• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... 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 »