• Ensign Makes a Splash in Texas

    The Ensign Group closed out April with a bang, announcing the acquisition of the real estate and operations of 17 skilled nursing facilities spread across Texas, plus the real estate of two seniors housing communities in Wisconsin.  The Texas portfolio is majority-SNF, with 2,080 skilled nursing beds. There are also some seniors housing... Read More »
  • Public REIT Sells Value-Add Community to Joint Venture

    Kandu Capital, a family office specializing in real estate and healthcare, and its operating company, Bloom Senior Living, acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Ohio after strategically divesting a number of skilled nursing, behavioral health and seniors housing assets at healthy valuations. Those dispositions were initially... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests Its CCRC Portfolio to Another Not-for-Profit

    A portfolio of CCRCs in South-Central Pennsylvania changed hands from one faith-based not-for-profit organization to another, with Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handling the process. The pair represented the seller, SpiriTrust Lutheran, an 80-year-old operator based in York, Pennsylvania, in the sale of six... Read More »
  • AL/MC Community Trending Towards Stabilization Sells

    Blueprint’s suite of services was on display in the sale and financing of an assisted living/memory care community in Fredericksburg, Texas. Built in 2018, The Villages of Windcrest was performing well at the time of marketing, and was trending towards stabilization. Newer, performing properties are getting the most interest in the M&A market... Read More »
  • Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

    Continuing its momentum in 2026, Montgomery Intermediary Group (MIG) announced that it hired Colin Thomas, CFA as an investment sales advisor. In this role, Thomas will lead seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, expanding MIG’s coverage and capabilities in these markets. Thomas’s... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Tennessee Senior Living Community

CBRE Refinances Tennessee Senior Living Community

The team at CBRE was in tune working through a Freddie Mac refinance of a senior living campus in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Nashville MSA). According to our public M&A database, Deal Search Online, the borrower, a joint venture between Venue Capital LLC and Inspirit Senior Living, acquired the property from a local doctor and operator in January 2018 for $12.45 million, or $132,500 per unit. Built in 2001 with 68 assisted living and 26 memory care units, the community was around 85% occupied and operated at a 22% margin on $4.03 million of revenues at the time of that sale.   There was an opportunity to especially improve the memory care census, so in came Inspirit and Venue... Read More »
CBRE Handles Sarasota-Area Sale and Financing

CBRE Handles Sarasota-Area Sale and Financing

It was all hands on deck at CBRE for the sale of an Englewood, Florida (Sarasota MSA) senior living community. We wrote about the deal earlier this week when Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF) announced its acquisition of the property. Featuring 118 units of assisted living and memory care, this community opened in 2017. It is located just minutes from the water and a number of shopping centers and medical facilities. There is also an adjacent 50-acre plot that CPF also acquired to add independent living units and cottages. After leasing up at a rate of approximately six move-ins per month until stabilizing in 2019, the community was 93% occupied at the time of closing. Grace Management will... Read More »
Bellwether Enterprise Secures Freddie Mac Financing

Bellwether Enterprise Secures Freddie Mac Financing

Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital closed a cash-out refinance for a large active adult community in Placentia, California. Owned and operated by Mesa Management, Emerald Isle features a total of 422 units, with both one- and two-bedroom options ranging in size from 588 to 1,128 square feet. There are also numerous amenities, from a fitness center and clubhouse to a putting green and heated swimming pool/spa. It was built in 2004.  Working through Freddie Mac, Bellwether Enterprise’s Jason Krupoff originated $82.487 million in financing for the property. The 10-year loan includes five years of interest only at an interest rate below 3% and was underwritten at a 60% loan-to-value... Read More »
CBRE Returns to Harleysville for Supplemental Freddie Mac Financing

CBRE Returns to Harleysville for Supplemental Freddie Mac Financing

Fresh off their closing of a portfolio financing for three California senior living communities owned by Carlton Senior Living, the CBRE team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root has closed another transaction, this time across the country in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.   Mr. Will was already familiar with this property, having funded its 2016 acquisition with a $39.9 million Freddie Mac financing on behalf of the buyer, Green Courte Partners (GCP). Built in two phases in 2006 (151 units) and 2014 (125 units), the independent living community filled up quickly and has performed well since then.   It was originally operated by Heritage Senior Living, then by GCP’s wholly owned... Read More »
CBRE Closes Financing For Carlton Senior Living Portfolio

CBRE Closes Financing For Carlton Senior Living Portfolio

The CBRE team has certainly kept busy lately, closing a number of transactions since the outbreak of COVID-19 including a $200+ million cash-out refinance of three luxury senior living communities in lease-up, a non-recourse construction loan for a to-be-built community in California, and four agency loan closings. More recently, the team that included Andrew Behrens, Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg refinanced a portfolio of three senior living communities in the San Francisco Bay area on behalf of Carlton Senior Living. The three communities consist of 315 total units, split between 251 assisted living and 64 memory care units. Two of the communities are located in Pleasant... Read More »