• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »

How do you sell a 24-unit assisted living community for over $370,800 per unit?

How do you sell a 24-unit assisted living community for over $370,800 per unit? Just throw in a nine-hole golf course and a clubhouse! That is just what David Rothschild and Mary Christian of CBRE did in selling a property for Icahn Enterprises in Vero Beach, Florida. The sale included a 42,000 square foot clubhouse, a nine-hole golf course and a 24-unit assisted living building (24,000 square feet) that can be expanded to 48 units. In addition, there is extra land for development, and everything is located within an age-restricted community that itself is located within a 1,000-acre master-planned community. The existing campus that was sold was producing about $7.45 million in revenues... Read More »

Trifecta from CBRE

Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a trifecta of acquisition financings totaling approximately $50 million. All three loans were floating rate bridge loans with five-year terms and between 24 and 30 months of interest only. The first was a $14.5 million loan provided by a regional bank for Capitol Seniors Housing to acquire a brand new 92-unit assisted living/memory care community in Tampa, Florida. Next, Mr. Will secured a $21 million loan with an “all-in” interest rate of approximately 2.35% for a joint venture between Sentio Healthcare Properties and Senior Living Residences to purchase a 122-unit/141-bed rental CCRC in Westfield, Massachusetts. The loan was provided by... Read More »

The Hollinger Group exits the seniors housing market

Last month, we wrote about Care Investment Trust’s purchase of the Hollinger South Portfolio, which included five properties in South Carolina (4) and Florida (1) and sold for $29.1 million, or $103,000 per unit. This month, the remaining senior living properties owned by The Hollinger Group, dubbed The Hollinger North Portfolio, were sold to Care Investment Trust, a subsidiary of Tiptree Financial, Inc., for $54.48 million, or about $181,000 per unit, with a 7.5% cap rate. The communities, which consisted of 299 units of assisted living and memory care units, were located in Maryland (3), New Jersey (1), Pennsylvania (1) and Virginia (1). Average occupancy was around 94% and the... Read More »

The end of the Sunwest Management saga

At long last, the end of a saga. The final Sunwest Management properties of the portfolio purchased by Lone Star, have been sold, and it was somewhat of a unique sale. For reasons that are too detailed to discuss, the properties were the last ones in a private REIT established years ago by the seller, and the sale had to be the purchase of the entity as opposed to the purchase of the outright real estate. SilverStone Health Care Real Estate figured out a way to get it done, and they closed on this portfolio for about $112,000 per unit. The portfolio included a 340-unit IL/AL/MC campus in the Peoria/Sun City area of Arizona and a 148-unit AL/MC community in Yuma, Arizona. The total purchase... Read More »

Big players entering the stage

The seniors housing development market is increasingly drawing attention from investors outside the senior living world. Some of you may have seen multifamily investor Drever Capital Management, with a portfolio of 170,000 apartments for middle income families, entering the seniors housing business with a plan to spend upwards of $500 million over the next 10 years in acquiring and developing senior housing properties, including independent living, assisted living and memory care projects. This isn’t the first foray into seniors housing world for Drever, which in 2012 purchased a 4-year old independent living community with 124 units in Lexington, South Carolina when the community was 50%... Read More »