• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: You’ve Got To Be Kidding

    Sadly, we are not kidding. President Trump has shown his true colors, and his true loyalty to the almighty dollar, with yet another pardon of one of the bad boys of senior care. But this bad boy is the worst of the group. We are referring to the just announced pardon of criminal Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of Skyline Health. Several months... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded REIT Divests Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A Wisconsin-based developer sold its five seniors housing properties in the Badger State to LTC Properties. Tukka Properties has a longstanding relationship with Walker & Dunlop, which had secured development debt, equity and permanent financing for the assets over the years and had also sold a Tukka-developed property to Welltower in 2021... Read More »
  • Sale Revives Stalled Seniors Housing Development

    Blueprint closed on the sale of a partially developed seniors housing community in Pearland, Texas. Originally planned as a 198-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community on 9.6 acres, the project was approximately 60% complete when development stalled. Blueprint targeted seniors housing operators and developers, as well... Read More »
  • MONTICELLOAM Closes One of Its Largest Financings

    In one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, funded $470.5 million in total bridge and working capital financing for a sixteen-facility skilled nursing portfolio. The sponsor group, which owns and operates over 200 skilled nursing facilities across the country, used the $455.5... Read More »
  • Cash Flowing Assets Trade in Florida and Oregon

    Blueprint was engaged by a repeat institutional private equity client in the sale of a Class-A assisted living/memory care community in the Clearwater, Florida MSA. The community has received investments over the years and offered immediate in-place NOI and strong operating margins, while presenting some value-add opportunities. Kyle Hallion,... 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 »