• Investment Firm Acquires in Missouri

    Investment firm Lapis Advisers purchased a seniors housing asset out of state receivership in Kansas City, Missouri. The CCRC was distressed, having struggled with COVID-related challenges as well as a limited access to capital in recent years.  Kingswood Senior Living features 185 independent living (65 of which are large duplex cottages),... Read More »
  • Global Investment Firm Sells Community with Strong Momentum

    A global real estate investment firm sold an independent living community in Iowa, engaging Blueprint’s Kory Buzin, Dillon Rudy and Steve Thomes to get the deal done. Built in 2002, the four-story community features 121 units, mostly with two-bedroom options. It appears to be The Arbordale in Urbandale, which was acquired in 2020 by Omaha,... Read More »
  • Large Operator Adds Turnaround Campus to Portfolio

    A senior care campus in Ohio found a new owner with the help of Kiser Group. Set on 26 acres in a rural market east of Cleveland, the property features 76 skilled nursing beds, five assisted living units and three independent living units. It was originally built in 1950 but expanded through multiple additions between 1965 and 2001.  At the... Read More »
  • Texas Skilled Nursing Portfolio Sells

    A portfolio of skilled nursing facilities traded hands in Texas before the end of the year. There are two assets in the Lubbock area and two in Central Texas that are located northwest of Austin. They comprise more than 430 beds, with between 100 to 120 beds at each of the four facilities. Three of the buildings were constructed in the 1970s, and... Read More »
  • CIBC Bank’s Recent Activity

    CIBC Bank USA closed an impressive array of transactions in the last several months, totaling more than $800 million in credit facilities across the country. The largest transaction was an $85 million (with earn-outs) debt package for a senior care portfolio in the Northeast. The debt included a senior term loan and a mezzanine loan to refinance... Read More »

A New Horizon?

Michigan has been in the news a lot lately as the home of political upsets and recounts. But it’s also the home of Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper’s (of Greystone Real Estate Advisors) latest transaction. The duo represented a publicly traded REIT in the sale of its 298-unit independent living community in Southfield, Michigan to a private equity firm. Built in 1998 on seven acres, the Brookdale Senior Living-operated community features a host of amenities, including a greenhouse, gazebo, library, restaurant-style dining and a beauty/barber shop, but it has significant capex needs. That perhaps explains the relatively low purchase price of $12.5 million, or about $42,000 per unit. For some... Read More »
Garbers of Greystone

Garbers of Greystone

With some of the largest units in the region, a 211-unit assisted living/memory care community in Bedford, Ohio sold to Pritok Capital for $6.5 million, or $30,805 per unit. The community was not purpose-built for assisted living, which caused some operational challenges and thus resulted in a lower price. But, the 198 AL units average 564 square feet and the 13 MC units average 664 square feet (on the high side for the region). The community was built in 1988 and sits on 20 acres in the Cleveland area. Mike Garbers of Greystone Real Estate Advisors represented the seller, a public healthcare REIT, in the transaction, for which Joel Gordon of MB Financial served as lender. Read More »

Greystone’s giant deal

Greystone Real Estate Advisors certainly ended May with a bang, closing the largest transaction of the month at a value of $210 million, or $202,117 per unit. Involving seven senior living communities in Texas and one in Oklahoma City, the sold portfolio was owned by Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Bridgewood Property Company. Built between 1989 and 2000, it included 1,039 total units, with two independent living communities, three independent/assisted living communities and three that included independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Texas-based Cardinal Bay was the buyer, which will retain Retirement Center Management as operator. Cody Tremper of Greystone... Read More »

Build it and sell it

Carmel, Indiana-based seniors housing developer Leo Brown Group sold two of its recently completed Indiana communities to an undisclosed private equity investment fund for $44.8 million, or $240,591 per unit. The price is a step up from a previous transaction from Leo Brown, when the developer sold a fully occupied, three-year old 140-unit senior living community in Fort Wayne, Indiana to Sabra Health Care REIT for $23.8 million, or $170,000. Included in the 2016 sale was an 81-unit community in Avon and a 105-unit community in Indianapolis. Both will continue to be operated by Traditions Management, an affiliate of Leo Brown. Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors handled the... Read More »

Sell on top, or near it

Despite many believing we have already reached the peak, pricing-wise, in the seniors housing M&A market, it is still a very good time to sell. That is at least what SRP Medical was banking on when it sold its newly built 108-unit assisted living/memory care community to a joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Bridgewood Property Company. Opened in 2013, the community features 60 AL units and 48 MC units and is located near The Woodlands, Texas, in the town of Spring, an area which has seen plenty of seniors housing construction recently. A change in operators a year after opening caused some marketing issues, which contributed to bringing occupancy down to 50%.... Read More »