• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... 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 »