• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased... Read More »
  • CareTrust’s Flurry of Acquisitions

    CareTrust REIT, Inc. closed a series of transactions totaling approximately $437 million in late October. In two separate deals, the REIT acquired 12 skilled nursing facilities and one skilled nursing campus located across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The combined portfolio includes approximately 1,760 licensed skilled nursing beds and... Read More »
  • Ensign Adds to Its Utah and Alabama Footprint

    The Ensign Group, Inc. kicked off November with a couple of new deals. The publicly traded company acquired the real estate and operations of the following seven Stonehedge skilled nursing facilities in Utah: Stonehenge of American Fork (90 beds in American Fork) Stonehenge of Cedar City (50 beds in Cedar City) Stonehenge of Ogden (52 beds in... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

    A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term... Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

    A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19... 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 »