• Publicly Traded REIT Acquires in Colorado

    The Walker & Dunlop Seniors Housing team started the year off strong, with two closings in January. W&D first represented a major Georgia-based not-for-profit health system in the divestment of three skilled nursing facilities totaling 448 beds. Despite their rural locations, operational challenges and capital expenditure needs, W&D... Read More »
  • East Coast Owner/Operator Acquires First NJ Community

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of The Heritage Assisted Living, an assisted living and memory care community in Hammonton, New Jersey. ESI was engaged by the independent owner and lender of the property and procured six competitive offers from institutional capital and regional owner/operators. The ultimate buyer was an East Coast... Read More »
  • California-Based Owner/Operator Acquires Note

    An international bank engaged Blueprint to oversee the sale of its interest in a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in the Santa Rosa area of Northern California. The mortgage on the facility was in default despite the facility’s strong historical operating performance and occupancy. It demonstrated extremely high top-line revenue,... Read More »
  • Welltower to Acquire NorthStar Healthcare

    Welltower and NorthStar Healthcare Income announced that NorthStar Healthcare has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Welltower, in an all cash transaction with an approximate enterprise value of $900 million, or around $185,000 per unit. Under the term of the merger agreement, NorthStar Healthcare’s... Read More »
  • PE Firm Divests in Oregon to Local Owner/Operator

    A nationally recognized institutional private equity firm engaged Blueprint to oversee the sale of two high-performing seniors housing communities totaling 344 units in Oregon. The communities are Evergreen Senior Living, which is in Eugene, and Timber Pointe/Woodside Senior Living, which sit on the same campus in Springfield. Built between 1996... Read More »

60 Seconds with Swett: Healthcare M&A Activity Drops

The second quarter saw senior care M&A sustain its very high level, but deal activity across the other 12 healthcare sectors that we track on our LevinPro HC platform experienced a 9% drop in dealmaking from 622 publicly announced deals in the first quarter of 2022 to 568 in Q2. Compared to Q4:21, the quarterly deal total has also dropped by over 10%. We cover a number of healthcare sectors from hospitals and home health to eHealth and Biotech, and the most popular sector of late (by far) has been Physician Medical Groups. Last quarter, we recorded 142 PMG deals, 54% of which were made by a private equity buyer. Compare that to 5% of the 135 long-term care deals announced in the second... Read More »

Greystone Refinances Carrington at Lincolnwood

Greystone arranged a $116 million bank refinance of Carrington at Lincolnwood, a large seniors housing community in the Lincolnwood suburb of Chicago. The community comprises a total of 383 units, split between 251 independent living units, 88 assisted living units and 44 memory care units. It was co-developed by South Bay Partners and Chicago’s Bluhm family. Greystone’s Cary Tremper and Matt Miller secured the refinancing for Dallas-based Harbert South Bay, the result of a December 2021 merger between Harbert Management Corp. and South Bay Partners.  Read More »

Ziegler Closes Bond Financing for Eliza Jennings 

Investment bank Ziegler has officially closed $24.405 million of bond financing for Ohio-based Eliza Jennings, a not-for-profit organization that currently owns and operates three senior living campuses in the state. The campuses comprise 75 independent living apartments and villas, 89 assisted living units and 216 skilled nursing beds. The first campus is The Renaissance, in Olmsted Falls, consisting of 314 units of senior living. Its second community  Devon Oaks, located in Westlake, is a 66-unit assisted living community. Lastly, the third campus is The Eliza Jennings Home, a skilled nursing facility operating 126 beds in the city of Cleveland.  The Series 2022A bonds are... Read More »

Health Dimensions Group Sells Two SNFs in Minnesota

Health Dimensions Group, a Minnesota-based regional owner/operator, divested two older skilled nursing facilities in its home state. One facility is located in the Minneapolis market, while the second is about 2.5 hours north of the city. Totaling 234 beds, both facilities were originally built in the 1960s but were recently refurbished by HDG. Occupancy was very strong at 90%, and the quality mix topped 40%, but expenses ran high across the facilities. Plus, performance dropped off slightly during the transaction process.  Nevertheless, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso approached four groups and received three strong written offers. Mordy... Read More »

Not-For-Profit Organization Acquires Anoka Community

An elongated CHOW approval process did not stop the team of Jeff Binder, Jason Punzel and Jake Anderson of Senior Living Investment Brokerage from closing the sale of an 84-unit independent/assisted living community in the Minneapolis metro area. Built in 1988 in the town of Anoka, Minnesota, the community features 84 units and 104 beds. It was owned by a real estate development company that mainly focuses on the multifamily market and chose to divest in order to concentrate on its core assets. Occupancy was 79%, and a new owner could refurbish the building.  That buyer ended up being a large not-for-profit organization based in Minnesota that does plan to refresh and rebrand the... Read More »

CBRE Finances West Coast Construction Project 

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged construction financing for The Springs at the Waterfront, a to-be-built senior living community on the Vancouver, Washington waterfront. Harrison Street, The Springs Living and PMB LLC are joint venturing on the project, which will include 250 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Set on 1.3 acres within the master-planned Vancouver Waterfront and its 32 acres of office space, retail and residential units, the community will be managed by The Springs Living upon completion. To fund the construction, CBRE’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root secured a $145.1 million floating rate loan with four years of interest only through a... Read More »