• Healthpeak Properties Jumps Back into Seniors Housing

    Ever since Healthpeak Properties essentially exited the seniors housing market in 2021, we had wondered when they would come back. We even thought they could have jumped back in just a year later when rumors were circulating that Brookdale Senior Living was in talks about a potential sale.  The M&A opportunity in seniors housing, and the... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Washington State Bankruptcy Deal

    Fresh off a phenomenal 2025 (we’ll see where they ended up in the Broker Rankings next month), Blueprint announced a few end-of-year closings this week. First, Michael Segal, Dan Mahoney, Amy Sitzman and Daniel Waldhorn ran a bankruptcy sale for the real estate of three skilled nursing facilities in Washington State. They were engaged by the... Read More »
  • Another Record Year for VIUM

    VIUM Capital keeps raising the bar in transaction volume, announcing another record-setting year in 2025, closing 96 transactions totaling over $2 billion in par value, representing the largest total of financings closed in the firm’s nearly six-year history. Most of that volume came from bridge loans originated by VIUM through its joint venture... Read More »
  • Ventas Divests to Joint Venture

    Berkadia announced that it handled the sale of a California seniors housing community, and refinanced a separate Montana community. Atria Park of San Mateo, a 135-unit assisted living and memory care community in San Mateo, California, sold to an institutionally capitalized partnership. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders of... Read More »
  • Behavioral Buyer Gets Vacant VA Asset

    Some brokers have been taking advantage of behavioral health providers’ desire to grow in order to sell vacant seniors housing assets, and getting higher prices for their clients as a result. Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage arranged the sale of Mayfair House, a 53-unit assisted living community in Portsmouth,... Read More »

Three more Popular closings

Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP), was busy this month, closing a couple of term loans along with five separate credit facilities. Ken Mitchell, who leads the National Healthcare Financing Division of Popular, closed both an $18 million loan and a $13 million loan for Grand Healthcare System to exercise purchase options on a 179-bed skilled nursing facility in Queens, New York and a 122-bed skilled nursing facility in the Hudson Valley area of New York. Grand had been operating the facilities since 2014, both of which occupancy above 95% and strong quality mixes. Plus, the Queens facility recently opened a 14-bed unit to serve stroke patients. As for the... Read More »