• Incumbent Operator Secures Two Acquisition Financings

    Jay Healy and Director Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia utilized the company’s balance sheet to provide $39.7 million of bridge-to-HUD financing for a Fort Worth-based skilled nursing owner/operator. The intent is to close the two subsequent HUD 232/223(f) refinancings in the second half of 2026. The loans facilitated the acquisition of three Texas... Read More »
  • MONTICELLOAM’s 2025 Activity

    MONTICELLOAM reported its 2025 activity, completing 49 senior care and multifamily transactions totaling over $2.2 billion in bridge, mezzanine and working capital financing throughout the year. In one of the notable transactions, one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM funded $470.5 million in bridge and working... Read More »
  • CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
Capital Health Group Kicks Off Northeast Strategy

Capital Health Group Kicks Off Northeast Strategy

Nearly a decade on from its last New England acquisition, Capital Health Group added three senior living communities in Rhode Island to its portfolio. The private equity firm has big plans for the properties, expecting to reposition them through $14.9 million in extensive renovations and a change to the programming mix to better meet market demand. Totaling 371 units and 385 beds, the communities currently offer independent living, assisted living and memory care units at locations in East Greenwich, Johnston and Riverside. Capital Health Group’s affiliated management company, Milestone Retirement Communities, will take over operations and oversee the repositioning project. This deal... Read More »
KeyBank and Capital Health Group Team For Success

KeyBank and Capital Health Group Team For Success

KeyBank Real Estate Capital pulled doubly duty for its client, Capital Health Group (CHG), in arranging an acquisition loan to fund the company’s purchase of three senior living communities in southeastern Pennsylvania, and then turning around to refinance the loan through multiple Fannie Mae financings. This is not the first we have heard of CHG’s most recent acquisition. Announced in January, the sale of the Keystone Villa Portfolio was arranged by Toby Siefert, Brad Clousing and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The three properties, located between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, were developed by the selling entity, a group of local operators in Pennsylvania looking to... Read More »
The Keys to Success

The Keys to Success

At a time when seniors housing values are still around a record-high (averaging nearly $200,000 per unit for assisted living and over $230,000 per unit for independent living in the four quarters ended September 30, 2016), a group of local operators in Pennsylvania is exiting the market. Of course, owning four recently built, well performing assets helps with capitalizing on value. Developed by the selling group, the Keystone Villa Portfolio is located across three campuses between Harrisburg and Philadelphia and features 509 total units. The Douglassville location was built in two phases in 2004 and 2008 as a 123-unit independent living community, but has since added in 2009 and 2013, 124... Read More »
Freddie and the Queen

Freddie and the Queen

HFF recently announced the closing of a sale that we reported on in the January issue of The SeniorCare Investor (but didn’t have full details). The acquired 93-unit assisted living/memory care community is located in the Upper Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, and sold for $36.25 million, or $390,200 per unit, to Washington D.C.-based Capitol Seniors Housing. The community was originally built in 1908 and 1927, but was purchased by the seller in 2007 for $17.2 million, and underwent an extensive $6 million renovation that also included converting two floors from assisted living to memory care. Milestone Retirement Communities managed the property, which was 96% occupied. In... Read More »
Seattle sale

Seattle sale

Capitol Seniors Housing’s second investment in the Seattle MSA was financed with the help of Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing, who arranged a $20.12 million non-recourse, floating rate loan with a five-year term and 36-months of interest-only, provided by a national bank. The acquired community is located in the town of Mukilteo, Washington and features 107 units of about half independent and half assisted living. It was built in phases in 2000 and 2004, and occupancy has been between 86% and 90% in 2015. On a trailing-12 month basis, the community generated about $2 million of EBITDA on approximately $4.8 million of revenues, for an operating margin of 42%. Capitol Seniors... Read More »