• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... Read More »
Greystone Closes Sale in Sunny Southern California

Greystone Closes Sale in Sunny Southern California

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors headed to Palm Springs, California for their latest sale, representing a publicly traded REIT in the disposition. Built nearly 20 years ago, the property featured four 15-unit assisted living cottages and two 15-unit memory care cottages, for a total of 90 units. It had a history of strong occupancy, which the new owner, an operator with local market presence, will hope to build on. The purchase price was not disclosed. Read More »
Greystone Goes To Canada

Greystone Goes To Canada

Greystone Real Estate Advisors closed back-to-back portfolio sales in Canada. Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper, together with TD Securities, represented the seller of 10 senior living communities located throughout the greater Toronto and Ottawa areas. The 10 communities had 1,245 units, of which 1,045 were independent supportive living and 200 were assisted living. All but two were built or renovated in the past 10 years. Sienna Senior Living paid $298 million, or $239,400 per unit (C$382 million).   In their second transaction, they sold four communities in the greater Edmonton area in Alberta. The 775-unit portfolio included 450 independent supportive living units, 237 assisted living... Read More »
Greystone Rocks Georgia Deal

Greystone Rocks Georgia Deal

The Greystone Real Estate Advisors team of Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper recently represented a REIT owner in its sale of a 57-unit assisted living community in Marietta, Georgia. The community was considered to be a value-add opportunity for the new owner, a joint venture between an institutional investor and Surpass Senior Living. Built in 1998, it was on the older side in the overdeveloped Marietta market and could improve operationally. But, the new owner plans to invest some capital in the building to spruce it up. No purchase price was disclosed. The deal comes on the heels of two large closings for Greystone north of the border, including Chartwell Retirement Residences’ purchase of... Read More »
Mozart Healthcare’s Texas Portfolio Swells to Four

Mozart Healthcare’s Texas Portfolio Swells to Four

Genesis Healthcare may be exiting Texas right now, but Chicago-based Mozart Healthcare doubled down in the Lone Star State, acquiring a 124-bed skilled nursing facility in El Paso to complement its three existing SNFs (located in Winnsboro, Kennedale and San Augustine) in the state. The new addition is the company’s first in West Texas, and it is in need of an operational turnaround. The facility consists of two buildings: one with 74 beds built in 2013, and a vacant building built in 1960 with 50 inactive licensed beds. The not-for-profit seller maintained census around 90% based on operational beds, but cash flow was negative. Mozart and incoming operator, Dallas-based Paramount... Read More »
Greystone Real Estate Advisors Gets It Done

Greystone Real Estate Advisors Gets It Done

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors just announced a slew of transactions that closed at the end of 2017, advising the seller in each deal. First, the pair closed the sale of a 38-unit/66-bed memory care community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A private equity group sold the community to a joint venture between a public REIT and a national operator. Then, speaking of joint ventures, an institutional private equity group and a private developer/operator teamed up to purchase a 72-unit/78-bed assisted living community in Spring, Texas from a Lone Star State-based developer. And finally, Messrs. Garbers and Tremper went to Vernon Hills, Illinois to sell a 70-unit memory care... Read More »