Newland Lands at Liberty as CIO
Liberty Senior Living is setting itself up for continued growth by creating the position of Chief Investment Officer and hiring Max Newland to fill it. Newland had many encounters with Liberty over the years, partnering with the operator on numerous deals for more than a decade while leading the seniors housing team at Kayne Anderson Real Estate. More recently, after Newland launched his own investment firm Newland Realty Capital in 2024, he joint-ventured with Liberty and Cerberus Capital Management to acquire The Carlisle Palm Beach earlier this year. During his career, Newland has acquired, developed and managed senior living communities throughout the U.S., and worked with joint... Read More »
Lument Secures Financing for Pennsylvania Seniors Housing Portfolio
Lument refinanced three Juniper Village seniors housing communities with a combined 254 units through three Freddie Mac loans totaling $27.3 million. Casey Moore and Miles Kingston led the transaction for Lument. The loans carry attractive fixed interest rates, 10-year terms with five years interest only, and 30-year amortization schedules. Located in Pennsylvania, the three communities are Juniper Village at Forest Hills (60 assisted living units and 12 memory care units), Juniper Village at Lebanon (40 independent living units and 81 AL units) and Juniper Village at Mount Joy (50 AL units and 11 MC units). Juniper operates a total of 27 communities in Colorado, New Jersey, Pennsylvania... Read More »
Dwight’s Q2:25 Financing Activity
Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust, closed $650.7 million in seniors housing financings during the second quarter of 2025. The transactions featured a mix of bridge and HUD loans for assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities across several states. In one of the significant transactions, DMT originated a $230 million bridge loan to facilitate the acquisition of a 19-asset skilled nursing/assisted living portfolio in Ohio. The deal was arranged by Adam Offman and Yossi Benish. DMT also provided an $80 million bridge acquisition loan for a five-asset SNF portfolio in Central Florida, along with a $12 million working capital line of credit to... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Continues To Climb
The Welltower juggernaut just keeps on rolling, as another great earnings report sent shares up by more than 4.7% from their previous close to a new record high of $165.87 as of this filming. Its market cap pushed well beyond $100 billion, solidifying the REIT’s position as our industry’s first $100 billion dollar company. The board of directors may have also surprised a few by declaring a cash dividend for the second quarter of $0.74 per share, or a 10.4% increase from the prior quarter. The REIT is still sitting on approximately $9.5 billion of available liquidity too, including $4.5 billion of available cash and restricted cash plus full capacity under its $5 billion line of credit. So... Read More »
REIT-Affiliated Owner/Operator Divests Non-Core Asset to Private Owner/Operator
Blueprint facilitated the sale of a non-core seniors housing community on behalf of a national, REIT-affiliated owner/operator. The seller was focused on portfolio optimization through the divestiture of underperforming assets. Kyle Hallion, Steve Thomes and Kory Buzin handled the transaction. Built in 1997, this 85-unit/108-bed assisted living and memory care community is in a high barrier-to-entry submarket of the Greensboro, North Carolina MSA, close to multiple hospitals and medical office clusters. Ownership recently invested approximately $1 million in capital improvements, primarily in back-of-house systems. The incoming buyer has the opportunity to add value through interior... Read More »
Chartwell to Purchase Six-Asset Seniors Housing Portfolio in Ontario
Chartwell Retirement Residences has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase a seniors housing portfolio with six purpose-built seniors housing communities across London (three), Dorchester, Waterloo and Mississauga, Ontario, totaling 1,024 units. The communities serve low-acuity seniors and are all 100% private pay. The total purchase price is CAD$432 million (CAD$422,000 per unit), or USD$317.3 million (USD$310,000 per unit). The portfolio includes Riverstone in London, built in 2021 and 2023, with 124 independent living and 135 active adult units. Also in London is Richmond Woods, built in 2007 and 2010, featuring 130 IL and 112 AA units, along with Longworth, built in 2001, with... Read More »
Texas AL/MC Development Receives Construction Financing and Equity Raise
The Newmark Seniors Housing Team handled a $180 million construction financing and equity raise for Nexus Development’s newest community, Vivante at Turtle Creek. Financing was secured through Beal Bank, and the equity was raised from private investors in multiple states, including Texas and California. The seniors housing community will feature 164 assisted living and 29 memory care units on a 1.37-acre plot in Dallas, Texas. The Class-A asset will stand 20 stories tall, and is slated for 2027 completion. The architect is HKS Inc. and the general contractor is ANDRES Construction Services. Read More »
New York SNF Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan
MONTICELLOAM funded a $217 million floating-rate senior bridge loan for a skilled nursing portfolio. The financing carries a 36-month term and supports the sponsor, a repeat client. The loan supports the acquisition and refinance of this portfolio, which comprises four facilities in New York. The sponsor is acquiring two of the assets and financing the other two, which are stabilized. Together, the four facilities comprise more than 1,000 beds. Read More »
Bond Issuance Finances Massachusetts CCRC Expansion
MassDevelopment, Massachusetts’ development finance agency and land bank, issued $134.85 million of tax-exempt bonds on behalf of Lasell Village Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that was formed to establish and operate Lasell Village, an educational CCRC. Lasell Village was the nation’s first seniors housing community to require each resident to commit to a goal-oriented program of education. Located immediately adjacent to the campus of Lasell University, it offers an intergenerational environment. Lasell Village Inc. will use a portion of proceeds to renovate and expand the CCRC. The corporation will fund the purchase of 1.37 acres of land currently owned by Lasell University, where... Read More »
Tremper Capital Group Closes Refinance
Tremper Capital Group, which takes a team-based approach to its transactions, closed a $27.5 million floating rate refinance for a Class-A, 91-unit assisted living and memory care community with strong, stabilized performance. The non-recourse loan featured a seven-year term aligned with the sponsor’s business plan and included a performance-based earn-out. The structure met all of the sponsor’s financing objectives for the asset. The transaction introduced a new lending relationship between a local owner/operator and Live Oak Bank. Live Oak’s track record helped support execution certainty. This deal marked the third seniors housing loan TCG closed with Live Oak in June alone, and... Read More »Schedule a demo
Gain access to the best healthcare and long-term care investment intelligence, data, and analysis.
