• Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

    Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk.... Read More »
  • Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

    Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior... Read More »
  • PE Group Enters Oklahoma after Medicaid Rate Bump

    A skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma that recently benefited from the state’s Medicaid rate bump sold to a national private equity firm looking to enter the state. Built in 1967, Maplewood Care Center features 180 beds on over three acres in Tulsa. It is located close to several major hospitals and healthcare campuses, but occupancy was sitting... Read More »
  • Community Purchased through HUD Assumption

    Chad Mundy of the Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lewiston, Idaho. Built in phases in the early 2000s, the community featured five separate buildings, one of which was vacant after sustaining damage from a flood. As a result, occupancy was lower, based on the 89 licensed beds,... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Rounds Out Q4

    The Zett Group closed out Q4 with several closings in the Pacific Northwest. First was the sale of Fox Hollow, a 58-unit seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the community features 51 assisted living units and seven independent living “cottage-style” units. Set in a nice area of Eugene, it was owned by... Read More »
Navigating Today’s Lending and M&A Markets: A Q&A with Meridian Capital Group

Navigating Today’s Lending and M&A Markets: A Q&A with Meridian Capital Group

Seniors housing and care M&A has slowed down considerably, which will not surprise anyone, and an abundance of caution on the buyers’ part has had a lot to do with that. But perhaps more so has been the reaction of the lenders, many of whom have taken a wait-and-see approach before lending millions to support acquisitions, new developments and even refinances.   However, deals are still getting done, with even a mini M&A boom at the end of March into early April, so a number of lenders had to have signed off on those deals fully aware of the economic and practical realities of the current crisis. So how have these lenders adapted to the current environment?... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s Impressive March Activity

Meridian Capital Group’s Impressive March Activity

Meridian Capital Group has had a productive start to the year, including an especially busy last few weeks. We imagine they gained some knowledge from closing deals during that period, which could not have been straightforward. So far in 2020, the group has arranged $563 million in financing for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care communities, and in the last three weeks they closed $301 million in financings across seven states.   Working through a commercial bank, the team of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson first arranged a $34 million refinance of four memory care communities totaling 264 units in Florida, New York, Ohio and Arizona. Also, in Florida, they... Read More »
Meridian Capital Closes Two New England Acquisitions

Meridian Capital Closes Two New England Acquisitions

Meridian Capital Group’s mortgage brokerage business has been red-hot so far this year, but its investment sales side has been quite robust as well. All told, the team at Meridian has closed nearly $2.8 billion in business, so far in 2019. Not too shabby. Most recently, Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson announced two portfolio sales closed for skilled nursing clients in New England. The first transaction saw six skilled nursing facilities and 536 total beds sold to an institutional buyer. A regional operator is taking over the operations under a triple-net lease. Meridian also arranged a balance sheet loan with a national lender, plus a separate A/R line of credit, to fund the... Read More »
Meridian Capital Moves Past $2.3 Billion

Meridian Capital Moves Past $2.3 Billion

Meridian Capital Group’s seniors housing and healthcare team is having quite a year, reaching $2.31 billion in transaction volume in 2019, so far. That volume is through a total of 63 transactions closed across 27 states for skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care and independent living properties. Helping achieve that impressive level, the group, which is led by Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson, closed a couple of very large transactions in the last month, most notably a $241 million acquisition financing for 19 skilled nursing facilities and 2,175 total beds in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The trio was also responsible for arranging the $157 million in financing used... Read More »
Northwind Group and KeyBank Finance Peace Capital Acquisition

Northwind Group and KeyBank Finance Peace Capital Acquisition

Peace Capital and its affiliated operator Complete Care Management acquired a senior care portfolio number some 930 beds in Ocean County, New Jersey, for approximately $169 million, or about $181,700 per bed. The financing for the deal came from a couple different sources. As part of its effort to deploy up to $1 billion into senior living and healthcare properties, New York City-based private equity firm Northwind Group provided a $26 million mezzanine loan for the acquisition. Meanwhile, KeyBank Real Estate Capital underwrote and closed the $131 million in senior financing and expects to lead the refinance of the portfolio with HUD debt. Jonathan Slusher and Ran Eliasaf led the mezzanine... Read More »