• LTC Properties Divests More SNFs

    LTC Properties has completed its effort to divest seven skilled nursing facilities after one of its top 10 operating partners decided it was not renewing its master lease for these facilities, instead choosing to downsize and exit some states. In early October, the REIT announced that it sold two of the skilled nursing facilities in Florida for... Read More »
  • PE Firm Divests to Cedarhurst Senior Living

    Cedarhurst Senior Living announced that it acquired The Enclave of East Louisville, now known as Cedarhurst of East Louisville. The Class-A Kentucky community delivered strong occupancy and stable margins, and there is potential to increase the property’s NOI in the short term. Built in 2012, it features 56 assisted living and 24 memory care... Read More »
  • Northeast Owner/Operator Expands in Pennsylvania

    A personal care home in Pennsylvania was sold with the help of Jeff Binder, Bradley Clousing, Dan Geraghty, Dave Balow and Lucas Doll of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. It was built in 1998 and sits within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The seller was a national owner/operator that deemed the property to no longer fit in its long-term... Read More »
  • Benchmark Senior Living Adds to Its Garden State Portfolio

    In its joint venture with the vertically integrated real estate investment firm National Development, Benchmark Senior Living continues to grow through single-asset deals, adding another New Jersey property to its portfolio. Benchmark acquired Arbor Terrace Roseland, a 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Roseland, New Jersey, about... Read More »
  • MidCap Financial and CBRE Originate Refinance

    MidCap Financial closed a $17.5 million first mortgage loan. The floating rate loan refinanced the existing indebtedness on a stabilized Class-A seniors housing community in the Boise, Idaho, market. The property in Meridian is owned by experienced real estate company Gold Stream Retirement Communities, and it is managed by Grace Management,... Read More »

Seniors Housing Weekly Update – Legal Wrangling With CCRCs

May 26, 2015. 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe. One CCRC lost a legal battle with regard to its dining room policies. Other ramifications?… Legal Wrangling With CCRCs The American Seniors Housing Association recently issued a legal brief on a fair housing settlement involving a CCRC. The Justice Department had filed a complaint against a CCRC that had restricted use of the main residential dining room to the residents of the independent living units. This restriction also applied to spouses of an IL resident who were in the skilled nursing unit. Having personally spent a lot of time in a CCRC, I know that many residents don’t like to be reminded of what the future will be like for them,... Read More »

High cost memory care development in Florida

It’s not often you see a new senior living development cost over $400,000 per unit to build. Nevertheless, Cypress Cove Health Park Florida, a not-for-profit CCRC built in 1999 with currently more than 550 residents on 48 acres in Fort Myers, Florida, is adding 44 memory care units for a cost of approximately $18.5 million, or about $420,500 per unit (in a state that averages $213,000 per unit to build new assisted living/memory care or standalone memory care communities, according to our data). The new two-story building, scheduled to open in 2016, will feature four households each with 11 private apartments that each average about 250 square feet. There will be a significant amount of... Read More »

Rental CCRC coming to Raleigh, North Carolina

Site work is underway on what will be Raleigh’s first licensed, rental CCRC. The Cardinal at North Hills will be breaking ground soon. Once complete, the new community will offer month-to-month rental units—unlike most CCRCs, which require an entrance-fee contract. The Cardinal will have 165 independent living residences, plus 60 on-site private apartments licensed for assisted living, memory care, and nursing care. Residents will have direct access from their buildings to a secure, underground parking garage and to the 35,000 square foot clubhouse, which will have appropriate spaces for social, spiritual, and vocational activities, as well as multiple dining venues: the main dining room... Read More »

Erickson Living’s third CCRC in New Jersey—underway and selling well

Construction is underway on Lantern Hill, Erickson Living’s new, 540,000-square-foot CCRC on 21 acres in New Providence, New Jersey—about 20 miles west of New York City. This will be Erickson’s 18th senior living community and its third in northern/central New Jersey. Upon completion, Lantern Hill will have five interconnected buildings that comprise 275 independent living apartments (one- and two-bedroom units) and 85 continuing care residences that offer assisted living, memory care, long-term care, and short-term rehabilitation. Residents will enjoy a fitness facility with an indoor swimming pool, along with a wide range of services and amenities, such as restaurants, housekeeping, and... Read More »

Buckner planning its eighth CCRC in Texas

Buckner International announced its newest senior housing development, a high-rise CCRC in Dallas to be called Ventana by Buckner. The $118 million project will be built on nearly three acres of land in the North Park neighborhood of Dallas and feature twin 12-story towers with a total of 314 apartments: 182 independent living, 36 assisted living, 24 memory care, 48 skilled nursing, and 24 short-term rehabilitation. The project will also have three dining areas, a wellness center, pool, chapel, theater, business center, day spa, roof terraces, gardens, and indoor parking. D2 Architecture, also in Dallas, designed the community, which is expected to take four years to complete. Buckner... Read More »