• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... Read More »
Juniper Communities Shifts Focus from Florida

Juniper Communities Shifts Focus from Florida

Juniper Communities has completely exited the state of Florida, with Bradley Clousing and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitating the final sale. With the transaction, the assisted living/memory care provider will now focus on its established Northeast and Colorado markets, where it has eight communities in Pennsylvania, two in New Jersey and five in the Centennial State. The Naples community was originally built in 2000, which in the heavily developed southwestern Florida market is certainly on the older side. Age isn’t everything, but it does usually affect the rents you can charge, which has a cascading effect if any fixed or variable costs were to suddenly shoot... Read More »
Juniper Communities Jumps on Pennsylvania Property

Juniper Communities Jumps on Pennsylvania Property

New Jersey-based Juniper Communities added another Pennsylvania senior living property to its portfolio with the acquisition of a 103-unit assisted living/memory care community in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia MSA). With the deal, Juniper now owns or operates 12 properties in the Keystone State. The campus is centered around a stone mansion built in 1865 set alongside sprawling grounds and walking paths. There was an addition in 1986 that added common areas plus AL units, and another addition in 1998 that added memory care units, AL units and even more common areas. Carlyle Senior Living acquired the community in 2006 for $8 million, or $77,700 per unit. How times have changed. We’re unsure... Read More »
Juniper Communities Lands Lakewood Assisted Living Communities

Juniper Communities Lands Lakewood Assisted Living Communities

Juniper Communities added two more properties to its portfolio, which now numbers 23 communities in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida and New Jersey. Both new additions are located in Lakewood, Colorado, about 10 miles from downtown Denver, and join Juniper’s three other communities in the metro area. One community was built in 2008 with 65 assisted living and 42 memory care units, while the larger community has 118 assisted living and 19 memory care units, and was built in 1999. The new management contracts give New Jersey-based Juniper scale in the state and enables them to pilot additional ancillary services in the Denver area. Read More »

Bensalem Blues

There is some work to be done for the new owner of an entrance-fee CCRC in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Juniper Communities (headed by CEO Lynne Katzmann) purchased the community for $13.65 million, or $38,343 per unit, which is well off its 2005 (yes, 2005) price of $17.35 million, or $48,464 per unit. Back then, the unit breakdown was very similar to today’s, which is currently 279 independent living units, 60 assisted living units and 17 skilled nursing beds. Plus it was operating at a 16% margin with a 95% occupancy rate. While the community’s current operations were not disclosed, we have to assume they have fallen off some given the 21% decline in price. Built in 1981 with expansions in... Read More »