• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »

Aron Will and Avanti Senior Living

Plans for an Avanti Senior Living community in Covington, Louisiana (New Orleans MSA) have been in the works for several years. Now, it is one step closer, with Aron Will of CBRE arranging a $14 million construction loan to fund the project. A regional bank provided the financing, which features a four year, floating rate term and 48 months of interest only. Avanti is developing the project in a joint venture with Iron Point Partners, an investment manager that manages several real estate private equity funds. Designed with the local style in mind, the planned community will resemble a large manor house, featuring 60 assisted living units and 50 memory care units. Adding to its appeal, the... Read More »

RED funds Avanti’s growth

Avanti Senior Living, which is developing five senior living communities in the Southeast (three in Texas and two in Louisiana) turned to RED Capital Partners to help fuel its construction pipeline, receiving a second $13.8 million balance sheet construction loan to build a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community in Flower Mound, Texas. The community will feature 50 units of assisted living and 40 units devoted to memory care, and represents Avanti’s third project to break ground under its joint venture with an affiliate of real estate fund manager, Iron Point Partners. Last December, RED also arranged a $13.5 million balance sheet construction loan for Avanti to construct a 90-unit... Read More »

Berkadia secures $93 million in financing

We wrote last month of ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager’s purchase of 14 senior living properties with 1,038 units from a joint venture between Iron Point Partners and Meridian Senior Living for an undisclosed price. The portfolio was mostly assisted living (719 units), with 208 memory care units and 111 independent living units as well. To fund the acquisition, ROC turned to Berkadia to arrange an $84 million, three-year floating-rate loan through BBVA Compass Bank. Berkadia also contributed $20 million of the overall financing through its Proprietary Bridge Lending Platform. In addition, earlier this year ROC purchased a 76-unit assisted living and memory care community in Canton, Ohio,... Read More »

ROC’s busy 2015

It’s been a busy 2015 for ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager, which is part of Salt Lake City-based Bridge Investment Group Advisors. So far this year, ROC has acquired 21 senior living communities in nine different states, totaling 2,247 units, coming on the heels of a 14-property, $230 million-deal announced in September 2014. Not all of the 2015 transactions had revealed prices, but the price per units ranged from $77,700 per unit for a 345-unit senior living community in Glendale, Arizona, up to $246,700 per unit for a portfolio of 4 assisted living communities in Texas. The most recent transaction, announced last week, was the purchase of 14 senior living properties (with 1,038 units of... Read More »