• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »
Real Estate Investment Group Acquires Northern California Seniors Housing Portfolio

Real Estate Investment Group Acquires Northern California Seniors Housing Portfolio

M&A has been especially active in the first two weeks of the fourth quarter. It seems a dam, of sorts, of delayed deals had broken. There are certainly many more deals still in limbo or terminated altogether because of the pandemic, but it is an encouraging sign to see this level of deal-making considering the circumstances.  One highlight of the activity was the sale of three seniors housing communities in the Northern Sacramento Valley in California, handled by Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The deal includes two properties in Chico and one in Oroville, with a total of 85 memory care units and 131 beds.   Built... Read More »
Local Owner in Georgia Exits Senior Care Market

Local Owner in Georgia Exits Senior Care Market

Two Senior Living Investment Brokerage teams facilitated an owner’s exit of the senior care industry with the sale of two assisted living communities in Georgia to two different buyers. First, the local owner/operator sold its small community in Cartersville, northeast of Atlanta.   Built during the last assisted living construction boom in the early-2000s, the 25-unit community was renovated in 2015. Since then, it has remained well occupied exceeding 90%. A Northeast-based owner/operator looking to expand its portfolio in the Peach State paid an undisclosed sum for the community.  The other transaction saw a 58-unit community in Dalton (northeast corner of Georgia) sell to an... Read More »
SLIB Closes Columbia, South Carolina Transaction

SLIB Closes Columbia, South Carolina Transaction

Bradley Clousing and Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a senior living community in Columbia, South Carolina. Its private partnership owner was looking to exit the sector, which prompted the transaction.   Originally built in 1996, this community was extensively renovated in 2006, 2013 and finally 2016, the last of which saw $2 million invested. It now features 38 independent living, 32 assisted living and 22 memory care units, with a full range of amenities and an attractive physical plant. There are seven buildings on the 6.86-acre site. Occupancy was just 66%, while the community operated at an 8% margin on nearly $2.1 million of... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Brokers Bankruptcy Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Brokers Bankruptcy Sale

The Senior Living Investment Brokerage team of Ryan Saul, Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert put in the hours to work through a bankruptcy sale of a 130-bed skilled nursing facility in Bristol, Tennessee. Originally built in 1986 and 1990, this facility was owned by a regional skilled nursing operator. Over the last couple of years, it faced challenges with occupancy and cash flow, and as a result, both the OpCo and PropCo were placed into bankruptcy for liquidation. In came the SLIB team, which ran an extensive marketing campaign during the height of the pandemic, and despite a few extended deadlines, they found a buyer in a Mid-Atlantic-based regional skilled nursing owner with operating... Read More »
SLIB Facilitates Owner/Operator’s Senior Living Exit

SLIB Facilitates Owner/Operator’s Senior Living Exit

A Lexington, Kentucky-based developer, owner and operator exited the senior living business with the sale of its only asset thanks to the work of Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. This community was previously an elementary school in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, but was converted to senior living by the current seller in 2014.   The gut renovation resulted in 30 spacious assisted living units. Occupancy quickly rose to 90% after opening and hovered between 85% and 90% until COVID brought census down to about 80% and the operating margin down to about 7% on over $1 million of revenues.  The owner was looking to exit the sector and... Read More »