• Sonida Closes CNL Acquisition, Reports Q4 Results

    On the same day as fourth quarter and year-end 2025 financial results were announced, Sonida Senior Living closed on its previously announced acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties (CNL). The transaction value was approximately $1.8 billion and included a combination of cash (32%) and stock (68%). Because Sonida’s share price had risen above... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Struggling Las Vegas AL/MC Asset

    A Utah-based investor is taking on a seniors housing community located in a strong MSA but that was 40% occupied and losing money. Amy Sitzman and Jake Rice of Blueprint were brought on to handle the seller’s divestment, with the turnaround opportunity generating strong investor interest. Ultimately, six competitive offers were received from a... Read More »
  • 12 Oaks Senior Living Expands Its Management Portfolio

    12 Oaks Senior Living has expanded its senior living portfolio, re-entering the Baytown, Texas, market (Houston MSA), after being brought on by an investor to manage The Lodge at Pine Creek. This marks the second community the operator will manage on behalf of the buyer.  Built in 2021, the property includes 10 independent living cottages... Read More »
  • GEM Realty Closes an Acquisition in South Carolina

    The Caliborne at Brickyard Crossing, a Class-A seniors housing community in South Carolina, traded hands with the help of acquisition financing secured by BWE. Taylor Mokris and Ryan Stoll of BWE served as exclusive financial advisor to the buyer, GEM Realty Capital, running a competitive process that sourced numerous quotes. Financing was... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Long Island Assisted Living Deal

    A seniors housing campus on Long Island’s North Shore recently sold with the help of Dave Balow and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The campus comprises Oyster Bay Manor, an assisted living community built in 1984, and Harbor House, a memory care community opened in 2001. Harbor House was the first of its kind to serve... 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 »