• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
Healthpeak Properties Completes More Sales

Healthpeak Properties Completes More Sales

As the healthcare REITs start their quarterly reporting season, of course all eyes will be on the occupancy trend, which for most of them will not be so great. But one aspect about what is happening, and often little noticed, is that the news is showing that the demand for seniors housing assets is still quite strong, pandemic be damned.   Obviously, Healthpeak Properties would rather not be selling off its seniors housing portfolios, especially if they had been performing well, since in years past they provided the highest yield to support the REIT’s dividend and growth. But performance had suffered, and the decision was made to sell. No one is crying for them,... Read More »
Confluent Senior Living Sells, and Grows

Confluent Senior Living Sells, and Grows

Confluent Senior Living announced the sale of three of its senior living communities in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico, hiring CBRE to close the deal. All three communities were, and will continue to be, operated by MorningStar Senior Living. The West Des Moines, Iowa property opened in March 2018 with 85 assisted living and memory care units, and the Beaverton, Oregon (Portland MSA) property opened later that year in November with 104 AL and MC units. In January 2019, the Santa Fe, New Mexico community was completed with 85 AL/MC units. All three were still in lease-up, but with no change in operator, that should continue unabated. Just last month, Confluent also sold its 66-unit assisted... Read More »
Confluent/HRA Enters Connecticut Senior Living Market

Confluent/HRA Enters Connecticut Senior Living Market

Confluent Senior Living and Harbor Retirement Associates are entering the Connecticut market with their development of a 113-unit assisted living/memory care community in the greater Hartford area. Set to break ground this month, the project is set on a 5.8-acre site in the town of South Windsor and will feature 65 assisted living and 48 memory care units. It is located a half-mile from a high-end, outdoor mall with specialty shops and restaurants and one mile from The Shoppes at Buckland Hills, which feature big-box retail, dining and entertainment. Amenities will be plentiful at the property, including a barber and beauty salon, fitness and wellness center, bar/lounge, club room,... Read More »
Ambitious 2018 Ahead For Harbor Retirement Associates

Ambitious 2018 Ahead For Harbor Retirement Associates

Florida-based senior living developer/operator, Harbor Retirement Associates, has a plan to open a new assisted living/memory care community nearly every month in 2018, a tall order for any operator or developer. HRA will start the year by opening a community each in Jacksonville, Florida, and Long Grove, Illinois (Chicago MSA) in January. Then, throughout the year, the company has grand openings planned in Delaware, Ohio, South Carolina, Florida and Virginia, bringing the 2018 total to 10 new communities. And that’s following the three communities HRA opened recently in McKinney and Southlake, Texas and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Operationally, opening 10 communities in a year is hard... Read More »

Bourne Financial Group makes push into seniors housing

Founded in 2014 by Robert and R. Kyle Bourne, Bourne Financial Group (BFG) is set to open its first 10 assisted living communities across the country by the end of 2016, representing an investment of over $200 million. Not short on experience, BFG’s leadership, all formerly of CNL Financial Group, has over 90 years of combined of experience in seniors housing, health care, and real estate finance and investments. In their first two funds, BFG has raised over $45 million in equity, which will go towards building eight communities in various locations across the country. Typically, in a secondary market, their development costs will start around $200,000 per unit, and go up to $240,000 in... Read More »