• Diversified Healthcare Trust’s SHOP Delivers Strong Results

    Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) announced fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2025 results, and its SHOP segment delivered. Same-property SHOP NOI in the fourth quarter jumped 27.6% year over year to $38 million, and full-year SHOP NOI climbed 31.3% to $129.3 million. Same property SHOP occupancy reached 82.4% in Q4, up 90 basis points from... Read More »
  • Lease Option Closes for High-Performing CT SNFs

    A long-time regional owner/operator looking to secure capital for future redeployment into the skilled nursing sector approached Blueprint to market two skilled nursing facilities. The high-performing assets sit 40 miles apart in southern and western Connecticut with 301 total beds. The non-union facilities were generating $4.4 million of EBITDAR... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Acquires North Carolina Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A few seniors housing communities in North Carolina were recently divested by a North Carolina owner/operator. The three assets total 61 independent living units and 173 assisted living and memory care beds. The independent living component was developed by the seller. The buyer, a not-for-profit with more than 30 years of experience acquiring... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Owner/Operator Secures Its First HUD Financing

    In a transaction that marks the third time Berkadia has secured financing for the asset, the company arranged a $35.4 million HUD financing for a 189-bed skilled nursing facility in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The asset was developed in three phases between 1996 and 2007. It has been owned by a Louisiana-based owner/operator of skilled nursing... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Receives Financing

    MONTICELLOAM provided financing to three seniors housing communities in Illinois. Originated by Karina Davydov, the package includes up to $44 million in bridge financing with a 36-month term. The portfolio offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. The sponsor, a Midwest-based senior living operator... Read More »

MorningStar Shines Brightly In Phoenix Market

MorningStar Senior Living is set to open its fourth senior living community in the Phoenix market, with the help of construction financing arranged by Aron Will of CBRE. Together with joint venture partners N-Shea Group and an institutional equity partner, MorningStar is developing a 144-unit independent living (38 units), assisted living (71) and memory care (35) community in Glendale, a growing suburb roughly 10 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix. Although the development cost was not disclosed, MorningStar’s three previous projects in the metro area had cost between $200,000 per unit and $230,000 per unit to develop, and we imagine the Glendale project is similar. Mr. Will provided a... Read More »
What Are the Memory Care Investors Saying?

What Are the Memory Care Investors Saying?

On March 9th, we hosted a webinar entitled “Building or Buying Memory Care,” with moderator Steve Monroe and panelists Clint Malin of LTC Properties, Mark Myers of Marcus & Millichap, Michael Stoller of LCB Senior Living and Matthew Turner of MorningStar Senior Living. The panelists covered a range of topics (you can listen to the discussion here) including the risks of overbuilding, effectiveness of memory care conversions and fill-up risk, among others. But our audience also chimed in, answering three poll questions throughout the webinar. First, when asked if they would build stand-alone MC, assisted living with MC or stand-alone AL, 60% preferred the mix, 32% would build... Read More »
Memory Care: Buy or Build?

Memory Care: Buy or Build?

Investors in seniors housing have been flocking to the memory care market, as the sector has experienced unprecedented growth since the Great Recession. They are attracted to its need-based demand, higher rents, private payors and apparent dearth in supply in a number of markets (though given the amount of construction in the last few years that is becoming less and less true). But those investors that are interested in getting into or expanding their holdings in this market are faced with a question: do they build memory care, or buy? That is the topic of our upcoming webinar this Thursday at 1PM aptly named, “Buying or Building Memory Care.” Our moderator Steve Monroe and panelists Clint... Read More »
Iron Will

Iron Will

We can’t go long without seeing another Aron Will (of CBRE) transaction, or two. The first of his latest deal duo took place in California when a joint venture between Auctus Capital Partners and Och-Ziff Capital Management acquired a 54-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Francisco. Located on an irreplaceable site, the building was originally built it 1923 as a hospital but was purchased by a Mom & Pop in the 1990s who then converted it to senior care. It has some underutilized “dead space” that the JV will convert to add significantly more assisted living and memory care units. Plus, Auctus and Och-Ziff will make some cosmetic improvements to help drive operations,... Read More »
CBRE sells MorningStar trio

CBRE sells MorningStar trio

For over $400,000 per unit, a joint venture between MorningStar Senior Living and Arcapita, a Bahrain-based global investment manager, purchased (in two transactions) a portfolio of three newly built assisted living/memory care communities in Colorado. One of the properties, a community in Jordan with 55 AL units and 29 MC units, opened in July 2014 and was already 80% occupied at the time of the sale. It sold for approximately $34.5 million, or $411,000 per unit. While the other two properties, located in Colorado Springs, included a 48-unit MC community that opened in September 2014 and an already stabilized community with 45 AL units and 19 MC units that opened in late 2013. Combined... Read More »