• 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 »

CareTrust REIT Makes A Couple of Announcements

CareTrust REIT made a couple of announcements around the holiday weekend, starting with Greg Stapley resigning as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. In conjunction with the announcement, CareTrust also revealed that Lead Independent Director Diana Laing was appointed to replace Mr. Stapley as Chair of the Board, and CEO David Sedgwick was appointed as a director. Mr. Stapley had stepped down as CEO in January 2021 with the intention of pursuing a full-time international volunteer assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and stepping down from the board will allow him to devote 100% of his energy to the mission. CareTrust then announced a transaction where it... Read More »

Dwight Mortgage Trust Provides Acquisition Bridge Loan

Dwight Mortgage Trust, the mortgage REIT affiliate of Dwight Capital, provided a $27.25 million bridge acquisition loan for Beachside Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, a 239-bed skilled nursing facility in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Built in 1967, the facility offers short- and long-term care services. It was previously owned by Atlantic Avenue Facility LLC, an entity affiliated with Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Millennium Health Systems, but a skilled nursing owner/operator has taken over the facility.  The loan comes with a 30-month term and was arranged at 75% loan-to-cost. Its proceeds will be used towards both the acquisition and capital expenditures at the facility.... Read More »

CFG Closes Large SNF Bridge Loan

Capital Funding Group announced its recent transaction activity which was highlighted by a $135 million bridge loan arranged for the refinancing and dividend recapitalization of a skilled nursing portfolio. The nine facilities feature 1,448 beds across Maryland, Georgia and West Virginia. CFG’s Tim Eberhardt and Ava Julio originated the transaction for a well-known skilled nursing owner, but further details were not disclosed. CFG also provided a $32.9 million construction loan for the ground-up development of Varenita of Temecula. The 108-bed assisted living/memory care community is located in Temecula, within Riverside County between Los Angeles and San Diego. It was developed by Griffin... Read More »

VIUM Capital Wraps Up Q2 with SNF Portfolio Refinance

VIUM Capital is having quite a year and wrapped up its second quarter with 25 closed transactions totaling $1 billion. This brings the lender’s total in the first half of the year to nearly $1.3 billion across 43 loans. The transactions consisted of bridge and permanent debt, financing projects in 15 states. Since being founded in April 2020, VIUM has grown to over 20 employees and earlier this year rolled out its healthcare debt fund in conjunction with an affiliate of joint venture partner, Merchants Capital. The firm finished the quarter with a large refinance of six skilled nursing facilities on behalf of their Midwest-based owner/operator. VIUM secured approximately $130 million in... 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 »