• 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 »

Jonathan Rose Co. Buys Seniors Housing Complex

Jonathan Rose Co. and Jamboree Housing have acquired Belage Manor, a 180-unit affordable senior housing complex in Anaheim, California for the purchase price of $41 million, or $227,000 per unit. This marks the 12th deal to close under the Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund V. California-based nonprofit Jamboree Housing along with the fund will invest $9 million in renovations to make significant improvements to the complex. Capital One Healthcare provided a $28 million Fannie Mae first mortgage loan as part of the GSE’s Enhanced Resident Services program.  Read More »

Omni Smart Living Refinances Two Communities Through JLL

JLL Capital Markets arranged short-term financing for two newly built communities totaling 328 units in North Olmsted and North Royalton, Ohio. The two high-quality communities comprise independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The borrower is real estate investment group Omni Smart Living, for which JLL secured a three-year, floating-rate loan through a national debt fund. The first property is the 160-unit Vitalia North Olmsted, and the other is the 168-unit Vitalia North Royalton, both located roughly 10 to 15 minutes outside of downtown Cleveland. Joel Mendes and Billy Lichtenstein of JLL Capital Markets represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »

BMO Harris Bank Closes Big Refinance for Phoenix CCRC

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed on a whopping $145 million term facility with two participating banks to recapitalize Sagewood, an entrance-fee CCRC in Phoenix, Arizona. Westminster Capital and LCS own the property, with LCS serving as operator since its opening in 2010. The community has been expanded over the years, most recently with a $100 million, 101-unit independent living project in 2021, and now features 417 IL units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. The existing IL units were fully occupied prior to the project, and 96% of the new units were pre-sold by the end of 2018.  At that time, LCS and... Read More »

ESI Handles New Jersey SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a struggling skilled nursing facility in Clark Township, New Jersey. Built in 1995 with more than 130 beds, the facility saw pre-pandemic occupancy levels of 85% plummet to 56% by the time of sale. The seller is a regional owner/operator, which sought to exit this facility given the distance from its existing portfolio. Evans Senior Investments, which closed another SNF sale for the regional owner/operator in July in Volusia County, Florida, found an East Coast-based owner/operator within 25 days of starting the marketing process to purchase this asset, adding to its established portfolio. According to LevinPro LTC, Evans Seniors Investments... Read More »

Investor Group Acquires Georgia Communities

A group of individual investors acquired two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the communities sold for a cap rate in the mid-8s, slightly higher than the sector’s average in the last few years. Daniel Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Built in 2007, Sunny Grove Assisted Living in Barnesville features 34 units and was around 97% occupied. River Place Assisted Living in Forsyth was built more recently in 2017 and features 35 units with 93% occupancy. There is an expansion opportunity at the Barnesville location, which... Read More »

RAM Properties Acquires Florida Portfolio

A private institutional group sold three seniors housing communities in Florida to RAM Properties, a boutique private equity firm backed by a family office. RAM paid $70.85 million, or $158,000 per unit, for the portfolio and brought in its Florida-based operating partner Concordis Senior Living to take over management.  The properties included 253 independent/assisted living units (all licensed for assisted living) and 193 memory care units, averaging more than 20 years in age but with multiple renovations over the years. When the portfolio went under LOI, occupancy was in the 80s, but that improved throughout the process into the 90s at closing. In addition, previous resident rent... Read More »