• Not-for-Profit to Expand Its California CCRC

    Ziegler announced the closing of Odd Fellows Home of California’s $101.7 million Series 2026AB bonds through the California Statewide Communities Development Authority. This financing marks Ziegler’s first with Odd Fellows Home of California.  Odd Fellows Home of California, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Refinance for Full-Continuum Community

    CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced Harvard Square by Cogir, a full-continuum seniors housing community in Colorado owned by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group and operated by Cogir Senior Living. Built in 1982 and significantly renovated several times over the last 10 years, the community has 41 independent living, 144... Read More »
  • Chartwell Retirement Residences Completes Portfolio Acquisition

    Chartwell Retirement Residences completed its previously announced purchase of six seniors housing communities spread throughout London (three), Dorchester, Waterloo and Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. The purchase price at closing totaled approximately CAD$416.2 million, or US$30 million. An additional CAD$15.8 million, or USD$11.36 million, is... Read More »
  • Class-A AL/MC Communities Trade on Long Island

    BWE Investment Sales’ Seniors Housing Team announced its involvement in the sale of Village Green Senior Living and Village Walk Senior Living, both in high barrier-to-entry locations on Long Island. BWE represented the seller, The D&F Development Group, in the disposition of the Class-A assets, which had the goal of building, leasing up and... Read More »
  • SLIB Tops $1 Billion in Texas Transactions

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage and Matthew Alley topped $1 billion in transaction volume in the state of Texas following the sale of a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities. The Cascades Portfolio features a combined 647 beds and locations in Port Arthur (two), Houston and Galveston. The facilities were built from 1955 to 1993, with... Read More »

Cushman & Wakefield Has Banner Month

Last week we reported on the sale of a CCRC in North Carolina where Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. Now, the C&W Boston office has closed on two additional senior living properties in high-value transactions. The first one involved the sale of a 290-unit retirement community in Lantana, Florida, known as Carlisle Palm Beach. It has 144 independent living units, 90 assisted living units and 56 memory care units with average occupancy above 90%. It was built in 1999 and converted in 2014 to a full continuum IL/AL/MC community. Over the past five years the sellers spent $10 million converting IL units to AL. The sellers were affiliates of Senior Lifestyle Corporation and... Read More »
Development for Denver joint venture

Development for Denver joint venture

A joint venture between three different parties enlisted the help of Aron Will from CBRE to help finance a to-be-built senior living community in Denver, Colorado. Blue Moon Capital Partners, MGL Partners and Leisure Care are set to break ground in September on a 163-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community located near the heart of the Denver Tech Center. Mr. Will secured a $28.7 million, non-recourse floating rate loan, with a six-year term and 48 months of interest only, provided by a regional bank. The community is set to open in Spring 2017. 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 »

Develop in Dover

LCB Senior Living is breaking ground on its 12th development next month in Dover, New Hampshire, with the help of a couple of partners. Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets arranged a $15.1 million non-recourse construction loan to fund the development of the 76-unit senior living community. Sitting of 19.4 acres in a mixed-use development, which includes a new hotel, a medical office building, a bank and coffee shop, the building will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Berkshire Bank provided the loan to LCB and its joint venture partner, Blue Moon Capital Partners. Read More »

Building Boston

Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Rick Swartz of Cushman & Wakefield recently arranged $16.3 million in construction financing and joint venture equity for LCB Senior Living and Blue Moon Capital Partners to develop an 80-unit senior living community in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Located about 35 miles west of Boston on a 5.4-acre site, the three-story building will feature 60 independent/assisted living units (though all AL-licensed) and 20 memory care units. C&W arranged a five-year loan at 65% loan-to-cost, provided by M&T Bank. At an estimated cost of $25 million, or $310,000 per unit, the project is expected to break ground this month, with an opening scheduled for... Read More »