• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... Read More »
Welltower & Kisco Senior Living Break Ground in Maryland

Welltower & Kisco Senior Living Break Ground in Maryland

Welltower and Kisco Senior Living announced the groundbreaking of their large senior living community in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Set to open in Spring 2024, The Carnegie at Washingtonian Center will feature 450,000 square feet and 302 total units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It will sit on 8.5 acres next to RIO Lakefront at Washingtonian Center, a waterfront shopping center with restaurants, amenities and water activities in downtown Gaithersburg. At the community, floorplan options will range in size from one bedroom, one bath (837 square feet) to two bedrooms, two baths with a den (1,487 square feet) and a club level living option that includes concierge and... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield’s Carolina Sale

Cushman & Wakefield’s Carolina Sale

For the second time, Prudential Real Estate Investors is selling its large senior living community in Cary, North Carolina, 14 years after the first sale. Originally built in 1999 with 80 independent living units, 36 assisted living units and 36 memory care units, the community has been operated by Kisco Senior Living since its development. During that time, Kisco has overseen several ownership changes, starting in 2004, when Prudential Real Estate Investors sold the community to Walton Street Capital for about $27.4 million, or $180,000 per unit. Walton Street added 14 IL cottages with 24 units in 2008-2009, perhaps not the best time for an IL addition. Nevertheless, Walton Street resold... Read More »
BMO Harris Funds PGIM Real Estate Deal

BMO Harris Funds PGIM Real Estate Deal

PGIM Real Estate and Kisco Senior Living announced their acquisition of a 187-unit independent/assisted living community in Walnut Creek, California at the start of June, and BMO Harris Healthcare Real Estate Finance followed that up by announcing they financed the deal with a $61.75 million credit facility. The group acted as the administrative agent and lead lender on the facility which consisted of a $50.05 million term loan and a $11.7 million construction loan for a planned 40-unit expansion of the community’s assisted living and memory care services on the adjoining 1.22 acres. Located on a 7.3-acre campus about 20 miles east of San Francisco, the property was built in 1991 and had... Read More »

Freddie Mac comes to Silicon Valley

On behalf of Kisco Senior Living, Jessica Wolters of JLL Capital Markets led the way in originating a $32.5 million refinance, with a 10-year fixed-rate term, provided by Freddie Mac’s Capital Markets Execution program. The community being refinanced, a 133-unit independent/assisted living community in Los Altos, California, was built in 1973 but was bought for $16 million, or $106,700 per unit (when it had 150 units), and renovated in 1998 by TransAmerica Senior Living (which was itself bought by Kisco in 2001). Considering today’s $244,400 per unit refinance, it’s clear that Kisco has significantly increased the value of the property. Read More »

High-end in Hawaii

The master planned, pedestrian-oriented city of Kapolei, near Honolulu, Hawaii, will soon see the opening of a luxury senior living community. Developed by Carlsbad, California-based Kisco Senior Living, ‘Ilima at Leihano will feature 84 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care on 3.8 acres of the 40-acre that Kisco purchased to develop a mixed-use community called Leihano. The Leihano project has been in the works since before the Great Recession, with the company closing on the land only in the last four years, including selling two parcels to First Hawaiian Bank and home furnishings company C.S. Wo & Sons. Monthly rents at the senior living community will... Read More »