• Incumbent Operator Secures Two Acquisition Financings

    Jay Healy and Director Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia utilized the company’s balance sheet to provide $39.7 million of bridge-to-HUD financing for a Fort Worth-based skilled nursing owner/operator. The intent is to close the two subsequent HUD 232/223(f) refinancings in the second half of 2026. The loans facilitated the acquisition of three Texas... Read More »
  • MONTICELLOAM’s 2025 Activity

    MONTICELLOAM reported its 2025 activity, completing 49 senior care and multifamily transactions totaling over $2.2 billion in bridge, mezzanine and working capital financing throughout the year. In one of the notable transactions, one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM funded $470.5 million in bridge and working... Read More »
  • CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
Belmont Village Teams With Blue Moon Capital

Belmont Village Teams With Blue Moon Capital

Belmont Village Senior Living and Blue Moon Capital Partners are teaming up for their first ground-up construction project together, albeit their third venture overall, with a planned 157-unit assisted living/memory care community in Aliso Viejo, California. A master planned community located in the San Joaquin Hills of southern Orange County, Aliso Viejo boasts high home values and high incomes, which should help to fill the luxury community. Featuring both studio and one-bedroom units, the community also comes with a town hall, fitness center, salon and heated salt-water pool. Upon completion in 2018, Belmont Village will operate the community. To fund the project, the venture turned to... Read More »

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way…To Construction Financing

Aron Will of CBRE brought together a joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Belmont Village Senior Living, and a national bank to arrange construction financing for the development of a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Lincoln Park, Illinois. The project got its start in 2016, when Cain Brothers arranged the sale of a property adjacent to the former Children’s Memorial Hospital campus, which is currently undergoing a $350 million redevelopment run by McCaffery Interests and Hines Interests. The massive project will include 540 apartments in two 11-story buildings, 60 luxury condos and 162,000 square feet of retail space. Across the street, however,... Read More »
Home Health Care vs. Seniors Housing

Home Health Care vs. Seniors Housing

We are faced with a question that affects, and will affect, a senior’s choice in care. When is care at home both appropriate and cost effective, and at what point is it time to move into seniors housing? On January 19th, we hosted a webinar called “Home Health vs. Seniors Housing,” where a panel including moderator Steve Monroe of The SeniorCare Investor, Rita Altman of Sunrise Senior Living, William Dombi of The National Association of Home Care & Hospice and Debbie Reilly of Belmont Village Senior Living discussed the competing and complementary roles these two levels of care provide in the health care continuum. If you are interested in hearing the conversation, here’s the 90-minute... Read More »

Blue Moon pays up out West

We discuss in the July issue of The SeniorCare Investor the lack of high-valued transactions in June (and for the rest of the year), but one notable exception was Blue Moon Capital Partners’ acquisition of two assisted living communities in high barrier-to-entry markets in California. Belmont Village Senior Living developed the two assisted living/memory care properties in Thousand Oaks, California and Scottsdale, Arizona. Built in 2011 and 2012, respectively, the communities were close to full occupancy by the time of the sale. Blue Moon Capital Partners, which matches institutional capital investors with seniors housing operators, was the buyer, with Belmont Village owning a minority... Read More »

Belmont Village Senior Living opens 23rd community—its first in Austin

Residents have begun moving into Belmont Village West Lake Hills, a 141-unit assisted living and memory-care community on a 13-acre site in suburban Austin, Texas. The new community has 115 studio and one-bedroom apartments for individuals needing various levels of assisted care and a 26-unit memory-care neighborhood for those with significant cognitive decline. Rents start at $4,500 per month; amenities and services include chef-prepared meals with more than two dozen menu choices, a bistro for casual dining, housekeeping services, daily transportation, a fitness center with wellness programs and therapy services, a saltwater swimming pool, a full-service salon, a technology center, and... Read More »