• Incumbent Operator Secures Two Acquisition Financings

    Jay Healy and Director Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia utilized the company’s balance sheet to provide $39.7 million of bridge-to-HUD financing for a Fort Worth-based skilled nursing owner/operator. The intent is to close the two subsequent HUD 232/223(f) refinancings in the second half of 2026. The loans facilitated the acquisition of three Texas... Read More »
  • MONTICELLOAM’s 2025 Activity

    MONTICELLOAM reported its 2025 activity, completing 49 senior care and multifamily transactions totaling over $2.2 billion in bridge, mezzanine and working capital financing throughout the year. In one of the notable transactions, one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM funded $470.5 million in bridge and working... Read More »
  • CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Tennessee Senior Living Community

CBRE Refinances Tennessee Senior Living Community

The team at CBRE was in tune working through a Freddie Mac refinance of a senior living campus in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Nashville MSA). According to our public M&A database, Deal Search Online, the borrower, a joint venture between Venue Capital LLC and Inspirit Senior Living, acquired the property from a local doctor and operator in January 2018 for $12.45 million, or $132,500 per unit. Built in 2001 with 68 assisted living and 26 memory care units, the community was around 85% occupied and operated at a 22% margin on $4.03 million of revenues at the time of that sale.   There was an opportunity to especially improve the memory care census, so in came Inspirit and Venue... Read More »
CBRE Handles Sarasota-Area Sale and Financing

CBRE Handles Sarasota-Area Sale and Financing

It was all hands on deck at CBRE for the sale of an Englewood, Florida (Sarasota MSA) senior living community. We wrote about the deal earlier this week when Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF) announced its acquisition of the property. Featuring 118 units of assisted living and memory care, this community opened in 2017. It is located just minutes from the water and a number of shopping centers and medical facilities. There is also an adjacent 50-acre plot that CPF also acquired to add independent living units and cottages. After leasing up at a rate of approximately six move-ins per month until stabilizing in 2019, the community was 93% occupied at the time of closing. Grace Management will... Read More »
CBRE Funds Joint Venture’s Colorado Acquisition

CBRE Funds Joint Venture’s Colorado Acquisition

Cadence Living and a private equity joint venture partner acquired two senior living communities in the Denver, Colorado metro area, thanks in part to financing secured by the CBRE National Senior Housing team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Matthew Kuronen.   Located in Aurora and Lakewood, these two communities combine for 152 assisted living and 35 memory care units. Both were previously operated by Brookdale Senior Living. The new joint venture owner will invest around $4 million to improve the communities’ marketability.   To fund the acquisition, CBRE arranged a $14.4 million bridge loan from a regional bank. It came with a four-year term, three years of interest only and a one-year... Read More »
People on the Move, March 2020

People on the Move, March 2020

Right before Covid-19 brought everything to a stand-still, there were some hiring announcements in the senior care industry worth mentioning. We hope virtual onboarding can be just as effective. JLL Capital Markets announced that Alanna Ellis has joined the firm as a Director in its Seattle office and will be responsible for sourcing debt and equity placement business for healthcare, seniors housing and hospitality transactions. Ms. Ellis has 22 years of real estate experience, with the last 12 years focused exclusively on the commercial real estate finance and development sector. Most recently, she was a Senior Partner/Vice President of Commercial Lending at IPG, where she worked for 13... Read More »
CBRE Originates Second Fannie Mae Financing for NC Community

CBRE Originates Second Fannie Mae Financing for NC Community

The CBRE team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root arranged a refinance of a 100-unit independent living community in Durham, North Carolina, just two years after financing the property’s acquisition. Originally built as a hotel in 1985 but renovated and converted to IL in 2013, the community was purchased by Focus Healthcare Partners in October 2017 for $15.8 million, or around $160,000 per unit. At the time, it was fully occupied and operated at close to a 30% margin on over $3.1 million of revenues. The deal resulted in a cap rate of about 6.3%. Amenities include an interior courtyard with an in-ground pool, bocce court, putting green, theater, library, coffee/juice bar and community... Read More »