• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Brookdale Senior Living, What’s Next?

    So, the big vote occurred last week, and shareholders of Brookdale Senior Living have spoken. We are sure that the recent increases in occupancy convinced some shareholders to stick with management and its “plan.” But the nominees from activist shareholder Ortelius Advisors were not off-the-wall candidates. It was an excellent group, and despite... Read More »
  • Optalis Healthcare Acquires Michigan Portfolio

    Blueprint was engaged by Michael F. Flanagan, the duly appointed receiver of Spartan Holdco, LLC, et al. and approved by the Oakland County Circuit Court to run a marketing process sourcing qualified overbids for the auction sale of the SKLD (Skilled Living and Development) portfolio. Dubbed Project Spartan, the portfolio comprises eleven skilled... Read More »
  • National REIT Divests to Cougar Capital Management

    Haven Senior Investments facilitated a transaction between a national REIT and a real estate development firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The seller, Summit Healthcare REIT, divested a seniors housing community in Littleton, New Hampshire, The Village at Riverglen. Built in 2002, The Village at Riverglen features 60 beds across 50 independent... Read More »
  • CFG’s H1 Financing Volume

    Capital Funding Group’s bridge-to-HUD and HUD teams financed more than $930 million across 50 transactions in the first half of 2025. These financings included 14 HUD loans, 21 bridge loans and 15 accounts receivable loans for clients across the country. Managing Director of Real Estate Craig Casagrande originated a few transactions throughout... Read More »
  • Stabilized Class-A IL Community Secures Refinancing

    Greystone arranged a $43.5 million debt placement to refinance a seniors housing community in Oregon. The 142-unit property is a recently built and stabilized Class-A independent living community. The community had strong trailing cash flows, on a shorter trailing period, but an upward trend. The financing was sourced by David Young.  The... Read More »
Griffin-American and Greystone

Griffin-American and Greystone

A month ago, we learned of a couple of large divestments by New Senior Investment Group, in a move to bring its share price up to where management believes it should be, by increasing the share of its independent living portfolio, decreasing its Holiday Retirement exposure, and reducing its concentration in the three states of Florida, Texas and California. We have also just learned that Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Greystone represented SNR in the transaction. Spread out across Central Florida, the portfolio consists of nine properties and were all formerly operated by Holiday Retirement. However, operations have dropped off since Holiday stopped having live-in managers at its... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Nets Fannie Mae Financing for Oregon Assisted Living Community

Lancaster Pollard Nets Fannie Mae Financing for Oregon Assisted Living Community

When BPM Senior Living Company decided to permanently finance its assisted living/memory care community in Milwaukie, Oregon, Lancaster Pollard had the solution. Matt Lindsay and Doug Harper of Lancaster Pollard successfully arranged a $5.3 million loan from Fannie Mae, going from engagement to closing in under 60 days. Making that timeframe even more impressive is that a planned change in management from third-party to in-house occurred during the underwriting process. BPM was also able to extract significant equity from the transaction, which comes 12 years after its original purchase of the community. Built in 1979 as a 79-unit independent living community, BPM purchased the community... Read More »

Two Assisted Living Sales Close in Florida

Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage is starting strong this year, selling three assisted living communities in two transactions for a combined $23 million. Partnering with Patrick Burke, Mr. Clousing first sold a 37-unit assisted living community in Martinsville, Virginia, a transaction that was a long time coming. In July 2015, the same selling partners sold the adjacent 300-bed skilled nursing facility for $28.5 million, or $95,000 per bed, in a sale/leaseback transaction to Omega Healthcare Investors. The long-term lease came with an initial yield of 9.25%. Awaiting TPA approval, the assisted living community eventually sold to Omega as well at a price of $7.5 million,... Read More »

Changes at the top

There has been a lot of mobility in the seniors housing C-suite lately (Kai Hsiao stepping down as CEO of Holiday Retirement earlier this year, Doug Korey heading over to LTC Properties, the recent Brookdale Senior Living shuffle, etc…), and yet another job change was announced at the end of March. HCP’s Chief Financial Officer, Timothy Schoen, is leaving the company to become President of BioMed Realty, a life science real estate company based in San Diego that was recently purchased by real estate funds managed by Blackstone for approximately $8 billion. Mr. Schoen had been with HCP since 2006 and has served as Executive Vice President since 2009 and CFO since 2011. Mr. Schoen will... Read More »
Reading the Holiday tea leaves

Reading the Holiday tea leaves

As most of you have read recently, Walker & Dunlop closed its largest loan ever (almost double the size of its $670 million financing that the company closed earlier in 2015) in the form of a $1.27 billion seven-year adjustable-rate Freddie Mac loan secured by 78 Holiday Retirement independent living properties. The financing, led by Russell Dey and Laura Beaton of W&D, comes out to approximately $144,400 per unit, which if you assume a 75% loan-to-value, is almost identical ($192,500 per unit) to the average price per unit Holiday properties have sold for in the last few years ($193,800 per unit, according to our records). Since 2013 Holiday has sold, in nine transactions, 231... Read More »