• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    Next week for our Second Quarter Investor Call, sponsored by Ziegler, we’ll be trying something different that is sure to be both entertaining and useful for our audience of operators, investors, brokers, lenders and everyone else. We’ll be tackling The Great Debates of Senior Care, covering some of the most important issues facing the industry.... Read More »
  • Thank You Ortelius?

    Brookdale Senior Living just reported June occupancy, and the increases were much better than we expected for a second quarter, which historically has been a mixed bag for the industry. Let’s just say, we were impressed. June’s same-community weighted average occupancy was 81.1%, up 220 basis points year over year and up 50 basis points... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells SNF in New Jersey

    Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage got a skilled nursing sale in New Jersey over the finish line after survey issues caused a buyer switch-up. Built in 1980, Medford Care Center is located in the town of Medford (about an hour east of Philadelphia) and features 180 beds on an 11-acre campus. Operations were not strong, and the... Read More »
  • Carnegie Capital Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Texas Portfolio Deal

    Carnegie Capital, the national seniors housing debt brokerage founded and run by JD Stettin and David Farhadian, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a $124 million, or $117,100 per bed, portfolio acquisition transaction. Carnegie provided a combination of advisory work and debt placement for the nine-skilled nursing facility portfolio with... Read More »
  • 12 Oaks Senior Living Appoints New CFO

    12 Oaks Senior Living appointed Elliott Westerman as CFO, effective immediately. Westerman has more than two decades of leadership experience across senior living, healthcare, and real estate sectors. As CFO, Westerman will oversee all aspects of financial management, including financial planning and analysis, capital structure strategy,... Read More »
Ziegler Represents CJE SeniorLife in SNF Sale

Ziegler Represents CJE SeniorLife in SNF Sale

Cascade Capital and Legacy Healthcare are acquiring a large skilled nursing facility in Skokie, Illinois, with Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden representing the seller, CJE SeniorLife, in the transaction. Opened in 1981, the seven-story building has all private rooms, with 216 dually certified and 24 set aside for just Medicare patients. CJE Senior Living, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Cascade/Legacy signed a letter of intent in February 2021 and closed the deal at the end of July. The purchase price was not disclosed.  Read More »
Centra Health Sells Virginia Senior Care Portfolio

Centra Health Sells Virginia Senior Care Portfolio

After deliberation by its board and senior leadership, Centra Health plans on selling its five Virginia senior care facilities. The Lynchburg, Virginia-based not-for-profit healthcare system decided it was time to focus on its core services and hand over its senior care operations to a more senior care-focused operator. Cascade Capital Group agreed to purchase the four skilled nursing facilities and have its subsidiary, Hill Valley Healthcare, operate them going forward. Then, Centra Health sold its CCRC to not-for-profit LifeSpire of Virginia, which owns and operates four CCRCs in Virginia. All parties have signed letters of intent and plan to close the sale around August... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Finances Another Cascade Capital Group Acquisition

Walker & Dunlop Finances Another Cascade Capital Group Acquisition

Walker & Dunlop’s Joshua Rosen arranged bridge financing for Cascade Capital Group’s acquisition of a 136-bed supportive living facility in Aurora, Illinois. Totaling over $11.0 million, the debt was structured and provided by W&D’s bridge lending program, which utilizes the company’s own balance sheet. It came with a nine-month term and full term of interest-only payments and allow Cascade to quickly execute on the acquisition. The loan also features flexible prepayment options, and Cascade expects to refinance through HUD later this year. If this sounds familiar, it’s because in August 2019, Walker & Dunlop provided a $12.8 million loan from its balance sheet to cover 100% of... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Sizing Up South Dakota SNF Market

Cascade Capital Group Sizing Up South Dakota SNF Market

Cascade Capital Group clearly sees something in the South Dakota skilled nursing market, following up on its acquisition of 16 Skyline skilled nursing facilities in the state with the purchase of two SNFs and an assisted living community in Huron and Sioux Falls. Previously owned by a publicly traded REIT, this portfolio features a combined 322 skilled nursing beds and 55 assisted living beds. Two of the properties, the 163-bed SNF and the 55-bed AL community are located on the same campus in Huron, while the Sioux Falls facility is licensed for 159 SN beds. Their owner deemed the facilities to be non-core. Certainly, the properties were on the older side, having been built in the 1960s,... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Adds to Illinois Portfolio

Cascade Capital Group Adds to Illinois Portfolio

Three acquisitions in the last month counts as a spree, right? Well, Cascade Capital Group is in the middle of one, having announced its acquisition of two Chicagoland skilled nursing facilities through its affiliate Legacy Healthcare. The deal included a 214-bed SNF in Streamwood and a 215-bed facility in Wheeling. Both fall under the Bella Terra brand, which has one other location in the Chicago area (Morton Grove) along with Montana and Utah. Last month, Cascade also added a 156-bed SNF in Aurora, Illinois, and a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities in Florida, which sold for $49 million, or $106,500 per bed, at a 13.3% cap rate. Legacy took over management of the Aurora... Read More »