• 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 »
  • Joint Venture Takes on Stabilization Project

    Michael Segal, Lauren Nagle and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint closed a deal on behalf of an institutional seller that was looking to divest its assisted living/memory care community. The purpose-built asset was constructed in 2000 by a national developer and comprises 52 units. It sits in West Bloomfield, Michigan, which is Michael Segal’s... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Acquisition Financing

    Marking another milestone for MONTICELLOAM in a banner first quarter, the firm funded $435 million in bridge and working capital financing for a skilled nursing portfolio that encompasses 14 facilities in Maryland. Of the total, $400 million supported the acquisition of the 1,890 beds. The sponsor group is a returning client that owns/operates... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Acquisition Financing

    A joint venture between Winterpast Capital Partners, Vitality Senior Living Management and Virtus Real Estate Capital acquired an assisted living/memory care community, securing bridge financing through Coastal States Bank. The financing includes reserves to support the joint venture’s ongoing repositioning of the community and was structured... Read More »
Newmark Arranges Acquisition Financing For Harrison Street

Newmark Arranges Acquisition Financing For Harrison Street

Harrison Street has been on an acquisition tear of late, recently acquiring a portfolio of 12 seniors housing communities operated by Atria Senior Living and owned by Healthpeak Properties. But the firm also picked up a 90-unit community in Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston MSA), thanks to acquisition financing arranged by Sarah Anderson, Ryan Maconachy, Chad Lavender, Ross Sanders and David Fasano of Newmark.   Built in 2014 at a cost of nearly $28 million, the community features 19 independent living, 46 assisted living and 25 memory care units about 10 miles west of downtown Boston. Three years later, Cushman & Wakefield arranged a... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Recapitalizes New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield Recapitalizes New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield served as the exclusive advisor to a joint venture between LCB Senior Living and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital in their recapitalization of four New England seniors housing communities. LCB had already been operating three of the properties in Massachusetts (Ipswich) and Connecticut (South Windsor and Avon) since their construction in 2014 and 2015. But the fourth property (in Lincoln, Rhode Island) was built in 2009 and acquired by LCB and Prudential Real Estate Investors in 2013 for $11 million, or $183,300 per unit. The communities market to independent living residents and allow for transitions to higher care levels including assisted living and memory... Read More »
LCB Senior Living Leaves New England For First Time

LCB Senior Living Leaves New England For First Time

LCB Senior Living is venturing outside of New England for the first time with the help of a construction loan arranged by Cushman & Wakefield. The property in question, located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia/Wilmington MSA), will have 84 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and will be the Massachusetts-based operator’s 15th seniors housing development and the first south of Connecticut. LCB, and its institutional joint venture partner, expects to complete the project in the second quarter of 2019. To finance the project, Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Caryn Donahue of Cushman & Wakefield arranged a $20.5... Read More »

Maplewood Grows Its Fairfield County Portfolio

A few weeks ago, we wrote of LCB Senior Living’s latest investments in the high-income Fairfield County, Connecticut, with developments going up in Stamford and Darien. We have wondered whether the demand is there for those projects, and others that have finished in recent years. We know that some of them are operating very well, with full occupancy at $10,000+ per month rents. But now Maplewood Senior Living, headquartered in nearby Westport and already established in the area with five communities in the county, just closed on a 27-acre site in Southport where it plans to build a 98-unit assisted living/memory care community. Construction is expected to begin this summer and will include... Read More »

LCB Senior Living Brings Its Luxury Brand to Fairfield County

LCB Senior Living has already established itself as a luxury provider of assisted living/memory care services in New England, with 11 communities in Massachusetts, three in Vermont, two each in Connecticut and New Hampshire, and one in Rhode Island. The developer also has two construction projects in Massachusetts and one in New Hampshire. But now, LCB is taking its luxury brand to the high-income and high-cost Fairfield County for the first time, with two developments in Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (both about 45 miles from New York City). In June 2016, LCB purchased a one-acre parcel near downtown Stamford and is currently building a seven-story, 104-unit assisted living/memory care... Read More »