• Sabra Health Care REIT Picks Up the Transaction Pace

    Sabra Health Care REIT is ramping up its senior care M&A activity and its SHOP exposure, set to exceed the $1 billion in investments it spent in 2025. The REIT completed several transactions during the first quarter, with investments closed year to date totaling $206.1 million, with an estimated initial cash yield of 8.0%. The pipeline... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Growing

    Clarion Partners is continuing on its acquisition streak, adding Legacy House of Avondale to its portfolio. The 169-unit Class-A assisted living/memory care community is in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, with a strong operational footing. Clarion Partners further expanded its relationship with MorningStar Senior Living through the deal, partnering... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Virginia Deal

    A publicly traded company engaged Blueprint to sell a value-add independent living community in a growing submarket of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1987, the 122-unit community could benefit from investments in the physical plant. It was also not stabilized.  A competitive market generated multiple bids in multiple rounds and improved... Read More »
  • Public REIT Acquires Full-Continuum Communities

    A pair of full-continuum seniors housing communities that sit approximately 10 miles apart traded in Northwest Arkansas. Village on the Park Bentonville in Bentonville and Village on the Park Rogers in Rogers offer a total of 208 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Each community also offers contiguous land for further... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

    HUD’s fiscal year 2026 hit the halfway point on March 31, and so far VIUM Capital is leading the way in closed 232 loans and by total loan volume with 41 transactions and $598.0 million in volume, respectively. That represents 22% of the program’s closed loans in the first half of the fiscal year and 19% of the total volume. And 32 of VIUM’s HUD... Read More »
MidCap Refinances Georgia Community

MidCap Refinances Georgia Community

MidCap Financial took out construction debt on a recently completed senior living community in Gainesville, Georgia with a new floating-rate mortgage. Owned by Manor Lake Development LLC, the community opened in 2019 with 88 assisted living and memory care units. It features studio, one-bedroom and companion suites ranging from 421 to 558 square feet. Residents can also receive rehabilitation services, instructor-led daily exercise, concierge services and more. The property leased up quickly under management by Manor Lake.  JLL Capital Markets’ Joel Mendes and Trent Niederberger worked on behalf of the borrower to secure the $18.5 million loan from MidCap, which came with a floating... Read More »
MidCap Provides Liquidity for AlerisLife

MidCap Provides Liquidity for AlerisLife

MidCap Financial announced that it recently closed financing for AlerisLife (formerly Five Star Senior Living). The $95 million floating rate first mortgage loan is secured by 14 high-quality senior living communities totaling 1,477 units in the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast. The communities are all owned by AlerisLife and operated by their Five Star Senior Living brand. MidCap’s loan enhances AlerisLife’s liquidity position and provides funds for capital improvements across the portfolio.  Read More »
MidCap Closes Acquisition Loan for Community in Georgia

MidCap Closes Acquisition Loan for Community in Georgia

MidCap Financial announced the closing of an acquisition loan for a 92-unit assisted living/memory care community on St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. We learned of the deal at the end of September when Newmark disclosed its involvement as the broker representing the seller, a joint venture between AIG Global Real Estate and Thrive Senior Living (also the operator) that had originally developed the property in 2015. Occupancy had fluctuated between 50% and 70% in the last several years, with some key employee turnover prior to COVID contributing to the sub-par census. Winterpast Capital Partners, its affiliate Vitality Living and Broadview Real Estate Partners acquired the property, with... Read More »
MidCap Financial Closes Acquisition Debt For Healthpeak

MidCap Financial Closes Acquisition Debt For Healthpeak

MidCap Financial closed acquisition debt for another Healthpeak divestiture. Announced in May, the REIT sold five of its SHOP communities that were operated by Florida-based Sonata Senior Living. All five communities are in Florida, with locations in Delray Beach (80 units), Boynton Beach (92), Boca Raton (74), Coconut Creek (94) and Vero Beach (104). There was a total of 328 assisted living, 107 memory care and nine independent living units, and the communities averaged around 20 years in age. However, the properties were well maintained, and Healthpeak Properties had invested over $13 million of capex in the past four years.  Private equity firm Fortress Investment Group paid $64... Read More »
Kentucky Community Receives Fannie Mae Refinance

Kentucky Community Receives Fannie Mae Refinance

MidCap Financial, through its correspondent relationship with Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital was able to close a Fannie Mae refinance of a 167-unit senior living community in Lexington, Kentucky. The deal closed in mid-March before huge swaths of the country had been shut down but still a difficult time to get transactions across the finish line.  At the end of 2018, the borrower, Atlas Senior Living, had acquired the community as part of a purchase option from DMK Development. Before that, Atlas had leased and operated the $26 million development, which was nearly stabilized at the time of the sale. Opened in August 2017, it features 114 independent living, 38 assisted living... Read More »