• Omega Invests in Saber Healthcare Joint Venture

    Omega Healthcare Investors released its third quarter earnings and made some news when it disclosed the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in a joint venture with Saber Healthcare. The JV will own and lease 64 skilled nursing facilities that were previously wholly owned by affiliates of Saber, which will retain a 51% equity interest in the JV... Read More »
  • Health Systems as Sellers in Three Transactions

    Cain Brothers advised on a trio of senior care transactions involving health systems as sellers, which could be a growing trend, particularly among any resource-constrained systems. Conversely, other systems may see the need to own skilled nursing beds in the future in order to control the transfer of their post-acute patients to SNFs and free up... Read More »
  • Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the sale of 26 skilled nursing beds from a facility in Ohio and coordinated the repurposing of the real estate for future behavioral health services. The owners made the decision to close the facility after determining that the small size of the building prevented it from achieving the operational... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profits Secure Bond Financings

    Ziegler announced the successful pricing of $34.0 million Series 2025 bonds for The Chapel Hill Residential Retirement Center, Inc. d/b/a Carol Woods. Carol Woods is a North Carolina not-for-profit organization incorporated in July 1972 by a group of local citizens to develop, own and operate a CCRC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Currently,... Read More »
  • Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... 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 »
Chicago Pacific Founders Adds Florida Community

Chicago Pacific Founders Adds Florida Community

We’ve written about how private equity firms are likely the buyers best equipped to acquire senior care assets in this current environment, given their deep pockets and penchant for value-add deals. One of those firms, Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors, has already shown its interest by closing several deals, including the $500 million acquisition of seven senior living properties from Welltower in June and the $97 million purchase of two brand-new senior living communities in the St. Louis, Missouri area announced just last week. AEW Capital Management is another that threw its muscle around with its $700+ million acquisition of another Welltower seniors housing operating portfolio made... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Again

Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Again

Chicago Pacific Founders appears to be wrapping up 2019 with its sixth acquisition of the year, and eighth added property. The target was a 113-unit assisted living/memory care community in Naples, Florida, located just three miles from the city’s Fifth Avenue District and near shopping centers, medical facilities and entertainment venues. It was previously owned by Prevarian Senior Living and operated by Visiting Nursing Management Company. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but CPF will invest in improvements at the property and will have Grace Management take over as operator. Chicago Pacific’s previous acquisitions this year included two in Arizona, two in Texas and a three-property... Read More »
CBRE Returns for Two More Financings

CBRE Returns for Two More Financings

The closings keep on coming for the team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root from CBRE National Senior Housing, which just announced two financings totaling nearly $50 million. The team first arranged $4 million in supplemental financing on behalf of Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF) for its 160-unit senior living community in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two years ago, CBRE had originated the original $13.5 million in acquisition financing for the property. Featuring both independent living and assisted living services, the community has been operated by CPF’s subsidiary Grace Management since the deal. Provided through Fannie Mae, the non-recourse loan came with a seven-year, fixed-rate term and... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders Flourishes This Summer

Chicago Pacific Founders Flourishes This Summer

Chicago Pacific Founders has been one of the most active buyers of senior living assets this summer, announcing four deals since the start of July. Its most recent acquisition involved an 83-unit assisted living/memory care community in Richardson, Texas. Opened in March 2017, the community quickly reached stabilization, with occupancy currently sitting at 94%. It features a number of amenities, including a bistro lounge, movie theater and outdoor courtyard, in addition to being located near shopping, dining and entertainment centers. Evans Senior Investments represented the seller, another private equity firm, in the transaction. To fund the deal, CPF turned to Aron Will, Austin Sacco and... Read More »