• 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 »

60 Seconds with Swett: Q2:22 M&A Activity Nears Record-High

The second quarter M&A numbers are in, preliminarily that is, and buyers nearly set a record for acquisition activity. So far, we have counted 135 publicly announced transactions for the quarter, which is only surpassed by the first quarter’s 139 deals. Continuing at this pace, we are on track to hit 550 deals for the year, which would be a record by about 100. Of course, we shouldn’t count our chickens before they hatch, with higher interest rates or a potential recession looming.  June was an especially strong month, with 52 individually announced deals, after 49 in April and a mere 34 in May. But what was notable about June was that skilled nursing M&A activity seemed to pick... Read More »

 Northwestern Mutual Divests California Community

Northwestern Mutual has divested its 150-unit assisted living community in Brentwood, California with the help of Charles Bissell, Cody Tremper and Dean Ferris of JLL Capital Markets. Named Cortona Park, the community was built in 2007 with studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom unit options averaging 761 square feet. Pets are welcome at the community, which also features a host of amenities including a library, café/bistro, beauty shop, courtyard and garden, outdoor pool, theater, billiards, fireside living room and a community room with meeting space. John Muir Health Urgent Care is located adjacent to Cortona Park, and two hospitals are within the surrounding area. Northwestern Mutual sold... Read More »

SLIB Handles Port Orange, Florida Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Bradley Clousing and Daniel Geraghty helped facilitate a private REIT’s exit of an operational outlier from a previous portfolio with the sale of a memory care community in Port Orange, Florida (Daytona Beach MSA). Consisting of over 54 units on a three-acre parcel, the high-quality community was well operated. A growing regional owner/operator looking to expand its presence in Florida emerged as the buyer from multiple other offers, but the purchase price or other transaction details were not disclosed. Read More »

Jacaranda Trace Sale Arranged by Ziegler

We have learned that Dan Revie and Don Husi of Ziegler represented the seller of Jacaranda Trace, an independent and assisted living community in Venice, Florida. Sarasota, Florida-based not-for-profit Convivial Life acquired the property, which was built in phases from 1999 to 2015 to now include 295 units on 33 acres with a plethora of amenities and activities in close proximity. Convivial also plans to take the underdeveloped lots and extra space and utilize that land for additional venues, amenities and activities. As part of the acquisition, Convivial purchased an 85,000+ square foot clubhouse featuring a fitness center, heated outdoor pool and jacuzzi, an on-site doctor’s... Read More »

Executives on the Move

Greystone, a real estate lending, investment and advisory company based out of New York City, has appointed a new CEO, Hafize Gaye Erkan. A former executive at publicly traded First Republic Bank, she takes over this position after 18 years of experience in the banking sector. She has a distinguished background, holding a Ph.D. in Financial Engineering from Princeton University, and has spent nearly a decade with Goldman Sachs.  Dr. Erkan plans to expand Greystone into new areas of financial services while continuing to provide real estate finance services. Her banking and wealth management experience will be utilized to expand Greystone’s lending products and private wealth management... 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 »