• 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 »
CBRE Refinances Nebraska Senior Living Community

CBRE Refinances Nebraska Senior Living Community

Aron Will and Austin Sacco of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a Fannie Mae refinance of an Omaha, Nebraska senior living community. Owned by a joint venture between Hegg Companies, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based real estate investment firm, and Paradigm Senior Living, an operator with an extensive portfolio west of the Mississippi, the community features 91 units of assisted living and memory care. In addition to boasting large unit sizes and abundant amenities, it is also located less than five miles from the only full-service hospital in West Omaha, CHI Health Lakeside. To refinance the property, Messrs. Will and Sacco originated an $11.9 million loan, with a fixed interest... Read More »
Love Funding in the Last Frontier

Love Funding in the Last Frontier

Love Funding secured financing for the Last Frontier’s newest assisted living community. Located in Anchorage’s U-Med district (and less than two miles from three hospitals), the community is being purpose-built by Baxter Senior Living as a high-end assisted living option for Alaskans. Along with 63 private AL and 33 private and semi-private memory care units, the private pay community will feature amenities including a theater, café and pub, fitness studio and art center, with Portland, Oregon-based Paradigm Senior Living as its manager. Love Funding’s Holly Bray secured a $20.1 million bridge loan provided by Love’s parent company, Midland States Bank, with First National Bank Alaska... Read More »

Go with Propero

For operators looking to own their own facilities while minimizing the amount of capital committed to construction, Lancaster Pollard offers a program that may help them do just that. Launched in 2012 and led by Craig Jones, LP’s Propero™ Senior Housing Equity Fund has provided a total of $88 million in gross investments spanning across the acuity spectrum, from IL/AL to memory care to skilled nursing. The way it works is the Fund invests in seniors housing properties as the sole owner and then triple-net leases them to an operator. The operator, therefore, doesn’t have to invest as much equity in the project or acquisition and can then choose from a predetermined purchase option schedule... Read More »