• Healthpeak Properties Provides Janus Living Updates

    Healthpeak Properties’ recently formed seniors housing REIT, Janus Living, which will manage Healthpeak’s 34-community seniors housing portfolio, has filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the SEC relating to a proposed initial public offering of its shares of Class A-1 common stock, which the company intends to list on the NYSE under... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Senior Care Campus Deal in Missouri

    A Maryland-based owner/operator looked to expand its Missouri senior care portfolio with the purchase of Kingdom Care Senior Living in the town of Fulton. Built in 1980, the campus includes four independent living units, 26 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. It currently holds a five-star rating at the SNF and is the only... Read More »
  • Fully-Occupied Assisted Living Community Sells

    Joe Shallow of The Prestige Group was engaged by a family owner/operator in their divestment of a seniors housing community in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. Purpose-built in 1985 and well-maintained throughout the years, Metro Wilkes Barre features 20 assisted living units with 40 beds. The community has historically boasted a strong census, and at the... Read More »
  • REIT Acquires Underoccupied Seniors Housing Portfolio

    After acquiring a seniors housing portfolio through a joint venture in 2019, MedCore Partners and Trinity Private Equity Group have decided it was time to divest. Amy Sitzman, Giancarlo Riso and Jake Rice of Blueprint brought the portfolio out to market, and at that time, it was generating $4.5 million in EBITDAR on around $21 million in annual... Read More »
  • Philadelphia AL/MC Community Trades Hands

    Brett Gardner, Joshua Jandris and Jason Skalko of Cushman & Wakefield represented an undisclosed seller in its sale of The Terrace at Chestnut Hill, a 62,600-square-foot, 108-unit assisted living and memory care community in northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The buyer, MVJ Ventures LLC, was represented by Jason Stroiman and Brendan... Read More »
Meridian Closes $250 Million in Two-Month Transaction Volume

Meridian Closes $250 Million in Two-Month Transaction Volume

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team closed more than $250 million in transaction volume in the last two months, on top of a productive 2022 that saw the team close more than $6 billion in transactions. The latest deals were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson. Included in the haul was a $60 million loan from a commercial bank in addition to a $3.75 million A/R line to refinance two skilled nursing facilities totaling 366 beds in Virginia, a $51.5 million loan along with a $2.5 million A/R line from a commercial bank and mezzanine lender to refinance four skilled nursing facilities comprised of 482... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Pennsylvania Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments Pennsylvania Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments announced the sale of a skilled nursing and seniors housing portfolio in the state of Pennsylvania, representing an in-state owner/operator in their exit from the industry. The portfolio consisted of three properties comprising a total of 395 beds of skilled nursing and 32 units of seniors housing. The purchase price of the portfolio was $39 million, or $91,000 per bed. At the time of marketing, occupancy averaged around 64%, with total portfolio revenue of $27.2 million and an operating loss of -$1.5 million. The portfolio struggled with regulatory deficiencies and staffing shortages, which dropped occupancy to 57% during the transaction process. Evans secured a... Read More »

Cushman & Wakefield Refinances IL/AL Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield announced it has arranged a $51 million refinance of an independent living and assisted living portfolio on behalf of Kisco Senior Living. The three-property portfolio comprises 477 units and spans across the states of California, Texas and North Carolina. The communities within the portfolio are Cypress Court in Escondido, California, Villa de San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas, and Heritage Woods in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The new loan, which was provided by a national bank, is retiring existing debt. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Sam Dylag represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »
60 Seconds With Swett: Not-For-Profits Could Have a Tough 2023

60 Seconds With Swett: Not-For-Profits Could Have a Tough 2023

The pandemic adversely affected all senior care companies in the last three years, but not-for-profits seem to have been hit the hardest. First seeing their occupancies decline, they were then hit by inflation and soaring wages, which, when you generally have expense management issues in good times, is a devastating combination. The generosity to support several years of losses at these organizations is noble, but their boards can’t sustain those struggling businesses forever, especially when their mission could be better served in other capacities. We recently saw the debacle at the not-for-profit ProMedica where Welltower let the health system off the hook with its underwater leases for... Read More »
Charter Senior Living Will Operate High-End Miami Community

Charter Senior Living Will Operate High-End Miami Community

An upscale independent living community in the Westchester neighborhood of Miami, Florida, is set to open its doors in the new year, Miami-based commercial real estate owners and developers AJP Ventures and Mas Group, in addition to equity partner OCTA, completed construction of The Contemporary, which features one- and two-bedroom units on a six-acre campus. Charter Senior Living will operate it upon opening. Located on the same campus is MedSquare Place, a medical office building also in development by the two developers. Read More »

BWE Closes $62 Million To Finance Five Seniors Housing Communities

Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC (BWE) announced it has closed $62 million in loans to finance five seniors housing communities in the Carolinas and New York. The properties consist of three assisted living and memory care communities in the Greenville, South Carolina market, one assisted living/memory care community around Charlotte, North Carolina, and a 150-unit affordable senior housing development in Kenmore, New York. The South Carolina communities were Fairview Park Senior Living of Simpsonville, Oakview Park of Greenville and Spring Park of Travelers Rest, and all received a $42.6 million Fannie Mae loan originated on behalf of the borrower, Atlas Senior Living.... Read More »