• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased... Read More »
  • CareTrust’s Flurry of Acquisitions

    CareTrust REIT, Inc. closed a series of transactions totaling approximately $437 million in late October. In two separate deals, the REIT acquired 12 skilled nursing facilities and one skilled nursing campus located across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The combined portfolio includes approximately 1,760 licensed skilled nursing beds and... Read More »
  • Ensign Adds to Its Utah and Alabama Footprint

    The Ensign Group, Inc. kicked off November with a couple of new deals. The publicly traded company acquired the real estate and operations of the following seven Stonehedge skilled nursing facilities in Utah: Stonehenge of American Fork (90 beds in American Fork) Stonehenge of Cedar City (50 beds in Cedar City) Stonehenge of Ogden (52 beds in... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

    A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term... Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

    A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19... Read More »
Greystone Closes Two Freddie Mac Financings

Greystone Closes Two Freddie Mac Financings

Greystone ended October with a couple of varied transactions. First, Cary Tremper facilitated a Freddie Mac $43.98 million loan to support the acquisition of a 207-unit senior living community in Daly City, California (San Francisco MSA). The loan was originated on behalf of the borrower, Senior Resource Group and Welltower. Built between 2008 and 2011, the community has been managed by SRG since 2012. It offers independent living and assisted living units. Then, if seniors housing has an affordability problem, then maybe age-restricted manufactured housing communities are part of the solution. To that end, Greystone arranged a $33.7 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance one of those... Read More »
Dubai-Based Private Equity Invests in U.S. Seniors Housing

Dubai-Based Private Equity Invests in U.S. Seniors Housing

A Dubai-based private equity firm jumped into the senior living market in a big way, acquiring a group of six properties for a total purchase price over $180 million. GFH Capital, a subsidiary of GFH Financial Group, will own 91% of the portfolio, while a Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment firm, Madison Marquette, is acquiring another 6%. Two of the three operating partners GFH has selected to manage the communities, JEA Senior Living, Senior Resource Group and Independence Village, have also each co-invested in their respective properties. The acquired portfolio is geographically spread out in California, Washington and Michigan, and is currently 93% occupied, on average,... Read More »
Hunt Real Estate Capital Rises in Phoenix

Hunt Real Estate Capital Rises in Phoenix

Nearly a year on from its departure from RED Capital Group, the Kathryn Burton Gray-led team at Hunt Real Estate Capital closed a $7.0 million bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a 44-unit memory care community in Phoenix, Arizona. Brady Johnson originated the deal, with help from Ms. Burton Gray and Michael Jones, working on behalf of the joint venture buyer that consisted of CALCAP Real Estate Advisors, a California-based real estate investment firm, and Greg Roderick, President and CEO of Frontier Management. This is CALCAP’s first foray into seniors housing, and they will certainly benefit from Mr. Roderick’s operating experience. Built in 2000 but renovated in 2016, the community... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Seniors Housing Sales

Blueprint Closes Seniors Housing Sales

Coming off an incredibly strong 2018 in M&A (particularly on the skilled nursing side), Jacob Gehl and Scott Frazier of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced an assisted living sale in Northern California. The pair represented the single-asset owner/operator that was based in California but was looking to exit the industry. The 145-bed community in Lodi currently features no memory care, but the incoming owner and operator are looking to change that, in addition to implementing some substantial renovations. Atlantis Senior Living and a Northern California-based operator teamed up to acquire the community for an undisclosed price. Mr. Gehl was also involved in the sale of... Read More »

Sacramento sale

A joint venture between Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I, LP, Aviva Investors Americas LLC, and Senior Resource Group, LLC, recently acquired an independent/assisted living portfolio of three communities in Sacramento, California. Consisting of 257 total units, the communities were 95% occupied and located in a high barrier-to-entry market. Two of the properties are adjacent to each other, creating a continuum of care campus. The local owner/operator seller transitioned management over to Senior Resource Group, which already operates 17 communities in the state. Read More »