• 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 »
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 »