• CIBC & Locust Point Fund Illinois Portfolio Deal

    CIBC Bank USA announced a couple of closings for both seniors housing and skilled nursing properties in the Midwest. First, along with Locust Point Capital, the bank provided $30 million in acquisition financing and a $2 million working capital revolving line of credit for a 244-unit, six property, seniors housing portfolio in southern Illinois.... Read More »
  • Ziegler Closes Bonds for PA CCRC

    Ziegler announced the closing of Garden Spot Village’s $67.27 million Series 2024 Tax-Exempt Fixed Rate bonds. The obligated group consists of Garden Spot Village and its subsidiary, GSV, LLC, and Garden Spot’s parent organization is the not-for-profit Garden Spot Communities.  Garden Spot Village is a CCRC with 621 independent living homes... Read More »
  • EBSC Lending Funds Los Angeles Development

    EBSC Lending has secured funding for a high-quality seniors housing community under development in Los Angeles. Brian Stark, manager of information technology at EBSC, led the transaction. The community obtained $31.2 million in construction financing The development will feature a new 172,163-square-foot community owned and operated by a senior... Read More »
  • Summit Divests SNF Portfolio to Current Operator

    After selling eight skilled nursing facilities in Connecticut earlier this year, California-based Summit Healthcare REIT further pared back its portfolio by divesting three SNFs in San Bernardino County, California. The portfolio comprises 191 beds and sold for $30 million, or $157,000 per bed. The buyers were affiliates of the current... Read More »
  • CCRC in Bankruptcy Sells in PA

    The senior care business is a tough business, especially since the pandemic and inflation lowered census and raised expenses, respectively, and it has taken a toll on many not-for-profit organizations. And recently, another organization facing financial pressures defaulted on its bond debt, which triggered a Section 363 bankruptcy process. Evans... Read More »
Insignia Divests Its Last US Senior Living Asset

Insignia Divests Its Last US Senior Living Asset

Senior Living Investment Brokerage closed its third transaction for Insignia Senior Living this year, marking Insignia’s exit from its United States-based senior living operations. This exit allows insignia to focus on core geographic markets in Puerto Rico and Latin America.   Built in 1996 and expanded in 2016, Tapestry House Assisted Living is a 94-unit assisted living community in Alpharetta, Georgia, that was built in two phases. The first phase was a 32-unit building. A pipe burst in December 2022 which resulted in flooding that damaged the building. The second phase was a 62-unit addition featuring apartments, physical therapy spaces and admin offices.  The buyer is... Read More »
North Carolina Operator Acquires Family-Run Campus

North Carolina Operator Acquires Family-Run Campus

Senwell Senior Investment Advisors closed two separate transactions in North Carolina and Florida. First, Senwell facilitated the sale of Silver Bluff, a senior care community in the Asheville, North Carolina MSA. The selected buyer is a well-known operator in North Carolina. With recent Medicaid rate increases, the campus is well-positioned for continued success under new ownership.  Silver Bluff, which was in the seller’s family for decades, comprises 111 skilled nursing beds and 13 assisted living beds across 11.7 acres. Additionally, the campus offers 20 multi-unit assisted housing beds with services and is supported by ancillary properties such as residential duplexes and... Read More »
Senior Care Borrower Delays Agency Takeout

Senior Care Borrower Delays Agency Takeout

A Charleston, South Carolina-based owner/operator refinanced its seniors housing community in Morgantown, West Virginia, with the help of Live Oak Bank and Berkadia Commercial Mortgage. The bank closed a $39 million A/B uni-tranche loan, with Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group funding the subordinate debt.  The loan provides a bridge to agency debt and features a three-year term, 24 months of interest-only payments and no exit fee. Loan proceeds were used to retire existing bank debt along with partnership debt associated with the borrower’s 2021 purchase of the 175-unit, independent living, assisted living and memory care community. The community was stable... Read More »
Texas Gets New IL Community

Texas Gets New IL Community

The McFarlin Group just broke ground on its newest active adult community in Dallas, Texas, The Blake at Bent Tree. Featuring 200 units, the community is McFarlin’s 17th development in Dallas, and the company is based in the city, as well. The Blake was developed as an active adult community but offers a future buyer the ability to convert it to full-service independent living, if they choose. It will offer food, programming and laundry services, as well as amenities such as an outdoor BBQ and entertainment area, a golf simulator, outdoor pool with hot tub, pickleball court and professional concierge services, among others. Greystar will operate it under the Elate brand. Berkadia announced... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Rates Tumble on Eve of NIC

60 Seconds with Swett: Rates Tumble on Eve of NIC

Two years ago at the NIC Fall Conference, the spike in interest rates, with the 10-Year Treasury rate heading above 3.5%, seemed to spook many investors, as deals started disintegrating left and right. That did not help to lift the mood of everyone there. Then, last year, on the eve of NIC, rates were again spiking, this time above 4.5% and heading to 5.0%. The Fed may have stopped its rate increases, but the costs of borrowing were not on the decline. At least there was a belief that the worst had passed, or at least we were in the middle of the worst. Again, did not lift the spirit of the thousands of NIC attendees, and thank you for the open bars.  Now, we are approaching another... Read More »

Spotlight on Senior Care M&A, Sixth Edition

The SeniorCare Investor is releasing a mid-year update of its key valuation statistics for the assisted living, independent living and skilled nursing sectors in its latest report: Spotlight on Senior Care M&A. Check out the average prices and cap rates, as well as analysis of industry headwinds and tailwinds. Read More »
NY Owner/Operator Expands in Tennessee

NY Owner/Operator Expands in Tennessee

Blueprint facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Tennessee. Amy Sitzman, Kyle Hallion and Giancarlo Riso handled the transaction, marketing the asset to a combination of national, regional and local buyers. Purpose-built in the late-1990s, the community is in an attractive submarket of eastern Memphis and features 77 assisted living and memory care units. It has a long history of stable occupancy and margin, however, it experienced notable performance declines stemming from the impact of the pandemic, like many other communities.  The selected bidder is a Buffalo, New York-based owner/operator seeking to expand its Southeastern geographic footprint. Blueprint worked... Read More »
Elder Care Partners Purchases in Missouri

Elder Care Partners Purchases in Missouri

An 81-bed RCF that was in receivership and struggling operationally sold in Sedalia, Missouri. Plains Commercial Real Estate was engaged by the court appointed receiver, Mike Flanagan, to market and sell the facility that sits about 90 minutes from Kansas City. Built in 1987, Stoney Ridge Village was approximately 56% occupied at the time of marketing.  It had been cash flow negative for a few years. The buyer was Northeast-based owner/operator Elder Care Partners, which has similar facilities in the state. The facility faced operational headwinds that accelerated the timeline to get to closing. Daniel Morris handled the transaction, which closed quickly in approximately seven weeks from... Read More »
Regional Owner/Operator Acquires Western Missouri SNF

Regional Owner/Operator Acquires Western Missouri SNF

Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of a skilled nursing facility in western Missouri. The seller was an independent owner/operator looking to exit the industry. Built in 1987, the facility comprises 199 beds across 4.4 acres. At the time of marketing, it faced several operational challenges, including a 2-star CMS rating, 54% occupancy and negative cash flows.  ESI ran a competitive marketing process, targeting a select group of qualified buyers. During the process, ESI navigated the Right of First Refusal held by the existing operator. By bringing in a new buyer, a regional owner/operator with an existing presence in the state, the asset was able to sell at a competitive... Read More »
NewPoint’s New Way Forward with CEO Nick Gesue

NewPoint’s New Way Forward with CEO Nick Gesue

NewPoint Real Estate Capital announced its strategic integration of the Alder View Capital (SVC) team into its platform. The move came on the heels of NewPoint’s appointment of AVC’s founder and CEO, Nick Gesue, as CEO of NewPoint itself. AVC’s Kevin Laidlaw and Cal Masterson will be joining Gesue at NewPoint, as well, adding to NewPoint’s deep bench of expertise. The combination will position NewPoint as a leading provider of borrower-centric capital solutions to the senior housing and care sector, in addition to the broader multifamily and residential housing sector. And the NewPoint platform provides AVC clients with access to a suite of lending options, including agency (Fannie Mae and... Read More »
Senior Care Borrower Delays Agency Takeout

Winterpast & Broadview Refinance in Georgia

CBRE arranged a refinancing of Vitality Living Frederica in Georgia on behalf of a joint venture between Winterpast Capital Partners and Broadview Real Estate Partners. Aron Will and Tim Root arranged the $14.8 million, three-year floating rate loan with 24 months of interest only through a regional bank. The community is between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida, on St. Simons Island, the largest barrier island in the Golden Isles. It features 60 assisted living and 24 memory care units. Vitality Living, WCP’s affiliated operating partner, will continue to manage the community. Read More »