• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:25 pm | Acquisitions

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »

  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:22 pm | Acquisitions

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »

  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:21 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »

  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:20 pm | Developments, Financings

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »

  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:19 pm | Financings

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Majority rules

Majority rules

by | Sep 9, 2016 8:30 am | Acquisitions, Financings

Merrill Gardens found a new majority partner for a small portfolio of four senior living communities on the West Coast it had either developed or acquired in the last couple of years. Previously a minority owner with an affiliate of Heitman (a real estate investment management company based in Chicago), the Seattle-based operator had developed three of the communities in the Orange County, San Francisco and Silicon Valley markets of California in 2014/15, and had acquired the fourth community in Seattle back in 2014 after already operating it for a couple of years. Featuring a combination of independent living, assisted living and memory care, the California properties were all stabilized... Read More »
HFF closes high value deal in Northeast

HFF closes high value deal in Northeast

by | Jul 12, 2016 8:13 pm | Acquisitions

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) closed one of the most expensive seniors housing transactions ever (on a per-unit basis), with its sale of two assisted living/memory care communities in the Northeast for $98.25 million, or almost $575,000 per unit. There were several factors that led to this near-record price. First was the location. One of the properties is located in suburban Philadelphia and the other is in New Jersey within the New York City MSA, both high barrier-to-entry, high-income markets. Second, they were recently built in 2013 by the owners, a joint venture between Formation Development Group (an affiliate of Formation Capital) and Shelbourne Healthcare Development Group... Read More »