• 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 »

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 »

Jonathan Rose Co. Buys Seniors Housing Complex

Jonathan Rose Co. and Jamboree Housing have acquired Belage Manor, a 180-unit affordable senior housing complex in Anaheim, California for the purchase price of $41 million, or $227,000 per unit. This marks the 12th deal to close under the Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund V. California-based nonprofit Jamboree Housing along with the fund will invest $9 million in renovations to make significant improvements to the complex. Capital One Healthcare provided a $28 million Fannie Mae first mortgage loan as part of the GSE’s Enhanced Resident Services program.  Read More »

Omni Smart Living Refinances Two Communities Through JLL

JLL Capital Markets arranged short-term financing for two newly built communities totaling 328 units in North Olmsted and North Royalton, Ohio. The two high-quality communities comprise independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The borrower is real estate investment group Omni Smart Living, for which JLL secured a three-year, floating-rate loan through a national debt fund. The first property is the 160-unit Vitalia North Olmsted, and the other is the 168-unit Vitalia North Royalton, both located roughly 10 to 15 minutes outside of downtown Cleveland. Joel Mendes and Billy Lichtenstein of JLL Capital Markets represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »

BMO Harris Bank Closes Big Refinance for Phoenix CCRC

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed on a whopping $145 million term facility with two participating banks to recapitalize Sagewood, an entrance-fee CCRC in Phoenix, Arizona. Westminster Capital and LCS own the property, with LCS serving as operator since its opening in 2010. The community has been expanded over the years, most recently with a $100 million, 101-unit independent living project in 2021, and now features 417 IL units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. The existing IL units were fully occupied prior to the project, and 96% of the new units were pre-sold by the end of 2018.  At that time, LCS and... Read More »

ESI Handles New Jersey SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a struggling skilled nursing facility in Clark Township, New Jersey. Built in 1995 with more than 130 beds, the facility saw pre-pandemic occupancy levels of 85% plummet to 56% by the time of sale. The seller is a regional owner/operator, which sought to exit this facility given the distance from its existing portfolio. Evans Senior Investments, which closed another SNF sale for the regional owner/operator in July in Volusia County, Florida, found an East Coast-based owner/operator within 25 days of starting the marketing process to purchase this asset, adding to its established portfolio. According to LevinPro LTC, Evans Seniors Investments... Read More »

Investor Group Acquires Georgia Communities

A group of individual investors acquired two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. 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 Grove Assisted Living in Barnesville features 34 units and was around 97% occupied. River Place Assisted Living in Forsyth was built more recently in 2017 and features 35 units with 93% occupancy. There is an expansion opportunity at the Barnesville location, which... Read More »

RAM Properties Acquires Florida Portfolio

A private institutional group sold three seniors housing communities in Florida to RAM Properties, a boutique private equity firm backed by a family office. RAM paid $70.85 million, or $158,000 per unit, for the portfolio and brought in its Florida-based operating partner Concordis Senior Living to take over management.  The properties included 253 independent/assisted living units (all licensed for assisted living) and 193 memory care units, averaging more than 20 years in age but with multiple renovations over the years. When the portfolio went under LOI, occupancy was in the 80s, but that improved throughout the process into the 90s at closing. In addition, previous resident rent... Read More »