• ESI Closes Two SNF Deals

    Evans Senior Investments handled a sale on behalf of an institutional owner/operator in California. The 64-bed skilled nursing facility is in California. The ultimate buyer was also based in California and entered into a new long-term lease agreement with Sun Mar Healthcare, a regional operator with a portfolio of skilled nursing and post-acute... Read More »
  • 30+ SNFs Sell to Large Owner/Operator

    A portfolio of more than 30 skilled nursing facilities totaling over 4,900 beds has sold, allowing the regional skilled nursing owner/operator to exit the industry. Few details were disclosed, and the deal appears to have been done very quietly, but the portfolio spanned between five and 10 states in the Southeast and featured approximately 35... Read More »
  • Scribner Capital and William James Group Team Up Again

    Scribner Capital and William James Group acquired two assisted living and memory care communities in Georgia. The Haven at Fayetteville, a 62-unit assisted living and memory care community that was rebranded from The Oaks, was built in 1999 and was at about 90% occupancy at closing. Located in Athens, The Haven at Cedar Shoals (formerly The Oaks)... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Cash-Flowing Communities

    A trio of well-run seniors housing communities in the Southeast sold to a partnership that included a national owner and a regional operator. Brad Clousing and Dan Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage represented another regional owner/operator in the sale. The deal includes two adjacent seniors housing communities in Cumming, Georgia,... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Enters New State

    Vince Viverito and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a distressed skilled nursing facility in rural Colorado. Built as a therapy building in 1912 and converted to a skilled nursing facility in 1964, Lamar Estates features 60 beds on 1.34 acres with 19,394 square feet in the town of Lamar. The non-performing... Read More »
NHI Finances CCRC Expansion Project in Phoenix

NHI Finances CCRC Expansion Project in Phoenix

The Phoenix, Arizona market has been a hotbed of senior living construction activity thanks to its rapidly growing retiree population, and a large CCRC catering to high-income residents is looking to capture part of that growth with an independent living expansion. Sagewood already has 316 independent living units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. Demand for independent living was strong (with the IL units fully occupied in 2018), so ownership decided to build a Phase II, which included 101 more units. It was clearly the right decision, as 96% of the new IL units are already presold, with entrance fees projected to average $700,000. Recently, the... Read More »
Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

No stranger to big senior living projects, Big Rock Partners (BRP) announced it will be building its second senior living community in Palm Beach County, Florida, at an estimated cost of $150 million, or over $530,000 per unit. BRP kicked it off with the $9 million acquisition of a 15-acre site in Delray Beach, where it will build 185 independent living, 50 assisted living and 44 memory care units. LCS will operate the community upon completion in 2021. Trez Forman Capital financed the land acquisition, and Al Rex of Walker & Dunlop is the project’s financing advisor. Last year, BRP opened a 320-unit community in Lake Worth at a cost of $106 million, which means the company’s total... Read More »
BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

As joint venture partners TH Real Estate (an affiliate of Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA) and LCS continue their acquisition activity, BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group got in on the action and arranged acquisition financing for two of the deals. First, the firm acted as sole lender for a $14.4 million term facility for a CCRC in Palm City, Florida with 225 independent living units, 20 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. They again acted as sold lender for another $12.3 million term facility arranged for a CCRC in Essex, Connecticut with 189 independent living units (including 13 cottages) and 45 skilled nursing beds. Read More »
CBRE Adds Another Bridge Lending Option

CBRE Adds Another Bridge Lending Option

Bridge loans are the hottest lending product for seniors housing and care right now (we’re actually hosting a webinar on that very subject next month), and CBRE Capital Markets is expanding its presence in that market with a large new vehicle aimed at providing more flexible short-term loans to seniors housing and multifamily borrowers. The program is called MF1 Capital, LLC and was structured as a mortgage REIT focused on providing equity to multifamily (about 75% of its business) and seniors housing (the remaining 25%) owners. CBRE’s strategic partners on the vehicle include multifamily real estate investment management firms Limekiln Real Estate and Berkshire Group. What sets this... Read More »
CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge

CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge

CBRE’s Aron Will has been on a roll lately, having just closed his fifth transaction in under a month. The latest helped fund the acquisition of four seniors housing communities in the Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana MSAs. They actually represent the stabilized properties within a seven-property portfolio acquisition (totaling 688 units) that CBRE also provided financing for. Totaling 360 units, of which 278 are dedicated to assisted living and the remainder to memory care, the stabilized portfolio has been third-party managed by LCS since 2015 and will continue to be. The buyer, a joint venture between LCS and TH Real Estate, the real estate private equity affiliate of... Read More »