• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
Giannini Closes Savage Senior Living Deal

Giannini Closes Savage Senior Living Deal

Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin office, along with Associate John Klement, worked on behalf of a local developer to sell a 94-unit senior living community in Savage, Minnesota (Minneapolis MSA). Why sell a community that since opening in 2015 has seen occupancy soar up to 94% and operating margin stabilize at just over 35% on about $4.2 million of revenues? The seller, which has previously developed a number of seniors housing co-ops in the area, hopes to take the proceeds of this successful transaction to further grow its business in the Minneapolis market. Much of the credit for the quick lease-up can be chalked up to Ebenezer Management Services, which... Read More »

Minnesota Building Boom

Construction of seniors housing communities seems to be speeding up in Minnesota, with a slew of groundbreakings announced in the last month. Two developments in the Minneapolis/St. Paul MSA will be managed by Ebenezer Management Services upon completion. The first, a 105-unit community with 80 independent/assisted living and 25 memory care units, is being developed by Oppidan Investment Company. The second is an 84-unit community (with 60 IL/AL and 24 MC units) which is being built at a cost of $16 million, or $190,500 per unit. That is about $27,000 less than the state average for seniors housing ($217,200 per unit), according to our database, which includes developments since late 2013.... Read More »