• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:27 pm | Acquisitions

    Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased... Read More »

  • CareTrust’s Flurry of Acquisitions

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:26 pm | Acquisitions

    CareTrust REIT, Inc. closed a series of transactions totaling approximately $437 million in late October. In two separate deals, the REIT acquired 12 skilled nursing facilities and one skilled nursing campus located across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The combined portfolio includes approximately 1,760 licensed skilled nursing beds and... Read More »

  • Ensign Adds to Its Utah and Alabama Footprint

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:25 pm | Acquisitions

    The Ensign Group, Inc. kicked off November with a couple of new deals. The publicly traded company acquired the real estate and operations of the following seven Stonehedge skilled nursing facilities in Utah: Stonehenge of American Fork (90 beds in American Fork) Stonehenge of Cedar City (50 beds in Cedar City) Stonehenge of Ogden (52 beds in... Read More »

  • Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:24 pm | Acquisitions

    A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term... Read More »

  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:23 pm | Acquisitions

    A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19... Read More »
KeyBank Refinances Western New York Properties

KeyBank Refinances Western New York Properties

by | Apr 30, 2019 2:41 pm | Financings

A couple of seniors housing communities in western New York received Freddie Mac financing courtesy of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Carolyn Nazdin of the firm’s Healthcare Group arranged two fixed-rate loans with 15-year terms and five-year interest-only periods. The first, at $45.8 million, was secured by a 162-unit community in Orchard Park. Built in 1992 and renovated in 2016, it consists of 114 assisted living, 32 independent living and 16 memory care units. The other $20.1 million loan went to a 96-unit assisted living/memory care community in Pittsford that was built 20 years ago. Both loans refinanced existing debt on the properties. Read More »
Lending in Leominster

Lending in Leominster

by | Apr 9, 2019 2:08 pm | Financings

KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged a first mortgage through Fannie Mae on behalf of a Sunrise Senior Living property in Leominster, Massachusetts. Originally built in 1996 with 48 assisted living units, the property added 23 memory care units in 1999 and converted 10 existing AL units into nine MC units in 2013. In that most recent project, the owner also added a common room and dining room to the community. Now, to refinance existing debt, Carolyn Nazdin of KeyBank arranged a non-recourse $12.2 million loan, with a 10-year interest-only term. Read More »
KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

by | Mar 29, 2019 7:02 am | Acquisitions, Financings

Private REITs may have taken a significant step back from their heady M&A days around 2014 and 2015, but one private REIT has been pursuing a growth strategy lately. Founded last February by George Chapman (former CEO of Health Care REIT, now Welltower), ReNew REIT (or ReNew Investors) now has 61 seniors housing communities and 5,645 units in 11 states in its portfolio thanks to several large portfolio acquisitions, including a 16-property purchase in Michigan and a RIDEA agreement with Southeast-based operator Phoenix Senior Living. So far in 2019, the company has closed four more acquisitions, adding eight additional communities and 813 units in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia to... Read More »
Genesis HealthCare Buys and Divests

Genesis HealthCare Buys and Divests

by | Feb 6, 2019 7:01 am | Acquisitions, Financings

As it continues to improve its capital structure and rationalize its lease exposure, Genesis HealthCare has joint ventured with Next Healthcare Capital to buy 15 skilled nursing facilities with 2,147 total beds previously leased from Welltower located in Pennsylvania (6), New Jersey (4), Connecticut (3), West Virginia and Massachusetts. Genesis will own a 46% stake in the venture, and lease the properties, at presumably a lower rate than with Welltower, and there will be no escalators for the first five years. Welltower’s lease had 2% annual escalators. Next Healthcare appears to be willing to wait for that extra return, since Genesis has a purchase option beginning in 2026 to buy out the... Read More »
KeyBank Refinances Citadel Acquisition Loan

KeyBank Refinances Citadel Acquisition Loan

by | Jan 18, 2019 7:02 am | Financings

KeyBank Real Estate Capital headed back to the Bronx to take out a previous financing they had closed for a 199-bed skilled nursing facility. Built in 1994, this facility is subject to a ground lease with an unrelated third party. It was acquired a number of years ago by the borrower, Citadel Care Centers, thanks to a term loan arranged by KeyBank. Now, John Randolph, Henry Alonso and Brandon Taseff have arranged a $33 million HUD refinance, which includes $500,000 for repairs and improvements to the property. The loan came with a 35-year, fully amortizing term. Read More »