• Joint Venture Acquires Four AL/MC Communities

    Following an active year of M&A with five separate deals totaling 21 properties, Stacked Stone Ventures has kicked off its 2026 growth with a portfolio acquisition in the Southeast. In a joint venture with Praxis Capital and an undisclosed family office, Stacked Stone, which was founded by Kent Eikanas, bought four assisted living/memory care... Read More »
  • Another Publicly Traded REIT Joins the M&A Mix

    Another well-capitalized institutional player is stepping into the seniors housing fray, adding fuel to an already aggressive bidding environment. And based on its initial acquisitions, with one closed at more than $1 million per unit, the target seems to be high-quality assets. Prices are rising fast in that segment, and as the buyer pool... Read More »
  • Distressed AL/MC Community Gets New Owner

    Scott Frazier, Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes of Blueprint advised a special servicer in the seniors housing sector on the sale of Spanish Vines, a well-maintained assisted living/memory care community. It sits in a densely populated Pocket-Greenhaven neighborhood of southwest Sacramento, California. The 88-unit community was generating negative... Read More »
  • Underperforming Community Sells and Secures Financing

    A buyer recently acquired an underperforming seniors housing community in Charleston, South Carolina, and Blueprint Capital Markets secured the debt financing. Blueprint also represented the undisclosed seller in its divestment. The asset comprises 84 units of assisted living and memory care. There is room for occupancy growth and expense cuts,... Read More »
  • Standalone MC Communities Secure Acquisition Financing

    Berkadia recently announced three financings on behalf of three different sponsors. In one of the closings, Steve Muth and Ed Williams arranged $25.8 million in acquisition financing for Peregrine Senior Living at Clifton Park and Peregrine Senior Living at Orchard Park. The bridge financing was provided through Berkadia’s Proprietary Lending... Read More »

Riverside Refinance

Three years after buying a 207-unit independent living community in Riverside, California, Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) is refinancing it, at a much higher value. The private investment firm bought Olive Grove (now Welbrook Arlington) in August 2013 for $16.25 million, or $76,651 per unit. Back then, the property consisted of two independent living buildings that were built in 1980 and 1984. Occupancy was only in the high-60% range, with average IL monthly rates of about $1,600. CSH clearly saw potential in the property, and invested between $5.5 and $6.0 million to convert one building to assisted living and memory care and add a separate dining room to that building (to be serviced by... Read More »

Adding upside in DC

We wrote in the October issue of The SeniorCare Investor, of CBRE’s Lisa Widmier and Matt Whitlock’s sale of two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia. Located in the greater Atlanta area, the communities were owned by Capitol Seniors Housing and purchased by Arcapita Investment Management US. There is a third property involved in the sale, a 74-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Washington D.C. MSA. Just like the other two properties, CSH had purchased this property 2014 for $14.1 million, or just under $200,000 unit. For all three combined in the current 2016 transaction, the total price is expected to be close to $325,000 per unit. Well done. Read More »

From the rumor mill

We have heard that a joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and Formation-Shelbourne Partners may have sold an assisted living and memory care community outside of Philadelphia to a private equity firm. Pricing has not been disclosed yet, but we understand that it could have been close to $400,000 per unit for the newly built community. Lisa Widmier and Matthew Whitlock of CBRE represented the seller, and Aron Will of CBRE arranged a five-year floating rate loan for the buyer, with three years of interest only. It looks like this is a case of buying a state-of-the-art community in a good market. Details to follow. Read More »
Financing the future

Financing the future

We wrote earlier this month of Capitol Seniors Housing’s large acquisition in the Seattle area, which involved four communities and some 368 units of assisted and independent living for a purchase price of $78 million, or $211,957 per unit. It turns out Aron Will of CBRE financed the transaction on behalf of the joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and The Carlyle Group. Mr. Will secured more than $60 million in non-recourse, floating-rate financing, with a five-year term and 36 months of interest only. Approximately $51.9 million of the loan will go towards financing the acquisition, and another $8 million will be allocated for planned capital improvements. The properties were... Read More »
Seattle calls, again

Seattle calls, again

Washington D.C.-based Capitol Seniors Housing has been quite active in Washington State, announcing its fourth acquisition there in less than a year. The private equity firm acquired some 368 units of assisted and independent living across four communities located in the Seattle area. These properties were built from 1989 to 2005, with various additions in that time, and Capitol Seniors Housing plans to make significant capital investments at the communities while converting a number of units to assisted living and memory care. MBK Senior Living will manage. The purchase price came to $78 million, or $211,957 per unit, and Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the... Read More »