• CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Gets Early Start on 2026 SHOP Acquisitions

    LTC Properties started the year off with a large SHOP acquisition in Atlanta, Georgia. The portfolio comprises three seniors housing communities with nearly 400 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The assets were built between 2014 and 2018, and were stabilized at the time of sale at 92% occupancy. LTC Properties will... Read More »
  • 1019 Senior Living Enters Another State

    1019 Senior Living entered a new state through its fifth seniors housing acquisition. The Indiana-based owner/operator purchased Arden Courts at Kenwood, rebranded as Belle’s Place of Kenwood, which was previously operated by Evergreen Senior Living. Built in 2002 with a new roof added in 2016, the asset sits in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Kenwood... Read More »
Watermark Retirement Communities and JV Partner Acquire Two Assets

Watermark Retirement Communities and JV Partner Acquire Two Assets

The joint venture between Titan Development and EverWest Real Estate Investors decided to sell two of its “Élan” assets in the Southwest. Each property features 77 assisted living and 36 memory care units, for a total of 220 units with 226 beds. The Austin, Texas property opened in late 2016, and just after, the Albuquerque community opened in early 2017 within the 60-acre Santa Monica Place master plan, which consists of 460 new, Class-A multifamily units (developed by Titan Development and Alliance Residential), a 130-unit independent living community operated by Resort Lifestyle Communities, and 150 new single family homes ranging in price from $275,000 to $400,000. Seems like a good... Read More »
Recently Rebranded Senior Living Community Refinances

Recently Rebranded Senior Living Community Refinances

Having just undergone a renovation and a rebranding, an assisted living/memory care community in Dallas, Texas obtained a first mortgage loan, courtesy of MidCap Financial. The borrower for the $6.25 million floating-rate loan was a joint venture between private equity firm Artemis Real Estate Partners and Fort Worth-based operator Civitas Senior Living. Read More »
Another Civitas Development in the Lone Star State

Another Civitas Development in the Lone Star State

Civitas Senior Living may have already expanded outside its home state of Texas, with three existing communities and four more on the way in Florida, Kentucky, Colorado and Arizona, but the Fort Worth-based company is coming home for its latest development. The 188-unit community, located in the Red Oak suburb of Dallas, will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services and will join the 32 other properties currently owned and operated by Civitas. To finance the development, HJ Sims invested $5.85 million of preferred equity, which it funded by placing corporate taxable bonds. The subordinate financing was structured to meet the requirements of the senior lenders... Read More »
Dealing in Dallas

Dealing in Dallas

We’ve all heard the warnings of overdevelopment in Texas, particularly of new assisted living and memory care communities. One of those MSAs that has seen plenty of groundbreakings is Dallas, with nearly 5,000 units built from Q4 2012 to Q4 2016, according to NIC MAP. While the market is in better shape than Austin, Houston and San Antonio in terms of construction versus inventory, occupancy has been consistently low in Dallas, hovering around 85% for the past few years. We wonder how well those new communities have been filling up. That was probably on the mind of an out-of-state buyer when it purchased a recently built assisted living/memory care community in Allen, Texas, an affluent... Read More »
A Flowering Relationship

A Flowering Relationship

Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) is expanding its assets in Texas through a new operating relationship with Civitas Senior Living, which has lately been known for its development activity in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin markets. While we have not been alone in voicing concerns about overbuilding in these markets, the target property for CSH (developed by Civitas in the DFW MSA) clearly has not felt the effects. Located in Flower Mound, the community was just built in 2015 with 58 assisted living and 34 memory care units, and is already nearly fully occupied with a strong cash flow on top of that. CSH paid $26 million, or $282,600 per unit, for the property. Based on trailing-three month... Read More »