• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

We wrote of Chicago Pacific Founders’ acquisition of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area portfolio of independent living communities last week but have now learned that IPA Seniors Housing handled the transaction. The team of Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers, plus Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Pennsylvania, Sean Beuche, represented the seller, a partnership between Graziano Construction and Sweetbay Senior Living. Two of the communities were recently built, one in 2017 and the other opening earlier this year. The third property was developed in 2009 and is the only one that is fully stabilized. Totaling 384 units, the portfolio sold for $75 million, or $195,300 per unit. Jordyn... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Pittsburgh Portfolio

Chicago Pacific Founders announced its second acquisition for July, following up on its purchase of a senior living community in Scottsdale, Arizona by picking up three senior living communities in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market. One of the communities, in North Versailles, was opened in 2009 and is fully stabilized. The other two were opened more recently, in April 2017 for the Bethel Park community and just earlier this year for the community in Pittsburgh. So, cash flow was uneven across the portfolio. The two older properties are independent living communities, while the newest property also features personal care units. As usual, Chicago Pacific Founders’ operating subsidiary,... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Again

Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Again

A week after it was announced that Chicago Pacific Founders acquired a new senior living community in Conroe, Texas, the firm followed it up with another purchase, this time in Scottsdale, Arizona. Featuring 101 units of independent living and assisted living, the community will now be managed by CPF’s operating subsidiary, Grace Management. The community was originally built in 1998 and is located close to numerous shopping and medical centers. Chicago Pacific Founders plans to invest in improvements to the community in addition to renaming it. The final purchase price came to $27 million, or about $267,300 per unit. Steve Gebing, Hamid Panahi, Cliff David and Tony Cassie of Institutional... 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 »
CBRE Sells (and Finances) Tucson Senior Living Community

CBRE Sells (and Finances) Tucson Senior Living Community

Over five years on from its acquisition of a 217-unit independent/assisted living community in Tucson, Arizona, MBK Senior Living is exiting the asset with the help of Matthew Whitlock of CBRE. Originally built in 1991, the property underwent a series of multimillion-dollar renovations that included the conversion of 78 units to assisted living and the renovation of the community’s clubhouse. It now features three two-story garden-style independent and assisted living buildings and three single-story buildings that house 19 casitas surrounding a greenhouse and putting green. When MBK bought the property from The Dermot Company in 2012 for $31.9 million, or $143,000 per unit, it was 90%... Read More »