• Live Oak and Berkadia Team Up on Bridge Loan

    Live Oak Bank recently closed a $34.3 million bridge loan in partnership with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for a two-property portfolio owned and operated by BrightSpace Senior Living. The communities are located in the Nashville, Tennessee, and Boise, Idaho MSAs. The loan was structured in an A/B arrangement, with Berkadia funding the... Read More »
  • California Memory Care Communities Receive HUD Loans

    Lument closed two HUD loans totaling $20.7 million to refinance two memory care communities in northern California. Doug Harper, managing director at Lument, co-originated the loan with Grant Goodman of G Capital. The two communities are Crescent Oaks Memory Care, which features 22 units and 36 beds in Sunnyvale, and Silver Oaks Memory Care,... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Two Seniors Housing Transactions

    Berkadia closed the sale of two separate assets in Florida and Georgia. First, Berkadia was engaged by a national owner/operator in the sale of a CCRC in South Florida. The property appears to be Abbey Delray, a 505-unit community originally built in 1979 in Delray Beach that features 327 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 30... Read More »
  • Fortress Buys Large Seniors Housing Campus

    Fortress Investment Group just purchased one of the largest rental seniors housing communities in the country, adding The Village at Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida, to its portfolio. Regionally anchored by the University of Florida and the innovative UF Health network, and located directly across from SantaFe College, the 100+ acre campus... Read More »
  • Interview with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services to talk about the findings from BBG’s annual investor survey. DeBee shares his thoughts on what was surprising about the results and highlights the points he agrees with. You can view the survey results here. Read More »

CareTrust REIT Sells Seven SNFs in Ohio

CareTrust REIT completed its sale of seven skilled nursing facilities in Ohio. Totaling approximately 600 skilled nursing beds and 100 seniors housing beds/units, the portfolio sold for $52 million, or around $72,000 per bed/unit. In connection with the sale, CareTrust’s master lease with affiliates of Trio Healthcare was terminated. The deal was the first closing of an announced plan in February 2022 to sell or re-tenant 32 properties. The remaining 25 seniors housing communities currently held for sale or re-tenanting are moving along and should be resolved in the coming months.  Read More »

Active Adult Acquisition Announced in Utah

Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap arranged the sale of Lakeside Village, an active adult community in West Valley City, Utah. Built in 1997, the community comprises 144 units and sits on 6.2 acres. The units consist of one- and two-bedroom residences with eight-foot ceilings, walk-in closets and private balconies or patios. Amenities include a swimming pool, hot tub, community garden and pond. Danny Shin and Brock Zylstra of IPA represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer in the deal. Read More »

Blueprint Facilitates Florida Bankruptcy Sale

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of an assisted living community in Florida. Vista Lake of Leesburg comprises 74 units of assisted living and memory care in the greater Orlando area. Built in two phases in 1996 and 2000, the community was acquired in 2018 through a portfolio transaction by Eagle Senior Living. However, the community struggled during the pandemic as Eagle Senior Living simultaneously navigated Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Blueprint was engaged by the Eagle Senior Living in the summer of 2021 to run a competitive sale process for the Leesburg community, which included selecting a stalking horse bidder in addition to launching a broader auction process.... Read More »

SLIB Sells Assisted Living in Wisconsin

Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a 32-unit assisted livingand memory care community located in Westfield, Wisconsin, which is 50 miles north ofMadison. The community sits on 3.1 acres and consists of 22 assisted living units and 10memory care units. The sales price was $2.8 million, or $87,500 per unit, and came with a cap rate of 9.9% based ontrailing six months ending May 2021 annualized. Occupancy was only 65%, which is up from itspandemic low of 50%. The seller was a local mom and pop operator and getting out ofthe business with this sale. Census dropped temporarily on news of the upcoming sale. Harris Villa Assisted Living was built in 2006 and 2011... Read More »

Evans Senior Investments Handles Portfolio Sale

Evans Senior Investments announced the sale of a seven-property skilled nursing portfolio. Built between 1957 and 2017, the portfolio comprises a total of 558 beds in the southwestern region of Colorado. The buyer is an east coast-based owner/operator looking to expand its presence out west. The portfolio sold for a purchase price of $51.5 million, or $92,000 per bed. Occupancy was approximately 77% before COVID-19 struck the portfolio and caused the census to fall to 65% at the time of marketing. Jeremy Stroiman and Evan Jacobsze of Evans Senior Investments handled this transaction. Read More »

Blueprint Facilitates Texas Transaction

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of an assisted living community in Waco, Texas. Legends Crossing comprises 106-units and sits on 6.7 acres adjacent to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. Built in 2015 by Mainstreet, the community has since been foreclosed upon and left vacant. Blueprint sourced Texas-based joint venture Zelevie Health and Skywalker Property Partners as the buyers of the community. This is the joint venture’s first acquisitions within the seniors housing space. Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled this transaction. Read More »