• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    Next week for our Second Quarter Investor Call, sponsored by Ziegler, we’ll be trying something different that is sure to be both entertaining and useful for our audience of operators, investors, brokers, lenders and everyone else. We’ll be tackling The Great Debates of Senior Care, covering some of the most important issues facing the industry.... Read More »
  • Thank You Ortelius?

    Brookdale Senior Living just reported June occupancy, and the increases were much better than we expected for a second quarter, which historically has been a mixed bag for the industry. Let’s just say, we were impressed. June’s same-community weighted average occupancy was 81.1%, up 220 basis points year over year and up 50 basis points... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells SNF in New Jersey

    Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage got a skilled nursing sale in New Jersey over the finish line after survey issues caused a buyer switch-up. Built in 1980, Medford Care Center is located in the town of Medford (about an hour east of Philadelphia) and features 180 beds on an 11-acre campus. Operations were not strong, and the... Read More »
  • Carnegie Capital Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Texas Portfolio Deal

    Carnegie Capital, the national seniors housing debt brokerage founded and run by JD Stettin and David Farhadian, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a $124 million, or $117,100 per bed, portfolio acquisition transaction. Carnegie provided a combination of advisory work and debt placement for the nine-skilled nursing facility portfolio with... Read More »
  • 12 Oaks Senior Living Appoints New CFO

    12 Oaks Senior Living appointed Elliott Westerman as CFO, effective immediately. Westerman has more than two decades of leadership experience across senior living, healthcare, and real estate sectors. As CFO, Westerman will oversee all aspects of financial management, including financial planning and analysis, capital structure strategy,... Read More »

Senior Care Realty Sells in Wisconsin

Senior Care Realty (SCR) announced the sale of a 112-unit assisted living/memory care community in northwest Wisconsin. Daren Dudgeon, Bob Richards and Chad Wegner represented the owners, a husband and wife team that had worked with SCR in two previous assisted living deals. A national organization that plans to utilize its in-house operating team paid $24 million, or $214,000 per unit, for the community. Read More »

Greystone Refinances in Indiana and Arizona

Greystone placed a total of $23.5 million in bank financing to refinance two senior housing properties in Indiana and Arizona. The separate transactions were originated by Cary Tremper, Tyler Armstrong, and Matt Miller of Greystone, on behalf of Spectrum Retirement Communities. Lone Mountain is a 50-unit memory care facility located in the Phoenix market, which was refinanced with a $11.275 million loan. The newly-constructed, Class-A property opened in March 2018, and includes six one-bedroom units and 44 studio units. Amenities at the property include private dining, library, game room, exercise room, activity room, computer room, salon, and terraces and courtyard features. Meadow Brook... Read More »

Artemis, ACG and MorningStar Refinance Oregon Property

A joint venture between Artemis Real Estate Partners, American Capital Group and MorningStar Senior Living just refinanced its 142-unit independent living community in Hillsboro, Oregon with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root. Situated on 1.25 acres, the community opened this month as the first brand-new and high-quality IL community built in the last six years in the local market. It is located less than a mile from the 126-bed Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center and from The Streets of Tanasbourne, a 386,000-square-foot outdoor shopping mall. MorningStar is the operator. CBRE secured a $33.1 million non-recourse loan through a national... Read More »

Walker & Dunlop Works on Calamar’s Senior Apartments Sale

We learned that the Walker & Dunlop Seniors Housing Investment Sales team of Josh Jandris, Brett Gardner, Tony Cassie, Mark Myers, Gideon Orion, Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice, and Sam Thompson represented Calamar in the sale of its 25-property senior apartment/active adult portfolio under the brand name “Connect55+” for $502 million, or $172,000 per unit.  They are located primarily in non-coastal East Coast and Midwest locations, with concentrations in western New York and Pennsylvania and the Kansas City area. Monthly rents average $1,300, and the portfolio maintained high levels of occupancy throughout the pandemic. There was an average length of stay above five years. There were 18... Read More »

Takeaways from the Active Adult Webinar

On June 23rd, 2022, Ben Swett, Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, spoke with two expert panelists on the active adult market, the opportunities within it and the risks. Ben was joined by Jane Arthur Roslovic, CEO and Co-Founder of Treplus Communities, and Leland Manning, Director of Newmark, to discuss what this new asset class even is, which markets are ripe for development and what the current state of the active adult M&A market looks like. Mr. Swett kicked off the webinar by asking the panelists to define the active adult market, which has taken off over the past few years. Ms. Roslovic and Mr. Manning spoke about active adult as being a “state of mind” for people aged 55 and... Read More »

Inspired Healthcare Capital Makes Fourth Acquisition of 2022

Inspired Healthcare Capital (IHC) recently acquired Homestead at Hamilton, a 195-unit independent living, assisted living & memory care community located in Hamilton, New Jersey. The purchase price of the community was $97,500,000. IHC is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based private real estate investment firm that focuses on the seniors housing sector. This was IHC’s 4th acquisition in 2022, after closing on nine senior housing transactions in 2021. Homestead at Hamilton was built in 2017 for a cost of approximately $60 million, or $308,000 per unit. The Class-A building has 96 independent living (opened in November 2017), 75 assisted living and 24 memory care units (licensed in April 2018). A... Read More »