• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:25 pm | Acquisitions

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »

  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:22 pm | Acquisitions

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »

  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:21 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »

  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:20 pm | Developments, Financings

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »

  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:19 pm | Financings

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

by | Jan 6, 2022 4:39 pm | Financings

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

by | Dec 7, 2021 4:44 pm | Acquisitions

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

by | Dec 2, 2021 4:17 pm | Financings

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

by | Oct 4, 2021 10:26 am | Financings

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

by | Aug 4, 2021 9:18 am | Financings

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 »