• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
CBRE Comes Full Circle

CBRE Comes Full Circle

CBRE was all over the sale of a seniors housing community in Conroe, Texas, facilitating its sale on behalf of the previous owner and arranging acquisition financing for the buyer, Chicago Pacific Founders. Originally built in 2016 by a joint venture between Paradigm Senior Living and Padua (a real estate development firm based in Houston), this community features 60 independent living, 60 assisted living and 20 memory care units, along with 17 detached IL cottages across an 11-acre campus. Its $30 million construction cost was financed by one of Lancaster Pollard’s first Propero™ loans, which totaled about $26.7 million. The JV contributed a portion of equity and also received a purchase... Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Refinances California Community

Capitol Seniors Housing Refinances California Community

Five years on from its acquisition of an 83-unit senior living community in Tustin, California, Capitol Seniors Housing is refinancing the property with a $15 million loan secured by Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing. Originally built in 1985, this community consists of mostly assisted living units, with a memory care component as well. We have heard that it was acquired from Harrison Street Real Estate Capital five years ago for around $250,000 per unit and at a market cap rate close to the average for AL communities (around 8%). Since then, Capitol Seniors Housing has invested in capital improvements and modern updates to better compete with other... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Chico Expansion Project

CBRE Refinances Chico Expansion Project

After expanding its Chico, California senior living community a couple of years ago, Westmont Living refinanced the new development with a Freddie Mac loan arranged by Andrew Behrens, Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE. Set next to a lake within a master planned age-restricted community, the 80-unit assisted living expansion opened in 2017 to join the existing 138-unit senior living community that offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Since Westmont took over operations in early 2006, the property has experienced consistently strong occupancy above 90%. In 2016, CBRE had arranged a $32.3 million Fannie Mae loan, with a 10-year, fixed-rate term... Read More »
CBRE Refinances California Community

CBRE Refinances California Community

A Bay Area senior living community recently refinanced with the help of the A-team at CBRE that included Andrew Behrens, Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg. The borrower was a joint venture between northern California owner/operator Carlton Senior Living plus Piedmont Properties Group, a large multifamily/senior living investor. They bought the 153-unit independent living community in 2007 for approximately $17.65 million, or $115,400 per unit. Located in Concord, California, the property was originally built in 1991 less than two miles from the top-ranked adult specialty care hospital in the country, John Muir Medical Center. At the time of the acquisition, its debt (which included... Read More »
CCRC With Potential Sells in Northern Virginia

CCRC With Potential Sells in Northern Virginia

The team at IPA Seniors Housing highlighted a CCRC’s highly desirable location in the affluent Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, to sell the asset to an affiliate of Focus Healthcare Partners. Andrew Hilding, Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris represented the seller, Thompson Associates, in the sale, which did not disclose a price. The property, built in phases from 1980 to 1986, consisted of 306 total beds, including 96 skilled nursing beds and the rest coming with either independent living or assisted living services. Age apparently is holding the community back from competing well in the high-income market, so Focus plans to complete a substantial renovation of it. It has the... Read More »