• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
LTC Properties Announces Another Mezzanine Loan

LTC Properties Announces Another Mezzanine Loan

LTC Properties revealed in its fourth quarter earnings call that it originated a $25 million mezzanine loan for the recapitalization of five seniors housing properties in Oregon and Montana. The transaction is a continuation of LTC’s strategy focused on higher yield structured finance investments.   Coming with a term of five years and two months, with two one-year extension options, the loan bears an 8% interest rate and an IRR of 11%. The properties, which include independent living, assisted living and memory care, total 621 units and will be managed by The Springs Living, a new operator for LTC.   LTC revealed a few other investments and dispositions in its earnings. So far in... Read More »
Portfolio Sale in the Carolinas Receives Financing

Portfolio Sale in the Carolinas Receives Financing

LTC Properties has more than doubled its loan origination volume for the year with a unitranche loan provided to fund the purchase of 13 seniors housing communities in the Carolinas. The $52.5 million loan bears interest at 7.25% for a term of four years, with an IRR of 8%. It also provides for additional commitments of $6.1 million for capital improvements and $650,000 for working capital needs, bringing the total investment commitment to approximately $60 million.   We learned that Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the portfolio sale. Totaling 523 units and 967 beds, the properties include a mix of independent living (2%), assisted... Read More »
LTC Properties Announces Third Quarter Financings

LTC Properties Announces Third Quarter Financings

LTC Properties has announced a number of financings it originated over the third quarter totaling $46 million across four separate investments, including a unitranche loan, a senior loan, a mezzanine loan and a land loan. The investments are believed to generate a future annual interest income of approximately $3.5 million over a combined weighted average term of 3.2 years. First, a $27 million unitranche loan was originated for a regional operator to purchase a skilled nursing facility in Louisiana. The operator was given a loan term of three years with one 12-month extension option.  The second loan was a $12.5 million senior loan for a regional operator to purchase an assisted... Read More »
LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

In the ongoing plan to reposition its relationship with Senior Lifestyle Corporation, LTC Properties has sold three assisted living communities in Wisconsin. The sales price was $35.0 million, or about $133,100 per unit.   The three communities had a combined net book value of $28.3 million, and the estimated gain for LTC on the sale is approximately $5.6 million. There was no debt on the communities, so the net sales proceeds of $34.0 million were used to pay down the REIT’s unsecured revolving line of credit.   In the first quarter this year, LTC had transitioned 11 Senior Lifestyle assisted living communities in Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois to two... Read More »
LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

SLIB Sells Wisconsin Assisted Living Portfolio

As if their end-of-April activity wasn’t enough, the Senior Living Investment Brokerage team of Bradley Clousing and Ryan Saul kicked off May with a portfolio sale of three assisted living communities in Wisconsin. Located in the towns of Waukesha and Oshkosh, they total 255 units and were built between 2005 and 2009. The Waukesha community consists of 85 units, while the two Oshkosh properties (located one mile apart) feature 134 units and 36 units, respectively. Occupancy averaged around 80%, and the facilities wer estimated to have operated at a roughly 25% margin on over $12.84 million of combined revenues.   Local public filings revealed LTC Properties as the previous owner, and... Read More »