• Clarion Partners Expands in Nashville MSA

    Clarion Partners, an affiliate of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that Clarion Partners Real Estate Income Fund Inc. acquired Vitality Living Franklin, a 126-unit seniors housing community in Franklin, Tennessee (Nashville MSA). The community was built in 2014, renovated in 2023 and faced little new competition in the area. It was... Read More »
  • Regional Buyer Acquires Community Adjacent to Its SNF

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham recently sold a 42-unit assisted living community in Cashmere, Washington, near Wenatchee in the central part of the state. Epledalen Assisted Living was built in 1999 and was fully occupied, but its local owner/operator wished to exit the industry.... Read More »
  • National Healthcare Properties and Discovery Buy Large Portfolio

    In an off-market deal, National Healthcare Properties acquired a portfolio of 13 seniors housing communities in eight states through a joint venture with Discovery Senior Living. The new SHOP assets total 592 units of assisted living and will be placed under a RIDEA structure with Discovery, which has been managing and will continue to manage the... Read More »
  • Debtor Sells SNF at Auction

    Blueprint was engaged by the debtor and approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Eastern New York District to sell the real estate of a skilled nursing facility outside of Yakima, Washington. Arcadia Medical Resort of Parkside was built in 1972 and is licensed for 88 beds, providing long-term care, rehabilitation and therapy services. It is set... Read More »
  • Dwight Capital Buys HUD Mortgage Servicing Rights Portfolio

    Dwight Capital acquired Midland States Bank’s seniors housing HUD mortgage servicing rights portfolio, which includes loans secured by skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and hospitals. The portfolio totals over $500 million in unpaid principal balance from 69 loans across 22 states. Now, following the acquisition, the loan... Read More »
BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

As joint venture partners TH Real Estate (an affiliate of Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA) and LCS continue their acquisition activity, BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group got in on the action and arranged acquisition financing for two of the deals. First, the firm acted as sole lender for a $14.4 million term facility for a CCRC in Palm City, Florida with 225 independent living units, 20 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. They again acted as sold lender for another $12.3 million term facility arranged for a CCRC in Essex, Connecticut with 189 independent living units (including 13 cottages) and 45 skilled nursing beds. Read More »
CBRE Adds Another Bridge Lending Option

CBRE Adds Another Bridge Lending Option

Bridge loans are the hottest lending product for seniors housing and care right now (we’re actually hosting a webinar on that very subject next month), and CBRE Capital Markets is expanding its presence in that market with a large new vehicle aimed at providing more flexible short-term loans to seniors housing and multifamily borrowers. The program is called MF1 Capital, LLC and was structured as a mortgage REIT focused on providing equity to multifamily (about 75% of its business) and seniors housing (the remaining 25%) owners. CBRE’s strategic partners on the vehicle include multifamily real estate investment management firms Limekiln Real Estate and Berkshire Group. What sets this... Read More »
CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge

CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge

CBRE’s Aron Will has been on a roll lately, having just closed his fifth transaction in under a month. The latest helped fund the acquisition of four seniors housing communities in the Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana MSAs. They actually represent the stabilized properties within a seven-property portfolio acquisition (totaling 688 units) that CBRE also provided financing for. Totaling 360 units, of which 278 are dedicated to assisted living and the remainder to memory care, the stabilized portfolio has been third-party managed by LCS since 2015 and will continue to be. The buyer, a joint venture between LCS and TH Real Estate, the real estate private equity affiliate of... Read More »