• 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 »
Jacksonville Community Refinances

Jacksonville Community Refinances

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranged $19.5 million in financing for Starling at San Jose, a seniors housing community in Jacksonville. The transaction retired a bridge loan with Grandbridge’s parent company, Truist Bank. Built in 2017, the community features 66 assisted living and 24 memory care units. It was developed by Starling, with Choate Construction serving as the contractor. No other details about the property were disclosed. Richard Thomas and the Grandbridge’s Atlanta-based Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance team arranged the financing.  Read More »
Convivial Life Acquires Beachside AL/MC Community

Convivial Life Acquires Beachside AL/MC Community

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged the sale of The Cabana at Jensen Dunes, a 126-unit assisted living and memory care community in Jensen Beach, Florida to Florida-based not-for-profit Convival Life. Opened in August 2016, the beachside community had 85% occupancy at the time of sale. Convival also purchased an adjacent 11.35-acre development parcel entitled for more than 210 independent living units. The combined purchase price was $32.5 million.  The seller, One HC–Jensen Beach LLC, is an investment group who utilized the 142d bond program, along with EB5 financing, to develop the project. Performance through the COVID-19 pandemic was steady, and the community saw some... Read More »
Grandbridge Sells Portfolio

Grandbridge Sells Portfolio

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s seniors housing sales team in the Tampa office closed on a portfolio of three newly-constructed senior living communities, known as the Woodland Terrace portfolio. The properties offer independent living, assisted living and memory care services in the Indianapolis, Indiana market area. They were developed, owned and operated by The Justus Companies, which is a well-established multifamily and residential building family business in the local market that has been in business for 100 years. The buyer a partnership between a “national investor” and Purpose First Partners, a venture between New Perspective Senior Living and Boldt... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Loan for Wisconsin Community

Grandbridge Arranges Loan for Wisconsin Community

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC’s Artin Anvar recently arranged a $12.6 million HUD loan for a 100-unit, 146-bed seniors housing community in Menasha, Wisconsin. The three-building campus received a permanent, fully-amortizing loan through HUD’s Interest Rate Reduction (IRR) loan program, featuring a 26.3-year term and amortization period, and a fixed interest rate of 3.2%. Proceeds of the loan will be used to pay off an existing Grandbridge HUD loan. The borrower and name of the facility were not disclosed. Read More »
Grandbridge Secures Rate Reduction Transactions

Grandbridge Secures Rate Reduction Transactions

The team at Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranged three interest rate reduction (IRR) modifications through HUD, with Artin Anvar leading the way on the deals. The largest transaction featured a $9.2 million loan secured by a 108-unit affordable senior apartment community in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Reno & Cavanaugh arranged the original $9.94 million HUD loan.  The other two transactions came in under $1 million, with a $985,000 loan secured by a 35-unit assisted living community in Seattle and a $956,000 loan secured by a 54-unit memory care community also in Seattle. Both loans featured 20-year terms and 20-year amortization schedules.  Read More »