• American Healthcare REIT Acquires AL/MC Portfolio

    DMK Development Group divested a seniors housing portfolio in the Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky MSAs. The four communities were purposefully developed within a 50-mile radius to enhance operational efficiencies.  They total 316 assisted living and memory care units, and were all opened between late 2020 and early 2022. Trilogy Health... Read More »
  • Artemis Real Estate Partners Acquires Class-A California Community

    JLL Capital Markets arranged the sale of a Class-A community in Foster City, California. Built in 2016 by Atria Senior Living as part of a mixed-use master-plan town center development, Atria at Foster Square comprises 155 assisted living and memory care units.  Artemis Real Estate Partners purchased the community in partnership with Atria, and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Reports Recent Deal Activity

    Berkadia announced a few closings in the Midwest. First, Dave Fasano, Ross Sanders, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers were engaged by Ryan Companies US in its divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Built in 2017 by Ryan Companies, Grand Living at Indian Creek comprises 165 independent living, assisted living and... Read More »
  • Benchmark Acquires Fairfield County Community

    Benchmark Senior Living added another Connecticut community to its portfolio, acquiring Church Hill Village in Newtown through a joint venture with National Development, a Massachusetts-based real estate investor. Built in 2019 by a partnership between Senior Lifestyle Corporation and Teton Capital Co., the 71-unit assisted living/memory care... Read More »
  • ALP Owner/Operator Expands in Upstate New York

    Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of an assisted living program community in the Albany, New York MSA, on behalf of a private owner. Built in 1985, Danforth Adult Care Center is in Hoosick Falls and features 57 units with 80 beds, including 42 licensed as ALP. The community sits on 2.49 acres with 29,112 square... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Aces St. Augustine Sale

Cushman & Wakefield Aces St. Augustine Sale

An amenity-rich senior living community just sold in St. Augustine, Florida, with the help of Allen McMurtry, Paul Carr, David Kliewer and Megan Fetter of Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa office. Built in 2001, the community sits on about 40 acres in the World Golf Village and features 87 cottage homes, 70 independent living units, 36 assisted living units and 30 private skilled nursing beds. In addition to access to two world-class golf courses, residents also enjoy a clubhouse, heated outdoor lap pool, putting green, bocce court, pub and fitness center. Life Care St. John’s Inc., an affiliate of Life Care Pastoral Services, sold the property to Westminster Communities of Florida for $27.5... Read More »

Cushman & Wakefield Has Banner Month

Last week we reported on the sale of a CCRC in North Carolina where Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. Now, the C&W Boston office has closed on two additional senior living properties in high-value transactions. The first one involved the sale of a 290-unit retirement community in Lantana, Florida, known as Carlisle Palm Beach. It has 144 independent living units, 90 assisted living units and 56 memory care units with average occupancy above 90%. It was built in 1999 and converted in 2014 to a full continuum IL/AL/MC community. Over the past five years the sellers spent $10 million converting IL units to AL. The sellers were affiliates of Senior Lifestyle Corporation and... Read More »

Cushman & Wakefield Does It Again

Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets Group has sold another CCRC (LPC), this time in Arden, North Carolina. Known as Ardenwoods, it is a type “C” entrance-fee community that is located on 48 acres about 12 miles south of Ashville. The seller was a 50-50 joint venture between affiliates of HJ Sims and Life Care Services (LCS), which purchased the community in 2002. It consists of 96 independent living units and 48 assisted living units, and has been managed by LCS since 2002. The buyer was Retirement Living Associates, Inc., which is controlled by David Ammons, a local owner/ manager with seven other developments or communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia... Read More »

All OK in Otay Ranch

The team at Cushman & Wakefield is helping a senior living development get off the ground in the newly developed master-planned community of Otay Ranch in Chula Vista, California (San Diego MSA). Expected to break ground at the end of the month, the project will feature 85 assisted living and 26 memory care units in two stories. A joint venture between Douglas Wilson Companies and Milestone Retirement is developing the community on a 4.5-acre site, which it hopes to open by the fall of 2018. Rick Swartz, Aaron Rosenszweig and Jim Dooley of Cushman & Wakefield represented Douglas Wilson Companies in arranging $22 million in construction debt from Wells Fargo as well as over $8.3... Read More »
The Audience Has Spoken

The Audience Has Spoken

On April 27, The SeniorCare Investor’s Steve Monroe moderated a webinar entitled “Investing in the CCRC and Independent Living Market,” with panelists Breck Collingsworth of Resort Lifestyle Communities, Adam Kane of Erickson Living and Rick Swartz of Cushman & Wakefield. During the wide-ranging 90-minute discussion, which you can listen to here, the panel tackled CCRC valuations, cap rates, the IL/CCRC development market, whether these property types will suffer in the next recession as much as the last one. We also brought in the audience a few times to get their insight. First, we asked which property should have a higher cap rate, 100% independent living or a mix of IL, assisted... Read More »