• Blueprint Closes Three Two-Property Deals

    Blueprint has been active, announcing three separate deals involving six separate assets over the last few days. First, Jacob Gehl and Dillon Rudy facilitated the sale of two seniors housing communities in densely populated, urban submarkets on Chicago’s North and South Side. The seller was a nationally recognized institutional private equity... Read More »
  • Dwight Mortgage Trust Finances Bridge Loan

    Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of Dwight Capital, financed an $80 million bridge loan to facilitate the acquisition of a five-property skilled nursing portfolio located throughout central Florida. These facilities comprise a total of 518 beds and were 88% occupied. In conjunction with the 30-month bridge loan (which has a six-month... Read More »
  • Heritage Pointe Acquires Ohio CCRC

    A long-term family owner/operator of a CCRC in Maumee, Ohio, decided to sell their only asset, but only to the right buyer. Ben Bohland and Collin Hempfling of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors handled the process (which also involved multiple advisors, attorneys and banking partners), which saw an active bidding environment and eight total... Read More »
  • Institutional Buyer Acquires in the Tampa MSA

    The Knapp-Stahler Group of Institutional Property Advisors sold a seniors housing asset on behalf of an institutional investor. Located in the Tampa, Florida MSA, the community has 132 units of assisted living and memory care and demonstrated strong operational performance. It appears to be American House Zephyrhills, which was built around... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living Enters Montana

    Stellar Senior Living, a senior care owner/operator in the western United States, acquired the operations of two seniors housing communities in Montana. This marks Stellar’s entry into the Montana market. Built in 1997, Helena Pointe is in Helena with 116 independent living units, and Missoula Valley in Missoula comprises 101 assisted living and... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures Another Agemark/Protective Life Financing

Lancaster Pollard Secures Another Agemark/Protective Life Financing

Grant Goodman, Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard worked on behalf of Agemark Senior Living Communities to refinance its 36-unit memory care community in Kearney, Nebraska. Placed with Protective Life Insurance Company, the $8 million term loan also allowed Agemark to extract equity from the property. The parties involved in this transaction have been seeing a lot of each other in the past year. Lancaster Pollard and Agemark have worked together to close three transactions through Protective Life in that time. Most recently, Agemark refinanced two other Nebraska memory care communities with 10-year, fixed-rate financings. Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Sells Stand-Alone Memory Care

Cushman & Wakefield Sells Stand-Alone Memory Care

Allen McMurtry, David Kliewer and Paul Carr of Cushman & Wakefield sold a 78-bed stand-alone memory care community on Florida’s east coast for $19.5 million, or $250,000 per bed.  The community originally opened with 66 MC beds in 2015 and then recently added 12 more beds to bring the total to 78 beds. Occupancy is over 95% and there is additional land to add assisted or independent living. Who says stand-alone memory care does not work? This one clearly does. The buyer was a Florida-based private equity investor. Read More »
Welcome To NIC

Welcome To NIC

As more than 3,000 people descend on NIC in Chicago this week, we hope talk will also focus on operations and ideas and not just investments. Good luck with that one. If you can believe it, this is my 29th consecutive Fall NIC Conference. There may be 15 of us who can claim that. But boy has it changed from the days they were trying to educate capital so money would be invested in senior living. Today, there is certainly no shortage of capital. While NIC is known as a deal-making conference, there should be a lot of other things on attendees’ minds. Are they talking about affordable senior living? What about penetration rates, which seem to have stalled in the 10% to 11% range? We assume... Read More »
Monarch Advisors Funds Development in South Carolina

Monarch Advisors Funds Development in South Carolina

A Charleston, South Carolina-based developer, WV Ventures, engaged Alec Blanc of Monarch Advisors (an affiliate of Senior Living Investment Brokerage) to close construction financing for a to-be-built senior living community in southern Georgia. The 80-unit project received senior and mezzanine debt equal to 75% of its total development cost. Monarch secured the senior loan from a regional bank with a five-year term and competitive rate. The loan was structured as interest-only for the first three years and also includes a recourse requirement, which will start to burn down upon certificate of occupancy. As for the mezzanine financing, Mr. Blanc sourced the loan from a firm deploying funds... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Brookdale Portfolio

CBRE Refinances Brookdale Portfolio

Five communities owned and operated by Brookdale Senior Living for over 10 years received a $160.3 million credit facility through Fannie Mae. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Matthew Kuronen of CBRE arranged the debt, which is a blend of fixed-rate (about 75% of the principal) and floating-rate (the remaining 25%) with a 10-year term and five years of interest only. The loan comes in at 60% leverage and provides for asset substitutions, borrow-ups and partial releases. With the facility secured, the communities were able to refinance debt set to mature in the near-term. Totaling 945 units, 783 for independent living and 162 for assisted living, they are located in Alabama, Michigan,... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Buys in San Diego

Healthcare Trust Buys in San Diego

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Healthcare Trust Inc. as a buyer in the seniors housing market. Well, the public, non-traded REIT has acquired a 91-unit/117-bed senior living community in San Diego, California, for an undisclosed price. There are 53 assisted living and 38 memory care units (64 beds) in the two-story building, which was built in 2015 on a 4.3-acre site. The quality of the building is apparently quite high, and the community was over 90% occupied. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard made up the Cushman & Wakefield team that served as exclusive advisor to the seller, Torrey Pines Development Group. Read More »
HHC Finance Closes Several SNF Loans

HHC Finance Closes Several SNF Loans

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) closed $24 million in HUD financing for a portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with a total of 264 beds in Tennessee. The experienced borrower refinanced conventional debt with the transaction. Built in 1964, 1997 and 2007, the three properties ranged in occupancy from the low- to mid-80s. HHC Finance’s Capital Advisory Group also had an active August, placing close to $100 million in bridge loans for two portfolios of skilled nursing facilities in the Southeast. One of the portfolios consisted of 10 properties in Kentucky, while the other saw three facilities spread across Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma. Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Closes CCRC Sale

Cushman & Wakefield Closes CCRC Sale

Allen McMurtry and David Kliewer of Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa office sold The Barrington of Carmel, a 267-unit CCRC just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, for $61 million, or $228,500 per unit/bed. The Type A entrance-fee community has 137 independent living units, 56 assisted living units, 26 memory care units and a 48-bed nursing facility. There is also the potential to expand by another 20 to 25 IL units, but that will be on the buyer, Baptist Homes of Indiana. The buildings comprise 372,000 square feet on 19.5 acres. Built in 2013 with approximately $112 million in tax-exempt bonds and $7 million in taxable bonds, less than six years later its not-for-profit sponsor, Mayflower... Read More »
Avenida Partners with Passco on Two New Projects

Avenida Partners with Passco on Two New Projects

Active adult developer Avenida Partners teamed up with Passco Companies, a California-based commercial real estate company, on its two latest projects in Palm Desert, California and Germantown, Tennessee. Collectively, the developments will cost around $97 million, and each community will feature 161 units and a host of resort-inspired amenities, including a pool, indoor and outdoor yoga spaces, a fitness center and plenty more. In addition, the Palm Desert community was designed in the mid-century modern style, and the Germantown community will take advantage of its location on the banks of Lake Nashuba (part of the Wolf River greenway trail system connecting to the Mississippi River)... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Adds to Illinois Portfolio

Cascade Capital Group Adds to Illinois Portfolio

Three acquisitions in the last month counts as a spree, right? Well, Cascade Capital Group is in the middle of one, having announced its acquisition of two Chicagoland skilled nursing facilities through its affiliate Legacy Healthcare. The deal included a 214-bed SNF in Streamwood and a 215-bed facility in Wheeling. Both fall under the Bella Terra brand, which has one other location in the Chicago area (Morton Grove) along with Montana and Utah. Last month, Cascade also added a 156-bed SNF in Aurora, Illinois, and a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities in Florida, which sold for $49 million, or $106,500 per bed, at a 13.3% cap rate. Legacy took over management of the Aurora... Read More »