• New Buyer Enters Seniors Housing

    A privately held REIT focused primarily on private pay seniors housing communities throughout the U.S. engaged Blueprint in the sale of its seniors housing community in Bloomfield, Michigan. Michael Segal, Brooks Blackmon, Daniel Waldhorn and Lauren Nagle handled the transaction. Built in 2001 with significant renovations starting in 2015, the... Read More »
  • Bull Realty Handles Georgia AL/MC Transaction

    Ernie Anaya of Bull Realty handled the sale of a seniors housing community in Cartersville, Georgia. Built in 2021 on 8.83 acres, Tiger Lily Estates is an assisted living and memory care community that features 48 units across five buildings with 38,339 total square feet. The community additionally offers adult day care, licensed for 23... Read More »
  • Elevation Financial Group Acquires in Texas

    Elevation Financial Group announced the acquisition by Elevation Real Property Fund VIII of Reunion Court of Kingwood in Houston, Texas. The asset was acquired for $7.25 million, or $38,000 per unit. Built in 2000, Reunion Court of Kingwood comprises 120 independent living, 42 assisted living and 28 memory care units. Elevation will repurpose the... Read More »
  • IRA Capital Secures Financing

    BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group announced that it closed on a $58 million term loan with IRA Capital related to a 252-unit seniors housing community in Lynnwood, Washington. The property consists of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Living Care Lifestyle manages the asset. According to LevinPro LTC, IRA and an... Read More »
  • Senior Living Operator Secures Financing

    SLR Healthcare ABL provided an $8 million asset-based revolving credit facility to a Midwest based senior living operator. The operator manages more than 30 skilled nursing facilities across multiple states. Proceeds of the credit facility were used to refinance existing debt and provide additional liquidity for operations. The transaction was... Read More »
Spring Arbor Living and Allegro Management Company Merge

Spring Arbor Living and Allegro Management Company Merge

Lisa Widmier of Vant.Age Pointe Capital Management & Advisory, which has executed several million dollars in transactions under Widmier, facilitated the merger between Spring Arbor Senior Living and Allegro Management Company, which have come together under a new holding company, Allegro Living. Allegro Living will serve seniors in 53 seniors housing communities across 13 states in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Midwest. Spring Arbor adds its 35 communities and more than 2,200 units to Allegro’s 18 communities and more than 2,300 units. These communities will continue to operate under the same name and same team, as the goal of the merger is growth rather than... Read More »
Solinity’s Recent Announcement

Solinity’s Recent Announcement

Solinity, a seniors housing developer, named William H. Holly and John Moore as Partners in Development to spearhead investor relations in the growth of the company’s development and acquisition pipeline. Solinity has a $300 million pipeline for new development and community acquisitions in the southeastern United States for expansion in 2025. Josh Crisp, Founder and CEO, is the visionary of the development pipeline, which includes plans for multigenerational and mixed use age friendly communities designed to meet the needs of the aging population. With over three decades of industry experience, and a native of Coral Gables, Holly began his career with the Codina Bush Group before holding... Read More »
Ikaria Formalizing CareTrust REIT Relationship

Ikaria Formalizing CareTrust REIT Relationship

Newly formed Ikaria Capital Group is formalizing an arrangement with CareTrust REIT to provide capital to the seniors housing and nursing home sector. The Ikaria team, which is led by White Oak Healthcare Partners alums Jason Dopoulos and Ken Gould, has worked with CareTrust on several debt transactions since 2022, and this marks a continuation of that relationship. The Ikaria team will also continue to provide debt origination, underwriting, and asset management services.  CareTrust’s investment priority will still be on acquiring real estate through accretive transactions but will look to add to its debt investments, which can offer attractive yields. The REIT closed approximately... Read More »
Grace Management’s Recent Updates

Grace Management’s Recent Updates

Grace Management, which currently operates 70 communities in 22 states, announced the promotion of Brian Storey to President, effective March 1. This transition follows the company’s leadership succession plan, as Storey steps into the role previously held by Guy Geller, who was promoted to Chief Executive Officer on January 1. As part of the structured transition, Michal Penek has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations to backfill Storey’s previous role. Storey joined Grace Management in 2015 and has held key roles across every level of the organization throughout his tenure, demonstrating leadership in operations, strategic development, transitions, turnaround execution and... Read More »
Ikaria Capital Group Launches

Ikaria Capital Group Launches

Ikaria Capital Group, led by Jason Dopoulos and Ken Gould who were formerly with White Oak Healthcare Partners and Lancaster Pollard, announced its launch. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Ikaria specializes in financing skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Ikaria brings more than 100 years of collective experience in financing, structuring, underwriting, servicing and asset-managing bridge and FHA/HUD loans.  Ikaria’s platform specializes in debt solutions, including bridges for acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinances and construction, permanent (long-term) debt structures, FHA/HUD loans and working capital lines for skilled nursing, hospitals and other healthcare... Read More »
Solinity’s Recent Announcement

MorningStar Welcomes New President/CIO

MorningStar Senior Living announced a new President and Chief Investment Officer, Jamie Ranzan. Ranzan brings 20 years of experience in real estate development, acquisitions and operations across multiple property types, including senior living. Ranzan began her career at Ernst & Young as an auditor in the real estate group of its Orange County office. From there she joined KBS Realty Advisors in Newport Beach where she was responsible for a $1.8 billion portfolio with assets across the U.S. Her next role was CFO/BP of Corporate Finance for MBK Senior Living, responsible for acquisitions, dispositions, accounting, finance, insurance, tax and compliance.  Razan relocated to... Read More »