• Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

    Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk.... Read More »
  • Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

    Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior... Read More »
  • PE Group Enters Oklahoma after Medicaid Rate Bump

    A skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma that recently benefited from the state’s Medicaid rate bump sold to a national private equity firm looking to enter the state. Built in 1967, Maplewood Care Center features 180 beds on over three acres in Tulsa. It is located close to several major hospitals and healthcare campuses, but occupancy was sitting... Read More »
  • Community Purchased through HUD Assumption

    Chad Mundy of the Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lewiston, Idaho. Built in phases in the early 2000s, the community featured five separate buildings, one of which was vacant after sustaining damage from a flood. As a result, occupancy was lower, based on the 89 licensed beds,... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Rounds Out Q4

    The Zett Group closed out Q4 with several closings in the Pacific Northwest. First was the sale of Fox Hollow, a 58-unit seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the community features 51 assisted living units and seven independent living “cottage-style” units. Set in a nice area of Eugene, it was owned by... Read More »
CBRE sells MorningStar trio

CBRE sells MorningStar trio

For over $400,000 per unit, a joint venture between MorningStar Senior Living and Arcapita, a Bahrain-based global investment manager, purchased (in two transactions) a portfolio of three newly built assisted living/memory care communities in Colorado. One of the properties, a community in Jordan with 55 AL units and 29 MC units, opened in July 2014 and was already 80% occupied at the time of the sale. It sold for approximately $34.5 million, or $411,000 per unit. While the other two properties, located in Colorado Springs, included a 48-unit MC community that opened in September 2014 and an already stabilized community with 45 AL units and 19 MC units that opened in late 2013. Combined... Read More »
Seattle sale

Seattle sale

Capitol Seniors Housing’s second investment in the Seattle MSA was financed with the help of Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing, who arranged a $20.12 million non-recourse, floating rate loan with a five-year term and 36-months of interest-only, provided by a national bank. The acquired community is located in the town of Mukilteo, Washington and features 107 units of about half independent and half assisted living. It was built in phases in 2000 and 2004, and occupancy has been between 86% and 90% in 2015. On a trailing-12 month basis, the community generated about $2 million of EBITDA on approximately $4.8 million of revenues, for an operating margin of 42%. Capitol Seniors... Read More »
American Realty Capital still in the big leagues

American Realty Capital still in the big leagues

We wrote a few months ago that American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust appeared to be going strategic in their deal making, meaning they were purchasing smaller one-off communities rather than the larger portfolio sales they were known for. In fact, in all of their deals before 2015 (going back to their first transaction in 2012), ARC averaged $52 million per transaction, but in the first 10 months of 2015, they averaged $13 million each. That is not to say the quality of the deals changed (they didn’t), just the size. However, ARC finished 2015 by announcing three transactions averaging $67.7 million per deal. First, ARC-II purchased a portfolio of three assisted living/memory care... Read More »

Will power

A pair of well-located, well-occupied and relatively new assisted living/memory care communities in Suffolk County, New York recently received $62.8 million in financing arranged by Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing. The loan, which featured a five-year fixed rate and 60 months of interest only, was placed through a life insurance company and came out to approximately $230,800 per unit. Both communities, owned by a joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and The Engel Burman Group, had occupancy rates in the high 90s and are located in affluent towns in the New York City metro area. The 118-unit AL community in Huntington was developed by Engel Burman in 2010,... Read More »

Building on the North Shore

The Chicago suburbs of the North Shore, one of the wealthiest areas in the country, will soon be getting a new assisted living/memory care community in the town of Prospect Heights, Illinois. Greenbrier Senior Living, a Chicago-based developer, is teaming up with institutional equity partner, Och-Ziff Real Estate, and Chicago-based operating partner, Pathway Senior Living, to build the 94,333-square foot building, which will feature 69 AL units and 32 MC units. To help finance the project, Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing secured a $21.41 million, five-year floating rate construction loan, with 39 months of interest only, placed through a regional bank. If we assume the loan was... Read More »