• Stand-Alone MC Community Trades in Arizona

    by | Apr 2, 2026 5:05 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint represented an institutional seller in the sale of its stand-alone memory care community in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona MSA. Built in 2009, the asset features 48 units with 60 beds and received approximately $2 million in recent capital improvements. There is opportunity for occupancy growth and rental rate optimization. ... Read More »

  • Clarion Partners Continues Its Acquisition Streak

    by | Apr 2, 2026 4:56 pm | Acquisitions

    Clarion Partners continued on its acquisition streak, adding two communities in California to its growing portfolio. The latest deal featured The Commons on Thornton and The Commons at Union Ranch, two seniors housing communities totaling 198 units in California’s Central Valley. They were previously owned and operated by MBK Senior Living, which... Read More »

  • Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

    by | Apr 2, 2026 4:55 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory... Read More »

  • Olympus Retirement Living Expands

    by | Mar 31, 2026 5:42 pm | Acquisitions

    The Zett Group closed the sale of a 63-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Boise, Idaho market. Set in the town of Emmett, Meadow View Senior Living was trending positively in its operations, but there was still some work to be done. An owner/operator engaged Blake Bozett and Spud Batt to sell the community to an undisclosed buyer.... Read More »

  • Large Senior Care Portfolio Trades Hands

    by | Mar 31, 2026 5:41 pm | Acquisitions

    A portfolio comprising senior care assets across Washington State recently sold with the help of JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage. At first, only one of the assets was brought to market, but an offer emerged for the entire nine-facility portfolio. The price for the skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses ranged... Read More »

What’s new with Watercrest

by | Aug 2, 2016 9:14 pm | Developments, Financings

Watercrest Senior Living Group is unveiling its new concept in memory care, called Market Street Memory Care Residences, at a site currently under construction in Viera, Florida. The 47,000-square foot, 60-unit community is set to open in the fall of 2016, with two more 64-unit communities under the same concept opening in 2017 in Palm Coast and Tampa. The buildings are estimated to cost between $16 million and $17 million, or approximately $266,000 per unit, to develop. Financing has already been arranged for the Viera and Tampa properties, with EB-5 equity and commercial bank construction loans (Bank of Texas is providing the Viera one). As for Watercrest’s other projects, things are... Read More »

From fixing to building

by | Nov 20, 2015 8:32 am | Developments, Financings

A company with extensive experience in turning around struggling senior living communities is now developing its first property and is pulling together all manner of financing sources in its capital stack. Solutions Advisors, which got its start in 2010 advising senior living communities on management, marketing and sales strategies, has already broken ground on its flagship community in Hamilton, New Jersey. With 96 independent living, 75 assisted living and 24 memory care units, the community is expected to cost a total of $59 million, or about $302,600 per unit, to develop. In addition, 25 of the IL units can be converted to AL down the road, if the need presents itself. To operate the... Read More »

New EB-5 developer hits the ground running in California

by | Oct 16, 2015 8:32 am | Developments, Financings

Al Rattan, a real estate developer with over 30 years of experience building residential, commercial, industrial, office, health care and senior care properties, is jumping back into the seniors housing market with his company, Continental East Development (CED). Founded in 2009, CED has already developed a number of retail, office, and medical properties, but started to take a look at seniors housing in 2011. Having already developed and operated an independent/assisted living community in Anaheim Hills, California (before selling it at full occupancy), Mr. Rattan plans to utilize large amounts of EB-5 equity (up to 60% of the development cost) raised through his USA Continental Regional... Read More »