• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... Read More »
SNF Goes from Private to a Not-For-Profit

SNF Goes from Private to a Not-For-Profit

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was tasked with facilitating the sale of a skilled nursing facility on behalf of a New York-based real estate investment firm. The transaction was handled by Ryan Kelly, Steve Thomes, Connor Doherty and Andrew Sfreddo, and it involved a bifurcated process between Blueprint’s Seniors Housing & Care group and Blueprint’s Behavioral Healthcare group.  Known as South Dennis Health Care, the facility encompasses 128 beds and is situated in Dennis, Massachusetts. Both skilled nursing investors and alternative use investors were targeted as potential buyers, with Housing Assistance Corporation Cape Cod, a not-for-profit, emerging as the winning... Read More »
CBRE Arranges Freddie Mac Loan Assumption

CBRE Arranges Freddie Mac Loan Assumption

CBRE recently executed its second financing for the same five-community seniors housing portfolio in Oregon, arranging the assumption of a $55.6 million fixed-rate Freddie Mac loan with an interest rate close to 3.5%. In 2016, CBRE had arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the portfolio’s current seller, but with the debt nearing maturity, the decision to divest was made. Through Freddie Mac’s Optigo lending platform, Aron Will, Adam Mincberg and Michael Cregan of CBRE managed the assumption for the buyer, Arcus Healthcare Partners. Arcus plans on making significant capital improvements across the portfolio. The in-place operator, Frontier Senior Living, has managed these communities... Read More »
Phorcys Partners with SilverPoint on Acquisition

Phorcys Partners with SilverPoint on Acquisition

Phorcys Capital Partners made its second acquisition in a month with the purchase of Inspired Living Lewisville in Lewisville, Texas (Dallas MSA). The alternative asset manager made the acquisition in partnership with SilverPoint Senior Living, an operator with six locations in Texas and Oklahoma, including another assisted living/memory care community in the town of Lewisville. Opened in 2018, the community consists of 106 AL and 43 MC units, with 135,000 square feet in three stories. There are also numerous amenities, including a poker room, pool hall, fireplace lounge, piano balcony, tiki bar, fishing pier, dog park and putting greens. It was developed by Florida-based Validus Senior... Read More »
Colliers Secures Construction Loan For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Colliers Secures Construction Loan For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Christopher Fenton, Catherine Eby, Nick Skarich and Kevin McMahon of Colliers Mortgage closed a $19.4 million construction loan for the development of an independent/assisted living and skilled nursing campus in Hudsonville, Michigan. Expected to open in spring 2024, the 107-unit community will feature a combination of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units.  Amenities will include a bistro, lounge and large community spaces. The loan comes with a 48-month term with one 12-month extension option. Read More »
BWE Adds Seniors Housing Investment Sales Group

BWE Adds Seniors Housing Investment Sales Group

There’s a new seniors housing and care investment sales group in town. BWE Investment Sales, LLC (BWEIS), the investment sales organization that works closely with BWE, a national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, announced today the launched its new seniors housing platform, dubbed BWEIS Seniors. It will be headed by Charles Bissell, most recently a Managing Director with JLL’s Capital Markets Group and a veteran seniors housing leader with over 30 years of experience in the industry. The BWEIS Seniors team will partner with the BWE seniors housing debt and structured finance team to offer a full suite of capital markets solutions to their best-in-class clients across... Read More »
Monarch Advisors Releases Two More Closings

Monarch Advisors Releases Two More Closings

Alec Blanc of Monarch Advisors arranged a new loan to fund a partnership buyout for an Indiana CCRC with a total of 197 skilled nursing beds and independent living units. The borrowers, two of four partners, engaged Monarch to source $17.0 million of senior debt for the transaction. Monarch was successful at securing a bridge-to-HUD commitment from a national bank lender. The two-year interest-only loan, priced at SOFR plus 2.85%, fully funded the repurchase of the membership interests of the exiting partners, with the remaining partners rolling over their equity. In addition to the repurchase, proceeds will be used to fund up to $1.3 million of capital expenditures plus closing costs.... Read More »
SLIB Creates Active Bidding Environment for Indiana Campus

SLIB Creates Active Bidding Environment for Indiana Campus

Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage generated an active, and aggressive bidding environment for a senior care campus in Mulberry, Indiana. The property, which includes 159 skilled nursing beds and 38 independent living units, was built between 1976 and 1997. Occupancy was 80% across the SNF beds, and the IL units were full. The operating margin was very strong, at 22% on more than $14.5 million in revenues. There is also 82+ acres of adjacent farmland and an adjacent vacant building that was included in the sale. A private partnership of four individuals, with two of them looking to retire, was the seller. Ultimately, the other two partners bought out the retiring ones, which... Read More »
Bloom Senior Living Blooming Again

Bloom Senior Living Blooming Again

We have often wondered, and have often been asked, how do buyers decide to buy a community (or two) that is losing money with very low occupancy? How do you have the confidence to go into that market, lose money for several months, maybe several hundred thousand dollars or more, and know that you can increase census from 30% or 40%, which is crucial to get cash flow positive again, and maybe up to 90%? The answer is, 1) you have to know the market, 2) you have to understand why you were able to do the same thing a few years ago, and 3) you have to be able to roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty, and focus on operations. Some companies can do this, but not enough of them. Let’s just... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Purchases Minnesota Seniors Housing Community

Not-For-Profit Purchases Minnesota Seniors Housing Community

A not-for-profit senior living operator based in Minnesota expanded its presence in the state through the acquisition of a seniors housing community in St. Paul that was operating near breakeven at the time of marketing. The Wellington Senior Living, a 120-unit independent living and assisted living community built in 1985, occupies 1.68 acres and encompasses 124,468 square feet. Jason Punzel and Jake Anderson of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled this transaction. The seller was StuartCo Property Management, a multifamily owner/developer that opened the community in the 1990s and is now shifting its focus to its market-rate portfolio. According to Finance & Commerce, the... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Ends Summer with a Bang

Meridian Capital Group Ends Summer with a Bang

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, closed more than $800 million in transaction volume in August and September 2023 across both investment sales and financings. The highlight was the team’s arranging of acquisition financing from a REIT and finance company for the purchase of EmpRes Healthcare and 28 facilities comprising 2,629 skilled nursing beds and 88 assisted living units in Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota.  They also sold a 104-bed assisted living community in Florida for $24.2 million and two assisted living communities comprising 202 beds in California for $22.5 million. On the... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Class-A AL/MC Community

Blueprint Sells Class-A AL/MC Community

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was brought on by Anthology Senior Living, the senior living arm of developer CA Ventures, and their institutional joint venture partners to facilitate the sale of Anthology of Mason, a Class-A seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. The community witnessed significant growth in 2023 in terms of rental rates and care revenue, along with a strong occupancy rate, all of which contributed to margin expansion throughout the marketing process. Anthology of Mason, constructed in 2017, comprises 68 assisted living and 33 memory care units. Adjacent to the community is a parcel of land available for potential expansion. Anthology decided to divest the... Read More »