• Janus Living Goes Public After Upsizing IPO

    Janus Living, a Healthpeak Properties-formed REIT and now the only publicly traded U.S. REIT fully dedicated to seniors housing with its entire portfolio structured under RIDEA, has launched its initial public offering of Class A-1 common stock. The company is now listed on the NYSE under the ticker “JAN.” It plans to pay a quarterly dividend of... Read More »
  • Partnership Acquires Two Long Island Communities

    Two Long Island assisted living communities were sold by their original developer/operator. Village Green Senior Living in Levittown (opened in 2020) and Village Walk Senior Living (opened in 2018) in Patchogue were acquired by a partnership between Fundamental Advisors, Scribner Capital and Atria Senior Living. They will be renamed Atria... Read More »
  • Artemis Real Estate Partners Purchases Class-A Community

    The developer of a Class-A seniors housing community in the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA, has passed the torch to a new owner. Pillars of Lakeville, now known as The Crest at Lakeville, sits on 1.8 acres. Oppidan Investment Co., a company that developed multiple Pillars senior living properties in Minnesota, acquired the land from Crossroads... Read More »
  • Stand-Alone Memory Care Community Gets New Owner

    1031 CF Properties, a leading DST investor, acquired a stand-alone memory care community in the Spokane, Washington MSA. Built in 2005 with expansions in 2007 and 2013, Generations Memory Care offers 48 private units with 28,472 square feet on 2.067 acres. The seller was an investment group based in northern California that purchased the asset in... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Closes First Public Bond Issue in 20+ Years

    Ziegler announced the closing of a $30.0 million tax-exempt fixed rate bond issue for Butterfield Trail Village, Inc. (BTV). The Series 2026 bonds were issued through The Fayetteville Public Facilities Board. BTV is a not-for-profit corporation founded by five local churches in 1981 to own and operate a continuing care retirement community on... Read More »
People on the Move, January 2020

People on the Move, January 2020

There were a few high-profile moves in the senior care world in the last month. JLL announced the addition of a new advisory and investment transaction services practice, to be led by Deborah Street. Coming from CBRE, where she was previously the Vice President of the National Senior Housing group, Ms. Street will join JLL as a Senior Vice President and leader of the new practice, which will provide on-demand underwriting, strategic planning, transaction structure/return analysis, transaction management, and due diligence, as well as ongoing asset management services. She will work with Managing Directors Brian Chandler and Bryan Lockard, JLL’s Co-Leads for the Seniors Housing Valuation... Read More »
JLL Capital Markets Secures JV Equity

JLL Capital Markets Secures JV Equity

A brand-new age-restricted town home community is going up in the Long Island hamlet of Mount Sinai, thanks in part to $18 million of joint venture equity secured by Evan Pariser, Rob Hinckley, Nicco Lupo and Sophie Cohen of JLL Capital Markets. Sculptor Capital Management Inc., formerly known as Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, provided the equity. Ornstein Leyton Company (OLC) is developing the community, which will feature 91 for-sale homes. It is OLC’s fifth active adult community branded under “The Vineyards.” In 2018, Messrs. Pariser and Hinckley (when they were with HFF) also helped raise equity for the development of another community in Center Moriches,... Read More »
Long Island 55+ Developer Gets Equity Investment

Long Island 55+ Developer Gets Equity Investment

A brand-new age-restricted town home community is going up in the Long Island hamlet of Mount Sinai, thanks in part to $18 million of joint venture equity secured by Evan Pariser, Rob Hinckley, Nicco Lupo and Sophie Cohen of JLL Capital Markets. Sculptor Capital Management Inc., formerly known as Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, provided the equity. Ornstein Leyton Company (OLC) is developing the community, which will feature 91 for-sale homes. It is OLC’s fifth active adult community branded under “The Vineyards.” In 2018, Messrs. Pariser and Hinckley (when they were with HFF) also helped raise equity for the development of another community in Center Moriches, New York (also Long... Read More »
White Oak Healthcare REIT Acquires Again

White Oak Healthcare REIT Acquires Again

Earlier this week, we highlighted White Oak Healthcare REIT’s acquisition of four senior living properties in Arkansas (2), Florida and Pennsylvania, but the REIT’s recent run of activity doesn’t end there. White Oak also acquired two senior living communities in Loganville and Conyers, Georgia. Both considered to be value-add investments, the properties were built in the 1990s and total 156 independent living, 140 assisted living and 32 memory care units. They were operated by Senior Lifestyle and owned by an undisclosed private equity group, which hired Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of JLL Capital Markets to market and sell the properties. White Oak’s joint venture partner on the deal,... Read More »
Avalon Senior Living Grows

Avalon Senior Living Grows

Avalon Senior Living has partnered again with Eastridge Pacific Holdings, LLC (EPH), this time buying three senior living communities in California from HCP, Inc. that had been leased to Brookdale Senior Living. The 205 units (210 beds) offer independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The purchase price was $15.7 million, or $76,585 per unit, and came with an approximate cap rate of 8.0%. Mike Garbers, formerly of Greystone and now with JLL, represented the seller, and MidCap Financial provided the mortgage financing. Eastridge Pacific entered the senior living industry in 2016 as an equity partner in Kalakaua Gardens, a 17-story community in Honolulu with 216 beds. It... Read More »