• 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 »

Not for this not-for-profit

A not-for-profit assisted living/memory care community in Bartlett, Tennessee (Memphis MSA) has gone private, after being acquired by a joint venture between a regional operator and a private real estate investment company. Built in 1989, the community is comprised of five 24-unit residential buildings along with an administrative building. An obstacle for the new operator is that the kitchen is located in the admin building, with warming stations in each resident building. Operations could also be improved, as the margin is currently 9.5% on approximately $4.29 million of revenues, and occupancy is just 83%. But since this was its only community in Tennessee, the Connecticut-based... Read More »
Marcus & Millichap and CBRE Top Senior Care Broker Rankings

Marcus & Millichap and CBRE Top Senior Care Broker Rankings

While it was not exactly a repeat of 2015, it came pretty close. This year we had only 13 brokerage companies reporting their numbers, with a few active brokers deciding to take a pass this year for a variety of reasons. But they would not have taken the top spots, so no worries on that account. Based on the number of transactions closed in 2016, Marcus & Millichap came out on top for the second year in a row with 58 separate sales in the seniors housing and care market. This was down a bit from the 64 sales in 2015, but the entire market had a mild slowdown. Taking the number two spot for the second year in a row was Senior Living Investment Brokerage with 48 sales, also down from... Read More »

Two Assisted Living Sales Close in Florida

Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage is starting strong this year, selling three assisted living communities in two transactions for a combined $23 million. Partnering with Patrick Burke, Mr. Clousing first sold a 37-unit assisted living community in Martinsville, Virginia, a transaction that was a long time coming. In July 2015, the same selling partners sold the adjacent 300-bed skilled nursing facility for $28.5 million, or $95,000 per bed, in a sale/leaseback transaction to Omega Healthcare Investors. The long-term lease came with an initial yield of 9.25%. Awaiting TPA approval, the assisted living community eventually sold to Omega as well at a price of $7.5 million,... Read More »
Struggling skilled nursing facilities sell in Texas

Struggling skilled nursing facilities sell in Texas

We have seen a number of skilled nursing facilities sold this month that have seen better days, or at least hope to. The theme continued at the start of February, two SNF transactions in Texas were announced in succession involving struggling facilities. First up, The Ensign Group purchased a facility in San Antonio that was just 34% occupied. The campus, which features 124 skilled nursing and 17 assisted living beds, is subject to a long-term ground lease. There is some promise however, as the facility is adjacent to a 400-unit independent living community, a population for which it hopes to provide care and services. Ensign acquired both the real estate and operations, which it added to... Read More »

Southeast sale

Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a pair of senior living communities, one vacant and one well occupied, in the Southeast. First, in Ormond Beach, Florida, was a 36-unit purpose-built (but empty) memory care community. Despite that, the community was well maintained, and the buyer, citing strong occupancy of other communities in the area, intends to re-open it. And second, Mr. Clousing sold a 32-unit assisted living community in Prattville, Alabama. Historically well occupied, the community is located on a 4.5 acre site that allows for expansion of the physical plant. So there is opportunity at both locations for the undisclosed buyer. Read More »