• 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 »

Summit Healthcare buys at peak pricing

We write in the September issue of The SeniorCare Investor that after a four-year surge, skilled nursing valuations may be at a peak. We give many reasons why the sector is currently valued so high (rightfully so) but also why it probably won’t rise any higher. But in the meantime, high-valued deals are still closing, including Summit Healthcare REIT’s acquisition of an interest in two Delaware skilled nursing facilities for a total purchase price of $54.1 million, or $162,952 per bed. The REIT made the acquisition through a joint venture between its wholly owned subsidiary, Summit Healthcare Operating Partnership, LP and Best Years, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese... Read More »

LTC Expands with Thrive

LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) expanded its relationship with Thrive Senior Living, acquiring and then leasing another property to the Atlanta-based operator for $14.3 million, or $204,286 per unit. Receiving its Certificate of Occupancy in May 2016, the community in Athens, Georgia was actually developed by a joint venture between Thrive, Paragon Real Estate and Summit Healthcare REIT. It features 50 assisted living and 20 memory care all-private pay units, and was added to an existing master lease agreement at an initial incremental yield of 8.0%. This expands LTC’s relationship with Thrive to three communities, with two additional development projects expected to open by the end of... Read More »

Four Green Bay-area properties sold

Jacob Gehl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors led the sale of a portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities in Wisconsin for $18.35 million, or $146,800 per unit, with an 8.7% cap rate. Included in the portfolio were three properties in Green Bay, including a 20-unit stand-alone memory care community, and one in Appleton. Combined occupancy stood at 92% at the time of the sale, and the portfolio generated approximately $1.6 million in trailing EBITDAR on an annualized basis. Senior Housing and Healthcare Capital was the seller, while Summit Healthcare REIT was the buyer, which will lease the properties for a 12-year term to an affiliate of Compass Senior Living, an... Read More »