• Interview with Arnie Whitman and Meredith Oppenheim on VITALS

    The SeniorCare Investor’s Ben Swett recently sat down with Meredith Oppenheim and Arnie Whitman to discuss their new framework for seniors housing operators to improve the quality of life for their residents, but also to position the sector for greater success and wider appeal in the future. Watch the conversation here. Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Expands in Tampa MSA

    American House Senior Living Communities added Beach House Assisted Living & Memory Care in Wesley Chapel, Florida (Tampa MSA), to its operating portfolio and renamed the property American House Wesley Chapel. The community features 67 assisted living and 33 memory care units with studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, some with balconies... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Community Near Chicago Gets New Owner

    SVN Chicago Commercial sold McKenzie Falls, an affordable seniors housing community in Bolingbrook, Illinois, roughly 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The building was constructed in 2010 and spans 74,047 square feet across one story.  An undisclosed buyer acquired the 105-unit community for $6.7 million, or $63,800 per unit. Reid... Read More »
  • 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 »

Assisted Living Community Sells in Florida

Vitality Living Lady Lake, an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lady Lake, Florida, has been sold just outside of the senior haven, The Villages. Built in 2010, the 89-unit community comprises 69 assisted living units along with 20 memory care units on over 9 acres. Occupancy stood around 72% in 2021. The seller was a Northeast-based real estate private equity firm which initially purchased the community as part of a larger portfolio.  However, this asset was an operational outlier from the rest of the portfolio. So, the seller hired Senior Living Investment Brokerage to find a buyer, which ended up being an unidentified regional owner/operator looking to add to their... Read More »

Bender Companies Invests in Active Adult

Chicago-based investment firm Bender Companies has spent $20.5 million, or $118,500 per unit, in Burbank Manor, a 173-unit active adult complex in Burbank, Illinois. Built in 1985, the apartments sit on 6 acres in the suburbs of Chicago. The property is well maintained and offers its residents a variety of amenities including secured outside entries, balconies, in-unit washers and dryers, and on-site parking with 300 tenant spaces.  The buyer is a company that shares a Chicago address with Bender. Burbank Manor previously sold in 2021 for $14.6 million, or $84,400 per unit. That means the seller, Advantage Management, sold the complex for 40% more than their original purchase price. Given... Read More »

Brookdale Continues To Grow Census

Brookdale Senior Living continues to see census growth, posting its best second quarter sequential weighted average occupancy growth in more than 10 years. And remember, the second quarter has not been the industry’s friend for the past decade or so, so this is a great set up for the rest of the year. Weighted average occupancy in June was 75.2%, up 60 basis points from May and up 400 basis points from June in 2021. Before we pop the corks, occupancy in the mid 70 percent range is still quite low, and a far cry from Brookdale’s 84.5% in the fourth quarter of 2019, or 89.0% in the fourth quarter of 2013. But it is a step in the right direction. It is just that we need to see a lot of these... Read More »

60 Seconds with Swett: Healthcare M&A Activity Drops

The second quarter saw senior care M&A sustain its very high level, but deal activity across the other 12 healthcare sectors that we track on our LevinPro HC platform experienced a 9% drop in dealmaking from 622 publicly announced deals in the first quarter of 2022 to 568 in Q2. Compared to Q4:21, the quarterly deal total has also dropped by over 10%. We cover a number of healthcare sectors from hospitals and home health to eHealth and Biotech, and the most popular sector of late (by far) has been Physician Medical Groups. Last quarter, we recorded 142 PMG deals, 54% of which were made by a private equity buyer. Compare that to 5% of the 135 long-term care deals announced in the second... Read More »

Greystone Refinances Carrington at Lincolnwood

Greystone arranged a $116 million bank refinance of Carrington at Lincolnwood, a large seniors housing community in the Lincolnwood suburb of Chicago. The community comprises a total of 383 units, split between 251 independent living units, 88 assisted living units and 44 memory care units. It was co-developed by South Bay Partners and Chicago’s Bluhm family. Greystone’s Cary Tremper and Matt Miller secured the refinancing for Dallas-based Harbert South Bay, the result of a December 2021 merger between Harbert Management Corp. and South Bay Partners.  Read More »

Ziegler Closes Bond Financing for Eliza Jennings 

Investment bank Ziegler has officially closed $24.405 million of bond financing for Ohio-based Eliza Jennings, a not-for-profit organization that currently owns and operates three senior living campuses in the state. The campuses comprise 75 independent living apartments and villas, 89 assisted living units and 216 skilled nursing beds. The first campus is The Renaissance, in Olmsted Falls, consisting of 314 units of senior living. Its second community  Devon Oaks, located in Westlake, is a 66-unit assisted living community. Lastly, the third campus is The Eliza Jennings Home, a skilled nursing facility operating 126 beds in the city of Cleveland.  The Series 2022A bonds are... Read More »