• Janus Living Goes Public After Upsizing IPO

    Janus Living, a Healthpeak Properties-formed REIT and now the only publicly traded U.S. REIT fully dedicated to seniors housing with its entire portfolio structured under RIDEA, has launched its initial public offering of Class A-1 common stock. The company is now listed on the NYSE under the ticker “JAN.” It plans to pay a quarterly dividend of... Read More »
  • Partnership Acquires Two Long Island Communities

    Two Long Island assisted living communities were sold by their original developer/operator. Village Green Senior Living in Levittown (opened in 2020) and Village Walk Senior Living (opened in 2018) in Patchogue were acquired by a partnership between Fundamental Advisors, Scribner Capital and Atria Senior Living. They will be renamed Atria... Read More »
  • Artemis Real Estate Partners Purchases Class-A Community

    The developer of a Class-A seniors housing community in the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA, has passed the torch to a new owner. Pillars of Lakeville, now known as The Crest at Lakeville, sits on 1.8 acres. Oppidan Investment Co., a company that developed multiple Pillars senior living properties in Minnesota, acquired the land from Crossroads... Read More »
  • Stand-Alone Memory Care Community Gets New Owner

    1031 CF Properties, a leading DST investor, acquired a stand-alone memory care community in the Spokane, Washington MSA. Built in 2005 with expansions in 2007 and 2013, Generations Memory Care offers 48 private units with 28,472 square feet on 2.067 acres. The seller was an investment group based in northern California that purchased the asset in... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Closes First Public Bond Issue in 20+ Years

    Ziegler announced the closing of a $30.0 million tax-exempt fixed rate bond issue for Butterfield Trail Village, Inc. (BTV). The Series 2026 bonds were issued through The Fayetteville Public Facilities Board. BTV is a not-for-profit corporation founded by five local churches in 1981 to own and operate a continuing care retirement community on... Read More »
Bidding War Boosts AL/MC Sale

Bidding War Boosts AL/MC Sale

Kyle Hallion, Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes of Blueprint drove competitive pricing after being engaged by a national lender and special servicer to handle the sale of a lender-owned property following foreclosure. The highly-occupied, 75-unit assisted living and memory care community in Raleigh, North Carolina, delivered strong in-place occupancy and solid cash flow. Blueprint’s marketing effort generated engagement from regional operators, private equity groups and national owners. There was competitive tension throughout the process, culminating in a final round that boosted the value for the seller. Read More »
Verdot Capital Divests Minnesota Full-Continuum Community

Verdot Capital Divests Minnesota Full-Continuum Community

JLL Capital Markets completed the sale of Hayden Grove Bloomington, a 166-unit seniors housing community in Bloomington, Minnesota. The seller was Verdot Capital, and the buyer was undisclosed. The operator, Great Lakes Management, will stay in place to manage the community. Opened in 2021, Hayden Grove Bloomington is a four-story building offering independent living, assisted living and memory care. It is close to nearby healthcare services such as M Health Fairview and Hennepin Healthcare facilities. Residents have access to a variety of activities and events on-site in addition to amenities, including underground parking, a private dining room, bistro, coffee lounge, game room, party... Read More »
Berkadia Closes in Ohio and Texas

Berkadia Closes in Ohio and Texas

Berkadia handled the sale of a 65-unit seniors housing community in Akron, Ohio. Featuring both assisted living and memory care services, the community appears to be Brookdale Bath, which was built in 1998. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders handled the transaction. Garbers, Tremper, Fasano and Sanders also facilitated the sale of Clayton Oaks Living, a 98-unit assisted living and memory community in Richmond, Texas, located in the southwest suburbs of Houston. The seller was Bridgewood Property Company, a Houston-based developer, owner and operator. Built in 2015, the community was over 90% occupied at closing. The community was purchased by a joint venture between... Read More »
Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased the operations of four managed seniors housing properties during the quarter. The assets were previously leased to a tenant under triple-net operating leases for $19.7 million.  Subsequent to quarter end, Sabra closed on three additional managed seniors housing properties for $124.0 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.0%, bringing... Read More »
WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

Sonida Senior Living just announced what can only be described as a transformational acquisition. Since new management came in, CEO Brandon Ribar and CFO Kevin Detz, Sonida has been on an upward path of improved operations and a balance sheet that has grown stronger. Occupancy has been increasing (87.7% in Q3) and NOI and EBITDA are rising. Spot occupancy on October 31 was 89.0%. The company was still relatively small despite a series of acquisitions in the past 12 months, but none of them were transformational. Now, the company has agreed to purchase CNL Healthcare Properties (CNL), a public non-traded REIT, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $1.8 billion. CNL owns 69 seniors... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this October beat the previous record by 43%, and it’s still just a preliminary total. That is out of this world. There were nearly 100 separate buyers, according to the individual deal data available in LevinPro LTC, the most prolific being, unsurprisingly, Welltower. But Welltower’s activity is actually understated in the figures, as a significant... Read More »

Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per unit. The deal consisted of nearly 900 units in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with the communities built between 2017 and 2022. One group of properties were considered to be value-add, while the other was classified as core (we imagine that was the $1 million+ per unit deal). Newmark also sold two assisted living/memory... Read More »

Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Binder is from Missouri and was knowledgeable about each community’s local market. Provision Living operated the portfolio. The communities were operating well, with occupancy rising from 84% at the time of PSA to 92% at close, and EBITDAR growing from $6 million to $6.7 million in the same period. Like its other recent... Read More »

Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the start of November.  LTC Properties used those proceeds to fund a $23 million, or $261,400 unit, purchase of an 88-unit assisted living and memory care community in Marietta, Georgia. The community is currently stabilized at 90% occupancy and is expected to deliver a year-one yield of approximately 7%. The Arbor Company, a new LTC operating... Read More »

MIG Announces Two Closings

Montgomery Intermediary Group announced a couple of transactions at the end of October. First, Andrew Montgomery sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in southern Illinois in a value-add deal. Built in the 1960s and 1970s, the facility had a roughly 50% Medicaid census, with between 30% and 35% private pay and 5% to 10% Medicare. It was losing money. Jeremy Warren of MIG helped finance the deal, as well, arranging 80% loan-to-cost financing with a 20-year term and a variable rate in the low-7s. He secured the loan from a regional lender, and this was the fifth building that Warren financed in the past 45 days. Then, Montgomery sold a 38-unit assisted living community in a small Missouri... Read More »

Senwell Facilitates Bed Transfer Deal

Brandon Bohland and Collin Hempfling of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the transfer of 80 adult care home bed licenses in Wake County, North Carolina. A national institutional assisted living owner/operator engaged the firm after the community suffered significant damage from a fire and ultimately closed.  There was a highly competitive bid process that generated multiple strong offers from qualified buyers, with the result maximizing the seller’s exit value. After working with attorneys, regulatory bodies and stakeholders, Senwell completed the transfer of the licenses to a large regional owner/operator.  Read More »