• 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 »
Atrium Health Suffers

Atrium Health Suffers

The New Jersey-based skilled nursing and assisted living operator puts 33 of its properties into receivership. Not good for the lenders. I am sure you have heard by now about Atrium Health and Senior Living placing 33 of its properties into receivership this week. This includes all their Wisconsin properties and one Michigan facility, but appears to leave out its 12 buildings in New Jersey. Atrium operates both skilled nursing and assisted living, and only nine assisted living communities in Wisconsin were placed in receivership; the remainder were SNFs. The receiver has hired Health Dimensions Consulting to operate them during the receivership until it is decided whether to split them up... Read More »
Oregon Operator Refinances Bond Debt

Oregon Operator Refinances Bond Debt

The long-term owner of an assisted living/memory care community in Oregon went to MidCap Financial to help recapture equity for its other development projects and to fund property improvements. Caring Places, an operator of 11 communities in Washington and Oregon, secured a $4.65 million floating-rate loan, with a three-year term, to refinance bond debt on its 66-unit community in Forest Grove (Portland MSA). Featuring 44 assisted living and 22 memory care units, the property was originally developed by Caring Places in 1991. That long-term vision will continue, as Caring Places looks to eventually refinance this first mortgage through HUD. Read More »
MidCap Financial Arranges Acquisition Financing For Southwest Senior Living

MidCap Financial Arranges Acquisition Financing For Southwest Senior Living

MidCap Financial worked on behalf of Palatine Capital Partners Management to arrange financing for the purchase of a senior living community in the Southwest. Palatine, an investment firm focused on small- and mid-cap real estate assets, acquired a 145-unit senior living community that is roughly split evenly between independent living and assisted living. Well-located and purpose-built in the late 1990s, the community was in need of significant renovations. So, in addition to funding the acquisition, the $9.0 million floating rate loan will enable Palatine to implement a $2.5 million capital improvement plan at the community to renovate the exteriors, common areas and unit... Read More »
MidCap Financial Finances Georgia Portfolio Acquisition

MidCap Financial Finances Georgia Portfolio Acquisition

Lawrence “Lory” Brin of MidCap Financial recently helped facilitate Artemis Real Estate Partners and Allegro Senior Living’s acquisition of three Atlanta-area assisted living communities by arranging an $18.25 million loan. The floating rate first mortgage will also enable the buyers to reposition the communities and invest $7 million of capital improvements to renovate the exteriors, common areas and unit interiors. Built from 1998 to 2000, the communities are located in Buckhead (46 assisted living and 22 memory care units), Alpharetta (48 AL and 24 MC units) and Marietta (28 AL and 27 MC units). The deal marks Allegro Senior Living’s entry into the state, and the company will also... Read More »

MidCap Financial’s On A Mission

MidCap Financial is back in the news, having provided a $17.5 million bridge-to-HUD loan to an assisted living/memory care community in Reno, Nevada. The three-year, floating-rate loan will take out construction debt and recapture equity in the property, which was developed in 2016 with 116 total units. Lease-up was quick, reaching 88% occupancy within a year of opening. Mission Senior Living, based in nearby Carson City, owns and operates the community, along with four others in Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, and a couple more in the development pipeline. Read More »