• Blueprint Closes Two Seniors Transactions in Ohio

    Blueprint recently handled two transactions in Ohio. First, Conner Doherty and Ryan Kelly facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in a desirable market in Ohio. The not-for-profit seller was The Heritage Retirement Community. Built in 2000, The Belvedere of Westlake comprises 24 assisted living and nine memory care units in Westlake.... Read More »
  • Invesque Shareholders to Vote on Two Proposals

    Invesque has called a special shareholder meeting for June 18, 2025, where shareholders will vote on two proposals. First, they will consider enabling Invesque’s board to sell or lease substantially all of the company’s assets through one or more transactions. That could include direct asset sales, the sale of subsidiary equity, mergers, or other... Read More »
  • Dwight Mortgage Trust Finances Bridge Loan

    Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of Dwight Capital, financed a $20 million bridge loan for Bria of Palos Hills, a 207-bed skilled nursing facility in Palos Hills, Illinois (Chicago MSA). Originally built in 1980, the facility received a major renovation and expansion in 2016 with the addition of a two-story wing connected to the original... Read More »
  • Kisco Senior Living Buys Beds in North Carolina

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage was engaged by a North Carolina-based skilled nursing owner to confidentially market and sell 75 adult care home beds in Wake County, North Carolina. The beds were affiliated with multiple skilled nursing facilities located across the county and were slated for sale because the owner was eliminating assisted... Read More »
  • Texas Capital Bank Provides Financing to Regional Operator

    A California-based regional senior care operator with more than 20 facilities across the western United States recently obtained a revolving credit facility, arranged by Grant Goodman of G Capital. Proceeds from the $30 million facility will be used to support working capital requirements and continue the owner’s strategic expansion as new... Read More »
SLIB Handles Wisconsin Assisted Living Portfolio Deal

SLIB Handles Wisconsin Assisted Living Portfolio Deal

A private owner that acquired a portfolio of eight value-add assisted living communities in Wisconsin over the years and turned them around has decided to sell, enlisting the help of Jason Punzel, Ryan Saul and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to do so. An experienced assisted living owner with an existing portfolio in Florida, Tennessee and Minnesota and plans to grow in the Midwest emerged as the buyer.  Totaling 449 units, the portfolio is concentrated around Milwaukee and includes properties built from 1906 to the mid-2000s. Occupancy also ranged widely from 65% to 95%, averaging 84% across the portfolio. Given the vintages, we imagine some work needs to be... Read More »
Assisted Living Portfolio Sells in Midwest

Assisted Living Portfolio Sells in Midwest

The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap has closed the sale of a portfolio comprising four assisted living communities within Iowa and Illinois. The purchase price for the 160-unit portfolio was $23.8 million, or $148,750 per unit, with a 7.2% cap rate. Built between 2013 and 2017, the four identical 40-unit communities were performing well at the time of the sale, with average occupancy at 91%. They also earned more than $1.7 million in NOI. Three of the buildings are located in Iowa and operate with 30 assisted living and 10 memory care units, while the western Illinois property has 24 assisted living and 16 memory care units. Justin Knapp and Andrew VanZee of The Knapp-Stahler... Read More »
Highland Meadows Health & Rehab Refinances

Highland Meadows Health & Rehab Refinances

Greystone has provided $12.75 million in bridge financing for the acquisition of Highland Meadows Health & Rehab. Now owned and operated by HACO Health Solutions LLC, this 120-bed skilled nursing facility sits on 7 acres in the greater Dallas area. Originally built in 2015, the five-star facility has a plethora of amenities and services. Such services include physical, occupational, speech therapies, specialized programs such as ortho, stroke recovery, post-surgical and cardiac rehabilitation.  Greystone is a private national commercial real estate finance company. This financing is the company’s third in Texas since the start of 2022, although the other two were not in seniors... Read More »
Castle Lanterra Makes Second Active Adult Investment

Castle Lanterra Makes Second Active Adult Investment

Castle Lanterra Active Adult, a division of multifamily investor Castle Lanterra, has acquired Reserve at Lakeside, a brand-new 102-unit active adult community located in Newburgh, New York (about an hour north of New York City). Built in 2021, the community has high-end finishes and spacious rooms with resort-like amenities.   Castle Lanterra is bullish on the active adult sector and will be looking to add more active adult communities to its portfolio. To them, an appealing aspect of the active adult sector is its low barriers to entry. With more widespread appeal for these communities, it makes an attractive investment for a variety of real estate investment firms like Castle... Read More »
Link Senior Development & The Roxborough Group Acquires Phoenix Asset

Link Senior Development & The Roxborough Group Acquires Phoenix Asset

Link Senior Development and The Roxborough Group, LLC announced the acquisition of Park Terrace Senior Living, an amenity-rich, 301-unit independent living and assisted living community in Phoenix, Arizona. We learned about the deal last month, when Tyler Merrill of Merrill Commercial Real Estate announced that he handled the transaction.  Originally built in 1986 as a hotel, the 300,000-square foot building had 168 guestrooms where every unit was a two-room suite. After a $20 million capital improvements/conversion project by an independent owner/operator, it now features 301 units of independent living and assisted living. It is billed as a “resort-style” community with two outdoor... Read More »
Northmarq Refinances Seattle Senior Living Campus

Northmarq Refinances Seattle Senior Living Campus

Northmarq has completed a $33 million refinancing of The Gardens at Town Square. This 168-unit seniors housing community in Bellevue, Washington features independent living, assisted living and memory care. The loan comes with a 10-year fixed rate term and a 30-year amortization, with one year of interest-only payments. This ultimately retired $20.4 million in existing agency debt and returned equity to the borrower.  Northmarq arranged the financing for the borrower and operator, ERA Living. Northmarq has an annual transaction volume of $33 billion and a loan servicing portfolio of more than $70 billion. Read More »
More Good Occupancy News

More Good Occupancy News

Brookdale Senior Living just reported that its May weighted average occupancy increased by 70 basis points from April, to 74.6%. Even better, month-end occupancy in May increased by 90 basis points in May compared with the end of April, hitting 76.2% at the end of May. That’s 460 basis points higher than the end of May in 2021. And, they had more than 2,000 move-ins in May.   This is all counter to the usual performance in the second quarter for the industry, so all is good. Except (always an except), Brookdale’s overall census is still quite low at 76.2%, and needs a lot more of these 90-basis point increases. The third quarter is historically the strongest of the year for... Read More »
Highland Meadows Health & Rehab Refinances

Carnegie Capital Finances Boston-Area Acquisition

A partnership between a regional New England operator and a private fund based in Atlanta acquired a 120-bed skilled nursing facility located about 40 miles from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Built in the 1980s, the facility was occupied in the 80s. Its new owners were able to consummate the deal with an acquisition loan arranged by JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital.  The financing included a $4 million bank loan and a $1.5 million working capital line of credit. Mr. Stettin arranged the bank loan to include an earn out upon achieving a 1.25x debt service coverage ratio, which represents 82% of the purchase price. It comes with a five-year term, fixed rate of 4.35% and two years of... Read More »
Eden Senior Care Acquires Cleveland Community

Eden Senior Care Acquires Cleveland Community

Skokie, Illinois-based Eden Senior Care added an undisclosed assisted living community located in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area to its portfolio, taking over operations from an East Coast based private equity firm. Eden Senior Care will hope to turn things around for the community, as occupancy was 47% and it was losing money on $2.1 million in revenue.   Built in 1999, the community features 90 units in seven cottages, with a combination of assisted living and memory care. It comprises roughly 50,000 square feet and is close proximity to a plethora of shops and restaurants. Recently, the community has also undergone multiple amenity renovations since the start of 2017. Evans Senior... Read More »
Standard Communities Acquires California Portfolio

Standard Communities Acquires California Portfolio

Standard Communities acquired three California seniors housing communities, comprising a total of 559 rental units in Anaheim, San Diego county, and the Bay area. They will be taking over operations from Denver-based property management group AIR Communities, with plans to upgrade the plumbing, HVAC electrical, fire safety and security, as well as make general repairs. Heritage Village Anaheim is a spacious and upscale community consisting of 196 units. According to property records the purchase price was $64 million or about $326,531 per unit. Heritage Park Livermore, located just outside of San Francisco, comprises 167 units with an array of amenities. With rents starting at $2,000 a... Read More »
Live Oak Bank and Locust Point Finance San Diego Construction Project

Live Oak Bank and Locust Point Finance San Diego Construction Project

Live Oak Bank and Locust Point Capital collaborated to close a $28 million construction loan through an A/B unitranche product for a partnership between RhodesMoore, a San Diego, California-based developer, and Portland, Oregon-based operator Frontier Management, LLC. The financing will support the ground-up construction and lease-up of a Class-A, 81-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego.   Called Mt. Acadia, the urban infill development will consist of a 73,000-square-foot building, a 32-space parking deck and 29 surface parking spaces on 1.52 acres. In addition, there will be a 4,440-square foot commercial building with four bays. No other... Read More »