• 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 »
Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured Fannie Mae financing for a portfolio of five seniors housing communities in several states operated by Enlivant. The long-term, non-recourse debt was secured by Charlie Shoop at an attractive interest rate. Plus, KeyBank’s Tim Sylvain, Paul Di Vito and Patrick Gilbreath originated and structured a balance sheet financing that extended the revolving lines of credit to other seniors housing properties operated by Enlivant.  Read More »
HealthPeak Sells 10 Aegis Living Communities

HealthPeak Sells 10 Aegis Living Communities

HealthPeak Properties continues its exit from the seniors housing business, both its sale/leaseback portfolio as well as its RIDEA assets. In a large transaction, HealthPeak has sold 10 assisted living and memory care communities to its tenant, Aegis Living, which partnered with Blue Moon Capital Partners in the deal. The purchase price for the real estate (to HealthPeak) was $350 million, but the total price for the entire transaction was closer to $440 million, or about $626,700 per unit. Not too bad during a pandemic.   The 10 properties are located in California (6), Washington (3) and Nevada (1). Average occupancy in the third quarter... Read More »
Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a HUD refinance for a skilled nursing facility in Cortlandt, New York. Built in 1984 and featuring 127 beds in 96 units, the facility offers both short- and long-term rehabilitation, along with physician services and complex medical care. Offered therapies include occupational, physical, cardiac, speech, post-surgical orthopedic care, stroke recovery, hip repair/joint replacement recovery, amputee recovery and training, off-site dialysis, bariatric rehabilitation, wound care, and IV antibiotic therapy. The $22.217 million loan came with a low, fixed interest rate and a 35-year term.  Matt Miller of Greystone followed that up... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Charges Into Chambersburg

Lancaster Pollard Charges Into Chambersburg

Lancaster Pollard, a division of ORIX Real Estate Capital, recently refinanced a senior living community in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Providence Place Senior Living, a family-owned operator that is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, owns the 17-acre campus, which features a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Monthly rates start at $3,082 for independent living, $4,122 for assisted living and $4,411 for memory care. It is located three miles from the Chambersburg Hospital.  Miles Kingston, Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard secured an $11.5 million loan through its Fannie Mae Seniors Housing program. The loan came with a long term and... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes Hawaii SNF Refinance

Lancaster Pollard Closes Hawaii SNF Refinance

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company followed up its HUD refinance of an assisted living/memory care community in Minnesota for a deal in a much more hospitable year-round climate. Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard headed to Honolulu, Hawaii (lucky guys) to arrange permanent financing for a senior living community located on the slopes of Punchbowl Crater, an extinct volcanic cone in downtown Honolulu.   Owned by MW Group, Ltd., the community was built in 2003 and renovated in 2017. It currently consists of 68 independent living, 20 assisted living and 20 memory care units, and is one of six seniors housing and care properties in Hawaii operated by The Plaza Assisted... Read More »