• Sabra Health Care REIT Picks Up the Transaction Pace

    Sabra Health Care REIT is ramping up its senior care M&A activity and its SHOP exposure, set to exceed the $1 billion in investments it spent in 2025. The REIT completed several transactions during the first quarter, with investments closed year to date totaling $206.1 million, with an estimated initial cash yield of 8.0%. The pipeline... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Growing

    Clarion Partners is continuing on its acquisition streak, adding Legacy House of Avondale to its portfolio. The 169-unit Class-A assisted living/memory care community is in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, with a strong operational footing. Clarion Partners further expanded its relationship with MorningStar Senior Living through the deal, partnering... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Virginia Deal

    A publicly traded company engaged Blueprint to sell a value-add independent living community in a growing submarket of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1987, the 122-unit community could benefit from investments in the physical plant. It was also not stabilized.  A competitive market generated multiple bids in multiple rounds and improved... Read More »
  • Public REIT Acquires Full-Continuum Communities

    A pair of full-continuum seniors housing communities that sit approximately 10 miles apart traded in Northwest Arkansas. Village on the Park Bentonville in Bentonville and Village on the Park Rogers in Rogers offer a total of 208 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Each community also offers contiguous land for further... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

    HUD’s fiscal year 2026 hit the halfway point on March 31, and so far VIUM Capital is leading the way in closed 232 loans and by total loan volume with 41 transactions and $598.0 million in volume, respectively. That represents 22% of the program’s closed loans in the first half of the fiscal year and 19% of the total volume. And 32 of VIUM’s HUD... Read More »
CBRE Arranges Acquisition Financing for Alabama Community

CBRE Arranges Acquisition Financing for Alabama Community

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root have arranged acquisition financing for a 113-unit senior living community in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on behalf of a joint venture between Winterpast Capital Partners and Broadview Real Estate Partners. The $9.5 million, non-recourse, four-year loan has a full-term of interest only and an extension option through a regional bank. Pine Valley Retirement Community comprises 98 independent living units (including 38 patio homes) and 15 assisted living units, and features an activity room, garden and a beauty salon. The venture intends to put $2.4 million into it for capital improvements following the closing of the deal. Vitality Living,... Read More »
Palm Springs Community Receives Construction Financing

Palm Springs Community Receives Construction Financing

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root have arranged construction financing for a luxury LGBTQ-targeted active adult community in Palm Springs, California. The $42 million loan was arranged on behalf of a joint venture between a group of high-net-worth investors and KOAR International, Inc.  This nine-acre community is the first of its kind, as no other LGBTQ-orientated active adult communities exist in the market today. It will feature 122 units and a movie theater, card room, game room, salon, massage rooms, fitness center, craft rooms and a community room with additional dining. Outdoor amenities include a putting green, rose garden, resort-style pool... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Michigan Community

CBRE Refinances Michigan Community

CBRE Senior Housing arranged non-recourse financing for a 110-unit independent/assisted living community in Traverse City, Michigan. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root arranged the transaction on behalf of a joint venture between Cordia Senior Living and Cypress Partners. CBRE had previously arranged three-year financing for the community in 2017, which surely smoothed out the process.  Initially built as an asylum in 1883, the building was converted to seniors housing by the Cordia/Cypress joint venture in 2014. It is located in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, a large historic preservation and adaptive reuse development that began redevelopment from its asylum past into a... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Seattle-Area Seniors Housing Community

CBRE Refinances Seattle-Area Seniors Housing Community

Five years after acquiring a Seattle-area senior living community, a joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing(CSH) and a large university endowment refinanced the property. Aron Will of CBRE helped fund both the acquisition and this current transaction. He was joined by Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg on the refinance. Purpose-built in phases in 2000 and 2004, the community features 106 units of assisted living and memory care. Located in Mukilteo it was 90% occupied (and rising) when CSH purchased the property from a local operator in late 2015 for $29.125 million, or $215,300 per unit. CBRE secured a five-year, $20.12 million loan from a national bank to fund the deal,... Read More »
CBRE Arranges Bridge Loan in Washington

CBRE Arranges Bridge Loan in Washington

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg arranged a $10 million floating-rate bridge loan on behalf of a joint venture between Capitol Senior Housing and a large university endowment.  Emerald City Senior Living, a 119-unit assisted living and memory care community in Seattle, Washington, will receive the financing. Built in 2006, the community features amenities including a beauty salon, library and fitness center. Integral Senior Living will operate the community. The loan has a two-year term with full-term interest only and extension options and originated through CBRE’s proprietary multifamily bridge lending program, MF1 Capital,... Read More »