• Locust Point Raises Large Credit Fund

    Locust Point Capital announced the final close of its third seniors housing credit fund, and it topped the firm’s predecessor vehicle by 56%. That performance reflected strong interest from the firm’s existing limited partners, as well as from a group of new institutional investors.  Locust Point Private Credit Fund III totaled $668 million... Read More »
  • Minneapolis-Based Investor Acquires in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards and Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty facilitated the sale of a two-property seniors housing portfolio in Madison, Wisconsin, on behalf of a Dane County-based seller. The portfolio included two newer-vintage assisted living/memory care communities, comprising 66 units and 72 beds, operating under an all-private-pay model.  At... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT Grows in South Carolina

    An institutional private equity seller engaged Blueprint in its sale of a senior care community in Greenville, South Carolina. The Gables comprises a three-story assisted living and memory care building and an adjoining skilled nursing component with private pay and Medicare occupants. The community was experiencing a strong recovery and was... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Funds Illinois SNF Deal

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group had to utilize some creativity to close an acquisition loan for a skilled nursing facility in southern Illinois. Owned by a highly motivated seller, the 50+ year old facility features 112 beds. That seller was unable to provide official financial statements for the facility, making finding a lender... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: HUD’s Express Lane and M&A

    We’re not used to sensible reforms coming out of Washington, D.C., but HUD has just come out with a new “Express Lane” for the Section 232 Residential Care Facilities program. Obviously, we don’t want any facilities or borrowers that shouldn’t receive a loan to slip through the cracks, not that you can always predict a future disaster. But so... Read More »
Connecticut CCRC Changes Hands

Connecticut CCRC Changes Hands

A large for-profit CCRC in North Branford, Connecticut recently sold. Purchased in 2006 by a joint venture between The Shelter Group and Herbert J. Sims & Company for $72 million, 10 years later it sold for approximately $69.5 million. National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) was the buyer, and its all-in acquisition cost was about $74 million, which included closing costs, various escrows/deposits, and other fees. The CCRC, which has 227 independent living units, 22 assisted living units and 50 skilled nursing beds, was originally developed in the early-1990s in two phases on 88 acres. Occupancy had been on an upward trend and was just over 88% in 2015. NHI will be leasing the community... Read More »
Detroit Dealmaking

Detroit Dealmaking

Green Courte Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has been one active acquirer in the independent living market, when few other buyers have been investing in the sector. Even though the IL market has been a huge factor in pushing average seniors housing prices to record-highs average (peaking at an average of $248,300 per unit in the four quarters ended March 31, 2016), its share of M&A has been shrinking in the last couple of years. Nevertheless, Green Courte has acquired five IL properties in the last year. Its most recent transaction involved a portfolio of three IL communities located in the Detroit MSA, which it purchased for an undisclosed price. All totaling 371 units,... Read More »
Majority rules

Majority rules

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 »

Two Louisville-area assisted living communities sold

Allen McMurtry, Megan Fetter and David Kliewer of Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa office represented Senior Care US Holdings, Inc., in the sale of its two assisted living/memory care communities near Louisville, Kentucky. Both communities have been operated by Elmcroft Senior Living since opening in 2012, with one featuring 56 assisted living units, 24 memory care units and a 99% occupancy, and another consisting of 31 assisted living units and 34 memory care units at 85% occupancy. Capital Health Group LLC was the buyer on behalf of a joint venture between Hunt Realty Investments and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Read More »
ROC Buys StoneRidge

ROC Buys StoneRidge

In Mystic, Connecticut, a 267-unit entrance fee CCRC experienced a shift in ownership when ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager bought out Westminster Capital’s majority stake in the community for an undisclosed price. Life Care Services will stay one as the minority owner and manager. The property was developed by LCS Development in three phases starting in 2004, featuring 267 independent living units, 12 memory care units and 40 skilled nursing beds. For this deal, Cushman & Wakefield arranged acquisition financing with Bank of America Merrill Lynch on behalf of the buyer group, and Richard Swartz, Jay Wager and Aaron Rosenzweig, with Stuart Kim and Caryn Miller, handled the... Read More »