• Bullish Move by Welltower

    Welltower has been a growth and M&A machine under the leadership of Shankh Mitra. As of October 27, the REIT has closed or has under contract close to $14 billion of pro rata gross investments across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom this year. These include more than 700 seniors housing properties with more than 46,000 units. Not too... Read More »
  • Welltower Shatters Single-Day Dollar Volume Record

    October was already on its way to setting records for M&A activity in the seniors housing and care industry before Welltower announced the most transaction dollar volume we have ever seen in a single day when it released its third quarter earnings. A couple of the largest portfolio acquisitions took place across the pond, but the REIT also... Read More »
  • South Carolina Portfolio Trades

    Newmark has hit a rich vein of activity, announcing several closings in the last few days. First, the team sold three communities across the Greenville, South Carolina, area on behalf of Atlas Senior Living. The communities were built between 2014 and 2016 and totaled 306 units, including 108 independent living, 144 assisted living and 54 memory... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes in Kentucky and Colorado

    Blueprint has been adding to our record-breaking October M&A haul, announcing a couple of closings in the last week. First, Kyle Hallion handled another sale in his home state of Kentucky, this time on behalf of a local family owner/operator with deep ties to this asset’s local market. The senior care facility features 64 skilled nursing beds... Read More »
  • Southern California Communities Get New Owner

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two seniors housing communities in Southern California. The transaction included an 84-unit assisted living and memory care community in the San Diego suburbs and a 72-unit memory care community in the Los Angeles suburbs. These were older vintage properties with some Medicaid census but were very strong... Read More »
Greystone Arranges Tulsa Transaction

Greystone Arranges Tulsa Transaction

National Health Investors announced a one-off acquisition of a 200-unit independent/assisted living community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, paying $34.6 million, or $173,000 per unit. Originally built in 1987 by a local real estate developer, the community was previously owned and operated by Triad Senior Living, which manages over 1,000 senior living units across Oklahoma, Illinois and Florida. Occupancy was strong, at 95%, but moving forward, Discovery Senior Living will take over operations under a lease with NHI for a term of 15 years, with renewal options, at an initial lease rate of 7.0% plus annual fixed escalators. NHI has also set aside $500,000 for capital improvements and funded the deal... Read More »
Greystone Heads North

Greystone Heads North

Greystone Real Estate Advisors headed north of the border for its latest transaction, where along with TD Securities, they represented an owner in its sale of five retirement communities in the Edmonton, Alberta area to Canadian REIT Chartwell Retirement Residences. With a weighted average age of six years, the portfolio consists of four existing communities with 450 independent living, 237 assisted living and 88 memory care units (plus a 52-unit addition at one community expected to finish in the first half of 2018) and a 256-unit community currently under development and expected to open in late 2019. There is a 58% private pay census across the portfolio, with 42% being funded by the... Read More »

Chevalier Shines In Seniors Housing Market

Amid rumors that a moratorium has been placed on large Chinese companies making significant purchases in the U.S. senior care market (like Zhonghong Zhuoye Group Co Ltd.’s proposed acquisition of Brookdale Senior Living), Hong Kong-based Chevalier International Holdings Ltd. continues to invest, recently adding two more senior living communities and 299 units in the Detroit, Michigan area to its growing portfolio. Getting its start in the market in 2011 with the purchase of three assisted living/memory care communities and 336 beds in Oregon, the company stepped it up in late 2012, when it bought 18 assisted living communities (and 1,322 licensed beds) in North Carolina from a joint... Read More »
Greystone Gets It Done for Healthcap Partners

Greystone Gets It Done for Healthcap Partners

Healthcap Partners enlisted the help of Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Greystone Real Estate Advisors to sell their 60-unit/72-bed assisted living/memory care community in Forney, Texas (Dallas MSA). Cornerstone Senior Living was the buyer, adding their eighth community in 18 months at a price of $12.5 million, or $208,333 per unit. The community was recently built in 2013 and sits on a 13-acre lot with room to expand. This shouldn’t be the last we hear of the partnership between Greystone and private equity firm Healthcap Partners, as Greystone will also list Healthcap’s second senior living asset in north Houston. Read More »

Transaction trifecta

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors finished out the year strong with three closings, including U.S. Memory Care’s sale of four MC communities in Texas to a private investor, and a publicly traded REIT’s divestment of a 298-unit independent living community operated by Brookdale Senior Living in Southfield, Michigan. Tremper and Garbers’ final transaction of 2016 also involved Brookdale, as the company sold two of its Carolina seniors housing communities for $33 million. The Hendersonville, North Carolina community was built in 1985 and 1993 with an independent living building and a separate memory care facility. There was also a 30-year old property in... Read More »