• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... Read More »

Omni Smart Living Refinances Two Communities Through JLL

JLL Capital Markets arranged short-term financing for two newly built communities totaling 328 units in North Olmsted and North Royalton, Ohio. The two high-quality communities comprise independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The borrower is real estate investment group Omni Smart Living, for which JLL secured a three-year, floating-rate loan through a national debt fund. The first property is the 160-unit Vitalia North Olmsted, and the other is the 168-unit Vitalia North Royalton, both located roughly 10 to 15 minutes outside of downtown Cleveland. Joel Mendes and Billy Lichtenstein of JLL Capital Markets represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »

BMO Harris Bank Closes Big Refinance for Phoenix CCRC

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed on a whopping $145 million term facility with two participating banks to recapitalize Sagewood, an entrance-fee CCRC in Phoenix, Arizona. Westminster Capital and LCS own the property, with LCS serving as operator since its opening in 2010. The community has been expanded over the years, most recently with a $100 million, 101-unit independent living project in 2021, and now features 417 IL units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. The existing IL units were fully occupied prior to the project, and 96% of the new units were pre-sold by the end of 2018.  At that time, LCS and... Read More »

ESI Handles New Jersey SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a struggling skilled nursing facility in Clark Township, New Jersey. Built in 1995 with more than 130 beds, the facility saw pre-pandemic occupancy levels of 85% plummet to 56% by the time of sale. The seller is a regional owner/operator, which sought to exit this facility given the distance from its existing portfolio. Evans Senior Investments, which closed another SNF sale for the regional owner/operator in July in Volusia County, Florida, found an East Coast-based owner/operator within 25 days of starting the marketing process to purchase this asset, adding to its established portfolio. According to LevinPro LTC, Evans Seniors Investments... Read More »

Investor Group Acquires Georgia Communities

A group of individual investors acquired two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the communities sold for a cap rate in the mid-8s, slightly higher than the sector’s average in the last few years. Daniel Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Built in 2007, Sunny Grove Assisted Living in Barnesville features 34 units and was around 97% occupied. River Place Assisted Living in Forsyth was built more recently in 2017 and features 35 units with 93% occupancy. There is an expansion opportunity at the Barnesville location, which... Read More »

RAM Properties Acquires Florida Portfolio

A private institutional group sold three seniors housing communities in Florida to RAM Properties, a boutique private equity firm backed by a family office. RAM paid $70.85 million, or $158,000 per unit, for the portfolio and brought in its Florida-based operating partner Concordis Senior Living to take over management.  The properties included 253 independent/assisted living units (all licensed for assisted living) and 193 memory care units, averaging more than 20 years in age but with multiple renovations over the years. When the portfolio went under LOI, occupancy was in the 80s, but that improved throughout the process into the 90s at closing. In addition, previous resident rent... Read More »

Struggling Florida SNF Sells

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a large 200+ bed skilled nursing facility in Volusia County, Florida. Built in the 1960s, the facility features semiprivate rooms and three-bed wards. Occupancy rates averaged 73% before the pandemic. However, at the time of the sale, the facility was losing money while occupancy dipped to 41%. The seller was a regional owner/operator who was looking to get rid of the struggling geographic outlier from its portfolio. An East Coast owner/operator, adding to their skilled nursing facility portfolio, ended up as the buyer.  Read More »