• 60 Seconds with Swett: Navigating the Next Five Years in Seniors Housing M&A

    Are we entering the golden age of seniors housing? Next year, the first baby boomers will start turning 80, and with the current lack of new construction, occupancy rates are already rising before the real demographic wave hits. Many investors, both veterans and those new to our space, will feel pressure to grow their seniors housing holdings to... Read More »
  • Blackstone Sheds Another Asset from Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

    Blueprint handled a couple of sales in Florida and Nevada. The first in Florida involved a global private equity firm selling a 145-unit assisted living and memory care community in Boca Raton, Florida. Ben Firestone, Dillon Rudy and Jacob Ghel of Blueprint facilitated The Atrium at Boca Raton’s ownership transfer. The community presented certain... Read More »
  • CareTrust REIT Establishes SHOP Platform

    Three Texas seniors housing communities with 270 assisted living and memory care units were acquired by CareTrust REIT, Inc. The publicly traded REIT purchased the communities for $40 million, or $148,100 per unit. This marks the first investment of CareTrust’s SHOP platform. The communities were 86% occupied at the time of acquisition and will... Read More »
  • Ensign Grows Through Separate Transactions in Three States

    The Ensign Group, Inc. increased its portfolio through three separate acquisitions in Kansas, Arizona and Colorado. The publicly traded provider expanded its growing Midwest footprint through its Kansas acquisition of the real estate and operations of Willow Point Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a 45-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas... Read More »
  • Developer/Operator Divests to PE Firm

    A developer and operator sold Rivertown Ridge, a Class-A seniors housing community in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming, Michigan, to a private equity firm. This community, built in 2020, features 152 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, and has exhibited strong performance.  The seller, Redstone Homes, was... Read More »
Sabra and Sienna Senior Living Join Up In Canada

Sabra and Sienna Senior Living Join Up In Canada

Sienna Senior Living has announced a strategic joint venture with Sabra Health Care REIT to purchase a $243 million (C$307.5 million) portfolio of eleven private-pay retirement residences in Ontario and Saskatchewan. This will be Sienna’s first venture into the Saskatchewan retirement market, with four of the 11 properties located in the province. The other seven properties are in various cities in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, where Sienna already maintains properties. Extendicare Inc. is the seller, and the portfolio represents all of its currently owned private-pay retirement properties in Canada. Both Sienna and Sabra will have 50% ownership of the high-quality, entirely... Read More »
Greystone Rocks Georgia Deal

Greystone Rocks Georgia Deal

The Greystone Real Estate Advisors team of Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper recently represented a REIT owner in its sale of a 57-unit assisted living community in Marietta, Georgia. The community was considered to be a value-add opportunity for the new owner, a joint venture between an institutional investor and Surpass Senior Living. Built in 1998, it was on the older side in the overdeveloped Marietta market and could improve operationally. But, the new owner plans to invest some capital in the building to spruce it up. No purchase price was disclosed. The deal comes on the heels of two large closings for Greystone north of the border, including Chartwell Retirement Residences’ purchase of... Read More »
Public Companies Spring Into Action This June

Public Companies Spring Into Action This June

Public companies have made a statement so far in June, with a couple of REITs, one publicly traded operator and two foreign firms announcing acquisitions this week. First, across our border, Ontario-based Sienna Senior Living added one more Ontario retirement community to its portfolio. The 70-unit community in the town of Kingston sold for approximately $7.27 million, or $103,860 per unit. Then, across the Atlantic, Paris-based senior care operator Korian added about 1,000 beds, and eight long-term care/assisted living facilities, to its Belgium portfolio, which now numbers over 9,500 units. The Senior Assist group sold the facilities, five of which opened in the last 18 months. Now to... Read More »
Greystone goes to Freddie Mac

Greystone goes to Freddie Mac

Greystone provided more than $49.4 million in Freddie Mac loans to refinance two assisted living/memory care communities in Carmichael, California and Denver, Colorado. First, Oakmont Senior Living received a $25.15 million loan, with a 10-year fixed rate and 30-year amortization, for its newly constructed 71-unit AL/MC community in Carmichael. Then, Spectrum Retirement Communities obtained a $24.25 million loan to refinance its 97-unit AL/MC community in Denver. The Freddie Mac Capital Markets Execution loan carried a seven-year term and three years of interest-only. Scott Kavel and Cary Tremper led the way for Greystone on these transactions. Also from Greystone, Mike Garbers and Cody... Read More »
The thaw in Canada

The thaw in Canada

The Canadian senior care M&A market seems to have thawed this Spring, with a hefty acquisition. Sienna Senior Living paid CAD$255 million ($201.7 million) acquisition of eight retirement/senior care communities in British Columbia. Known as the Baltic properties (though certainly not a Monopoly reference due to their quality), the portfolio includes two private pay independent living communities and six senior care communities that include both long-term care and assisted living. Plus, Sienna purchased a 50% interest in Pacific Seniors Management General Partnership, the current manager of the Baltic properties, as well as options to acquire up to 100% of two newly built seniors... Read More »