• Cap Rates Continue Compression in JLL’s Investor Survey

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard, Executive Managing Director of JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory, to discuss the results of JLL’s recently published 2026 Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey and Trends. They also covered some major topics heading into NIC in Nashville. Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Burning Questions for NIC Attendees

    This time next week, we’ll be heading out of Nashville from the Spring NIC conference likely buoyed by the overwhelmingly positive mood we’re expecting from most of our industry friends. It’s hard not to be optimistic when occupancy and margins are increasing to healthy levels nationally, and show no signs of stopping, when liquidity is... Read More »
  • Janus Living’s IPO Results

    Janus Living has completed its initial public offering, raising $878 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses payable by the company. The REIT sold 48.3 million shares of its Class A-1 common stock at $20 per share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ 6.3 million-share option. It made its New York... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Secures Slew of HUD and Bridge Financings

    VIUM Capital recently closed a series of healthcare and seniors housing real estate financings across multiple states, spanning both HUD-insured loans and bridge executions for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care assets. The largest loan was a $56.4 million HUD financing for a 325-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida. The facility... Read More »
  • Several Senior Care Finances Close

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group reported an active end of winter, closing a handful of debt transactions for clients in Illinois and Kentucky. First, he helped the owner of a 77-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky refinance existing acquisition debt following a successful operational turnaround. Since acquiring the facility... Read More »
Brookdale Gets Another Large Freddie Mac Financing

Brookdale Gets Another Large Freddie Mac Financing

Brookdale Senior Living continues to make moves that put the company on surer financial footing, having just refinanced existing debt with a $111.1 million Freddie Mac loan arranged by Monique Bimler of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Secured in two tranches of 14 cross-collateralized seniors housing properties in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington, the first mortgage was arranged as a 10-year split payment master note. There will be a five-year interest-only period split between 40% floating rate and 60% fixed rate payments, with a 30-year amortization schedule after that. This transaction follows a much larger $327... Read More »
Flashback Friday: Brookdale Becomes King

Flashback Friday: Brookdale Becomes King

Oh, how times have changed. And the mighty have fallen. Taking a look at the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor from 2006, what headline appears? “Brookdale Becomes King: Changing the Face of Seniors Housing.” Hindsight is 20/20, but there were already warning signs of Brookdale Senior Living’s bust as it was in the middle of a meteoric rise. Debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2005 at $19.00 per share, Brookdale went on an acquisition spree in the months afterwards, culminating in its May 2006 acquisition of American Retirement Corporation for $33.00 per share, or $1.2 billion plus assumed debt and leases. Also coming along with the deal was ARC’s CEO Bill Sheriff, who... Read More »
Capital Senior Living and Brookdale Still In Price Tank

Capital Senior Living and Brookdale Still In Price Tank

Stock values still hitting lows, but not cheap enough for big buyers to come in. I am not sure if you have been following it, but Capital Senior Living’s share price just hit a new low yesterday. In fact, the market value of the company is just $110 million. Think about it, some individual assets have traded at prices above this, and while the $110 million does not include the debt on its books, there have got to be buyers putting pencil to paper. Brookdale Senior Living is not faring too well either. But they aren’t buying into the low valuations, at least for now. The question remains, if things are not going to be much better six months from now, why buy shares now? You may as well... Read More »
Avalon Senior Living Grows

Avalon Senior Living Grows

Avalon Senior Living has partnered again with Eastridge Pacific Holdings, LLC (EPH), this time buying three senior living communities in California from HCP, Inc. that had been leased to Brookdale Senior Living. The 205 units (210 beds) offer independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The purchase price was $15.7 million, or $76,585 per unit, and came with an approximate cap rate of 8.0%. Mike Garbers, formerly of Greystone and now with JLL, represented the seller, and MidCap Financial provided the mortgage financing. Eastridge Pacific entered the senior living industry in 2016 as an equity partner in Kalakaua Gardens, a 17-story community in Honolulu with 216 beds. It... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Misses the Mark, Again

Capital Senior Living Misses the Mark, Again

As we were watching the share price of Capital Senior Living drop for several days in a row before announcing their fourth quarter earnings results, we were wondering whether something had leaked out, or whether it was the usual sell off because the company had underperformed relative to expectations for too many quarters in a row. We may never know which it was, and maybe a bit of both, but underperformance was there again. Now, we can’t shoot the messenger because Kim Lody took over as CEO at the beginning of this year and was just a Board member before that, but the results were probably worse than anyone expected. Sequential occupancy declined by a whopping 110 basis points from the... Read More »