• Standalone Memory Care Community Sells in San Antonio

    Soon after selling a standalone memory care community in Katy, Texas, Blueprint sold another one in San Antonio, Texas, that was built in 2013. The Landing at Stone Oak was originally marketed in late 2023, but the process came to a halt when ownership chose to continue improving operations rather than transact. The operational turnaround was not... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Full AL/MC Community

    A local private investment group divested its stabilized seniors housing community, Village at Oakwood Assisted Living. Originally built in 2010 with use of multiple layers of tax credits, the building comprises 90 assisted living and memory care units. The high-quality physical plant sits in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was 100% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Expands Its Portfolio

    Foundry Commercial and Fortress Investment Group acquired two seniors housing communities in Central Florida with a combined 180 assisted living and 72 memory care units (a total of 260 beds). This is the joint venture’s second transaction, marking the third and fourth communities added to the joint portfolio. The undisclosed seller was... Read More »
  • California SNF Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments helped the owner of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility find a new operator. The new management company, which has a strong regional footprint, will pay $3.75 million in annual rent to the investor owner, Don Gormly. Built in 2016, the 120-bed facility is Anberry Transitional Care in Merced, California. Its occupancy was... Read More »
  • CCRC Secures Funding for Expansion

    Ziegler announced the closing of Friendship Village of Kalamazoo’s $103.585 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2, and B-3 bonds issued through the Economic Development Corporation of the City of Kalamazoo. Lifecare, Inc., doing business as Friendship Village Kalamazoo, is on approximately 72 acres within Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 364-unit CCRC comprises... Read More »
Healthpeak Properties Nears Seniors Housing Exit

Healthpeak Properties Nears Seniors Housing Exit

Healthpeak Properties has nearly completed its exit from the rental seniors housing business, selling another $1 billion of assets in the first quarter of 2021, according to its latest earnings release. This comes after approximately $2.5 billion of seniors housing dispositions in the fourth quarter of 2020, so they are clearly antsy to get out.   The latest tranche of divestments included 12 properties in PEAK’s SHOP portfolio operated by Oakmont Senior Living and totaling 1,043 units. At $564 million, or $540,750 per unit, it represents the largest deal of the quarter. And considering Healthpeak’s haste to get out, commanding that sort of per-unit... Read More »
Kayne Anderson Acquires Again

Kayne Anderson Acquires Again

Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors has already been one of the most active acquirers during the pandemic, with its purchase of seven senior living communities from Welltower for approximately $500 million as the major highlight. We have thought that private equity, with its deep pockets and billions of dollars on the sidelines, was well positioned to take advantage of value-add deals this year and would help kick start the senior care M&A market. The M&A market hasn’t really come back to life, but private equity firms have certainly been the biggest players of the year. Just look at AEW’s acquisition of another Welltower portfolio.   Kayne Anderson recently acquired two... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Finances South Carolina Community

Cushman & Wakefield Finances South Carolina Community

Two years after financing a senior living project in Rock Hill, South Carolina (Charlotte MSA), Cushman & Wakefield returned to refinance the newly opened community. Operated by Harbor Retirement Associates, the community comprises 88 units and 92 beds of assisted living and memory care within the Riverwalk master planned development, which will encompass more than 1,000 single-family homes and 550 apartments, as well as extensive retail and an award-winning restaurant. Private equity firm BridgeForth Capital, the owner, only had the community open for a month before the pandemic hit, but lease-up was luckily strong beforehand.   In October 2018, Richard Swartz, Aaron Rosenzweig and... Read More »
Kayne Anderson Closes Another Acquisition

Kayne Anderson Closes Another Acquisition

Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa-based seniors housing team led by Allen McMurtry and David Kliewer sold a 117-unit independent living community in Trinity, Florida (about 20 miles northwest of Tampa). The seller, a development group comprised of Walt Chancey of Gulf Coastal Development, Ricky Rookis of Rookis Development and Watermark Retirement Communities, recently built the five-story community adjacent to a 97-unit assisted living/memory care property that they also developed in 2016. There are one-and two-bedroom unit options ranging in size from 737 to 1,162 square feet. Designed by Chancey Architecture and Chancey Interior Design, it also features numerous amenities including... Read More »
Newmark Knight Frank Handles Welltower’s $1.3 Billion Sale

Newmark Knight Frank Handles Welltower’s $1.3 Billion Sale

There were rumors circulating last month of a major portfolio sale by one of the healthcare REITs, and given the dearth of deals in May, we clung on to the promise of it. Well, on June 1, Welltower announced not one, but two large seniors housing portfolio dispositions, along with a major medical office building sale, all combined for a roughly $1.3 billion purchase price. Ryan Maconachy and Chad Lavender of Newmark Knight Frank handled the transactions, bringing one of them from NDA to closing in just 45 days, including securing agency financing to fund it. To close any deal these days is exceedingly difficult, not only one of this scale, so well done to the Newmark team.   It certainly... Read More »