• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »
  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »
  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »
  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... Read More »
The 55+ Market Builds Momentum

The 55+ Market Builds Momentum

Coming out of the pandemic, investors are enamored with the 55+ or active adult market, but we will see if that enthusiasm turns into overexuberance. Perhaps the brightest star in seniors housing coming out of the pandemic has been the active adult market, and investors took notice. Census stayed strong relative to the other sectors, and owners tout their lower average move-in age, more approachable rents for residents, lower labor costs and higher operating margins. As a percentage of seniors housing deals announced, according to our deal database, active adult has grown its share from a paltry 2% in 2019 to 6.4% in 2020 and 8.2% so far in 2021. Plenty of firms have also announced... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Divests Two Florida Facilities

Healthcare Trust Divests Two Florida Facilities

Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale of two skilled nursing/assisted living facilities on behalf of the public, non-traded REIT, Healthcare Trust, Inc. These two properties represent the last of the three strategically planned majority-skilled nursing property sales in the state of Florida, after having already sold its SNF in Lutz earlier this year for $20 million, or a gain on sale of real estate investments of $3.8 million. Cushman & Wakefield handled all three property sales.   Healthcare Trust acquired one of the communities, The Addington at Wellington Green in Wellington, Florida, seven years ago. Built in 2011, it features a 120-bed... Read More »
Ziegler Sells Two Healthpeak Properties/Brookdale Senior Living CCRCs

Ziegler Sells Two Healthpeak Properties/Brookdale Senior Living CCRCs

Ziegler’s Dan Revie Tedd Van Gorden represented Healthpeak Properties in the sale of its last two entrance-fee CCRCs that were part of its joint venture with Brookdale Senior Living. The deal includes Foxwood Springs, a 434-unit campus in Raymore, Missouri, and Robin Run, a 457-unit campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. Both were originally part of the National Benevolent Association portfolio that went through bankruptcy proceedings over a decade ago. And after Healthpeak bought out Brookdale’s interest in the joint venture in Fall 2019, these were the only two campuses excluded from that transaction.  Subsidiaries of the Texas-based not-for-profit Boncrest Resource Group acquired the... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Vacant Community in Indiana

Evans Senior Investments Sells Vacant Community in Indiana

The team at Evans Senior Investments sold a vacant seniors housing community in Valparaiso, Indiana for $9.15 million, or $93,000 per unit, which at first glance is a strong value for an empty building. After opening its doors in March 2018, the community struggled to lease up and went through two different management companies. The pandemic only made things worse, and ownership decided to shutter the community in September 2020.   It currently features 98 units that were set aside for assisted living and memory care. A regional private equity group was able to buy the property at below replacement cost and hired Priority Life Care to operate and oversee the leasing of it. Before Priority... Read More »
Blueprint Sells SNF in Erie, Pennsylvania

Blueprint Sells SNF in Erie, Pennsylvania

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania. Connor Doherty, Michael Segal and Ryan Kelly handled the deal on behalf of the seller. Located in a competitive submarket, the facility was originally built in 1950 and underwent a major expansion in 1982. It had been steadily improving its operations and census prior to the pandemic, reaching about 85% occupancy. However, like at many facilities across the country, census dropped to around 60% by the time of closing.  Its regional owner/operator owner deemed the facility to be non-core to its long-term growth plans and hired Blueprint to handle the marketing and sale... Read More »
Greystone Handles HUD Refinance of Wisconsin SNF Portfolio

Greystone Handles HUD Refinance of Wisconsin SNF Portfolio

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a total of $34.96 million in HUD loans for a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities spread across southeastern Wisconsin. Totaling 558 beds, the facilities are located in Antigo, Burlington, Manitowoc and Kenosha.   The in-state borrower, Champion Care, purchased them in 2017 and will continue with ongoing property improvements. So, to refinance existing debt and help support those improvements, they obtained 30-year debt with a low fixed interest rate from HUD.   Read More »
Bloom Senior Living Sells Two South Carolina Communities

Bloom Senior Living Sells Two South Carolina Communities

Kandu Capital and its operating affiliate Bloom Senior Living just sold two of their South Carolina assisted living and memory care communities. Bloom at Hilton Head and Bloom at Bluffton have been part of the Bloom family of communities since they were purchased from Brookdale Senior Living in 2013 for $7.2 million, or $61,500 per unit.   They were struggling at the time with just $3.5 million of revenues and Bloom turned them around and grew revenues and EBITDA significantly, with EBITDA reaching $1.2 million in 2016. Then, several new communities were opened in the market and COVID-19 appeared. Occupancy dipped but the communities remained very cash... Read More »
Construction Costs Go Up for Indiana Senior Living Project

Construction Costs Go Up for Indiana Senior Living Project

Rising construction costs have stymied a number of senior living construction projects (much to the relief of thousands of operators looking to quickly recover their occupancies), but one development is still going ahead, albeit with a $3 million increase in financing. Evergreen Real Estate Group is building a 120-unit Medicaid assisted living community in Goshen, Indiana, which will feature 49 studio and 71 one-bedroom units, with Gardant Management Solutions serving as operator. Development costs were originally estimated to be $28 million, or $233,300 per unit. The plan was approved in late 2019, and the Goshen City Council approved the issuance of up to $22 million in tax-exempt... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending May 21, 2021

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending May 21, 2021

Senior care M&A activity is still plodding along, so here is our recent deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Chicago Pacific FoundersThe Shores at Clear LakeN/A Not disclosedThe Homestead at Lakewood$8.3 million Regional owner/operatorThe Parks Senior LivingN/A WindRiver CompaniesBloom at Hilton Head and Bloom at Bluffton$12.25... Read More »
Ziegler Closes “Green Bond” Financing

Ziegler Closes “Green Bond” Financing

Ziegler announced that it will soon issue the first ever “Green Bond” financing for a senior living development. And it is for quite a sum. Enso Village, located in Healdsburg, California, is set to open in 2023 with 221 independent living units, 30 assisted living units and 24 memory care units on a 16-acre campus. It is being sponsored by the San Francisco Zen Center, a network of affiliated Sōtō Zen practice and retreat centers in the Bay area, and The Kendal Corporation, a national not-for-profit provider of senior living services. Greenbrier Development is building the campus, which has already achieved 94% reservations two years out from opening. Quite impressive.  Enso Village will... Read More »
Welltower Making Investment In 55+ Market

Welltower Making Investment In 55+ Market

Welltower is diving into the active adult market with its new investment relationship with Treplus Communities, a Columbus, Ohio-based developer of high-quality 55+/active adult communities. Currently, there are three Treplus communities already open in central Ohio, and there are more in the works for 2021. Treplus also has eyes on expanding in the Midwest, and this partnership with Welltower will certainly help those ambitions.   Treplus’ communities consist of 90 to 150 units that range from 1,200 to 1,600 square feet. Each community also features resort-style amenities such as a fully equipped gym, café, business center, billiards, liquor lockers and catering kitchen. The communities... Read More »