• Olympus Retirement Living Expands

    The Zett Group closed the sale of a 63-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Boise, Idaho market. Set in the town of Emmett, Meadow View Senior Living was trending positively in its operations, but there was still some work to be done. An owner/operator engaged Blake Bozett and Spud Batt to sell the community to an undisclosed buyer.... Read More »
  • Large Senior Care Portfolio Trades Hands

    A portfolio comprising senior care assets across Washington State recently sold with the help of JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage. At first, only one of the assets was brought to market, but an offer emerged for the entire nine-facility portfolio. The price for the skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses ranged... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living and Clarion Partners’ Active March

    Stellar Senior Living announced it completed three transactions with Clarion Partners in March. In one of the deals, they completed the recapitalization of The Gallery at Spokane in Spokane, Washington, which was rebranded as The Grand at Spokane. Developed in 2024 by NexCore Group, the community offers 137 independent living, assisted living and... Read More »
  • Otterbein Senior Life Affiliates with Michigan CCRC

    A CCRC in Jackson, Michigan, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Otterbein Senior Life. The campus features 318 independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing units/beds on 22 acres. Kauhale Healthcare Management began managing the community in 2022 following the purchase and refinancing of outstanding bonds by Lapis Advisers. Visa... Read More »
  • ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Texas SNF

Ziegler Closes Financing for Texas SNF

Ziegler recently closed a $13.6 million refinancing for Mountain View Health and Rehabilitation, a skilled nursing facility owned by Altitude Health Services. This 187-bed facility in El Paso, Texas was acquired by Altitude in 2016 using bank financing. Taking out that debt, Altitude locked in a low, fixed interest rate below 3% with non-recourse debt for 35 years thanks to the HUD refinance. Ziegler Managing Director Christopher Utz noted this new refinancing was difficult to close and had several moving parts.  One complication was a large outbreak of Covid-19 in El Paso during summer 2020, and Mountain View Health and Rehabilitation was impacted as a result. As of June 2020, when... Read More »
‘Tis the Season for Takeovers

‘Tis the Season for Takeovers

One group of investors essentially took control of Genesis HealthCare, another group is trying to do the same thing with Capital Senior Living, and a third group wants to buy Diversicare Healthcare Services, and just may get its way. All three are different, but only one involves giving existing investors a major premium, which is one big reason why it may go through. An entity called MCS Plan, along with its controlling owner Ephram Lahasky, has offered to buy Diversicare for $10.10 per share. The offer letter came from DAC Acquisition LLC, which is also managed by Mr. Lahasky. There are the obvious contingencies and due diligence that needs to be completed, but... Read More »
Knapp-Stahler Group Handles Two Deals

Knapp-Stahler Group Handles Two Deals

The Knapp-Stahler Seniors Housing Group of Marcus & Millichap announced a couple of seniors housing sales, led by Jim and Justin Knapp. Jim first sold a CCRC in Waterville, Maine for $10.2 million, or $69,400 per bed. Located on an entire city block, the campus includes a 111-bed skilled nursing facility plus 27 assisted living/memory care beds and nine independent living units. It was originally built in 1922 and renovated in 1970 and 1995. Five years ago, it was acquired by a regional not-for-profit. Occupancy has consistently been above 90% for all levels of care, and revenues were just below $13.8 million, so the unidentified new owner is coming into a strong operation. They used... Read More »
National Health Investors Divests Eight Holiday Properties

National Health Investors Divests Eight Holiday Properties

National Health Investors completed the sale of eight independent living communities operated by Holiday Retirement for $115 million, or $126,500 per unit. The REIT expects to realize a gain on the sale of up to $2 million, and there is one more property to sell of the original nine that NHI had slated for divestment earlier this month. Rental income for these eight properties, excluding the impact of any straight-line rents, for the six months ended June 30, 2021 was $4.2 million. The purchase price for that property should be close to $15 million. The institutional buyer of the portfolio was not named.  There may be further action on NHI’s remaining 18 Holiday... Read More »

60 Seconds With Ben Swett: Staffing Scarcity Stunting the Recovery?

Driving through New England this past weekend, I was struck by the number of “help wanted” and “we’re hiring” signs across dozens of storefronts and billboards advertising job fairs for many types of businesses. All I kept thinking about was how senior care facilities were faring across the country with finding help. Not only that – qualified help.   We know that senior care jobs paying somewhere just above minimum wage can be difficult, emotionally draining and receive little positive recognition from the public. So higher overall wages and hiring bonuses could easily sway a chunk of the labor force to other industries and away from senior care, which will need many... Read More »
CBRE Finances Harrison Street/Anthology Joint Venture

CBRE Finances Harrison Street/Anthology Joint Venture

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root have arranged construction financing on behalf of a joint venture between Anthology Senior Living and Harrison Street.  The five-year floating rate loan with 42 months of interest only was provided through a regional bank for Anthology Boynton Beach, a 130-unit senior living community in Boynton Beach, Florida. It comprises 98 assisted living units and 32 memory care units on 5.3 acres within a larger planned development named Main Street at Boynton. The to-be-built community will be operated by Anthology Senior Living, a seniors housing-focused subsidiary of CA Ventures.  Amenities will include a fitness center, spa,... Read More »
High-End Medicaid Assisted Living

High-End Medicaid Assisted Living

More than 25 years ago, when private-pay assisted living burst on the scene, there was a large percentage of nursing home residents that had no other choice in their local communities, but had the financial resources to pay out-of-pocket. Many of them turned to assisted living. For those on Medicaid, the choices were slim.  We have long advocated that states could save money with their Medicaid-funded residents if Medicaid covered more assisted living for those who truly can’t afford any private pay living arrangement, especially those needing any kind of nursing care. The fear, of course, was that the Medicaid pie would expand as opposed to merely shifting where the money... Read More »
Marcus & Millichap Arranges Refinancing for Arizona Portfolio

Marcus & Millichap Arranges Refinancing for Arizona Portfolio

Marcus & Millichap pulled double duty for a Tucson, Arizona-area owner for several of its assisted living communities, arranging a refinance for their existing AL/memory care portfolio in the area and acquisition financing for two others. Representing a limited liability company and seniors housing operator, Volt Migrino and Alex Snyder of Marcus & Millichap worked on deal, which resulted in total consideration of $4.61 million, for a loan-to-value of 125%. Part of the proceeds will help fund working capital needs at the properties. Both acquired communities feature 30 beds.   Read More »
Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Link Senior Development and MedCore Partners announced the development of Ativo of Sundance, a 202-unit senior living community inside Sundance Active Adult master planned community in Buckeye, Arizona. The 1,100-home community is managed by Associate Asset Management (AAM) and boasts an 18-hole public golf course, community center and more than 20 different clubs from which homeowners can become members. It is also located in Buckeye, the fastest growing small city in the United States.  The new senior living campus will offer 103 independent living, 75 assisted living and 24 memory care units immediately adjacent to the Sundance Adult Village... Read More »
Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

Real estate giant Madison Marquette has teamed up with Saudi Arabia-based Arbah Capital to build a $37 million senior living community in Punta Gorda Isles, Florida.  This high-quality, 135-unit community has 116,000 square feet, making the total price per square foot $319. It is scheduled for completion in early 2023 and will be operated by Meridian Senior Living. Banesco USA provided the debt for the project.  Tampa-based Diaz Fritz Group is the project’s general contractor and St. Louis-based CASCO+R|5 is the architect. This is the second enterprise for the Madison Marquette-Arbah Capital duo. They previously joined together to build a 117,000-square foot, 144-unit... Read More »
JLL Represents BIG in Seniors Housing Sale

JLL Represents BIG in Seniors Housing Sale

Earlier this week, we covered private equity firm Bridge Investment Group’s (BIG) sale of its 79-unit senior living community in Savannah, Georgia to a 1031 investor. But some additional details came out that we can reveal now. The JLL Capital Markets investment advisory team including Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper and Michael Sivewright, represented BIG in the deal.  Located on Wilmington Island, an affluent suburb located about 10 miles southeast of downtown Savannah, the 1998-era community features 28 independent living, 39 assisted living and 12 memory care units. It offers restaurant-style full-service dining, a full-service salon, community library, and... Read More »