• WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

    Sonida Senior Living just announced what can only be described as a transformational acquisition. Since new management came in, CEO Brandon Ribar and CFO Kevin Detz, Sonida has been on an upward path of improved operations and a balance sheet that has grown stronger. Occupancy has been increasing (87.7% in Q3) and NOI and EBITDA are rising. Spot... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

    We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this... Read More »
  • Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

    Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

    Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

    LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges Atlanta Active Adult Acquisition

Walker & Dunlop Arranges Atlanta Active Adult Acquisition

Walker & Dunlop Investment Sales arranged the sale of a class-A active adult community in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. The W&D Seniors Housing team including Jordyn Berger and Joshua Jandris, as well as the W&D Atlanta Multifamily Team including Kris Mikkelsen, Pat Jones and Chris Goldsmith, collaborated on the transaction. Just built in 2020, Everleigh Halcyon Village features 160 units on 1.9 acres. It includes one-bedroom units with 848 square feet and two-bedroom units with 1,195 square feet.   The community is integrated within the mixed-use village, Halcyon, which has over 535,000 square feet of office and retail space and over 100 single-family homes selling at between... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Hire Dedicated Housing Expert in Southern California

Walker & Dunlop Hire Dedicated Housing Expert in Southern California

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. has hired Gideon Orion as Managing Director on its investment sales platform. Most recently working for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, Mr. Orion is based in Los Angeles and will join the firm’s national seniors housing property sales team led by Managing Director Joshua Jandris. Mr. Orion will be focused on originating and executing seniors housing property sales opportunities across the United States.  He has a strong track record and brings additional skill to Walker & Dunlop’s seniors housing sales team, in addition to expanding the firm’s existing footprint in Southern California. In fact, Mr. Orion represents the first dedicated... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Provide Funds to SNF Portfolios Struggling During COVID

Walker & Dunlop Provide Funds to SNF Portfolios Struggling During COVID

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced that it structured a little over $77 million in financing for two skilled nursing portfolios totaling ten properties and 848 units. The Cascades Portfolio, located throughout Utah, totals seven properties and 693 units. The Rollins-Nelson Portfolio includes three properties and 155 units located in Englewood, Long Beach, and Perris, California. Walker & Dunlop’s Kevin Giusti, Brian Neal, and Andrew Westling arranged financing from HUD, a regional bank and a finance company to provide for the Cascades portfolio. For the Rollins-Nelson portfolio, the team refinanced the existing HUD loan, capitalizing on a low interest rate and extending the term... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Facilitates Refinancing of Six Illinois SNFs

Walker & Dunlop Facilitates Refinancing of Six Illinois SNFs

Walker & Dunlop recently announced a $43.2 million refinancing for six skilled nursing facilities located across Illinois: Aperion Care Bridgeport, Aperion Care Burbank, Aperion Care Dekalb, Aperion Care Litchfield, Aperion Care Wilmington, and Rock River Health Care. Totaling 640 beds across 277 units, the portfolio received HUD financing, with Aperion Care Dekalb also transferring its physical assets through Walker & Dunlop. AC Bridgeport received $3.88 million, AC Burbank received $6.88 million, AC Dekalb received $6.28 million, AC Litchfield received $3.55 million, AC Wilmington received $16.24 million and Rock River Health Care received $6.4 million.  Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Advise Joint Venture on Construction Financing

Walker & Dunlop Advise Joint Venture on Construction Financing

Walker & Dunlop has advised an equity partnership on a $300 million construction financing arranged by Huntington National Bank for a luxury life plan community in Tysons, Virginia.  Tysons LPC, LLC is a 50/50 partnership between Mather Investments and Westminster Capital. It will own the to-be-built CCRC entitled The Mather — a two-building project consisting of 300 independent living apartments, 60 assisted living apartments, 20 memory care suites and 42 skilled nursing suites. The community will be completed in two phases, with the first phase expected to open in early 2024.  The Mather has been designed for transit accessibility, a walking lifestyle and environmental... Read More »