• Public REIT Lands Portfolio in Competitive Sale

    A portfolio of Class-A seniors housing communities sold in the Southeast to an undisclosed publicly traded REIT. Featuring six assets in Georgia and South Carolina, the portfolio totaled 156 independent living, 200 assisted living and 70 memory care units. The communities were built between 2017 and 2022 by a Southeast-based developer. Occupancy... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Acquires Ocala AL Community

    The third and final asset in the Hampton Manor portfolio has sold with the help of Brad Clousing and Dan Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Hampton Manor Deerwood in Ocala, Florida, was built in 2005 and expanded in 2016 to now feature 61 units of assisted living. The property is stabilized, so the new owner can hit the ground... Read More »
  • Second Generation Operator Divests SNF Portfolio to PE Firm

    A Northeast-based private equity firm engaged Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial Real Estate in its plan to enter a new state. The firm has an existing skilled nursing footprint, and had specific acquisition criteria, which narrowed the focus down to a few potential targets.  The company ultimately acquired a five-facility, 506-bed skilled... Read More »
  • CIBC Springs Ahead with Deal Flow

    CIBC has been hard at work this Spring, successfully closing several acquisition financings for senior care clients across the country. The largest was a $51.5 million term loan that supported the purchase of four skilled nursing facilities in Illinois totaling 586 beds. Historical performance trended positively over the last two years across the... Read More »
  • National Healthcare Properties Kicks Off IPO Push

    National Healthcare Properties, Inc. launched its public offering of 38.5 million shares of its Class A common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-11 filed with the SEC. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $13.00 and $16.00 per share, and the company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to... 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 »