• Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »
  • Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »
  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »
  • More Shareholder Activism

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Expands Partnership with Senior Lifestyle and Jaybird

Healthcare Trust Expands Partnership with Senior Lifestyle and Jaybird

Healthcare Trust, Inc. (HTI), a public, non-traded real estate investment trust, announced the expansion of a strategic operational relationship with two senior housing operators, Senior Lifestyle Corporation and Jaybird Senior Living. Thirteen HTI-owned communities operated under HTI’s Addington Place brand across Georgia, Michigan and Florida will now be managed by Senior Lifestyle, bringing the total number of HTI properties operated by the company to 24. In addition, seven HTI-owned properties in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri, also operated under the Addington Place brand, will now be managed by Jaybird Senior Living. This expanded relationship brings the total number of HTI-owned... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Divests Two Florida Facilities

Healthcare Trust Divests Two Florida Facilities

Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale of two skilled nursing/assisted living facilities on behalf of the public, non-traded REIT, Healthcare Trust, Inc. These two properties represent the last of the three strategically planned majority-skilled nursing property sales in the state of Florida, after having already sold its SNF in Lutz earlier this year for $20 million, or a gain on sale of real estate investments of $3.8 million. Cushman & Wakefield handled all three property sales.   Healthcare Trust acquired one of the communities, The Addington at Wellington Green in Wellington, Florida, seven years ago. Built in 2011, it features a 120-bed... Read More »
Healthcare Trust Buys in San Diego

Healthcare Trust Buys in San Diego

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Healthcare Trust Inc. as a buyer in the seniors housing market. Well, the public, non-traded REIT has acquired a 91-unit/117-bed senior living community in San Diego, California, for an undisclosed price. There are 53 assisted living and 38 memory care units (64 beds) in the two-story building, which was built in 2015 on a 4.3-acre site. The quality of the building is apparently quite high, and the community was over 90% occupied. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard made up the Cushman & Wakefield team that served as exclusive advisor to the seller, Torrey Pines Development Group. Read More »
Capital One Bridges to Agency Financing

Capital One Bridges to Agency Financing

Capital One pulled double duty for its client, Healthcare Trust (HTI), arranging more than $145 million in total financing. First, back in December, the firm served as administrative agent and sole lender for an $82 million senior secured credit facility, which provided bridge-to-agency financing for a 23-property seniors housing portfolio located in six states (primarily Michigan and Iowa) in just five weeks. Fast forward to this month, when Capital One added seven of those properties to HTI’s existing Fannie Mae credit facility. The transaction increased the total facility by $64.2 million, to $216.6 million. Read More »