• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop expanded its senior care investment sales business in a big way, bringing in Managing Directors Mark Myers and Josh Jandris and Vice Presidents Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice and Mike Surak of IPA Seniors Housing, a division of Marcus & Millichap. The Chicago-based team will build on W&D’s existing multifamily property sales platform by bringing a new focus on seniors housing and skilled nursing property sales, building on W&D’s existing multifamily platform. They will also work closely with Walker & Dunlop’s senior housing financing group, which originated over $900 million in debt financing in 2018. Prior to making this move, the IPA team had closed over... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

We wrote of Chicago Pacific Founders’ acquisition of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area portfolio of independent living communities last week but have now learned that IPA Seniors Housing handled the transaction. The team of Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers, plus Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Pennsylvania, Sean Beuche, represented the seller, a partnership between Graziano Construction and Sweetbay Senior Living. Two of the communities were recently built, one in 2017 and the other opening earlier this year. The third property was developed in 2009 and is the only one that is fully stabilized. Totaling 384 units, the portfolio sold for $75 million, or $195,300 per unit. Jordyn... Read More »
De Paul Health Care Divests Three Philly-Area SNFs

De Paul Health Care Divests Three Philly-Area SNFs

De Paul Health Care sold three of its Philadelphia-area skilled nursing facilities, leaving the New Jersey-based provider with four SNFs in its portfolio, in addition to its existing medical office building and residential community businesses. Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of IPA Seniors Housing represented the De Paul family in the transaction, which included a 49-bed skilled nursing facility and a 120-bed SNF in Philadelphia, and a 162-bed facility in Absecon, New Jersey (adjacent to Atlantic City). These facilities were operating at breakeven, despite solid occupancy, which leaves some room for added value for the new owner, Paramount Care Centers. Christopher Utz of Ziegler Seniors... Read More »
CCRC With Potential Sells in Northern Virginia

CCRC With Potential Sells in Northern Virginia

The team at IPA Seniors Housing highlighted a CCRC’s highly desirable location in the affluent Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, to sell the asset to an affiliate of Focus Healthcare Partners. Andrew Hilding, Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris represented the seller, Thompson Associates, in the sale, which did not disclose a price. The property, built in phases from 1980 to 1986, consisted of 306 total beds, including 96 skilled nursing beds and the rest coming with either independent living or assisted living services. Age apparently is holding the community back from competing well in the high-income market, so Focus plans to complete a substantial renovation of it. It has the... Read More »
Original Owner Exits Two AL Communities in Illinois

Original Owner Exits Two AL Communities in Illinois

The original developer of two assisted living communities totaling 135 units in Illinois (St. Louis MSA) is finally exiting the assets, after more than 10 years of ownership, with the help of Mike Surak and Matthew Andriano of Marcus & Millichap and Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of IPA Seniors Housing. Operated under the Fountains Assisted Living brand, the properties are located in Granite City (built in 2000) and Godfrey (built in 2006), or about 23 miles apart from each other. They were previously owned by a local investment group that featured a large number of individual investors. The out-of-state buyer, an affiliate of Triloma Seniors Housing, will look to use their operating... Read More »