• National Lending Group Divests in Wisconsin

    Justin Knapp, Nick Stahler and Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap recently closed the receivership sale of an 86-bed skilled nursing facility in Wisconsin. The Knapp-Stahler Group represented the seller, a national lending group that also provided financing for the deal.  The borrower/buyer was a local operator with ties to an East... Read More »
  • CFG Secures Bridge-to-HUD Loan for Ohio Skilled Nursing Facility

    Capital Funding Group secured financing for a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The bridge-to-HUD loan totals $13.5 million and supports the refinancing of this 120-bed SNF. Tim Eberhardt and Ava Julio of CFG originated the transaction.  This financing follows CFG’s closing of two HUD loans on... Read More »
  • CBRE Secures Financing For Class-A Seniors Housing Community

    CBRE secured financing for a Class-A seniors housing community in North Dakota on behalf of a joint venture borrower. Built in 2017, New Perspective West Fargo is in Fargo, one mile from Sanford Medical Center, North Dakota’s newest and largest medical center. The community features 128 independent living, assisted living and memory care units... Read More »
  • PCP Purchases Ohio Assisted Living Community

    Phorcys Capital Partners LLC, the investment advisor to Phorcys Senior Housing Recovery Fund LP (SHRF), announced it acquired a seniors housing community in Wickliffe, Ohio, through a trustee-directed short sale for $13.0 million, or $81,000 per unit. This is PCP’s second investment in SHRF, and it will continue to focus on the winding down of... Read More »
  • Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »
What Do The Experts (and the Audience) Say On The Labor Crisis?

What Do The Experts (and the Audience) Say On The Labor Crisis?

On Thursday, July 13, we hosted a webinar entitled, “The Coming Labor Market Shock to Senior Care,” with panelists Glenn Barclay of Quality Senior Living, John Gonzales of SDG Senior Living and Lori Porter of the National Association of Health Care Assistants. For 90 minutes, the panel discussed how the industry will deal with a labor shortage, improving retention rates, improving onboarding and training practices, an increased minimum wage to $15 per hour in the coming years, technology’s impact on labor demands and how middle market operators will be able to deal with these changes. If you’d like to hear a recording of the webinar, click here. Needless the say, the industry has a lot of... Read More »

Will the Labor Crisis Bring Senior Care To Its Knees?

The issue of labor will challenge the senior care industry and potentially bring it to its knees. That is at least our opinion, and that of many in the industry, as demand for senior care services (which will only increase in the next 10-15 years and beyond) must be met with an appropriate supply of skilled labor. The number of CNA, food service, maintenance, RN and LPN positions required to serve the aging population is only growing, and those jobs, particularly CNAs, RNs and LPNs, are getting more complex as the average resident acuity rises at assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. Operators, if they find the skilled labor to fill these roles (a big if), will have to contend... Read More »