• SLIB Sells High-Quality SNFs in Georgia

    Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of two large skilled nursing facilities in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. Totaling 439 licensed beds, the facilities are set in prime suburban markets on valuable real estate. Additionally, there was limited competition in their markets. As a result, the... Read More »
  • Invesque Shifts Focus to Senior Care Sales

    Invesque reported its first quarter earnings, highlighting a few M&A updates. Back in the first quarter of 2024, the company had announced it entered into purchase and sale agreements for three investment properties in New York, expecting to close on the sale transactions in the first six months of 2025. A sale involving one of the properties... Read More »
  • Turnkey RCAC Sale Closes in Wisconsin

    Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty handled an RCAC sale in Northwest Wisconsin. The community is under two hours from the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA, with strong occupancy and all private pay residents. It was “turnkey” and profitable at the time of sale. The deal, which closed in May at 104% of the asking price, was based on a 2024 cap rate of... Read More »
  • Mississippi Seniors Housing Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    Steven Muth and Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia recently completed the refinancing of a four-property seniors housing portfolio in Mississippi for a Southeast-based owner/operator, which is a first-time Berkadia client. Proceeds of the $14 million HUD loan paid off bank debt and partnership debt from a previous addition funded by the sponsor. The two... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Three Two-Property Deals

    Blueprint has been active, announcing three separate deals involving six separate assets over the last few days. First, Jacob Gehl and Dillon Rudy facilitated the sale of two seniors housing communities in densely populated, urban submarkets on Chicago’s North and South Side. The seller was a nationally recognized institutional private equity... Read More »

CareTrust REIT Provides “B” Piece Loan

CareTrust REIT announced that it has extended a $22.25 million “B” piece secured loan for the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in California, with White Oak Healthcare Partners structuring the financing package. The portfolio comprises approximately 600 beds, and a private investment firm was the buyer. The “B” piece of the secured term loan carries a three-year maturity with two, one-year extensions and an annual SOFR-based interest rate with a minimum floor of 8.5%. White Oak also structured $53.4 million in financing to fund the deal. The borrower and operator were undisclosed, but both have long established relationships with CareTrust. This follows the REIT’s... Read More »

Grandbridge Works on Lifespace Communities Acquisition

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Senior Housing Investment Sales team has successfully arranged the sale of a three-property CCRC portfolio in Texas. The 664-unit portfolio consisted of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units with both entrance fee and rental structures. They include Wesley Court in Abilene, The Craig in Amarillo and Meadow Lake in Tyler. The Tampa-based Grandbridge team led by David Kliewer and Jay Jordan, in partnership with San Diego-based David Rothschild, represented the seller, Dallas-based private equity firm RSF Partners, in a joint venture with Evergreen Senior Living Properties, LLC and its affiliated manager ER Senior... Read More »

Blueprint Capital Markets Finances Lloyd Jones Acquisition

We recently learned that Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors not only represented the REIT owner of an Indiana community that it sold, but Blueprint Capital Markets, run by Alex Florea, secured acquisition financing for the buyer, Lloyd Jones. Rittenhouse Village of Valparaiso, a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2009 in Valparaiso, Indiana. The property appears on National Health Investors’ most recent property list, with Discovery Senior Living serving as the operator/lessee, revealing NHI as the seller in this transaction. The historically profitable community was negatively impacted by the pandemic but started to rebound operationally. Blueprint Capital... Read More »

Monarch Advisors Primes Oregon Community for Permanent Refinance

Monarch Advisors, an affiliate of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, closed a new loan to refinance and expand a 38-unit memory care community in the Portland, Oregon area. The local owner engaged Monarch to source $8.75 million of senior debt for the transaction. Alec Blanc of Monarch secured a commitment from a regional bank that specializes in senior housing nationally. The loan retired the existing bank debt on the property and provided cash at closing to fund a 16-unit expansion. At less than 60% of the as-stabilized value, the community will be well-positioned for a permanent mortgage upon completion and lease-up. The rate floats at Prime with typical financial covenants and... Read More »

Fortress Investment Group Acquires Scottsdale Property

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the sale and acquisition financing for Andara Senior Living, an independent and assisted living community in Scottsdale, Arizona. This transaction was CBRE’s third financing of the community, having previously arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the current seller (real estate investment firm Reliant Group) in 2012 and an agency refinance in 2018. Reliant decided to turn over its asset into the hands of a joint venture between Colonial Oaks Senior Living and Fortress Investment Group. Built in 2010, the community consists of 170 total units spread across a campus of two, three-story residential wings interconnected by a covered walkway. Through... Read More »

Primrose Senior Living Sells Four-State Portfolio

The Primrose Retirement Communities Portfolio consisting of four independent and assisted living communities has been sold to an undisclosed public REIT and a regional private equity group. The portfolio comprises 351 total units (199 IL and 152 AL) and is spread out across four states: Colorado (Pueblo), Indiana (Kokomo), Oklahoma (Stillwater) and Wyoming (Cheyenne).  Built between 2008 and 2013, the seller Primrose Senior Living decided to divest these assets with the intention of recapitalizing, paying off investors, and establishing a new capital relationship. Primrose remained as the portfolio’s operator as well. Each community maintained above-average occupancy levels throughout... Read More »

Parentis Health Acquires Quality Life Homes

Parentis Health has acquired Quality Life Homes, a small senior living portfolio of five communities in Laguna Niguel, California. Parentis Health will be adding this portfolio into its Verona Court portfolio of senior residential care properties. Verona Court will now operate 16 senior care facilities with this latest acquisition.The seller of Quality Life Homes is Dawn Sather, who started her business in 1991 with her husband. After he passed away in 2021, Dawn made the decision to sell the company and ultimately chose Parentis Health as the buyer because of the similar model that Verona Court has in place. With six beds per home and three or fewer patients per caregiver, its staff will... Read More »

Dialyze Direct Partners with CommuniCare

CommuniCare Family of Companies has been in the news a lot lately, with its role in the acquisition of Stonerise Healthcare in West Virginia, but the operator also just announced a partnership with Dialyze Direct, a provider of home hemodialysis services in skilled nursing facilities, to conduct onsite hemodialysis services at its facilities across the country. Dialyze Direct now covers 170 SNFs in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The company has been on a major growth path this year, announcing three separate acquisitions of other dialysis providers: RenPro Renal Services in... Read More »

Northland Networks Closes Construction Loan

Northland Networks recently closed a senior housing construction loan for a project in Ormond Beach, Florida (Daytona Beach MSA). RBS Development Group LLC, an experienced assisted living developer in the state of Florida, is building the community to feature 131 units of assisted living and memory care. Northland Networks served as exclusive placement agent for the $28.5 million loan participation, and Meridian Capital Group handled the transaction. This week, Northland also branched out of the seniors housing business to close a first mortgage loan for Sunview Medical Day, an outpatient behavioral health facility managed by Cedar Health in West Palm Beach, Florida. Northland once again... Read More »

CFG Announced H1:22 Transaction Volume

Capital Funding Group announced its transaction totals for the first half of the year, which surpassed $1.8 billion in financing volume. The deals included 55 bridge loans and 13 HUD loans for the firm’s skilled nursing, assisted living and multifamily clients across the country. Over $1 billion of this financing was attributed to its senior care clients. Highlights of the half-year include a $316.9 million bridge loan to refinance a large skilled nursing portfolio and  $197.5 million acquisition bridge loan for a 24-facility portfolio in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.  Next was a $135 million bridge loan arranged for the refinancing and dividend recapitalization of a... Read More »

Invesque Divests Two New York Communities

Invesque Inc. divested a number of non-core assets in the seniors housing and medical office building sectors, including its interest in two active adult communities in Wheatfield, New York (Buffalo MSA). Originally acquired in 2018 as part of Invesque’s acquisition of Care Investment Trust, the communities were operated by Calamar (which is based in Wheatfield) under a joint venture structure. They were both built in the late-2000s.  The purchase price comes to approximately $29.3 million, or $145,000 per unit, with a cap rate of 5.7% based on trailing NOI. Invesque received net cash proceeds of $10 million at closing, which it plans to use to de-lever and simplify its balance... Read More »