• Healthcare REIT Divests SNF to In-Place Operating Partner

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage returned to West Des Moines, Iowa, to sell a skilled nursing facility that it had previously sold in 2019. A healthcare REIT was the buyer back then and is now selling the facility to its in-place regional operating partner. Built in 2004, Arbor Springs features 56 beds on an attractive four-acre campus about 10... Read More »
  • Near-Stabilized AL/MC Community Lands Refinance

    Carnegie Capital closed a bridge refinance for a 50-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Houston, Texas MSA. Four years ago, the property was bought by a California-based operator with a growing footprint in Texas. Performance was approximately two to three months from stabilization, but with the acquisition loan maturity looming, a... Read More »
  • Record-Setting HUD Express Lane Application to Commitment

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided a $6.15 million loan to refinance Avalon Memory Care Keller, a 50-bed stand-alone memory care community in Keller, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth MSA). The fully amortized, 35-year HUD loan was provided for the owner, a Texas limited liability company, that wished to recast bank debt into a long-term non-recourse... Read More »
  • Large Healthcare Owner Receives Financing

    An owner of more than 80 healthcare properties spanning nine states secured bridge and working capital financing for its skilled nursing portfolio in Washington. The financing includes a $40 million bridge loan and a $6 million working capital line of credit, with a 36-month initial term. MONTICELLOAM provided the funding. Read More »
  • Out-of-State Owner Divests to Investor

    A couple of assisted living and memory care communities in Eastern Tennessee recently traded hands. The two properties comprise more than 100 units. A Chicago-based investor aligned with the seller’s long-term vision for the communities acquired the assets, and partnered with a regional operator that was looking to grow their presence in the... 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 »