• More Shareholder Activism

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
  • Active Adult Expansion A Hit With Investors

    How often have we heard that new development is dead? Or that CCRCs (LPCs) are on their way out? Too often. But how often do you hear about an Active Adult expansion on a CCRC campus, and one with entrance fees? Not often enough. That didn’t stop Three Pillars Senior Living Communities and Cain Brothers from putting together a plan that may... Read More »
  • Quarterly Investor Call #1

    Skip the in-person conference, and get the latest senior care M&A and valuations data, market analysis and case studies on notable deals by watching The SeniorCare Investor’s first ever Quarterly Investor Call. Read More »
  • Pacifica Companies Acquires National Portfolio

    Pacifica Companies, LLC, a privately owned real estate private equity firm based in San Diego, California, acquired the majority of the not-for-profit Retirement Housing Foundations’ market-rate seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. Ziegler served as exclusive sell-side advisor to RHF on the transaction, which closed in phases... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Chooses Refinance Over Sale

    A national owner/operator faced with an underperforming seniors housing property in Missouri and maturing debt on the property secured a refinance thanks to JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital. The borrower, which has over 30 properties in its portfolio, acquired the 45-unit assisted living community in late 2017.  Occupancy and cash flow... Read More »
Three More HUD Deals From PGIM Real Estate

Three More HUD Deals From PGIM Real Estate

PGIM Real Estate announced $36.7 million in HUD financings in the last six weeks of the year. Christopher Fenton and Catherine Eby first originated a $3.9 million loan for a 49-unit assisted living community in Ohio that was built in 1988 and renovated in 1994. Next, Mr. Fenton and Mrs. Eby were joined by Corley Audorff and Josh Williams to secure an $18.2 million loan for a six-year-old assisted living community in Minnesota.  Finally, Mr. Audorff and Mr. Williams arranged a $14.7 million interest rate reduction loan for a 126-unit skilled nursing/assisted living facility in Colorado, which was built in 2012. These three refinances saved PGIM’s clients a combined $426,000 in... Read More »
PGIM Finances Virginia Community Through Fannie Mae

PGIM Finances Virginia Community Through Fannie Mae

After closing a scattered site HUD loan for a portfolio of three assisted living communities in Maryland, PGIM Real Estate stuck with the agency financings by closing a $19 million Fannie Mae refinance of a senior living community in Hardy, Virginia (Roanoke MSA). Built in 2009 and recently expanded, the 102-unit community has independent living, assisted living and memory care services along with a host of amenities, including membership to the nearby Carillon Wellness at West Lake, a wellness center with an indoor pool, group exercise classes and a gym. The expansion featured 37 new units and was overseen by the operator, Runk & Pratt Senior Living Communities.  Chris Fenton led the... Read More »
PGIM Refinances Kentucky Communities Through Fannie Mae

PGIM Refinances Kentucky Communities Through Fannie Mae

Christopher Fenton of PGIM Real Estate Finance originated the refinances of two Morning Pointe assisted living/memory care communities in Kentucky. This transaction comes just two years after both communities were built, so the market research clearly worked since occupancy has already cleared 90% at the two locations. There was a 60-unit AL/MC community in Danville, Kentucky located near a regional medical center and a 44-unit memory care community in Russell, also located near a top Kentucky hospital. So, location clearly helped too. Working with Fannie Mae, PGIM provided a $7.5 million loan for the Danville property ($125,000 per unit) and a $7.8 million loan for the Russell community... Read More »
PGIM Arranges Refinance of Watercrest Community

PGIM Arranges Refinance of Watercrest Community

One of Watercrest Senior Living Group’s success stories just reached stabilization and refinanced with the help of Chris Fenton of PGIM Real Estate Finance. Developed at an approximate cost of $17 million, or $191,000 per unit, in Sebastian, Florida, the 89-unit property opened in May 2016 and shot out of the gates in its lease-up, reaching 62% occupancy by August of that year. Since then, the community has fully stabilized and became eligible for permanent financing. To refinance an existing bank loan from Community & Southern Bank (now Bank of the Ozarks), PGIM originated a $10 million Freddie Mac loan, with a variable rate, seven-year term and 20 years of amortization at... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Recapitalizes New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield Recapitalizes New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield served as the exclusive advisor to a joint venture between LCB Senior Living and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital in their recapitalization of four New England seniors housing communities. LCB had already been operating three of the properties in Massachusetts (Ipswich) and Connecticut (South Windsor and Avon) since their construction in 2014 and 2015. But the fourth property (in Lincoln, Rhode Island) was built in 2009 and acquired by LCB and Prudential Real Estate Investors in 2013 for $11 million, or $183,300 per unit. The communities market to independent living residents and allow for transitions to higher care levels including assisted living and memory... Read More »