• Stand-Alone MC Community Trades in Arizona

    Blueprint represented an institutional seller in the sale of its stand-alone memory care community in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona MSA. Built in 2009, the asset features 48 units with 60 beds and received approximately $2 million in recent capital improvements. There is opportunity for occupancy growth and rental rate optimization. ... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Its Acquisition Streak

    Clarion Partners continued on its acquisition streak, adding two communities in California to its growing portfolio. The latest deal featured The Commons on Thornton and The Commons at Union Ranch, two seniors housing communities totaling 198 units in California’s Central Valley. They were previously owned and operated by MBK Senior Living, which... Read More »
  • Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

    M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory... Read More »
  • 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 »
The Media Still Gets It All Wrong

The Media Still Gets It All Wrong

It must have been very frustrating for seniors housing operators, and especially assisted living providers, to have watched the news these past several weeks when they have all been thrown in with nursing facilities. Not to throw nursing homes under the bus, but most of the reported deaths in “long-term care facilities” have been in nursing facilities, not assisted living, even though the latter has had its unfortunate share. But the media rarely distinguishes between the two.   So, one recent night, just to get our blood boiling, we tuned into Erin Burnett’s nightly CNN show. In the segment, a “nursing home director” explained how her facility in Oregon was able to stave off the... Read More »
Blueprint Wraps Up LTC Properties Portfolio Sale

Blueprint Wraps Up LTC Properties Portfolio Sale

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the final three phases of LTC Properties’ portfolio sale that sold to multiple buyers and closed from late-2019 to the first quarter of this year. It was revealed that seven skilled nursing facilities and about 550 beds in Iowa sold to a private owner/operator. Five of the facilities were located around Des Moines, and all seven offered upside to the new owner if they focused on certain geographical and management-level efficiencies. Humair Sabir and Jacob Gehl of Blueprint handled the deal, which closed in the first quarter.  That same pair then sold three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado, with two located in the Denver MSA and one... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Finances New Seniors Housing Development

Walker & Dunlop Finances New Seniors Housing Development

A former community health center in Washington, D.C. is being redeveloped into a mixed-income senior apartments community thanks to HUD financing arranged by Rob Rotach of Walker & Dunlop. Originally built in 1925 as The Hebrew Home, the building served as a skilled nursing facility until 1968 when it was purchased by the District of Columbia to convert it to a community health center. However, it has stood vacant since 2009, and is now being redeveloped into an affordable senior apartment community with 185 total units, 88 of which will benefit from an adaptive reuse rehabilitation loan. It is also being designed to achieve a LEED certification.  The project’s capital stack will... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Reports, Again

Capital Senior Living Reports, Again

After Capital Senior Living filed an 8-K recently talking about “going concern” issues, we have to admit we were a little nervous about the delayed first quarter earnings release. Let’s just say, it could have been worse. They included the “going concern” clause, which basically says the current conditions raise “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern for the 12-month period following the issuance of its financial statements” for the first quarter of 2020.   Well, after reading the financial statements, it seems like there is definitely room to “continue” for the next 12 months, given some of the steps it has taken. They will have... Read More »
MBK Senior Living Buys Orange County Community

MBK Senior Living Buys Orange County Community

California-based MBK Senior Living just acquired an assisted living/memory care community near its Orange County headquarters, with the Cushman & Wakefield team of Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Bailey Nygard handling the deal. Originally built in 1999 with a $1.1 million renovation completed in 2019, the community features 48 units and 59 beds of assisted living and memory care. Since the capital improvements, it has since stabilized and experienced a competitive bidding process.  The seller, a joint venture between Cadence Living and an institutional equity partner, previously acquired this community from the not-for-profit HumanGood in 2017. Back then,... Read More »
Synovus Bank Announces Series of Closings

Synovus Bank Announces Series of Closings

Synovus Bank has not shied away from the lending market recently, closing five transactions and more than $115 million in commitments in the second quarter, so far. That follows 13 loans closed in the first quarter and more than $300 million in volume. It’s true that most of these transactions were largely worked out before COVID-19 really hit the country in March, but the parties still all had to agree on terms in the end. And the deals that were all but closed pre-COVID-19 had little to no changes to the final terms.   April and May’s activity consisted of two construction loans, two acquisition loans and one refinance of a matured Fannie Mae loan that also included funds for some... Read More »
Berkadia Arranges Supplemental HUD Financing

Berkadia Arranges Supplemental HUD Financing

Berkadia’s Ed Williams secured supplemental financing through HUD for a skilled nursing facility in Florida. Owned by an Indiana-based sponsor, the 165-bed facility was built in 2010 (relatively new for SNFs) with a mix of skilled nursing and assisted living beds. Occupancy was strong at 90%, and its owner wanted to build a new skilled nursing wing with 20 private units. So, they increased licensed bed capacity by 12 and plan on converting some semi-private units to private.   To cover 90% of the project cost, Berkadia arranged a $5.08 million HUD supplemental loan that will run coterminous with the original HUD loan with a term of 30 years. The addition is expected to open this summer.... Read More »
Can Federal Funds Come Without Strings?

Can Federal Funds Come Without Strings?

Can the seniors housing sector expect to receive federal funds during the pandemic without some strings attached, like regulations? As the health care industry tries to deal with the rising costs of the coronavirus pandemic, the funds available may get tighter and tighter. So far, it has been hospitals and nursing facilities that have received much-needed federal aid. Nursing facilities have been given direct daily rate increases to deal with the rising costs of PPE and labor. The private-pay seniors housing sector, however, has been left out, so far. It has not been without a major effort to obtain federal funds to help with the sector’s own rising costs. Testing kits for all staff and... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s Active Spring

Meridian Capital Group’s Active Spring

Meridian Capital Group has hit a rich vein of activity, closing more than $300 million in transaction volume in the last month. The deals were arranged for 26 skilled nursing and assisted living properties across six states, bringing the seniors housing and healthcare team’s year-to-date total to more than $1 billion in financing.  There were a couple of acquisition loans, starting with $44 million arranged for the purchase of two skilled nursing facilities and 272 beds in Maryland. For the same borrower, Meridian also closed a $31 million loan and an $8.25 million A/R line to acquire three additional skilled nursing facilities and 266 beds. One finance company provided both loans, and the... Read More »
CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For HJ Sims/Voralto Living Purchase

CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For HJ Sims/Voralto Living Purchase

The CBRE National Senior Housing team arranged acquisition financing for a North Texas assisted living/memory care community. A joint venture between HJ Sims and Voralto Living was the buyer, obtaining a four-year, floating-rate loan with 24 months of interest only from a national bank. Featuring 60 units, the community was a newer vintage and will join Voralto’s six other communities in Texas, and one in Georgia. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg handled the transaction for CBRE.  It’s been a busy year already for CBRE’s Senior Housing Debt and Structured Finance team, which has closed over $515 million in debt and equity originations across 15 separate transactions. In the months... Read More »