• PE Partnership Divests to a Publicly Traded REIT

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage was brought on by a partnership in its divestment of an assisted living/memory care community in Freehold, New Jersey. The partnership was between Stephanie Anderson and Steve Walling, known as SilverStone HCRE, and a private equity group located in the west. During their ownership, NOI increased significantly,... Read More »
  • M&M Negotiates Lease, Purchase Option and Key Money

    Nick Stahler and Austin Diamond of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap facilitated a lease-with-purchase-option transaction for a dually certified, 120-bed skilled nursing facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The pair was also able to negotiate $500,000 of key money from the incoming operator for the landlord, a rarity in Texas... Read More »
  • Cain Brothers Secures Refinancing for New York Asset

    Cain Brothers advised FilBen Group on a $30.67 million HUD refinancing for Wallkill Realty Partners (dba Braemar at Wallkill), an assisted living community in New York. The proceeds on the loan will be used to refinance The Orange County Funding Corporation Assisted Living Residence Revenue Bonds, Series 2012, providing a long-term, fixed-rate... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The Current Lending Environment for Senior Care Properties Q&A

    The higher cost and scarcity of capital has made getting just about any deal done that much more difficult, from an M&A transaction to a refinancing to a new construction project. We know that we don’t need to tell most of you that. But we also know that right now is a great time to buy, that it may be the time to commence construction, and... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living On The Move

    It has taken a while, and a lot had to be done to strengthen the balance sheet over the past two years, but Sonida Senior Living is now on a path of growth, and recent announcements have shown it.  On May 9, the company closed on its first acquisition of the year with the purchase of a 100-unit assisted living and memory care community in... Read More »

Trilogy Health Services expands in Louisville, again

Trilogy Health Services recently announced that it is opening its 91st health campus, and its fifth in the Louisville, Kentucky area alone. Dubbed “Forest Springs Health Campus,” the community follows Trilogy’s basic prototype of 50 skilled nursing beds and 45 assisted living units, but with the addition of about 30 independent living villas. Altogether, the 115,000-square foot campus will cost approximately $13 million or $104,000 per bed. Louisville-based DMK Development was the developer of the project, having previously done 18 senior living projects with Trilogy in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, and with more to come (Trilogy, as you may know, has also worked with Mainstreet in... Read More »

Mainstreet Property Group’s “medical resort” concept

Why shouldn’t a nursing home look and feel like a pleasant—and desirable—boutique hotel? That’s the premise of Mainstreet Property Group’s innovative Next Generation™ design for skilled nursing facilities and a style that seems to be making headway in Indiana, currently one of the most active states in terms of senior living development. Mainstreet is a Hoosier company, based in Carmel, and one of the country’s largest developers of seniors housing and care properties. Its innovative and aesthetically appealing Health Care Resorts™ approach to long-term care focuses on private rooms, concierge-style services, restaurant-style dining with on-site chefs, landscaped outdoor areas, and... Read More »