• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »
  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »
  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »
  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... Read More »
Active Adult Development in Texas

Active Adult Development in Texas

Grace Management, Inc, a subsidiary of CPF Living, and Padua Realty Company have announced the groundbreaking of The Lakes at Woodhaven Village, its newest active adult community in Conroe, Texas. The community will complement the existing 171-unit Woodhaven Village Campus which comprises 27 independent living cottages, 60 IL units, 24 memory care units and 60 assisted living units. The 130,000-square-foot community will sit on five acres just north of Houston and is expected to open in spring 2024. Working on this development are developers Padua Realty Company, its affiliated construction company Dorado Builders, Grace Management, Investwell Architects, interior design firm Lizabeth... Read More »
Archway Communities Acquires Affordable Seniors Housing in Colorado

Archway Communities Acquires Affordable Seniors Housing in Colorado

Archway Communities has announced the acquisition of an affordable seniors housing community in Denver, Colorado. Built in 1962, Montview Manor comprises 88 units and stands 12 stories tall for lower income seniors. Montview Building Corporation, an affiliate of the Montview Presbyterian Church, sold the community, recently upgrading some of the units. Financing for this community was provided by the naturally occurring affordable housing preservation (NOAH). Financing for the community included: A first mortgage through Impact Development Fund (IDF), a local CDFIA new secondary financing product from CHFA that supports preservation projects Acquisition financing from the Colorado... Read More »
A Ventas-Priority Life Care Turnaround Success

A Ventas-Priority Life Care Turnaround Success

We all know that seniors housing census has pretty much increased across the board since the bottom was hit in March 2021, nearly two years ago. But the pace of that increase has been slowing. A case in point is Brookdale Senior Living’s stall in October and November, and we have not even hit the worst flu months yet, and this one is supposed to be a doozy. Late last year, after Ventas removed the operator for its Eclipse Senior Living portfolio (the former Elmcroft Senior Living portfolio) and basically shut down the management company, the REIT dispersed the management of the roughly 90 communities in 20 states across eight other operators. Maybe some old-fashioned TLC from smaller... Read More »
Ziegler Closes North Carolina CCRC Expansion Financing

Ziegler Closes North Carolina CCRC Expansion Financing

Ziegler announced the closing of $58.1 million in bond financing for a CCRC in North Carolina. Built in 1983, Twin Lakes community is a not-for-profit CCRC that comprises 434 independent living units, 36 assisted living units, 32 memory care assisted living units and 104 health care units on 215 acres of land in the town of Elon. After being renovated in 2019 with the construction and replacement of the skilled nursing facility, Twin Lakes is now planning a 48-unit independent living expansion known as the Stockton Apartment Building. The project will be financed with Series 2022A bonds issued through the North Carolina Medical Care Commission that are structured in two tranches. First was... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Refinances Wisconsin AL Community

Walker & Dunlop Refinances Wisconsin AL Community

Walker & Dunlop arranged a $14.7 million HUD loan to refinance Reena Senior Living, an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin (between Madison and Milwaukee). The community consists of a three-story assisted living building that was built in 2016 and a one-story memory care addition that was built in 2019. Kevin Giusti and Matthew Lund of Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Tukka Properties, a Wisconsin-based senior living developer that has partnered with Lifesprk Senior Living, which acquired Tealwood Senior Living in 2021. Read More »
Archway Communities Acquires Affordable Seniors Housing in Colorado

Charter Senior Living Will Operate High-End Miami Community

An upscale independent living community in the Westchester neighborhood of Miami, Florida, is set to open its doors in the new year, Miami-based commercial real estate owners and developers AJP Ventures and Mas Group, in addition to equity partner OCTA, completed construction of The Contemporary, which features one- and two-bedroom units on a six-acre campus. Charter Senior Living will operate it upon opening. Located on the same campus is MedSquare Place, a medical office building also in development by the two developers. Read More »

Spotlight on Senior Care M&A

The seniors housing and care industry has witnessed incredible growth so far in the 21st century, surviving the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic among other bumps along the way. Despite the headwinds, investors continue to pour money into the space in search of higher returns and to capitalize on demographic trends. But post-pandemic, where did valuations settle across the senior care sectors and why? Check out the just-published special report, Spotlight on Senior Care M&A to see the latest M&A stats and market analysis. Read More Read More »
JLL Handles Two Divestments for Public REIT

JLL Handles Two Divestments for Public REIT

Working on behalf of a publicly traded REIT, Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of JLL Capital Markets handled the sale of four assisted living/memory care communities across two transactions. The first deal, which closed in October, involved two communities both built in 2000 in affluent Atlanta submarkets. Totaling around 135 assisted living and memory care units, the communities were occupied in the high-70s but were losing money. The undisclosed buyer will replace the current management company with two separate operators. There was no disclosed purchase price. Second, Garbers and Tremper sold two AL/MC communities in the Houston, Texas area on behalf of a publicly traded REIT. This time,... Read More »
Archway Communities Acquires Affordable Seniors Housing in Colorado

Blueprint Facilitates Stand-Alone Memory Care Sale in Oklahoma

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of a stand-alone memory care community in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of a national private equity seller. Built in 2010, Town Village Retirement Community comprises 38 units and had always had strong historical occupancy but was negatively impacted by the pandemic. However, it has since been in the early stages of a performance rebound. The community was positioned as a value-add opportunity for buyers to capitalize on the scarcity of stand-alone memory care competitors to build a more high-end offering through a targeted capital improvement plan and the conversion of semi-private units. After receiving multiple... Read More »
Active Adult Development in Texas

Two Assisted Living Communities Sell in Florida

The DeMarco Real Estate Group of RE/MAX 5 Star Realty has announced the sale of two assisted living communities for $12.1 million in the state of Florida. The two communities comprise a total of 131 beds and reside in the greater Miami area in the towns of Margate and Davie. The communities specialize in memory care and operate under the name Caring Village. The seller of the communities was PrivCap Cos, who ultimately sold the assets to a private investment group from New York. At the time of sale the communities held an occupancy of 71% and sold at a 2% cap rate.  The Margate asset was previously sold in 2020 for a purchase price of $7 million. However, that sale did not include the... Read More »
Latest Seniors Housing Development Activity

Latest Seniors Housing Development Activity

We have tracked multiple seniors housing projects announcing their groundbreakings across the country this past week. In East Chicago, funding for a $51 million affordable seniors housing development has been secured by several investors. Lakeshore Manor will comprise 206 units across two separate four-story buildings. DTM Real Estate will develop the new affordable seniors housing project, which will replace the 1972-built John B. Nicosia Senior Housing high-rise that stood nine stories tall for the past 50 years. In a separate development, we have learned that the 2,200-acre, 3,500-home development along Lake Travis, just outside of Austin, Texas will include seniors housing units. The... Read More »