• ALP Owner/Operator Expands in Upstate New York

    Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of an assisted living program community in the Albany, New York MSA, on behalf of a private owner. Built in 1985, Danforth Adult Care Center is in Hoosick Falls and features 57 units with 80 beds, including 42 licensed as ALP. The community sits on 2.49 acres with 29,112 square... Read More »
  • Ikaria Capital Group Completes First HUD Transaction

    Since launching in February, Ikaria Capital Group, whose team brings more than 100 years of collective experience in financing, structuring, underwriting, servicing, and asset-managing bridge and FHA/HUD loans, has already completed its first HUD transaction. The $16.5 million closing was executed on behalf of a private investment firm.  The... Read More »
  • North Carolina Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM announced the initial funding of $152 million in total bridge and working capital financing for the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities with nearly 1,100 beds across North Carolina. The debt carries a 36-month initial term with two extension options. The sponsor, a returning healthcare client with operating experience in... Read More »
  • Regional Healthcare Operator Lands HUD Acquisition Financing

    Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged acquisition financing for a 124-bed skilled nursing facility with a strong quality mix in Pasadena, Texas, on behalf of a regional healthcare operator that had been leasing the property from a third-party landlord. The financing package was $12.9 million, or $104,000 per bed.  Leveraging the facility’s... Read More »
  • In Memoriam: Doug Korey

    We just heard the unfortunate news that our friend and colleague Doug Korey passed away last week. He had been battling cancer for a while but always put a brave face on his journey. We have known Doug since he got into the senior care industry more than 25 years ago. We served on panels with him and had many off-the-record conversations about... Read More »

60 Seconds with Swett: Q2:22 M&A Activity Nears Record-High

The second quarter M&A numbers are in, preliminarily that is, and buyers nearly set a record for acquisition activity. So far, we have counted 135 publicly announced transactions for the quarter, which is only surpassed by the first quarter’s 139 deals. Continuing at this pace, we are on track to hit 550 deals for the year, which would be a record by about 100. Of course, we shouldn’t count our chickens before they hatch, with higher interest rates or a potential recession looming.  June was an especially strong month, with 52 individually announced deals, after 49 in April and a mere 34 in May. But what was notable about June was that skilled nursing M&A activity seemed to pick... Read More »

 Northwestern Mutual Divests California Community

Northwestern Mutual has divested its 150-unit assisted living community in Brentwood, California with the help of Charles Bissell, Cody Tremper and Dean Ferris of JLL Capital Markets. Named Cortona Park, the community was built in 2007 with studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom unit options averaging 761 square feet. Pets are welcome at the community, which also features a host of amenities including a library, café/bistro, beauty shop, courtyard and garden, outdoor pool, theater, billiards, fireside living room and a community room with meeting space. John Muir Health Urgent Care is located adjacent to Cortona Park, and two hospitals are within the surrounding area. Northwestern Mutual sold... Read More »

SLIB Handles Port Orange, Florida Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Bradley Clousing and Daniel Geraghty helped facilitate a private REIT’s exit of an operational outlier from a previous portfolio with the sale of a memory care community in Port Orange, Florida (Daytona Beach MSA). Consisting of over 54 units on a three-acre parcel, the high-quality community was well operated. A growing regional owner/operator looking to expand its presence in Florida emerged as the buyer from multiple other offers, but the purchase price or other transaction details were not disclosed. Read More »

Jacaranda Trace Sale Arranged by Ziegler

We have learned that Dan Revie and Don Husi of Ziegler represented the seller of Jacaranda Trace, an independent and assisted living community in Venice, Florida. Sarasota, Florida-based not-for-profit Convivial Life acquired the property, which was built in phases from 1999 to 2015 to now include 295 units on 33 acres with a plethora of amenities and activities in close proximity. Convivial also plans to take the underdeveloped lots and extra space and utilize that land for additional venues, amenities and activities. As part of the acquisition, Convivial purchased an 85,000+ square foot clubhouse featuring a fitness center, heated outdoor pool and jacuzzi, an on-site doctor’s... Read More »

Executives on the Move

Greystone, a real estate lending, investment and advisory company based out of New York City, has appointed a new CEO, Hafize Gaye Erkan. A former executive at publicly traded First Republic Bank, she takes over this position after 18 years of experience in the banking sector. She has a distinguished background, holding a Ph.D. in Financial Engineering from Princeton University, and has spent nearly a decade with Goldman Sachs.  Dr. Erkan plans to expand Greystone into new areas of financial services while continuing to provide real estate finance services. Her banking and wealth management experience will be utilized to expand Greystone’s lending products and private wealth management... Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: The Road to Recovery

We are now halfway through 2022, and 15 months into the post-pandemic recovery. But with interest rates and inflation rising, there could be new headwinds to a full recovery. Speaking of full recovery, most of the talk has been about getting back to pre-pandemic levels of occupancy, NOI and NOI margin. That is certainly a first step. But there is a big difference between pre-pandemic levels, and say, those levels in 2016 or 2017 which, at a minimum, should really be the target. For example, Welltower’s SHOP portfolio of 51,000 seniors housing units had a 91.0% occupancy rate and margin of 32.8% in the first quarter of 2016. By the fourth quarter of 2019, with 70,000 units, they had fallen... Read More »