• West Coast and Northeast Skilled Nursing Facilities Sell

    Walker & Dunlop’s Gideon Orion has announced several recent skilled nursing sales on the West Coast and the Northeast. First, he teamed up with Tony Cassie to sell a 69-bed skilled nursing facility in Bellevue, Washington, on behalf of a family office seller. The facility could use some operational improvements. An undisclosed buyer paid... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Community Out of Receivership  

    Fortress Investment Group acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Palm Coast, Florida, in a court-approved sale process. Built in 2018 just a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, the community features 130 units on an 11.4-acre site. There are 86 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, along with 22 “enhanced” assisted living... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Deals Close Across Several Markets

    Coming off of a successful 2025 with 32 separate transaction closings totaling more than $900 million in volume, the Walker & Dunlop investment sales team is off to a strong start in 2026 with a number of seniors housing and healthcare real estate transactions closed in the first quarter, so far. The deals spanned several markets, and the... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President on March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Divests Two SNFs to Journey

    Selectis Health is selling two skilled nursing facilities in Georgia to the skilled nursing operator Journey. The deal included the 101-bed Glen Eagle Healthcare in Abbeville and the 100-bed Rehab and Eastman Healthcare and Rehab in Eastman. Journey-affiliated entities will purchase the pair for $15.7 million, or $78,100 per bed, subject to... Read More »
CBRE Secures Construction Loan For Oregon Project

CBRE Secures Construction Loan For Oregon Project

Construction lending may be slow at the moment, but Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE arranged financing for a to-be-built seniors housing community in Happy Valley, Oregon. A joint venture between The Springs Living and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital is building the community, which is set on a 6.95-acre site about 10 miles southeast of downtown Portland. Across the 210 units, half will be reserved for independent living, with the other half split between assisted living and memory care. There will also be numerous amenities, including an indoor pool, a movie theater, and a private dining room.  CBRE secured a $60.4... Read More »
Newmark Arranges Acquisition Financing For Harrison Street

Newmark Arranges Acquisition Financing For Harrison Street

Harrison Street has been on an acquisition tear of late, recently acquiring a portfolio of 12 seniors housing communities operated by Atria Senior Living and owned by Healthpeak Properties. But the firm also picked up a 90-unit community in Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston MSA), thanks to acquisition financing arranged by Sarah Anderson, Ryan Maconachy, Chad Lavender, Ross Sanders and David Fasano of Newmark.   Built in 2014 at a cost of nearly $28 million, the community features 19 independent living, 46 assisted living and 25 memory care units about 10 miles west of downtown Boston. Three years later, Cushman & Wakefield arranged a... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Reports Strong End To Year

Cushman & Wakefield Reports Strong End To Year

Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets ended 2020 with a couple of sales (and a handful of both acquisition and construction financings too). First, on behalf of Healthcare Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTIA), the team sold a 120-bed SNF in the Tampa, Florida market, representing the first of three Florida divestments totaling $118 million for HTIA.  Cushman & Wakefield followed that up with a land sale in Cherry Creek, Colorado, an affluent submarket of Denver, for the development of a 137-unit independent/assisted living community. Titan Development sold the fully entitled site to a joint venture between Ryan Companies, Cadence... Read More »
Newmark Arranges Acquisition Financing For Harrison Street

CBRE Refinances Eugene, Oregon Community

CBRE closed out 2020 with a cash-out refinance of a 217-unit senior living community in Eugene, Oregon, with Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root working on the deal. A joint venture between The Springs Living and Harrison Street was the borrower, having developed the property in 2017 with construction financing also secured by CBRE. The property experienced strong lease-up and stabilized within 13 months of opening. It is currently 96% occupied across the 110 independent living units (including 31 cottages), 75 assisted living units and 32 memory care units. Not too bad for a pandemic.  The five-year, non-recourse loan was provided by a national bank and came... Read More »
Harrison Street Picks Up PGIM-Owned Portfolio

Harrison Street Picks Up PGIM-Owned Portfolio

In last month’s SeniorCare Investor we mentioned that the team at Newmark Knight Frank would have approximately $1.2 billion in closings in December. They may have reached half of that in one deal. Although no price is being disclosed on the transaction, we did get a sneak look at parts of the offering memorandum from one of the other bidders. PGIM sold a portfolio of Brightview Senior Living-managed communities with a total of 11 communities in Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Based on our internal records, PGIM purchased 10 of these communities from Brightview in 2014 for about $360 million, or $350,000 per unit and an estimated cap rate of 7%, according to our Deal Search Online... Read More »