• SLIB’s Active Start to May 

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage hit a rich vein of activity at the start of May, reporting several closings for seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. First, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Grants Pass, Oregon. Built in the 1960s, Oak Lane Retirement... Read More »
  • Final Asset Closes in SNF Portfolio Acquired by Ensign

    The Ensign Group acquired the real estate and operations of Marianwood Health and Rehabilitation, a 117-bed skilled nursing facility in Issaquah, Washington. The real estate was acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc., Ensign’s captive real estate company, and will be operated by an Ensign-affiliated tenant. The... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Financing for Two Standalone-Memory Care Communities

    BWE, together with Blueprint Capital Markets, closed two loans totaling $17.82 million to provide financing for the acquisition of two Class-A memory care communities: Windsong at Southridge ($10.42 million) and Windsong at Eola Hills ($7.4 million). Lundat Kassa of BWE handled the financing, having been brought onto the deal by the team at... Read More »
  • Montgomery Intermediary Group Announces M&A and Financing Activity

    Montgomery Intermediary Group continued its active 2025 with a financing and two recent M&A closings. First, Jeremy Warren worked on behalf of an owner/operator seeking to recapitalize a 210-unit assisted living community that was originally a purpose-built hotel. The goal was to generate cash for ownership and to finance cosmetic renovations... Read More »
  • Live Oak Closes Bridge-to-Sale Loan

    In April 2025, Live Oak Bank closed a $25 million bridge loan for a Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I, LP-held seniors housing community. The loan provides a bridge-to-sale and features a three-year initial term, 36 months of interest-only payments and $2.8 million in potential future earnout proceeds. Loan proceeds were used to return capital to... Read More »

SLIB Closes Land Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage has closed the land sale of an 8.9-acre parcel entitled for 98 seniors housing units, in Woodburn, Oregon. The land sold for $1.7 million, just south of Portland. The buyer was an Oregon-based development group. Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Read More »

Cushman & Wakefield Refinances Stamford, Connecticut Community

Cushman & Wakefield announced the refinancing of a newly developed assisted living/memory care community in Stamford, Connecticut on behalf of Virtus and LCB Senior Living, LLC. Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Jim Dooley and Joseph Carbone represented the borrower in the transaction, which allowed them to repay the original construction loan and provided four years of interest only during the stabilization period. The loan was provided by VIUM Capital and its affiliate Merchants Bank of Indiana. In addition, the financing repaid the original $23.268 million construction loan from M&T Bank (originally arranged by Cushman & Wakefield as well) and provided a four-year interest-only... Read More »

Meridian Capital Group Refinances Simi Valley Community

Meridian Capital Group arranged $40 million in financing for an assisted living and memory care community in Simi Valley, California. Griffin Living, a large privately held real estate developer, obtained the loan, which was provided by a finance company. Proceeds of the loan repaid an existing construction loan and provided a return of capital to the owners while the community was still in lease-up.  Meridian’s Ari Adlerstein, Josh Simpson and Jesse Rauch negotiated the transaction. The refinanced community is Varenita of Simi Valley, comprising 75 assisted living and 27 memory care units and equipped with resort-like amenities. Such amenities include multiple dining options, a fitness... Read More »

CA Ventures Partners on Oregon Construction Project

A joint venture between CA Ventures and an institutional equity partner is building a 206-unit senior living community in Beaverton, Oregon (Portland MSA) with construction financing arranged by CBRE National Senior Housing. Anthology of Beaverton will consist of 206 independent living, assisted living and memory care units near the Tanasbourne shopping district, which includes a Whole Foods, Starbucks, REI, and several other shopping and dining locations. Anthology Senior Living, CA Venture’s senior living platform, will operate it upon completion. The transaction also marked the beginning of Anthology’s strategic alliance with Formation Development Group, having contributed to the... Read More »

Ararat Home buys Seniors Housing

Los Angeles-based Ararat Home is expanding its presence in Glendale, California with the acquisition of Windsor. The community comprises 73 independent living units in addition to accommodating 38 residents in its assisted living and 28 residents in its skilled nursing sections. Sitting on two acres and occupying a full city block, the community has easy access to Glendale’s services and shopping. With rent prices starting at $3,000 a month the community is equipped with amenities such as a fitness center, live theater, a pharmacy, 24-hour security and more.The seller of the property is the not-for-profit HumanGood. The Duarte, California-based organization currently holds a portfolio of... Read More »

Sunrise Senior Living Second Staten Island Development

Sunrise Senior Living has officially opened its second senior living community on Staten Island. The 120-unit Sunrise of New Drop has 85,000 square feet across four stories and sits on four acres. Providing assisted living and memory care service, it sits adjacent to New Drop High School, with which it plans on creating intergenerational programming to bring high schoolers into the community for volunteering and potential employment. In addition, a celebrity chef will design the menu and manage the dining experience. KBE Building Corporation and PWC Companies built the community, which sits about two miles south of Sunrise’s other community in the borough, Sunrise of Staten... Read More »

Lloyd Jones Announces Sixth Acquisition of 2022

Lloyd Jones Senior Living has been one of the most active acquirers of the year, so far, having just announced its sixth purchase in 2022. The recent target was Rittenhouse Village of Valparaiso, a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2009 in Valparaiso, Indiana. The historically profitable community was negatively impacted by the pandemic but started to rebound operationally.  Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Brooks Blackmon, Ryan Kelly and Connor Doherty were engaged by a publicly traded REIT to market and sell the community. The property appears on National Health Investors’ most recent property list, with Discovery Senior Living serving as the... Read More »

Senwell Handles Senior Care Portfolio Sale in Ohio

Senwell Senior Investment Advisors has closed the sale of a skilled nursing/assisted living facility portfolio in Ohio consisting of four sites. The Ohio-based owner decided to sell the portfolio with intention of leaving the senior care sector and shifting its focus on its growing ancillary business (mainly hospice). The facilities were cash flowing, but a recent Medicaid rate increase across all facilities and a jump in occupancy due to a local SNF closing presented additional upside for a new owner. As such, six attractive offers were submitted, and the eventual buyer, a regional operator with several recent acquisitions in the state, purchased the portfolio at above asking price. The... Read More »

The Waters of Highland Park Acquired

Cushman & Wakefield announced that it has advised a joint venture between The Waters Senior Living and an institutional capital partner in the procurement of a $16.5 million acquisition loan for the purchase of The Waters of Highland Park, an 84-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community located in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota. Such amenities include a salon and spa, a theater and wellness services.  Waters Senior Living originally developed the community in 2015 and managed it but will now be taking ownership of the property. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Sam Dylag and Bailey Nygard represented the borrower in the... Read More »

Monarch Advisors/VIUM Capital Refinances South Texas SNF

Monarch Advisors refinanced and recapitalized a skilled nursing facility in south Texas for its in-state owner/operator. After leasing the property in 2017, the operator exercised its purchase option in 2018 and continued to improve operating performance during the pandemic. Monarch sourced a $17.08 million senior loan from VIUM Capital/Merchants Bank of Indiana, which retired the existing bank debt on the property and provided cash at closing to help fund the client’s future growth plans. At approximately 60% loan-to-value, the loan is structured for a quick exit to HUD, with a one-year maturity, two six-month extensions and a full term of interest only. There is also partial recourse... Read More »

Lument Leads Stonerise Healthcare’s Sale

Lument Securities announced that it recently advised Stonerise Healthcare on its sale to a New York-based real estate investment firm and an operating partner, CommuniCare Health Services. Stonerise’s network of care included 17 owned and operated skilled nursing facilities throughout West Virginia totaling 1,955 beds, a therapy company, seven home health and hospice agencies, an institutional special needs plan and a SNF development project.  Lument had a decade-long HUD financing relationship with Stonerise (which was led by Thomas Gale), and Laca Wong-Hammond and Dominic Porretta led the transaction as its exclusive financial advisor. The skilled nursing portfolio and therapy company... Read More »