• Stacked Stone Makes Another Acquisition

    Stacked Stone Ventures, a real estate investment firm founded by Kent Eikanas, followed up on its October acquisition in Oklahoma with the purchase of two assisted living/memory care communities in Illinois, near the St. Louis MSA. Similar to the Oklahoma deal, Stacked Stone has made Illinois acquisition in a joint venture with the private equity... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Large SNF Deal in Pennsylvania

    Not-for-profit to for-profit are not easy, and it took a two-year process for Blueprint to successfully close the sale of a 250-bed skilled nursing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The property appears to be Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation, one of three skilled nursing facilities owned by Dublin, Ohio-American Health Foundation... Read More »
  • JDI Realty Buys Alpharetta Asset

    A partnership recently acquired Chapters Living of Alpharetta, a 79-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia (Atlanta, MSA). Built in 2013, the high-quality community was previously known as Addington Place of Alpharetta. JDI Realty, in partnership with Purity Strategies and Chapters Senior Living, bought the community... Read More »
  • Class-A Active Adult Community Secures Refinance

    JLL Capital Markets arranged the refinancing for Connery on Providence, a newly built 200-unit active adult community in Charlotte, North Carolina. JLL represented Proffitt Dixon Partners in securing the loan through New York Life Insurance Company.  Connery on Providence is a Class-A 55+ rental community that occupies a 12.75-acre infill... Read More »
  • Public REIT Divests to Owner/Operator

    Blueprint facilitated the sale of a Massachusetts skilled nursing facility on behalf of a public REIT in the senior care sector. The REIT determined that the facility was a strong candidate for sale due to its location. Plus, the former operator was switching focus to other assets in its mutual portfolio.  Purpose-built in 1982 with... Read More »

Trying Out Transitional Care

Joint venture partners Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Pisula Development Company (the development arm of RRC Medical Real Estate LLC) are venturing into the transitional care/skilled nursing space with the acquisition of a brand-new facility in Conroe, Texas. Featuring 150 beds in two stories, the transitional care facility was developed in late 2016 by the seller, an in-state developer relatively new to senior care, on about three acres adjacent to the 342-bed Conroe Regional Hospital Campus. We have historically known Harrison Street as a seniors housing investor, and Pisula Development has mostly focused on medical office buildings. But they have partnered with OnPointe Health,... Read More »
Fannie Mae Origination in Oregon

Fannie Mae Origination in Oregon

Almost five years after taking over the operations of a 92-unit senior living community in the town of The Dalles in northern Oregon, family-owned The Springs Living has become its sole owner, thanks to a $17.5 million Fannie Mae refinance arranged by Capital One’s Dague Retzlaff and Mark Bultman. Harrison Street Real Estate Capital bought the community as part of a four-property, 419-unit portfolio in November 2012 for a total of $65 million, or $155,130 per unit, and brought in The Springs to operate. At the time, the portfolio was 89% occupied and operated at a 26% margin on $15.65 million of revenues. We believe Harrison Street has since added value to the property, as it typically... Read More »

High price for the Upper West Side

Seniors housing deals valued above $500,000 per unit are rare. In fact, in our M&A database dating back to 1993, only nine have been announced in the U.S. (all since 2015). And up until this month, we only had one domestic deal above $600,000 per unit, which was Health Care REIT’s acquisition of three senior living communities in the Boston area for $150 million, or $652,174 unit. Now, a single 239-unit independent living building in New York City’s Upper West Side is selling for approximately $150 million, and surpassing $625,000 per unit. The Esplanade had been owned by the Scharf family, an owner/operator of senior living communities in the New York City MSA, since they bought it... Read More »

HCP boosts seniors housing holdings

Just as HCP, Inc. is about to spin off its large skilled nursing portfolio into a new REIT, it has closed a smaller, but large in today’s M&A market, acquisition of a portfolio of seven assisted living and memory care communities with 526 units in Maryland and Virginia. The price was $186.25 million, which comes in at $354,400 per unit, much higher than the average price per unit of $198,000 for the past four quarters, but near the levels we have been seeing for some good portfolios of late. The properties were built between 1993 and 2013, and talking to other buyers it appears that occupancy was not quite stabilized, so there should be room for improvement for the new operator, Senior... 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 »