• 60 Seconds with Swett: Navigating the Next Five Years in Seniors Housing M&A

    Are we entering the golden age of seniors housing? Next year, the first baby boomers will start turning 80, and with the current lack of new construction, occupancy rates are already rising before the real demographic wave hits. Many investors, both veterans and those new to our space, will feel pressure to grow their seniors housing holdings to... Read More »
  • Blackstone Sheds Another Asset from Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

    Blueprint handled a couple of sales in Florida and Nevada. The first in Florida involved a global private equity firm selling a 145-unit assisted living and memory care community in Boca Raton, Florida. Ben Firestone, Dillon Rudy and Jacob Ghel of Blueprint facilitated The Atrium at Boca Raton’s ownership transfer. The community presented certain... Read More »
  • CareTrust REIT Establishes SHOP Platform

    Three Texas seniors housing communities with 270 assisted living and memory care units were acquired by CareTrust REIT, Inc. The publicly traded REIT purchased the communities for $40 million, or $148,100 per unit. This marks the first investment of CareTrust’s SHOP platform. The communities were 86% occupied at the time of acquisition and will... Read More »
  • Ensign Grows Through Separate Transactions in Three States

    The Ensign Group, Inc. increased its portfolio through three separate acquisitions in Kansas, Arizona and Colorado. The publicly traded provider expanded its growing Midwest footprint through its Kansas acquisition of the real estate and operations of Willow Point Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a 45-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas... Read More »
  • Developer/Operator Divests to PE Firm

    A developer and operator sold Rivertown Ridge, a Class-A seniors housing community in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming, Michigan, to a private equity firm. This community, built in 2020, features 152 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, and has exhibited strong performance.  The seller, Redstone Homes, was... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

It was a banner year for Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team, which closed more than $5.5 billion in transaction volume in 2021, including $918 million in transactions for 56 seniors housing and healthcare facilities in 16 states over the last month to end the year.   These transactions were negotiated by Senior Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team, Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin; Managing Director, Josh Simpson; Vice Presidents, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, and Rafi Sod; and Senior Associates, Yuval Hananya, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott.  The team’s December transactions include several refinances, including a $130... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

NewPoint Acquires HHC Finance’s HUD Businesses

NewPoint Real Estate Capital LLC, a joint venture between Meridian Capital Group and Barings, announced that it has acquired certain assets of Housing & Healthcare Finance, including its FHA multifamily and healthcare origination business and its loan servicing portfolio. This deal augments NewPoint’s existing HUD lending services and also its healthcare and seniors housing financing capabilities. For HHC Finance, the firm gains the backing of NewPoint’s scale and its own range of services offered, now including a multifamily bridge lending program which was launched earlier this month to provide loans of $5 million to $50 million with... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

Meridian Capital Group Announces Latest Activity

Another month, another slew of closings from Meridian Capital Group. The Senior Housing and Healthcare team including Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, Rafi Sod, Yuval Hananya, David Gottlieb, Jacob Scott and Brett Hebert negotiated the transactions, which included several refinances, acquisition loans and two property sales.  The targets in the sales included a 103-unit assisted living/memory care community in Missouri that sold for $10.2 million, or $99,000 per unit, and a 90-unit AL/MC community in Utah that sold for $6.5 million, or $72,200 per unit. Meridian’s Avi Begun arranged acquisition financing for both properties, with an $8.3 million loan from... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare team announced another $219 million in transaction volume closed across eight skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living and memory care properties in seven states in September. The team that negotiated these deals included Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, Rafi Sod, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott.   There were a few acquisition loans, the largest being a $68 million loan from a commercial bank plus a $2.5 million A/R line for a CCRC in Michigan totaling 89 skilled nursing, 65 assisted living, 852 independent living and 31 memory care beds. Meridian also arranged the LP equity for the... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Reports Busy July

Meridian Capital Group Reports Busy July

In the month of July, Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare team has closed $863.4 million in transaction volume for a combined 60 skilled nursing and assisted living properties in 13 states. That brings the year-to-date total to $3.6 billion in volume, or already surpassing the $3.2 billion in transactions closed in 2020. Well done to Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott who negotiated the deals.  Meridian’s largest deal of the month was a $324.7 million acquisition financing provided by a commercial bank and mezzanine lender for 21 skilled nursing facilities with 2,643 total beds in New Jersey,... Read More »