• Michigan AL Communities Trade with Turnaround Potential

    Madison Meiser and Bill Meiser of Meiser Commercial Real Estate completed two separate seniors housing transactions in Michigan. All parties involved had experience in the senior care sector, making the transactions smooth, aside from routine negotiations. The first transaction to close was in Plymouth.  Built in 1980, the assisted living... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profit SNF Owner Expands in Texas

    A large not-for-profit owner of skilled nursing facilities in Texas added another facility to its portfolio in the Lone Star State. Set in the town of Georgetown just north of Austin, The Wesleyan was founded in 1962 in collaboration with The Methodist Church, but the current 40-acre campus was built in 2008 and expanded its offerings to include... Read More »
  • Phorcys Capital Partners Acquires AL/MC Community Through Receivership Sale

    Phorcys Capital Partners acquired Village Veranda at Lady Lake, a 125-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lady Lake, Florida, adjacent to The Villages. Opened in 2019, the community was developed by Gordon Cos., Village Veranda Lady Lake LLC and SRI Management, which has operated the community since the start. SRI will stay on as... Read More »
  • Ensign Acquires Iowa Skilled Nursing Facility

    Nick Cacciabando and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage helped an industry veteran in Iowa sell his last solely-owned senior care facility, finding a publicly traded buyer in the process. The facility in question was Crystal Heights Care Center, a 72-bed skilled nursing facility in Oskaloosa, Iowa, about one hour southeast of Des... Read More »
  • Investor Group Enters the Seniors Sector Through Idaho Purchase

    An assisted living/memory care community in Twin Falls, Idaho, traded with the help of Chad Mundy and Nick Stahler of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. The campus opened in 1989 with an eight-unit building, and added two 15-unit buildings in 2009 and 2015, respectively. Some units were added to each building in 2023 and 2024, and... 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 »