• Quarterly Investor Call #1

    Skip the in-person conference, and get the latest senior care M&A and valuations data, market analysis and case studies on notable deals by watching The SeniorCare Investor’s first ever Quarterly Investor Call. Read More »
  • Pacific Companies Acquires National Portfolio

    Pacific Companies, LLC, a privately owned real estate private equity firm based in San Diego, California, acquired the majority of the not-for-profit Retirement Housing Foundations market-rate seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. Ziegler served as exclusive sell-side advisor to RHF on the transaction, which closed in phases throughout late... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Chooses Refinance Over Sale

    A national owner/operator faced with an underperforming seniors housing property in Missouri and maturing debt on the property secured a refinance thanks to JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital. The borrower, which has over 30 properties in its portfolio, acquired the 45-unit assisted living community in late 2017.  Occupancy and cash flow... Read More »
  • Two Seniors Housing Communities in Indiana Trade Hands

    Blueprint facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in northwest Indiana. The value-add communities are in Michigan City and Merrillville and comprise 119 assisted living and memory care units. They had strong pre-pandemic financial performance but more recently benefited from a substantial Medicaid Waiver reimbursement rate... Read More »
  • Artemis/Bridgewood Acquire Texas Portfolio

    CBRE was engaged in the sale of four seniors housing communities in the Dallas, Texas MSA: Village on the Park Plano (Plano), Village on the Park Denton (Denton), Village on the Park Stonebridge Ranch (McKinney) and Village on the Park McKinney (McKinney). The communities comprise 366 total units of assisted living and memory care and were built... 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 »
CBRE Facilitates Augusta Acquisition in Georgia

CBRE Facilitates Augusta Acquisition in Georgia

CBRE National Senior Housing’s team consisting of Aron Will, John L. Sweeny, Jr., Garrett Sacco and Scott Bray completed the sale and acquisition financing for a fully occupied assisted living/memory care community in Augusta, Georgia. Built in 2019, Thrive at Augusta comprises 85 units on 17 acres and despite opening just before the pandemic, it did indeed reach 100% occupancy by the time of the transaction. It caters to a high-income population and features a number of high-end amenities. New York City-based Drake Real Estate Partners ultimately sold the property to Inspired Healthcare Capital. Aron Will and Adam Mincberg of CBRE also arranged a five-year, fixed-rate $16.8 million loan... Read More »
Berkadia Closes Seven Financings

Berkadia Closes Seven Financings

Berkadia announced $177 million in financings across seven deals, with Bianca Andujo, Ed Williams, Jay Healy, Rafael Nobo and Chris Cain working on the transactions. There were four HUD loans, the largest being a $62 million arranged by Mr. Williams for a senior living community in Portland, Oregon. At 70% loan-to-value, the financing retired a Berkadia-arranged 232/223(a)(7) loan from 2021 and a surplus cash note provided by Berkadia’s Proprietary Lending Group.  Mr. Williams also secured a $13.65 million loan for a 100-unit assisted living/memory care community in Arizona that qualified for reduced seasoning and refinanced a cash-out loan originated in late 2021. The cash-out loan... Read More »
Charter Senior Living Will Operate High-End Miami Community

Erickson Senior Living Opens Phase I of $500 Million Development

A new independent living community, Avery Point by Erickson Senior Living, is set to open after two years of construction. Erickson Senior Living developed the community and will operate it going forward. Eventually, the IL portion will be part of a massive 1,400-unit CCRC on 94 acres in Goochland, Virginia (Richmond MSA). Construction started in 2019 with Phase I consisting of 216 independent living apartments in one- and two-bedroom configurations. Erickson announced that Phase I is already filled to capacity and they are expecting the Phase II developments to be sold out as well. Moseley Architects is the architect for the $500-million-dollar development project, which should come out... Read More »