• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »

Brookdale divests, big

We reported back in July that Enlivant was the rumored buyer of 44 assisted living/memory care communities in 12 states that Brookdale Senior Living was looking to sell. On September 15, it was announced that Enlivant was indeed the buyer, together with its PE backer TPG, except that the number of communities had increased to 48 in 14 states. This deal represents a nearly 40% increase in Enlivant’s portfolio, assuming all communities close. Sixteen of the transactions have already closed, and the remaining 32 are expected to be effective over the new few months. Read More »
CBRE doubles down

CBRE doubles down

CBRE pulled double duty with its last transaction, arranging and funding an acquisition of a 76-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Philadelphia area. Lisa Widmier and Matthew Whitlock handled the sale on behalf of the previous owner. This was built in 2013 at a cost of about $250,000 per unit, and a joint venture between Sage Senior Living and an institutional partner acquired it for just over $400,000 per unit. Aron Will arranged a non-recourse, five-year floating-rate loan, with 36 months of interest only, from a regional bank. Sage Senior Living will take over management. Read More »

Grandbridge hits the Town…Village

It was recently announced that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital closed $125 million in financing to assist in the acquisition of four Town Village-brand independent living communities in four states. A joint venture between Chicago Pacific Founders and Grand Park Capital Management (owned by former Brookdale Senior Living executives John Rijos and Bill Doniger, respectively) was the buyer. According to some media outlets, the properties sold for $180 million, or approximately $220,000 per unit. Grandbridge provided $25 million in supplemental loans and also closed $100 million in assumption loans for existing Fannie Mae debt that Grandbridge had previously originated. Read More »

Leaving the Lone Star State

Civitas Senior Living is expanding its operations outside of Texas for the first time, as it is set to break ground on a senior living community in Louisville, Kentucky. Civitas has been one of the more active developers/acquirers in Texas (and that’s saying something). In 2015 alone, the company opened five new assisted living/memory care communities, and, after forming a new post-acute care division, also acquired two skilled nursing facilities plus an assisted living community in the town of Jefferson, Texas. Then, at the beginning of 2016, Civitas purchased two former Brookdale Senior Living properties in Harlingen, and currently has four communities set to open soon in Texas. After... Read More »
Big news from Brookdale

Big news from Brookdale

The “big” news in the seniors housing market was the announcement at the end of July that Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) had entered into an agreement to sell 44 properties with 1,874 assisted living and 579 memory care units located in 12 states. The price is about $252.4 million, which comes to $102,900 per unit. Brookdale had previously announced plans to sell between 50 and 100 properties, and with this deal they are well on their way to accomplishing this goal. Since they would not be selling their best performing assets, it makes sense that the pricing would be well below the 2015 average price of $189,200 per unit, but it was also well below the lower quartile price of $141,000... Read More »