• Not-for-Profit to Expand Its California CCRC

    Ziegler announced the closing of Odd Fellows Home of California’s $101.7 million Series 2026AB bonds through the California Statewide Communities Development Authority. This financing marks Ziegler’s first with Odd Fellows Home of California.  Odd Fellows Home of California, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Refinance for Full-Continuum Community

    CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced Harvard Square by Cogir, a full-continuum seniors housing community in Colorado owned by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group and operated by Cogir Senior Living. Built in 1982 and significantly renovated several times over the last 10 years, the community has 41 independent living, 144... Read More »
  • Chartwell Retirement Residences Completes Portfolio Acquisition

    Chartwell Retirement Residences completed its previously announced purchase of six seniors housing communities spread throughout London (three), Dorchester, Waterloo and Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. The purchase price at closing totaled approximately CAD$416.2 million, or US$30 million. An additional CAD$15.8 million, or USD$11.36 million, is... Read More »
  • Class-A AL/MC Communities Trade on Long Island

    BWE Investment Sales’ Seniors Housing Team announced its involvement in the sale of Village Green Senior Living and Village Walk Senior Living, both in high barrier-to-entry locations on Long Island. BWE represented the seller, The D&F Development Group, in the disposition of the Class-A assets, which had the goal of building, leasing up and... Read More »
  • SLIB Tops $1 Billion in Texas Transactions

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage and Matthew Alley topped $1 billion in transaction volume in the state of Texas following the sale of a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities. The Cascades Portfolio features a combined 647 beds and locations in Port Arthur (two), Houston and Galveston. The facilities were built from 1955 to 1993, with... Read More »
High-End Medicaid Assisted Living

High-End Medicaid Assisted Living

More than 25 years ago, when private-pay assisted living burst on the scene, there was a large percentage of nursing home residents that had no other choice in their local communities, but had the financial resources to pay out-of-pocket. Many of them turned to assisted living. For those on Medicaid, the choices were slim.  We have long advocated that states could save money with their Medicaid-funded residents if Medicaid covered more assisted living for those who truly can’t afford any private pay living arrangement, especially those needing any kind of nursing care. The fear, of course, was that the Medicaid pie would expand as opposed to merely shifting where the money... Read More »
Bank Leumi Finances In Florida

Bank Leumi Finances In Florida

Bank Leumi provided a couple of Florida financings for owners of assisted living communities. First was a five-year $9.3 million acquisition loan provided to a South Florida-based owner/operator, Priority Life Care, to purchase two senior living properties in western Broward County. The Margate community features 111 licensed beds along with memory care services, while the Davie community is smaller, with just 20 beds. They join Priority’s existing portfolio of seven properties in Florida and 11 properties in seven other states. Bank Leumi also provided a $4.8 million, three-year term loan to refinance a 75-bed assisted living community in Orlando, Florida. The borrower, a Florida-based... Read More »
Vacancy in Dade City

Vacancy in Dade City

Birchwood Health Care Properties just added the 21st property to its seniors housing portfolio, but with one catch: the community is vacant. Located in Dade City, Florida (about 30 miles inland between Tampa and Orlando), the target was originally built as a hotel and converted to include 230 units of seniors housing. As recently as early 2015, it served over 200 residents but ran into clinical and operational challenges under its previous management. So in comes Birchwood, which along with operator Priority Life Care will invest $750,000 in renovations. Plus, pre-marketing and construction planning was initiated well before this transaction’s closing in early January in anticipation of a... Read More »

CareTrust expands

CareTrust REIT acquired a portfolio of four assisted living communities and promptly leased them back to two separate entities, creating a new tenant relationship along the way. Three of the communities, with 366 units, are located in Baltimore, Maryland, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and West Allis, Wisconsin, were purchased from and leased back to a company headed by two of the three key principals of the seller. Brother and sister team Robert and Severine Petras formed Priority Life Care, which owns and operates four seniors housing communities, and structured a sale/leaseback agreement with CareTrust to consolidate their existing partnership and complete the capitalization of the new company.... Read More »