• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »
  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »
  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »
  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... 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 »