• 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 »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Investors Need Some Straight Talk

I know we live in a litigious country, and public companies have their teams of lawyers and PR consultants to protect them, telling them to disclose a minimum amount of information. But don’t you think it is time for some straight talk? I do. We are coming out of the pandemic distress, slowly for some and not as slow for others. Butwith census growth not what it was in the second and third quarters of 2021, let’s admit that this will be a long slog. We need both large census increases combined with margin increases. We will not get both as long as labor costs keep rising and inflation levels remain at 40-year records. And it is doubtful we will get back to the census levels of 2014-2015... Read More »

Queen Creek Community Refinances with Fannie Mae

A joint venture between American Care Concepts and private investors refinanced its Queen Creek, Arizona community with the help of JLL Capital Markets. The firm arranged a $10.5 million refinancing for the newly constructed Countryside Living, a 40-unit assisted living and memory care community located just outside of Phoenix. Brad Miner, Alanna Ellis, Martin Mbeteni and Zach Brantley of JLL worked on behalf of the borrower to originate the 10-year, fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan. Also, the loan will be serviced by JLL Real Estate Capital, LLC, a Fannie Mae DUS lender. Read More »

Lument Refinances Great Lakes Portfolio

Lument closed an $87 million HUD refinance of nine skilled nursing facilities with a total of 691 beds located in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Managing Director Brad Competty led the transaction for Lument. The operator, Atrium Centers Inc., is a provider of short-term post-acute rehabilitation and long-term nursing care across its 29 facilities in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin with over 2,000 total beds. The nine refinanced properties had remained stabilized throughout the pandemic and were thus ready for the HUD refinance. Lument was able to obtain low, fixed interest rates on all nine loans before rates significantly rose. Read More »

JLL Refinances Seattle-Area Community

JLL Capital Markets worked on behalf of the borrower, Mirror Lake Village LLC, to secure a $29.5 million refinancing for Mirror Lake Village, a 114-unit, 138-bed senior living community in Federal Way, Washington. The community comprises 30 assisted living units, 66 memory care units and 18 independent living cottages. The combination of balance sheet financing from a regional bank together with retroactive C-Pace provided for full leverage on the reset budget and blended all in rate of 5.21% including 10 years of interest only and 45% of the financing as fixed rate non-recourse. Alanna Ellis of JLL Capital Markets handled the transaction. Read More »

Blueprint Hits a Double in Indiana

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has successfully completed its second Indiana-based transaction in July alone. The deal involved a late 1990s-built assisted living community located in South Bend that saw its operations decline during the pandemic. Its national owner/operator wished to focus on other assets and slotted the struggling community for sale. The winning bidder was a new relationship between a well-capitalized private owner and a new operator seeking to establish a market presence with its first deal. They plan to reposition the asset as an affordable option in the South Bend MSA by utilizing the Indiana Assisted Living Waiver Program. Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly, Amy... Read More »

Ziegler Finances Virginia CCRC Expansion

Ziegler has successfully closed financing for Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury, (SVWC) a large CCRC in Winchester, Virginia. The financing consists of $71 million Series 2022A and 2022B bonds, for the Virginia-based not-for-profit. Founded in 1982, SVWC serves nearly 400 residents on its 87-acre campus with 218 independent living units (164 apartments and 54 cottages), 48 assisted living units, 12 memory care units and 51 skilled nursing beds.Plans for an independent living expansion project are in place, which will include 48 new units. To fund the expansion, SVWC issued two tranches of draw down bank loans that were purchased by Atlantic Union Bank and Pinnacle Financial Partners... Read More »

Upstate New York Community Seeks HUD Take-Out

One year on from acquiring an assisted living/memory care community in Wellsville, New York, ownership is refinancing its acquisition debt with intent of going to HUD within the next year. Built in 1989 with 89 units and 137 beds, this community was the only licensed seniors housing community in Alleghany County. Occupancy was around 80% before COVID-19 struck the community and caused census to fall to 70%. The seller, a private individual looking to retire and divest his last asset, engaged Senior Living Investment Brokerage to sell the property but was not able to move any new admissions in until March 2021 because of the state-mandated admission freeze. COVID caused trailing-12-month... Read More »

Scribner Capital Works on Two Southeast Transactions

Scribner Capital and William James Group (WJG) have joint ventured to acquire two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. Scribner provided co-sponsor equity and leveraged its network of high-net-worth investors to provide the limited partner equity. WJG provided co-sponsor equity as well and will operate the communities on behalf of the venture. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the communities sold for a cap rate in the mid-8s, slightly higher than the sector’s average in the last few years. Daniel Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Built in 2007, Sunny... 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 »