• Family Divests Upstate New York ALP

    After running an assisted living/memory care community in Lockport, New York (Rochester MSA), for over three generations, a family has decided to divest and exit the industry. They engaged Dave Balow, Dan Geraghty and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to sell the asset. Built in 1982 and 1988, with a memory care expansion in 2017,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires California Facilities

    At the end of a busy year of acquisitions, Stacked Stone Ventures announced one more on New Years Eve. The San Clemente, California-based real estate investment firm acquired two skilled nursing facilities in a joint venture with Praxis Capital for $8.25 million, or $43,200 per bed. The facilities feature a total of 191 skilled nursing and... Read More »
  • City of Wichita Issues Bond Financing

    Ziegler successfully closed Larksfield Place’s $45.205 million Series 2025 bonds, issued through the City of Wichita, Kansas. Larksfield is a not-for-profit, single-site CCRC founded in 1988 in northeast Wichita. The 67-acre campus includes 22 independent living villas, 164 independent living apartments, 62 assisted living apartments, 10 memory... Read More »
  • Receivership Sale of Standalone Memory Care Community Closes

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Southeast closings continued with the sale of Westminster Memory Care in Lexington, South Carolina. Built in 2020, the Class-A community features 48 units of memory care and high-end finishes. It is set on 6.3 acres, which provides an opportunity for expansion under new ownership. Also, at the time of the... Read More »
  • Active Adult Community Secures Freddie Mac Refinance

    An active adult community in Hurst, Texas, paid off its existing bank debt with a Freddie Mac refinance arranged by Berkadia. Heritage Village Residences was built in 2014 with 120 units, including 10 cottages. It was part of multiple acquisitions over the years, first in 2020 when Edison Equity Management Corporation bought it for $23.3 million... Read More »
Grandbridge’s San Diego Team Announces Tucson CCRC Closing

Grandbridge’s San Diego Team Announces Tucson CCRC Closing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s new San Diego-based seniors housing investment sales team including David Rothschild and Mary Christian closed the sale of a Tucson, Arizona CCRC. The not-for-profit community originally opened with 40 skilled nursing beds in 1963 to provide care to the local Jewish community.   It received numerous additions over the years, most recently in 2015, and now includes 74 skilled nursing beds, 12 independent living units, 80 assisted living units and 10 memory care units on over six acres. This was the not-for-profit’s only senior living community, so both census and operating margin likely could be improved under ownership with some... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Two Seniors Housing Sales

Grandbridge Arranges Two Seniors Housing Sales

Not long after making the move from Cushman & Wakefield to Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, the Tampa-based team of Allen McMurtry, Dave Kliewer and Jay Jordan announced a couple of seniors housing sales. First, they were tapped by the owner of an independent living/assisted living community near Springfield, Massachusetts to run a bankruptcy sale process.   Built in the 1990s with 187 units of independent living and assisted living, including 129 cottages, the community was around 65% occupied. With a stalking horse bid of $9.0 million, the virtual live auction in late September 2020 resulted in more than 100 rounds of live bidding, with a final sale... Read More »
Grandbridge Gains Investment Sales Team

Grandbridge Gains Investment Sales Team

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital is making a big jump into seniors housing investment sales with the addition of three veterans highly experienced in the space. Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa, Florida team, led by Allen McMurtry, David Kliewer and Jay Jordan, made the move to Grandbridge’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, which is headed by Richard Thomas in Atlanta, Georgia.   They will bring experience representing sellers of seniors housing communities across the country, spanning over 190 properties in 35 states. Recently, the former C&W team arranged the $105 million sale of The Clare in downtown Chicago in December 2019, cementing its status... Read More »
Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale

Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale

Earlier this year, we learned of the sale of an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Pensacola, Florida. Now, it has been revealed that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged the acquisition financing for the deal.  Previously owned by CNL Healthcare Properties II, the property was sold alongside a 92-unit AL/MC community in Tampa to Waypoint Residential for a combined $48.85 million, or about $270,000 per unit, at a roughly 5.5% cap rate. These were the last two properties owned by CNL II, whose shareholders had approved the company’s plan for dissolution in September 2019. Both communities were... Read More »
Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Utilizing Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards financing product, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged a $25.5 million acquisition loan to fund the purchase of a 93-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia. Focus Healthcare Partners’ dedicated senior housing fund was the borrower and will retain The Arbor Company as the community’s operator. This type of transaction seems to have become a recent specialty of Grandbridge’s, as the firm so far in 2018 has closed nearly $300 million in financings through Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards program, across 13 properties, which is the most among Fannie Mae DUS lenders... Read More »