• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

A CCRC in Overland Park, Kansas is planning a large expansion to its independent living services. Perhaps they read Marcus & Millichap’s National Seniors Housing Report, which reported average IL occupancy steady at 91.7% in 2016, and predicted it will rise 10 basis points in 2017. That is close to the census peak in 2008, when IL communities averaged 92% occupancy, before the Great Recession reared its ugly head. The Overland Park’s IL census is very strong too, at 98%, which prompted the 76-unit expansion effort. Built in 2000, the community already features 64 IL villas, 54 assisted living units, 52 skilled nursing units and 36 memory care units. Census was in fact strong all... Read More »

Berkshire Health Systems Acquires Holyoke CCRC

The Loomis Communities just sold its CCRC in Holyoke, Massachusetts (Springfield MSA), leaving it with three communities in Amherst, South Hadley and Springfield. Loomis had been operating at the property since 1981, when it was independent living with a small skilled nursing facility. It now features 92 skilled beds, 68 IL units and 13 AL units on 4.9 acres. Loomis’ other properties do not have such a large SNF portion, so a sale was pursued. The buyer ended up being Berkshire Health Systems, a not-for-profit health system with a portfolio of 14 other rehab/long-term care properties, among other healthcare properties/businesses. Berkshire will keep the “Loomis” name on the facility for a... Read More »
New Owner For New Pond Village

New Owner For New Pond Village

Benchmark Senior Living, the largest seniors housing provider in the Northeast, just added its fourth CCRC, and 54th overall location, to its impressive portfolio. In a partnership with investment firm Farallon Capital Management, Benchmark acquired New Pond Village, a 199-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Walpole, Massachusetts (Boston MSA), for an undisclosed price. Built in 1992, it currently features 167 independent living and 32 assisted living units. The 90-bed skilled nursing facility was split off from the community in the mid-1990s, but residents at the CCRC have a priority admissions agreement with the SNF. This transaction comes 13 years after the seller, The Shelter Group, originally... Read More »

Ventana by Bucker Gets Off The Ground

Several years after plans were first announced for two 12-story senior living towers in the North Park neighborhood of Dallas, Buckner Retirement Services has finally broken ground on The Ventana by Bucker, a 325-unit entrance fee CCRC which is estimated to cost $136 million, or about $418,000 per unit. That tops both the national average cost to construct CCRCs ($386,500 per unit) and the Texas average ($394,700 per unit), according to our in-house database of developments going back to 2013. As such, the development, which features floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the building, boasts a number of luxurious amenities including a roof-top garden, top-floor “Sky Lounge,” heated indoor... Read More »
The Members Breakfast with Alan Butler

The Members Breakfast with Alan Butler

On May 4th, 2017, we hosted the seventh installment of The SeniorCare Investor Members Breakfast at The Princeton Club in New York City. Our special guest at the subscriber-only event was Erickson Living CEO, Alan Butler.  For 45 minutes, Mr. Butler sat down with our Editor, Steve Monroe, to discuss his joining Erickson in 2010, the company’s emergence from bankruptcy, and the future of the CCRC model. Subscribers can watch the discussion below.... Read More »