• October Kicks Off with Multiple Financings

    VIUM Capital announced a slew of closings at the start of October, ranging from HUD refinances to acquisition loans. The largest was a $72 million bride loan that refinanced four skilled nursing facilities in Pennsylvania totaling 525 beds. Proceeds will be used to take out senior debt and senior mezzanine debt. The facility will be structured as... Read More »
  • Newmark Negotiates Several Large Financings

    Sarah Anderson of Newmark has closed some notable financing transactions in the last couple of months, in addition to arranging acquisition financing for numerous deals handled by the Newmark investment sales team. One of the closings was for Vivante at Turtle Creek, a to-be-built seniors housing community on the prestigious Turtle Creek... Read More »
  • Funding Arranged for Skilled Nursing Clients

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, a specialized multifamily and seniors housing bridge lending platform, announced a couple of financings for skilled nursing clients in New England and North Carolina. First, for eight skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the firm closed a $70 million senior bridge loan with a 24-month initial term. It... Read More »
  • Newly Constructed Community Secures Financing

    BWE arranged refinancing for Clarendale Arcadia, a newly constructed senior living community in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. The financing was arranged on behalf of a repeat client joint venture between Harrison Street Asset Management, LCS, and Ryan Companies US, Inc., with LCS serving as the operator. Ryan Stoll, National... Read More »
  • Brookdale Shares Hit Seven-Year High

    Brookdale Senior Living has posted occupancy increases for several consecutive months. The operator has lagged behind the industry for a decade now, so it is about time.  Weighted average occupancy has increased each month since January, beginning at 79.2% and reaching 82.5% in September. The third quarter’s average of 81.8% is up 290 basis... 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 »

Cushman & Wakefield Handles New Jersey Transaction

Last week, Inspired Healthcare Capital announced its acquisition of Homestead at Hamilton, a 195-unit seniors housing community in Hamilton, New Jersey, and we have learned that Cushman & Wakefield’s Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Jim Dooley and Jack Griffin arranged the sale. Built in 2017 at 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 joint venture between Pike Construction Co. and Solvere Senior Living developed the community. Amenities include a restaurant-style dining room, a pub, a card and game room, an exercise studio and... Read More »

Walker & Dunlop Sells Two California Communities

Walker & Dunlop has announced the sale of two California communities, both located in the greater Los Angeles area. The deal included Westminster Terrace, a 76-unit assisted living community built in 2000 in Westminster, and Del Obispo Terrace, a 94-unit assisted living community built in 1984 in the town of San Juan Capistrano. Dallas-based healthcare real estate group, MedCore Partners, sold both properties.Before the sale, MedCore invested a total of $4.4 million in upgrades and renovations across the two campuses. With those renovations finished, they sold Westminster Terrace to Oxford Health Group, and then sold Del Obispo Terrace to AEW a month later. The purchase prices were not... Read More »

SLIB Closes Tennessee Transaction

A private REIT divested a couple of seniors housing communities in Tennessee that were deemed to be outliers for its national operator partner. Located in Knoxville and Powell, the communities feature a combined 102 assisted living and memory care units. Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Bradley Clousing and Patrick Burke marketed the assets and presented six qualified offers, with the seller selecting a joint venture between a real estate/asset management firm and an operator with an existing footprint in Tennessee. No other details were disclosed. Read More »

LIV Development Leaves Seniors Housing Sector

We have learned that Brooks Blackmon and Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors have handled the sale of Portside at Grande Dunes located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The A-quality community opened in 2019 with 83 assisted living and 32 memory care units, and in 2020, it expanded with 134 units of independent living and 16 independent cottages. It was still in lease-up at the time of the sale. LIV Development, a multifamily investor, developed the community but is now exiting the seniors housing sector with its sale. In 2021, Mr. Blackmon handled LIV’s sale of its one other seniors housing asset, which was Peachtree Senior Living, a 55-unit independent/assisted... 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 »