• Blueprint Closes Two Seniors Transactions in Ohio

    Blueprint recently handled two transactions in Ohio. First, Conner Doherty and Ryan Kelly facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in a desirable market in Ohio. The not-for-profit seller was The Heritage Retirement Community. Built in 2000, The Belvedere of Westlake comprises 24 assisted living and nine memory care units in Westlake.... Read More »
  • Invesque Shareholders to Vote on Two Proposals

    Invesque has called a special shareholder meeting for June 18, 2025, where shareholders will vote on two proposals. First, they will consider enabling Invesque’s board to sell or lease substantially all of the company’s assets through one or more transactions. That could include direct asset sales, the sale of subsidiary equity, mergers, or other... Read More »
  • Dwight Mortgage Trust Finances Bridge Loan

    Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of Dwight Capital, financed a $20 million bridge loan for Bria of Palos Hills, a 207-bed skilled nursing facility in Palos Hills, Illinois (Chicago MSA). Originally built in 1980, the facility received a major renovation and expansion in 2016 with the addition of a two-story wing connected to the original... Read More »
  • Kisco Senior Living Buys Beds in North Carolina

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage was engaged by a North Carolina-based skilled nursing owner to confidentially market and sell 75 adult care home beds in Wake County, North Carolina. The beds were affiliated with multiple skilled nursing facilities located across the county and were slated for sale because the owner was eliminating assisted... Read More »
  • Texas Capital Bank Provides Financing to Regional Operator

    A California-based regional senior care operator with more than 20 facilities across the western United States recently obtained a revolving credit facility, arranged by Grant Goodman of G Capital. Proceeds from the $30 million facility will be used to support working capital requirements and continue the owner’s strategic expansion as new... Read More »
Focus Healthcare Partners Set for Growth, Again

Focus Healthcare Partners Set for Growth, Again

A familiar buyer is set to be very busy in the next year of seniors housing M&A activity, as Focus Healthcare Partners has closed on its Focus Senior Housing Fund II LP and raised approximately $370 million in capital commitments for it. The closed-end, commingled discretionary real estate fund will target private pay seniors housing assets across active adult, independent living, assisted living and memory care, but no stand-alone memory care. Campuses with a full continuum of care would be the most attractive, too. The fund is 20% larger than its predecessor vehicle, which raised $312 million in 2017 from seven institutional investors. Fund II, by contrast, drew from 15 different... Read More »
Inspired Healthcare Acquires Class-A Community in Texas

Inspired Healthcare Acquires Class-A Community in Texas

Berkadia facilitated the sale of a Class-A seniors housing community in New Braunfels, Texas. Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders handled the transaction on behalf of Biloxi, Mississippi-based LifeCare Properties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comvest Properties. The buyer was Scottsdale, Arizona-based Inspired Healthcare Capital. Built in 2021, The Blake at New Braunfels features 71 assisted living and 41 memory care units. The community has maintained consistently high occupancy and strong NOI. It is also just one block from the Resolute Baptist Hospital, which offers a full range of services as well as emergency care and a Level II NICU. Inspired is creating a new... Read More »
CFG Originates HUD Financing Package

CFG Originates HUD Financing Package

Capital Funding Group announced the closing of a $42 million HUD financing package on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The package included three loans supporting the refinance of existing bridge loans for three skilled nursing facilities: a $9.8 million HUD loan to support an 80-bed facility in Idaho, a $21.6 million HUD loan to support a 101-bed facility in Washington and a $10.6 million HUD loan to support a 108-bed facility in Washington. Tim Eberhardt and Ava Julio handled this transaction. This financing follows CFG’s recent announcement of the closing of a bridge-to-HUD loan totaling $9.75 million on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The loan supported the... Read More »
Dwight Capital Finances SNF Portfolio Deal

Dwight Capital Finances SNF Portfolio Deal

Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust, financed a $142 million bridge acquisition loan for a portfolio of 10 skilled nursing facilities in prime Southeast urban markets in Georgia (Atlanta), Tennessee (Memphis), Alabama (Mobile) and Louisiana (Shreveport). The properties include Bell Minor Home, Cambridge Post Acute Care Center, Nurse Care of Buckhead, Riverside Health Care Center, Rockdale Healthcare Center, Westminster Commons, Millington Healthcare Center, Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center, Kensington Health and Rehabilitation, and Highland Place Rehabilitation and Nursing. Altogether, the facilities total 1,371 beds. Adam Offman handled this transaction... Read More »
Mom & Pop Divests SNF to Publicly Traded Company in Iowa

Mom & Pop Divests SNF to Publicly Traded Company in Iowa

Senior Care Realty was brought on by a mom & pop in their divestment of a skilled nursing facility in northwest Iowa. The seller had owned the facility for over 50 years, and was the second owner since the facility’s inception. They had plans to retire, leading to the decision to divest. Built in the 1960s with renovations since then, the skilled nursing facility is in Spencer, Iowa, and comprises more than 80 beds. Occupancy was hovering around 75% at the time of the sale, as a wing was closed during the pandemic and was not yet re-opened. The buyer was a publicly traded company, and the purchase price was $3.55 million, or around $44,000 per bed. Mark Van Den Broeke handled the... Read More »
Berkadia Handles Southeast REIT Divestment

Berkadia Handles Southeast REIT Divestment

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare facilitated the sale of three assisted living and memory care communities. Of the three, two are in South Carolina and the other is in Virginia. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders handled both transactions.  The two communities in South Carolina total 156 units. They are in the Columbia and Myrtle Beach MSA’s. The seller was a publicly traded REIT. The buyer was a regional owner/operator. The community in Virginia features 77 units and is located 10 miles southwest of downtown Richmond. The seller was also a publicly traded REIT, and the buyer was a private equity group. Commonwealth Senior Living will operate the... Read More »
Bakerson Companies Looking to Grow Seniors Housing Holdings

Bakerson Companies Looking to Grow Seniors Housing Holdings

A private real estate investment firm that is “playing offense right now” in the seniors housing M&A market announced its latest acquisition of a 172-unit community in Rock Hill, South Carolina (Charlotte, NC MSA). La Jolla, California-based Bakerson Companies was launched in 2021 by Pablo Linero, who brings investment experience from HP Investors, Brookfield Properties and Frontera Real Estate Investments. Backed by Latin American family office capital, the company is searching for scale in the seniors housing industry.  The latest deal featured Chandler Place in Rock Hill. Built in 1995 and 2002, this seniors housing campus includes independent living (majority), assisted living... Read More »
Beth Mace New Director at Brookdale

Beth Mace New Director at Brookdale

Brookdale Senior Living recently held its annual meeting of shareholders, and Beth Mace was voted in as a new member of its Board of Directors. Not only that, but she received more votes than any other nominee (157,658,156), and fewer “against” votes than any other nominee.     As readers know, we have complained that for many years Brookdale’s board has lacked any outside directors with any real knowledge of the seniors housing business, and now they have one. Beth recently retired as the head of research at NIC, and had been responsible for providing financial data to the industry to try to help investors and lenders understand certain dynamics, and how those dynamics... Read More »
Dwight Capital Finances SNF Portfolio Deal

National SNF Portfolio Secures Refinancing

IDB Bank served as the administrative agent on a $201.5 million bridge-to-HUD loan to refinance existing debt for a national portfolio of 21 skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia and Texas. The facilities comprise 2,500 beds, have decent occupancy and are performing well. Facility ages varied, and there were multiple operators across the portfolio. As administrative agent, IDB will hold $100 million of the debt, and the syndicated deal involved two additional banks. The term length is three years, with no extension options. The goal is to take it to HUD within the next three years. Michael Palermo, John Bertolozzi and Thierry Decembre handled the... Read More »
National Church Residences Expands Ohio Portfolio

National Church Residences Expands Ohio Portfolio

National Church Residences expanded its Ohio portfolio through the acquisition of two affordable seniors housing communities. Both properties were purchased from Maple Knoll Communities and are in Cincinnati, Ohio. With these recent acquisitions, National Church Residences has 112 affordable seniors housing communities and 8,364 apartments across Ohio. Corbly Trace features 44 units and Mount View Terrace comprises 50 units. Originally built in the 1990s, both communities will receive immediate repairs. Ruscilli Construction, based in Dublin, Ohio, is the general contractor and Columbus-based Berardi Partners is the architect for the planned renovations. Read More »
New Perspective Accelerates Growth Mode

New Perspective Accelerates Growth Mode

New Perspective Senior Living, a fast-growing senior living company with 40 communities across eight states, secured more than $200 million in bridge debt, preferred equity and common equity with its partners, BMO Commercial Real Estate, Fengate and Boldt, to facilitate the acquisition and financing of six seniors housing communities with over 800 combined units. The joint venture has established a programmatic relationship to pursue $500 million in future acquisitions and developments. One of the seniors housing communities is situated in West Fargo, North Dakota. Four others are in Wisconsin, encompassing the areas of Sun Prairie, Brown Deer, Franklin and Waukesha. The sixth community is... Read More »