• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... 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 »
60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Grows Its Stake in Active Adult

60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Grows Its Stake in Active Adult

Active adult’s meteoric rise has been a sight to see, and Welltower seems to have its eyes trained on the sector too. In a business update, the REIT revealed a major acquisition of 25 active adult communities, including 18 open and stabilized communities, two in lease up and five under construction, for a total of $502 million, or $172,000 per unit. The communities cater to the middle market, with rents averaging $1,300 a month, and the properties are in secondary and tertiary markets. Given what Welltower paid for the communities, and what the portfolio could be earning based on full occupancy, it seems they got a good deal, but we wonder exactly how much of a rent increase their current... Read More »
Kisco Senior Living Entering High-End Seniors Housing Market 

Kisco Senior Living Entering High-End Seniors Housing Market 

Kisco Senior Living added a high-quality seniors housing community in Laguna Niguel, California (Orange County) to its portfolio, taking over operations from Atria Senior Living. It also acquired the property with Harrison Street acting as advisor to an institutional investor for an undisclosed price. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Bailey Nygard of Cushman & Wakefield served as exclusive advisor to the seller, a joint venture between Fremont Realty Capital and Steadfast Development.  Opened in 2018, Crestavilla is an upscale community with 201 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It is LEED Gold certified and features numerous... Read More »