• 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 »
Meridian Pushes Past $1 Billion In Financings

Meridian Pushes Past $1 Billion In Financings

Already $1.0 billion deep into its 2018 transaction total by October, Meridian Capital Group took less than a month to close another $217 million in financings. Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson did that by arranging the refinance of a large skilled nursing portfolio, the $9 million cash-out refinance of an assisted living community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an $18 million acquisition loan for a long-term acute care/skilled nursing facility in Ohio. Since the team’s inception in 2011, they have now closed more than $5 billion in financing for seniors housing and healthcare properties. Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s Billion-Dollar Year (So Far)

Meridian Capital Group’s Billion-Dollar Year (So Far)

The team at Meridian Capital Group just hit $1.0 billion in seniors housing and health care financings so far this year. That impressive haul is spread across more than 40 transactions in 16 states. Most recently, the team, led by Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson, arranged $36 million in acquisition financing for a 700-bed skilled nursing/assisted living portfolio in Indiana. The same trio also arranged $24 million in acquisition financing for a portfolio of rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities with 383 beds in Kansas and Nebraska, and a $20 million construction loan for a 124-bed assisted living/memory care community in Florida. Well done! Read More »
Meridian’s $650 Million Year, So Far

Meridian’s $650 Million Year, So Far

Meridian Capital Group is on track for a strong year, to say the least. After seven months, the seniors housing and healthcare team has already arranged $650 million in financing across skilled nursing, independent living and assisted living properties. Most recently, the team of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson arranged an $18.75 million refinance of two skilled nursing facilities (and 318 total beds) in Rhode Island, as well as a $2 million revolving line of credit on behalf of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Arizona. Other recent highlights include a $69 million loan for four skilled nursing facilities with 654 beds and two home care licenses in New Jersey, a $34... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s Impressive Spring

Meridian Capital Group’s Impressive Spring

It’s been a sizzling Spring so far for Meridian Capital Group, which has so far closed $121.5 million in financing since mid-March. The most recent financings were arranged by the trio of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson on behalf of eight skilled nursing facilities in Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland. The largest featured both a $42.4 million acquisition financing and a line of credit for a 230-bed facility in Miami Beach. The trio arranged two other acquisition loans, including a $9.2 million loan for a 106-bed SNF in Baltimore, Maryland, and $10.2 million in financing for two facilities with 120 total licensed beds in Deland, Florida. Finally, Meridian arranged... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Closes $77 Million In Financings

Meridian Capital Group Closes $77 Million In Financings

Meridian Capital Group showed off its range in closing financings for three clients, including two acquisition loans and a HUD refinance. Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin first worked on behalf of a regional operator to arrange a $16.3 million HUD loan that refinanced a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Ocean View, New Jersey. Then, for another regional operator, the pair secured a $12.8 million acquisition loan for the borrower to purchase a portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts that total 286 beds. A balance sheet lender provided the five-year loan, which featured a floating interest rate over the 30-day LIBOR. And finally, a balance sheet lender again provided a... Read More »