has originated over $6 billion in construction, term, and permanent debt. Besides Berkadia, he previously held roles with Commerce Bank and BBVA. Keller Augusta arranged the placement. Read More »
Lument Hires Chris Cain

LCB Establishes CEO Succession Plan

LCB Senior Living announced that CEO Michael A. Stoller will be stepping down effective October 1 and that current CIO Danielle Breton and COO Timothy DuRoss have been named as co-CEOs moving forward. Stoller will remain active in the company as chairman of its board. The move comes after LCB acquired five new management contracts over the past year, while completing construction and opening its newest community, The Residence at Bedford. LCB currently owns and/or operates 41 seniors housing communities across Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Read More »
New Tenant Secured for Mass SNF

New Tenant Secured for Mass SNF

A state-of-the-art rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility in Danvers, Massachusetts (Boston MSA) secured a new operator and lease arrangement. The developer/landlord and existing tenant engaged Blueprint’s Michael Segal, Ben Firestone, Daniel Waldhorn and Steve Thomes to run a strategic marketing process, which yielded three lease proposals. A growing East Coast-based operator that had recently expanded into Massachusetts with its first acquisition earlier this year was eventually chosen as the new operator/tenant. Located across the street from Beverly Hospital at Danvers and within close proximity to several other referral sources in a densely populated suburb, the facility was... Read More »
Lument Hires Chris Cain

The Seniors Housing Team at C&W Grows

Cushman & Wakefield hired Matthew Yance as a Director for the firm’s Valuation & Advisory group as part of the senior living and care specialty practice. Based out of the firm’s New York office, Yance will focus on institutional valuations and market studies across the United States. Yance has nine years of experience focusing on the senior living sector. Previously, he was at Newmark where he co-led the seniors housing and healthcare team, overseeing a team of appraisers focused on the senior housing industry as well as business development, assignment management, delivery of appraisal and consulting services, and training of appraisal professionals. Earlier this year, the firm... Read More »
Lument Hires Chris Cain

SVN Senior Living Advisors Grows Its Team

There’s a new, and sizable, team in the seniors housing and care brokerage world. And luckily, as we are in the middle of the busiest period of M&A activity ever, there should be enough transactions to go around for everyone to welcome the competition. Torey Riso, an industry veteran with more than 30 years of legal, business and real estate experience, including holding the CEO roles at Care Investment Trust and Blueprint, joined SVN Senior Living Advisors in February 2024 to help expand the firm’s reach into the seniors housing and care sector. He is partnering with Tony Yousif of SVN, an experienced commercial real estate professional who will serve as a “single point of contact”... Read More »
Grace Management Expands Management Portfolio

Grace Management Expands Management Portfolio

Grace Management announced the addition of three seniors housing communities to its management portfolio. The communities include The Pointe at Meridian, Snow Canyon Retirement Community, and Cave Creek Assisted Living. Each will continue to be owned by Gold Stream Retirement Communities.  Built in 2022, The Pointe is in Meridian, Idaho, and features 60 independent living, 30 assisted living and 10 memory care units. Occupancy is currently hovering around 90%. Snow Canyon is in Santa Clara, Utah, and is set to open in Fall 2024. It will offer 59 independent living, 43 assisted living and 15 memory care units. Cave Creek is in Cave Creek, Arizona, and is scheduled to open late 2024.... Read More »