


SoCal Investor Enters Seniors Housing Market in SLIB Deal
A southern California-based investment group made its first seniors housing acquisition, buying Merrill Gardens Oceanside in Oceanside, California (San Diego MSA). An East Coast-based private equity firm hired Brad Goodsell, Jason Punzel and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to sell the property. Built in 1999, the community features 148 beds and 144 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It was around 75% occupied but was losing money at the time of marketing. No purchase price was disclosed. Read More »
Inspired Healthcare Capital Announces 12th Acquisition of 2022
Scottsdale, Arizona-based real estate investment fund and DST sponsor Inspired Healthcare Capital capped its active acquisition year with a December deal. The firm acquired Dancing River, an 84-unit assisted living/memory care community in Grapevine, Texas. Evans Senior Investments announced its involvement in the deal earlier in the month, representing the institutional private equity seller. Built in 2010, Dancing River saw its occupancy drop from 93% to 70% during the pandemic. However, census rebounded to pre-pandemic levels just before marketing began, and the community boasted a 35% margin in early 2022. There is also upside in rent increases, meaning that the operating margin could... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Refinances Nebraska Communities
Walker & Dunlop provided HUD refinancings for two assisted living communities in Nebraska: Fallbrook Assisted Living and Memory Care in Lincoln and Oxbow Living Center in Ashland. Kevin Giusti and Mikko Erkamaa led the W&D teams in both deals on behalf of the borrower, MJ Senior Housing. Both transactions refinanced floating-rate debt and provided cash proceeds. Opened in 2019 with 71 units of assisted living and memory care, Fallbrook received a $13.3 million loan. Oxbow, which was built more than 16 years ago with 79 AL and MC units in three stories, received a $7.6 million loan. Read More »
PE Firms Trade Texas Community
An institutional private equity group sold an 84-unit assisted living/memory care community in Grapevine, Texas (about 20 miles northwest of Dallas), to another private equity company based on the West Coast, with Evans Senior Investments handling the transaction. The property sold for $25 million, or $298,000 per unit. Built in 2010, Dancing River saw its occupancy drop from 93% to 70% during the pandemic. However, census rebounded to pre-pandemic levels just before marketing began, and the community boasted a 35% margin in early 2022. There is also upside in rent increases, meaning that the operating margin could improve even more. Read More »
Denton Floyd Acquires Nashville-Area Assisted Living Communities
Denton Floyd Real Estate Group, along with operating partner Vitality Senior Services, announced its acquisition of two assisted living/memory care communities in the Nashville, Tennessee area. It was also revealed that Bridge Investment Group was the seller, albeit for an undisclosed price. The PE firm acquired the properties in 2014 and has had several operating partners manage them over the years, most recently Vitality Living (different from Vitality Senior Services). Located in Mt. Juliet and Franklin, the communities combine for 115 units of assisted living and memory care. Both were built around 2010 and experienced a COVID-related decline in operations. However, occupancy and cash... Read More »
Lument Handles Sale & Two Financings
The Lument team pulled double duty for the sale of two assisted living communities in Florida, representing the seller in the deal and arranging acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer. Savannah Court of Lake Wales and Savannah Court of Haines City, which both feature 45 units of assisted living, were acquired by Innovation Senior Living. Both serve Medicaid-waiver residents, and Innovation has plans to add 15 licensed beds to each community, in addition to growing census and investing in renovations. The additional beds will allow the communities to accept more Medicaid waiver residents into double occupancy rooms. Innovation funded the purchase with a single loan in a cross-pool... Read More »
Greystone Secures Two Bank Refinances
Greystone placed a $22.5 million loan with a regional bank to refinance TREEO South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Utah. Tyler Armstrong of Greystone closed the transaction on behalf of Leisure Care. The community was built in 2015 by One Eighty with the help of $3.65 million in mezzanine financing arranged by HJ Sims. The new mortgage comes with a floating rate, five-year term and 30-year amortization. It was structured with one year of interest-only payments and a mid-200s basis point loan spread over SOFR. Mr. Armstrong also placed a $30 million loan with a national bank for LCS to refinance The Delaney at Lake Waco, a 169-unit senior living community in Waco, Texas.... Read More »
The Night Before Christmas 2022
‘Twas the night before Christmas,And all through the community,Not a resident was stirring,As they took all their meds early.The offerings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that a PE firm or REIT would still dare,The lenders were nestled all snug in their bed,With visions of term sheets that would not leave them for dead,And Cindy Baier in her kerchief and I with my pen,Had just settled down to discuss, but when?When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,She sprang from the board room to see what was the matter,Away to the window we flew like a flash,And tore open the shutters to see who brought the cash.The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,Gave a lustre of... Read More »Two Tennessee Transactions from Blueprint
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale of two transactions in Tennessee featuring three total properties. First, a Southeast-based developer/owner/operator acquired two assisted living/memory care communities in the Nashville MSA. Featuring a combined 115 units, split between 89 assisted living and 26 memory care units, the communities were built in 2010 and 2011 and experienced a COVID-related decline in operations. However, occupancy and cash flow had rebounded by the time of the sale, but with still a little improvement in store for a new owner. The communities were previously owned by a private equity firm, which was represented by Brooks Blackmon, Kyle Hallion and... Read More »