• 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 »
Seattle sale

Seattle sale

Capitol Seniors Housing’s second investment in the Seattle MSA was financed with the help of Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing, who arranged a $20.12 million non-recourse, floating rate loan with a five-year term and 36-months of interest-only, provided by a national bank. The acquired community is located in the town of Mukilteo, Washington and features 107 units of about half independent and half assisted living. It was built in phases in 2000 and 2004, and occupancy has been between 86% and 90% in 2015. On a trailing-12 month basis, the community generated about $2 million of EBITDA on approximately $4.8 million of revenues, for an operating margin of 42%. Capitol Seniors... Read More »

Supportive Living sells

Looking to expand their portfolio of supportive living facilities (SLFs) in Illinois, a private owner bought four SLFs (three in the Chicago area and one in Rockford) with 539 total beds for $49 million, or $90,900 per bed, with a 9.4% cap rate. Occupancy ranged 54% at one facility to 93% at another, with the average settling at 75%. And all of the facilities were built in the mid-2000s with an average of 67,000 square feet. Operationally, they were running well (at a 31% margin on $14.7 million of revenues), but the private owner seller wanted to exit the business. Ryan Saul and Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Read More »

SLIB’s strong 2015

Senior Living Investment Brokerage ended an already strong 2015 with eight more announced transactions, totaling over $47 million. All told, there were four skilled nursing sales, with a total of 420 beds in those transactions, located across the country in Chicago, Illinois, rural Vermont, north-central Texas and Sioux City, Iowa. Matthew Alley and Toby Siefert handled two of those sales, while Ryan Saul handled the other two, with an assist from Jeff Binder in Iowa. On the seniors housing side, the firm closed four other transactions, with a total of approximately 500 units. Matthew Alley, Toby Siefert, Brad Clousing, Patrick Burke and Ryan Saul were each involved in at least one of the... Read More »

Alley at work

Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage recently closed two transactions, both featuring potential turnaround opportunities. First, Mr. Alley handled the sale of a 62-bed skilled nursing facility in Poteet, Texas for $850,000, or $13,700 per bed. Built in 1964, the facility was just 48% occupied, and only 49 of its total beds were dually certified. On top of that, it operated at a 0.99% margin on $1.38 million of revenues. So there is room for improvement for the buyer, a private Texas-based owner/operator looking to expand in South Texas (this asset is located over 35 miles from the San Antonio area). Next, together with Toby Siefert, Mr. Alley facilitated the sale of two... Read More »

Get while the going’s good

In the last year, we have heard of many single-asset owner/operators suddenly getting the bug to retire. And who wouldn’t? While pricing may have peaked at the end of last year and beginning of 2015, per bed values are still high and cap rates may continue to sink even further. So when the owners of a family-owned business reached retirement age, they decided to sell their 106-bed skilled nursing facility in Oswego, Illinois for $13.37 million, or $126,200 per bed. Originally built in 1972, with a 16-bed addition in 1985 and an interior renovation in 2009, the skilled nursing facility was 93% occupied on 100 functional beds. Also included at the facility were a rehab company, in-house... Read More »