• Ventas Acquires Class-A Portfolio in Texas and Louisiana

    Ventas acquired five Class-A, high-performing seniors housing communities in Texas and Louisiana with upside potential. Built between 2015 and 2019, the communities comprise approximately 90 units each, with a total of 67 independent living, 201 assisted living and 179 memory care units in the Houston and Dallas, Texas, markets and the Lafayette... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: An Update to Our Valuation Statistics

    The deal dynamics of 2025 appear to have changed very little, with a majority of transactions featuring value-add properties, a slowly increasing share of stabilized, Class-A properties being sold, steady improvements to the capital markets and liquidity and cap rates that have moved only slightly downwards. Taking all of those factors into... Read More »
  • PACS Group Gets Breathing Room After Defaults

    PACS Group (which operates 314 communities across 17 states), Truist Bank, and PACS’ lenders entered into forbearance agreements on Wednesday, August 13. This is the fifth change to the agreements. Deficiencies in financial reporting across multiple periods resulted in defaults under its master lease with Omega Healthcare Investors, which... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Class-A Arizona IL/AL Community

    Principal Asset Management (Principal Financial Group’s investment management division) and IRA Capital announced the acquisition of American Groves, a Class-A seniors housing community in Gilbert, Arizona, for $44.5 million, or $500,000 per unit. The sale was facilitated by JLL Capital Markets on behalf of the seller, American Care Concepts and... Read More »
  • Integrated Senior Foundation Purchases Seniors Housing Portfolio

    JLL Securities and JLL Capital Markets arranged $79.32 million in tax-exempt, floating-rate bank financing for Integrated Senior Foundation’s acquisition of three well-performing seniors housing communities in Oregon (2) and Montana. JLL secured a low spread bridge loan, financing the acquisition at 103% loan to cost. The JLL Securities... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires Class-A Active Adult Community in SC

Joint Venture Acquires Class-A Active Adult Community in SC

Berkadia announced the sale of a Class-A, active adult community in Greenville, South Carolina. Built in 2022, The Aspens Verdae sits within the 1,100-acre master-planned Verdae neighborhood and comprises 159 one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.  Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders negotiated the transaction on behalf of the seller, Texas-based active adult developer Aspens Senior Living. The community was sold to Charleston, South Carolina-based Blaze Capital Partners and Partners Group. Public records show the purchase price as $33.2 million, or $208,800 per unit, which was financed by a $21.6 million loan from MetLife Investment Management. Read More »
CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativCap closed a lifeco refinance for an existing, Class-A assisted living/memory care community in Northbrook, Illinois. Consisting of two buildings, the community opened in 2014 with 188 units. It leased up well and underwent a $16 million expansion and renovation in June 2019 that added a separate 44-unit memory care building and converted the MC units in the main building to AL. Management has remained in place since opening, and the community is currently achieving high rents and occupancy is in the upper 80s. The owner/borrower is a fund that invests exclusively in seniors housing on behalf of institutional investors, working with the community’s operator.  Working on behalf... Read More »
CIBC Secures Refinancing for North Carolina SNF portfolio

CIBC Secures Refinancing for North Carolina SNF portfolio

CIBC Bank USA and a Greystone Monticello affiliate, along with other co-lenders, recently provided 980Investments, owned by Simcha Hyman and Naftali Zanziper, with $137.0 million in total financing. The credit facilities were used to refinance a North Carolina portfolio of skilled nursing facilities that comprise 1,135 beds. CIBC additionally provided a $6.5 million revolving line of credit to support the ongoing operations of the third-party tenant.  Financing was handled on behalf of Greystone by Karina Davydov and Danny Sweeney, and on behalf of CIBC by Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel. Read More »
Not-For-Profit Secures Financing For Michigan Facilities

Not-For-Profit Secures Financing For Michigan Facilities

Ziegler announced the closing of Sunset Manor Inc.’s $52.1 million Series 2024A and Series 2024B bonds through the Public Finance Authority. Sunset Manor is a 501(c)(3) organization that owns and operates four facilities in Jenison, Grandville and Grand Haven, Michigan. The bonds consist of four sub-series: $20.7 million in revenue refunding bonds (Series 2024A-1), $6 million in revenue bonds (Series 2024A-2), $20.4 million in revenue refunding bonds (Series 2024B-1) and $5 million in revenue bonds (Series 2024B-2). The proceeds of the Series 2024 bonds will be used to refinance its existing debt, finance $11 million for capital expenditures, and pay for costs of issuance associated with... Read More »
Another County-Owned SNF Finds New Owner

Another County-Owned SNF Finds New Owner

Fewer and fewer counties have been able to hold onto their skilled nursing facilities, often lacking the scale (or expertise) to operate them profitably and having to support large losses on their books for years. COVID, the staffing shortage and soaring expenses did not help many, and we have seen more sales of county-owned facilities since then, although they were occurring for years before the pandemic, too.  Evans Senior Investments recently sold Samaritan Health Center, a county-owned senior care facility in West Bend, Wisconsin. Built in 1969 and renovated in 2009, the facility is located about 30 miles northeast of Milwaukee. It offers three licensed programs: a skilled nursing... Read More »
CareTrust Announces Latest Investments

CareTrust Announces Latest Investments

Building on its active investment year, so far, CareTrust REIT announced a major loan origination in the form of a $260 million senior mortgage loan and a $43 million preferred equity investment in connection with the borrower’s acquisition of a 37-facility skilled nursing and seniors housing portfolio in the Pacific Northwest. The portfolio comprises 2,713 operating beds/units with 21 skilled nursing facilities and 16 seniors housing facilities located in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, California, Montana and Nevada.  The borrower, a joint venture between a large health care real estate owner and a subsidiary of PACS Group, acquired the 37 facilities, which will be operated... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Class-A Active Adult Community

CBRE Refinances Class-A Active Adult Community

CBRE arranged a refinance for a Class-A active adult community in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA, on behalf of a joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and Bain Capital Real Estate. Built in 2023, Outlook Gwinnett features 180 units within an 89-acre, master-planned community called The Exchange of Gwinnett in Buford. It is managed by Greystar Real Estate Partners.  Aron Will and Adam Mincberg originated the interest-only loan through a debt fund enabling the community to complete lease-up in its dynamic MSA. CBRE also financed the construction of the community in 2022. Read More »
Financing Secured For Two Seniors Housing Communities

Financing Secured For Two Seniors Housing Communities

Capital Funding Group closed two bridge loans that support two seniors housing communities. The loans total $23.45 million and the communities are in Florida and Michigan. The first transaction closed in June, and the second in July.  On June 27, CFG closed an $8.95 million financing for Lithia Assisted Living, LLC, supporting the refinancing of Twin Creeks Assisted Living and Memory Care. Twin Creeks is an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Riverview, Florida.  Then, on July 22, CFG completed $14.5 million in acquisition financing on behalf of Investor Land Holding of Brighton, LLC. The loan facilitated the acquisition of Hampton Manor of Brighton, which comprises 73... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Expands (again) in Ohio

Not-For-Profit Expands (again) in Ohio

Community First Solutions acquired a seniors housing community in Beavercreek, Ohio. Built in 2019, HarborChase of Beavercreek features 64 assisted living and 46 memory care units across 122,000 square feet. The community will be rebranded as The Patterson.  This acquisition expands Community First’s senior living portfolio for the third time in less than one year. It previously acquired the real estate and operations of Anthology of Mason (Mason, Ohio), and the operations of Kettering Health Senior Living (Miamisburg, Ohio) which is owned by Kettering Health. The purchase of HarborChase also brings Community First’s number of senior living residents to 620 and annual operating revenue... Read More »
Ensign’s At It Again

Ensign’s At It Again

The Ensign Group completed the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities in three separate transactions. First, Ensign acquired the real estate and operations of Greater Southside Health and Rehabilitation, a 76-bed skilled nursing facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The real estate was acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Ensign’s captive real estate company. In separate transactions on the same day, Ensign acquired Holly Heights Care and Rehabilitation, a 133-bed SNF in Denver Colorado, and City Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, a 125-bed SNF, also in Denver. One of these new facilities will be subject to a long-term, triple net lease and the other will... Read More »
CIBC Secures Refinancing for North Carolina SNF portfolio

Blueprint Reports Heavy July Volume

July’s M&A results surprised us a bit, with a summer lull in activity perfectly understandable. Instead, dealmakers announced nearly 60 publicly announced transactions, good for fifth place in the all-time monthly record. For some perspective, last July we recorded 42 deals, and July 2022 saw 44 transactions announced, which is more typical of the slow summer months.  Some of the credit has to go to the many brokers working tirelessly to get deals across the finish line, often with many bumps along the way. Blueprint had a banner month, closing $310 million in seniors housing and care transaction volume across 10 transactions. The deals consisted of 22 total assets and around... Read More »