• Interview with Arnie Whitman and Meredith Oppenheim on VITALS

    The SeniorCare Investor’s Ben Swett recently sat down with Meredith Oppenheim and Arnie Whitman to discuss their new framework for seniors housing operators to improve the quality of life for their residents, but also to position the sector for greater success and wider appeal in the future. Watch the conversation here. Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Expands in Tampa MSA

    American House Senior Living Communities added Beach House Assisted Living & Memory Care in Wesley Chapel, Florida (Tampa MSA), to its operating portfolio and renamed the property American House Wesley Chapel. The community features 67 assisted living and 33 memory care units with studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, some with balconies... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Community Near Chicago Gets New Owner

    SVN Chicago Commercial sold McKenzie Falls, an affordable seniors housing community in Bolingbrook, Illinois, roughly 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The building was constructed in 2010 and spans 74,047 square feet across one story.  An undisclosed buyer acquired the 105-unit community for $6.7 million, or $63,800 per unit. Reid... Read More »
  • Healthpeak Properties Provides Janus Living Updates

    Healthpeak Properties’ recently formed seniors housing REIT, Janus Living, which will manage Healthpeak’s 34-community seniors housing portfolio, has filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the SEC relating to a proposed initial public offering of its shares of Class A-1 common stock, which the company intends to list on the NYSE under... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Senior Care Campus Deal in Missouri

    A Maryland-based owner/operator looked to expand its Missouri senior care portfolio with the purchase of Kingdom Care Senior Living in the town of Fulton. Built in 1980, the campus includes four independent living units, 26 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. It currently holds a five-star rating at the SNF and is the only... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Financing for New Development

Joint Venture Secures Financing for New Development

A joint venture between Singerman Real Estate and Darnell Capital is developing a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Palos Verdes, California, thanks in part to construction financing arranged by Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard of Cushman & Wakefield. A large regional bank provided $23 million in debt at favorable terms.  Set in a three-story former office building, the community will feature 87 units and 65,000 square feet. Phoenix-based Cadence Living will operate the community upon completion.  Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Financing for New Development

Cushman & Wakefield Sells Miami-Dade Portfolio

It took a couple of years, but Cushman & Wakefield has finalized the sale of a portfolio of 10 senior care facilities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on behalf of the seller, A.D.M.E. investment partners. Totaling 1,289 beds and over 370,800 square feet, the properties consisted of a mix of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. The AL communities ranged in size from 12 units and 50 beds to 65 units and 118 beds, and sold between $38,200 per unit and $90,500 per unit. The SNFs ranged in size from 120 beds to 203 beds, and sold between $25,000 per bed to $119,900 per bed, with one deal also involving the termination of a ground lease on the property for $5.8 million. The last... Read More »
Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Regions Bank Healthcare Real Estate Group announced a balance sheet loan closing at the start of February for a client in northern California. Originally built in 1975 in Carmichael, the property being refinanced is a 98-unit independent living community. Auctus Capital Partners acquired it in 2015, with plans to invest in capital improvements. So, it underwent a significant renovation and conversion project in 2018, and is now in the final stages of lease-up. Auctus put an operating affiliate, Altum Senior Living, in place to manage the community. Working with a new customer for the bank, Chris Honn secured a $5 million loan, with a three-year term and three years of interest only, to... Read More »
Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

The 25th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report is almost ready, but get your sneak preview and analysis in our upcoming webcast. We are diligently working on the 2020 edition of the Senior Care Acquisition Report, which we hope to have ready for publication by the end of the month. It will be the 25th edition of this market-leading report, and it has valuable M&A statistics that you will not find anywhere else, including trends over multi-year periods. Well, that is not exactly true. Next week we will be releasing some of those statistics in our annual webcast on the state of the seniors housing and care M&A market. Our panel will include brokers from Cushman &... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Ends 2019 With A Bang

Cushman & Wakefield Ends 2019 With A Bang

The Cushman & Wakefield team led by Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner and Aaron Rosenzweig ended 2019 with a bang. In the last six weeks of the fourth quarter, they closed eight separate sales involving 18 properties and 1,908 units for a total consideration in excess of $500 million. The largest transaction was a seven-property portfolio for $103.25 million on behalf of Diversified Healthcare Trust. The team also placed the acquisition financing on several of the sales. A few smaller portfolios included the sale of three assisted living and memory care communities with 248 units in the Boston metro area and a two-property portfolio of 220 units in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Austin, Texas on... Read More »