• 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 »
Joint Venture Building Assisted Living In Bakersfield

Joint Venture Building Assisted Living In Bakersfield

Two companies are joining forces to build a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Bakersfield, California, with the help of Aaron Rosenzweig, Jay Wagner, Sam Dylag and Alex Petrosian of Cushman & Wakefield. Situated on three and a half acres next to a newly constructed skilled nursing/sub-acute care facility, the to-be-built community will feature 44 assisted living and 24 memory care units on one story. It is the third ground-up development between the joint venture between real estate developer Blue Mountain Enterprises and California-focused operator Pragma Management. To fund it, the Cushman & Wakefield team arranged an $11.55 million construction loan, funded by... Read More »
Clearwater Living Develops In Familiar Territory

Clearwater Living Develops In Familiar Territory

Cushman & Wakefield Capital Markets Group arranged $20.6 million in construction financing on behalf of Clearwater Living to build a 90-unit/104-bed assisted living/memory care community in Rohnert Park, California. PNC Bank provided the financing, which was arranged by C&W’s Richard Swartz, Aaron Rosenzweig, Timothy Hosmer and Alex Petrosian. The new community will feature amenities including a community pub, display kitchen, outdoor dining, theater and dog park, and is located next to a 207-unit 55+ community that was developed by Clearwater Living’s CEO, Tony Ferraro, back in the early 2000s. Clearwater clearly knew the area well. Read More »
LCB Senior Living Leaves New England For First Time

LCB Senior Living Leaves New England For First Time

LCB Senior Living is venturing outside of New England for the first time with the help of a construction loan arranged by Cushman & Wakefield. The property in question, located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia/Wilmington MSA), will have 84 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and will be the Massachusetts-based operator’s 15th seniors housing development and the first south of Connecticut. LCB, and its institutional joint venture partner, expects to complete the project in the second quarter of 2019. To finance the project, Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Caryn Donahue of Cushman & Wakefield arranged a $20.5... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Sells For Capitol Seniors Housing

Cushman & Wakefield Sells For Capitol Seniors Housing

Three and a half years after purchasing a 97-unit assisted living/memory care community in Silicon Valley (in the town of Fremont, to be more specific), Capitol Seniors Housing is exiting the asset, making a tidy return we imagine, thanks to Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig and Alex Petrosian of Cushman & Wakefield, who represented CSH in a competitive bidding process. Since acquiring the property from Westport Capital Partners in 2014 for $23.75 million, or about $244,800 per unit, CSH and its operating partner, MBK Senior Living, worked to improve the community’s occupancy, which sat at 81% in 2014, and margin, at just 19%. CSH invested upwards of $1.0 million to improve the... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $45 Million Recapitalization

Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $45 Million Recapitalization

Cushman & Wakefield successfully recapitalized a 90-unit senior living community in downtown Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston MSA) in a transaction totaling $45 million. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Jim Dooley and Caryn Donahue represented joint venture owners Washington Capital Management and LCB Senior Living, which is also the operator of the property. Developed in 2014 at an in-fill location in the Greater Boston area, the community features independent living, assisted living and memory care services. In addition to the many walkable amenities in the neighborhood, there is also a café, exercise room, barber/beauty salon, restaurant-style dining and an outdoor dining patio. So, for... Read More »