• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Problem with CMS Interpretive Guidelines

    Just a day after we highlighted the potential downsides of overregulation of assisted living from the federal level, a case of regulatory overreach involving a nursing home just headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District in hopes of overturning a $1.8 million civil monetary penalty. Without getting into the minutiae too much, the... Read More »
  • Kayne Anderson Fund Tops Target

    The familiar refrain continues, with more capital continuing to flow into the seniors housing industry, property prices should keep rising. Kayne Anderson Real Estate, the real estate private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., has closed the largest opportunistic equity fund in its history, at more than 70% above its initial... Read More »
  • Well-Performing Full-Continuum Community Sells

    Blueprint announced its role in the sale of Morningstar at Golden Ridge, a seniors housing community in Peoria, Arizona (Phoenix MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 38 independent living, 65 assisted living and 35 memory care units. It is nearly fully occupied. The community is one of the newest and most well-appointed assets within a... Read More »
  • Kaplan Development Divests to Cedarwood Group

    Cedarwood Group closed its acquisition of Saranac Village at Will Rogers, a 75-unit independent living community in Saranac Lake, New York. The seller was Kaplan Development Group, which took over Will Rogers after the first year of it being open as a senior living community. The community was originally built in 1928 as a Tudor-style... Read More »
  • Omega Welcomes New CEO and CFO

    Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.’s President, Matthew Gourmand will become the REIT’s Chief Executive Officer in conjunction with the planned retirement of Taylor Pickett, effective October 1, 2026. Pickett will also step down from the Board of Directors upon his retirement, and the Board of Directors intends to appoint Gourmand to the Board,... Read More »
Selectis Health Exits Georgia

Selectis Health Exits Georgia

Selectis Health, Inc. has completed its exit from Georgia with the help of Michael Segal and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint. In the beginning of the year, Selectis Health divested Providence of Sparta Health and Rehab and Warrenton Health and Rehab to Journey, also with the help of Segal and Waldhorn (more on that deal can be found here). The company again engaged Blueprint to handle the sale of its remaining two skilled nursing facilities in central Georgia. The two assets, Glen Eagle Healthcare and Rehab and Eastman Healthcare & Rehab, sit less than 30 miles apart in Abbeville and Eastman and total 201 beds. The buildings were initially constructed around 1960, but were recently... Read More »
Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

Caddis Partners and Singerman Real Estate have divested another seniors housing community, Heartis Fayetteville. This comes shortly after the joint venture’s sale of Heartis Venice and Heartis Longview. Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare represented the seller in all three transactions.  Heartis Fayetteville is a 167-unit, Class-A asset in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA, that offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The marketing process was highly competitive, with Capitol Seniors Housing selected as the ultimate buyer. The company will rebrand the community as Village Park Fayetteville and bring... Read More »
Bonds Issued for Independent Living Expansion

Bonds Issued for Independent Living Expansion

Ziegler closed John Knox Village’s $47.85 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2 and B-3 bonds issued through the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. John Knox Village (JKV), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, is a CCRC consisting of 1,038 independent living units, 180 assisted living units and 121 skilled nursing beds. This transaction marks JKV’s seventh financing with Ziegler since 2007.  The Series 2026 bonds consist of four tranches of tax-exempt debt: Series 2026A Fixed Rate bonds ($18.85 million), Series 2026B-3 TEMPSSM-50 ($17.05 million), Series 2026B-2 TEMPSSM-70 ($6.83 million) and the Series 2026B-1 TEMPSSM-85 ($5.13 million). Proceeds, along with a $500,000 equity contribution... Read More »
California AL/MC Community Secures C-PACE Financing

California AL/MC Community Secures C-PACE Financing

The owner of a seniors housing community in Simi Valley, California, was evaluating a recapitalization of the asset and worked with Bayview to secure C-PACE financing. The borrower wished to return some equity for future investments while also reducing existing bridge debt. Bayview identified an opportunity to structure a look-back C-PACE loan against approximately $13 million of eligible costs, generating accretive proceeds that supported both sponsor liquidity and paydown of the existing bridge facility (without displacing senior debt). The loan came with a 29-year term and closed approximately six weeks after term sheet execution.  Varenita of Simi Valley has been operated by... Read More »
Bond Proceeds to Fund California Seniors Housing Development

Bond Proceeds to Fund California Seniors Housing Development

JLL and HJ Sims arranged $252.1 million in tax-exempt and taxable bond financing for the development of The Marisol, a 214-unit seniors housing community in Huntington Beach, California. It is currently under construction and set to open in 2028. HJ Sims acted as lead book-running manager on the senior bonds and JLL Securities served as co-manager and led the process in securing the investor for the subordinate bonds. JLL’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team, as real estate advisor, also collaborated on the project. The fixed- and floating-rate financing was structured into Series A senior bonds and subordinate Series B and C bonds, and was issued through the California Public Finance... Read More »
Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the communities in October and was able to stabilize operations. The company is targeting an additional 15 properties to acquire in 2026. The Berkadia team also closed the sale of The Waters of Eden Prairie, a 156-unit full-continuum seniors housing community in the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA. The property was sold by an institutional private equity firm and... Read More »
Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The financing supports the continued expansion of a high-quality seniors housing platform backed by Braemar Partners and operated by The Arbor Company. Construction projects are still getting done (and financed), as long as they are catering to high-income seniors in high-growth markets, with best-in-class operators, of course. Next, TCG closed... Read More »
Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility was generating large annual losses due to empty beds, as well as other factors. But there was strong interest in the property, with not-for-profit Essential Health selected as the buyer. Essential Health had been consulting with the not-for-profit medical system-seller, Southwestern Vermont Health Care, for two years on a turnaround plan, and... Read More »
Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the transition period. The assisted living community had been foreclosed on by its lender and placed into receivership as a result of operational and financial underperformance under the previous owner. The receiver made incremental improvements, but at the time of sale there was still plenty of upside potential.  The financing was originated through... Read More »
Bonds Issued for Independent Living Expansion

Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is a multi-generational seniors housing owner/operator with a portfolio across the Southeast that offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and active adult units.  Fellowship Wildlight is set to include 125 independent living units, eight active adult cottages, 48 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. The community will... Read More »
NHP Sets Sights on Seniors Housing

NHP Sets Sights on Seniors Housing

National Healthcare Properties drew attention when it decided to debut on the public markets, and it made its private pay seniors housing ambitions clear with its recent agreement to divest a large outpatient medical facility (OMF) portfolio. The 86-facility portfolio will be sold for $528.2 million, including $278 million of secured debt to be defeased or assumed by the potential buyer, and proceeds will likely be put towards SHOP acquisitions. That is yet another institutional player putting meaningful capital to work in the sector, with more likely on the way. The OMF portfolio divestment, along with several of NHP’s signed purchase and sale agreements for SHOP assets, have already... Read More »