• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... 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 »