• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »
Sonata Senior Living Announces Women-Only Memory Care Program

Sonata Senior Living Announces Women-Only Memory Care Program

Sonata Senior Living has announced the expansion of Serenades for her, a new, women-only memory care lifestyle option. This program, originally launched in Serenades at West Orange, Florida, will now be offered in two neighborhoods in Serenades at the Villages and Serenades at Longwood, both in Florida. Serenades for her will also be a brand-new lifestyle option at Sonata Boynton Beach in South Florida. Read More »
Harrison Street Acquires Two Colorado Communities

Harrison Street Acquires Two Colorado Communities

Harrison Street acquired two Colorado senior living assets from CA Ventures, for an undisclosed price. The deal included the Westminster community totaling 137 units nine miles northwest of downtown Denver near a prominent retail corridor and residential neighborhoods. The upscale senior living community includes 107 assisted living units and 30 memory care units. The other target was the Englewood community, which totals 130 units seven miles south of downtown Denver and features unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountains and Cherry Hills Country Club. The property comprises 106 assisted living units and 24 memory care units across seven stories. Despite opening in February 2020, the... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Giving Thanks in 2022

60 Seconds with Swett: Giving Thanks in 2022

It’s been yet another difficult year for the senior care industry with new curveballs coming from inflation and soaring interest rates and staffing woes continuing to hammer communities’ bottom lines. But on the eve of Thanksgiving, we can still find things to be thankful for in our industry. First and foremost, after more than two years of dealing with the pandemic and in most cases working while masked for their entire shifts, we are thankful to the senior care staff that showed up to work every day and provided great care for seniors. Our industry offers a good career path for millions of people, and thanks to most providers (and inflation), wages also increased in 2022 across the... Read More »
Connecticut SNF Portfolio Finds New Owner

Connecticut SNF Portfolio Finds New Owner

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a Connecticut skilled nursing portfolio on behalf of a joint venture owner. The portfolio comprises three facilities totaling more than 380 units in the greater Hartford area. The facilities had historically maintained stable census levels with a steady stream of referrals and admissions from regional referral sources, including Hartford Hospital, Manchester Memorial and Rockville General. Multiple parties were interested in the portfolio, but it ultimately sold to a regional acquirer. The buyer plans to focus on operational efficiencies, including addressing excess staffing, as well as investing in capital projects at the... Read More »
NHI Arranges Texas SNF Portfolio Refinancing and Exercises Virginia Beach Acquisition

NHI Arranges Texas SNF Portfolio Refinancing and Exercises Virginia Beach Acquisition

National Health Investors has funded the refinance of a skilled nursing facility portfolio in the state of Texas. The $42.5 million senior loan was provided to an affiliate of Capital Funding Group, and the properties are leased by subsidiaries of The Ensign Group. The five-year loan has an annual interest rate of 7.25% with two one-year extensions. The REIT also announced that it exercised its option to acquire Bickford of Virginia Beach, a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in Virginia Beach. The acquisition was primarily funded with the satisfaction of a $14 million construction loan due from Bickford Senior Living. The community was added to an existing master lease with... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Pennsylvania Sale

Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Pennsylvania Sale

Cushman & Wakefield announced it has arranged the sale of The Watermark at Logan Square, a 426-unit rental CCRC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm also served as the exclusive advisor to the buyer in procuring acquisition financing from a national bank. Built in 1984, the 24-story building offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. The property is located above the Logan Square circle and offers urban senior living in a fast-growing neighborhood of Philadelphia. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, James Dooley and Bailey Nygard represented the seller, procured the buyer and arranged the financing. Read More »
Ohio SNF Portfolio Sells to East Coast Group

Ohio SNF Portfolio Sells to East Coast Group

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of three skilled nursing facilities in the state of Ohio. Situated in Canton, Toledo, and Rockford, the facilities were built in the 1960s and 1970s and have undergone significant renovations since 2015. The portfolio comprises more than 300 beds and spans 200 miles across the state. The seller of the portfolio was an East Coast-based private equity investor whose intention was to recycle capital. The ultimate buyer was the current operator of the portfolio, another East Coast-based group with a strong presence in the local market. Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled... Read More »
Morning Pointe Receives $106 Million Refinance for Seniors Housing Portfolio

Morning Pointe Receives $106 Million Refinance for Seniors Housing Portfolio

Tennessee-based affiliates of Morning Pointe Senior Living announced that they have received $106.2 million in financing for an eight-property seniors housing portfolio. Located across Kentucky (1) and Tennessee (7), the portfolio comprises a total of 567 units. Completed between 1997 and 2021, the seniors housing communities offer assisted living and memory care services, featuring a mix of studio, alcove, one- and two-bedroom floorplans. Neal Raburn of Greystone originated the Freddie Mac Optigo loans on behalf of the borrower. The fixed-rate, non-recourse financing was structured through Freddie Mac’s Index Lock program and carries a 10-year term with a 30-year amortization period. With... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Pennsylvania Sale

Another Active Adult Development Opens in Texas

In December of 2020, a Houston-based joint venture between Buckhead Investment Partners and Zane Segal Projects started construction of Arista Riverstone, a 143-unit active adult community in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land. Johnson Capital Multifamily Inc. provided the construction financing for the project. Gonzalez Newell Bender Architects provided architectural design services, and the general contractor was Galaxy Builders. Greystar was also set to handle lease-up and management of the community. That active adult community is now complete. Arista Riverstone includes one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and community amenities such as a full-service salon, game room, conference... Read More »
2023 Seniors Housing Development Outlook: Equity and Debt

2023 Seniors Housing Development Outlook: Equity and Debt

On November 17, our Editor Ben Swett sat down with Paul Griffin III of Griffin Living, Ari Adlerstein of Meridian Capital Group and Ken Assiran of Capital Health Group to discuss the current state of the seniors housing development market, and what financing options were available to those still looking to build. Read More »
Ouch…Brookdale Senior Living Plunges

Ouch…Brookdale Senior Living Plunges

How do you reduce the value of your company by 40% in 24 hours? Tell investors you are going to raise more capital after you told them in your third quarter earnings call that your liquidity was okay and you had no debt maturities until September 2024. That is what confronted investors this week. Brookdale Senior Living announced, and then priced one day later, a $125 million capital raise that left people wondering. It consists of 2.5 million units, priced at $50 per unit, with each unit including equity and debt (more on that later), and the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, the ubiquitous catch-all from the legal team. Our first guess was that investors pummeled the... Read More »