• Interview with Arnie Whitman and Meredith Oppenheim on VITALS

    The SeniorCare Investor’s Ben Swett recently sat down with Meredith Oppenheim and Arnie Whitman to discuss their new framework for seniors housing operators to improve the quality of life for their residents, but also to position the sector for greater success and wider appeal in the future. Watch the conversation here. Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Expands in Tampa MSA

    American House Senior Living Communities added Beach House Assisted Living & Memory Care in Wesley Chapel, Florida (Tampa MSA), to its operating portfolio and renamed the property American House Wesley Chapel. The community features 67 assisted living and 33 memory care units with studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, some with balconies... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Community Near Chicago Gets New Owner

    SVN Chicago Commercial sold McKenzie Falls, an affordable seniors housing community in Bolingbrook, Illinois, roughly 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The building was constructed in 2010 and spans 74,047 square feet across one story.  An undisclosed buyer acquired the 105-unit community for $6.7 million, or $63,800 per unit. Reid... Read More »
  • Healthpeak Properties Provides Janus Living Updates

    Healthpeak Properties’ recently formed seniors housing REIT, Janus Living, which will manage Healthpeak’s 34-community seniors housing portfolio, has filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the SEC relating to a proposed initial public offering of its shares of Class A-1 common stock, which the company intends to list on the NYSE under... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Senior Care Campus Deal in Missouri

    A Maryland-based owner/operator looked to expand its Missouri senior care portfolio with the purchase of Kingdom Care Senior Living in the town of Fulton. Built in 1980, the campus includes four independent living units, 26 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. It currently holds a five-star rating at the SNF and is the only... 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 »