• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... 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 »
Greystone Provides Loan for AL Community in Alaska

Greystone Provides Loan for AL Community in Alaska

Greystone is back again, with Vice President Stella Plotkin providing a $22.5 million bridge loan to refinance Aspen Creek Senior Living in Anchorage, Alaska.  This 96-unit assisted living community was completed in 2019, with 21 of the units designated for memory care residents. The loan pays off existing debt that funded the property’s initial construction, allowing the borrower to complete current renovation projects, including on the secured memory care wing. Greystone’s interest-only, floating-rate bridge loan has a 24-month term with two six-month extension options, with the goal of transitioning to permanent HUD-insured financing. The transaction was completed on behalf... Read More »
Tutera Adds to Kansas Portfolio

Tutera Adds to Kansas Portfolio

After operating it for a couple of years, Tutera Senior Living took over ownership of a skilled nursing facility in receivership in Derby, Kansas. Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale on behalf of the receiver.   This small facility, which features 45 beds, was built in 1976. A few years ago, Virginia-based alternative asset manager Mooring Financial purchased the distressed HUD debt on the property. This was their only senior care asset and decided to exit the facility. Operations had declined during the pandemic, and the facility was losing money at the time of the sale with an occupancy of around 80%.   During that time, the facility had an initial... Read More »
Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Homebuilder Toll Brothers Announces Another Active Adult Development

Long-time luxury home developer Toll Brothers has joined a slew of other builders to break into the active adult market. It most recently announced the anticipated opening of Regency at Waterside in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, which includes 496 high-end single-family homes, carriage-style townhomes and a community clubhouse for seniors. Prices range from mid-$500,000s to upper $700,000s. Across its 227 acres of landscaping and four “collections”, buyers can choose between 23 different one- and two-story story home designs. The 10,700-square foot clubhouse contains an outdoor and indoor pool, a pavilion, fire pit, fitness center, putting green and walking trails throughout the... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Provides Loan for SNF Refinancing

Cambridge Realty Provides Loan for SNF Refinancing

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has provided a $14.1 million HUD loan to refinance Alden Estates of Barrington, a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in Barrington, Illinois. The fully-amortized, 40-year loan was provided for the owner, an Illinois limited liability company.  Short-term rehabilitation, transitional care, and post-acute services are all available at Alden Estates of Barrington. It offers four exclusive medical programs: OrthopedicPro™, CardioPro™ PulmonaryPro™, and NeuroStrokePro™. It was built in 1986.  Read More »
KeyBank Provides Financing for Three Seniors Housing Communities

KeyBank Provides Financing for Three Seniors Housing Communities

National Church Residences (NCR), the nation’s largest not-for-profit seniors housing provider, has received $21.5 million through KeyBank’s David Lacki to renovate and rehabilitate three affordable senior apartment communities in Florida, Ohio, and Texas. Through NCR’s Home for Life plan, each property has an on-site social worker and offers programs and activities, light housekeeping, grocery shopping, and laundry for residents.   Fair Havens Village is an 80-unit property in Sebring, Florida, consisting of 79 studios and one-bedroom units. It also includes a manager unit in three of the buildings. The project will receive a $4.5 million permanent loan from... Read More »
JLL Represents BIG in Seniors Housing Sale

JLL Facilitates Seniors Housing Sale in Georgia

Private equity firm Bridge Investment Group (BIG) sold its 79-unit senior living community in Savannah, Georgia to a 1031 investor. 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 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 in-house physical, occupational and speech therapies. Occupancy was a very strong 95% at closing. We don’t see that too often these... Read More »

60 Seconds With Ben Swett: Assisted Living – Where Are Values Now?

More than seven months into 2021, assisted living communities have been the most popular targets in the M&A market, representing a plurality, or 41%, of all transactions in the year, so far. Average prices have also risen compared with last year, according to our in-house statistics. But we still have many questions about the market’s fundamentals, what is motivating investors, and how different facilities are being valued today. Has pent-up demand already exhausted itself for this need-based product? Is the recovery meeting expectations, particularly for cash flow rather than just census? Are stand-alone communities preferred, or a continuum of care? These types could be valued very... Read More »