• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »

Greystone Refinances Queens Skilled Nursing Facility

A couple of years after Greystone financed the acquisition of a 302-bed skilled nursing facility in Queens, New York, the lender came full circle in refinancing it with a $59.8 million, or a whopping $198,000 per bed, HUD loan. Fred Levine of Greystone originated both the original bridge loan and the permanent financing on behalf of the borrower, Kennedy Management, a healthcare company owned and operated by the Fuchs family. Since the 2015 acquisition, the owners renovated and rebranded the facility, which now boasts many luxury features such as a dedicated concierge, resident lounges, bedside iPads and valet parking. The facility also offers a 40-bed ventilator unit and a 12-chair... Read More »

Greystone’s Freddie Mac First

In a first for the seniors housing industry, Greystone closed Freddie Mac’s first-ever lease-up loan for a client in Northern California. More common in the multifamily market, the lease-up program is for experienced clients to lock-in low interest rates earlier in the process for refinancing newly-built properties. Now, for a just-built 66-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Jose, the team of Scott Kavel, Neal Raburn and Cary Tremper of Greystone provided a $27.5 million Freddie Mac loan, with an 11-year term, 30-year amortization and a fixed interest rate. The loan takes out the original construction loan just three months after the community opened. We suspect lease-up was... Read More »
Marcus & Millichap and CBRE Top Senior Care Broker Rankings

Marcus & Millichap and CBRE Top Senior Care Broker Rankings

While it was not exactly a repeat of 2015, it came pretty close. This year we had only 13 brokerage companies reporting their numbers, with a few active brokers deciding to take a pass this year for a variety of reasons. But they would not have taken the top spots, so no worries on that account. Based on the number of transactions closed in 2016, Marcus & Millichap came out on top for the second year in a row with 58 separate sales in the seniors housing and care market. This was down a bit from the 64 sales in 2015, but the entire market had a mild slowdown. Taking the number two spot for the second year in a row was Senior Living Investment Brokerage with 48 sales, also down from... Read More »

Greystone Closes $204 million in Q4

As 2016 was winding down, Greystone’s seniors housing lending group was heating up, closing $204 million in financings. In the last quarter of the year, Greystone demonstrated its financial range, including Fannie Mae, HUD, bridge, mezzanine and national bank loan transactions for acquisitions, refinancings and the new construction of nearly 1,700 seniors housing and multifamily units. In the fourth quarter, the lending team, led by Scott Kavel, Neal Raburn and Cary Tremper, arranged $138 million in Fannie Mae financing, including a $48.5 million refinance for an entrance fee CCRC in the Tampa MSA. Greystone also closed $55 million in financing for three Oakmont seniors housing properties... Read More »

Greystone gets it done

We’ve written plenty on the memory care (and assisted living) development boom going on in Texas, especially in the markets of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. And we have wondered how, if everyone and their neighbor is building memory care in those areas, the communities would fill up. That will be the challenge for a private investor who just bought four recently-built stand-alone memory care communities previously owned and operated by U.S. Memory Care. Located in Cedar Park (Austin MSA), Houston, Plano (Dallas MSA) and Colleyville (also Dallas), these communities were built between 2013 and 2015 with 70 units and 75 beds. U.S. Memory Care also included a beauty/barber shop,... Read More »