• Interview with Arnie Whitman and Meredith Oppenheim on VITALS

    The SeniorCare Investor’s Ben Swett recently sat down with Meredith Oppenheim and Arnie Whitman to discuss their new framework for seniors housing operators to improve the quality of life for their residents, but also to position the sector for greater success and wider appeal in the future. Watch the conversation here. Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Expands in Tampa MSA

    American House Senior Living Communities added Beach House Assisted Living & Memory Care in Wesley Chapel, Florida (Tampa MSA), to its operating portfolio and renamed the property American House Wesley Chapel. The community features 67 assisted living and 33 memory care units with studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, some with balconies... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Community Near Chicago Gets New Owner

    SVN Chicago Commercial sold McKenzie Falls, an affordable seniors housing community in Bolingbrook, Illinois, roughly 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The building was constructed in 2010 and spans 74,047 square feet across one story.  An undisclosed buyer acquired the 105-unit community for $6.7 million, or $63,800 per unit. Reid... Read More »
  • Healthpeak Properties Provides Janus Living Updates

    Healthpeak Properties’ recently formed seniors housing REIT, Janus Living, which will manage Healthpeak’s 34-community seniors housing portfolio, has filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the SEC relating to a proposed initial public offering of its shares of Class A-1 common stock, which the company intends to list on the NYSE under... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Senior Care Campus Deal in Missouri

    A Maryland-based owner/operator looked to expand its Missouri senior care portfolio with the purchase of Kingdom Care Senior Living in the town of Fulton. Built in 1980, the campus includes four independent living units, 26 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. It currently holds a five-star rating at the SNF and is the only... 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 »