• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... 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 »