• ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
  • Optimism across the Board in BBG’s Investor Survey Results

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee, Senior Managing Director – Seniors Housing & Healthcare National Practice Leader of BBG Real Estate Services, to discuss the biggest takeaways of BBG’s fifth Annual Investor Survey. Read More »
  • Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

    Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Detroit-Area Deal

    Berkadia closed the sale of Oakleigh of Macomb, an 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Macomb, Michigan (Detroit MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 55 assisted living and 30 memory care units. It was 91% occupied, so given its vintage and performance, we imagine it attracted significant investor interest. Berkadia represented the... Read More »
  • Developer Divests MC Communities to Kalesta Healthcare

    G Capital helped facilitate the sale of two memory care communities in Silicon Valley in an off-market transaction. Calson Management, a developer/operator based in Vacaville, California, had acquired Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park and Crescent Oaks Memory Care in Sunnyvale several years ago as value-add opportunities. The firm... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Finances Arcapita-Owned Assisted Living Communities

Walker & Dunlop Finances Arcapita-Owned Assisted Living Communities

Just over three years since buying three assisted living communities in Colorado, Middle East-based alternative investment fund manager Arcapita is refinancing them with the help of the team of Stuart Wernick, Jeff Ringwald and Bill Jackson of Walker & Dunlop. Operated by MorningStar Senior Living since opening in 2013 and 2014, the communities were nearly stabilized when they were acquired in December 2015 for a combined $79.5 million, or just over $400,000 per unit. Two of the communities feature a combination of assisted living and memory care units in Colorado Springs and Centennial, and the third property (also in Colorado Springs) serves exclusively memory care residents. In all,... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta

Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta

The Walker & Dunlop team of Kevin Giusti, Michael Davis and Jeff Ringwald ran the agency gamut this month, closing one Freddie Mac, one Fannie Mae and one HUD loan, all totaling $42.6 million. W&D started with a $13.5 million refinance closed through Freddie Mac for a brand-new, 52-unit memory care community in Springfield, Oregon. The borrower, Onelife Investments was able to recapitalize 100% of its equity and obtained a 15-year loan with a fixed rate. Next, another recently-built senior living community refinanced with Fannie Mae, thanks to the Walker & Dunlop team. Operated by Avista Senior Living, the 108-unit assisted living community opened in 2017 within a larger active... Read More »
Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

No stranger to big senior living projects, Big Rock Partners (BRP) announced it will be building its second senior living community in Palm Beach County, Florida, at an estimated cost of $150 million, or over $530,000 per unit. BRP kicked it off with the $9 million acquisition of a 15-acre site in Delray Beach, where it will build 185 independent living, 50 assisted living and 44 memory care units. LCS will operate the community upon completion in 2021. Trez Forman Capital financed the land acquisition, and Al Rex of Walker & Dunlop is the project’s financing advisor. Last year, BRP opened a 320-unit community in Lake Worth at a cost of $106 million, which means the company’s total... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Closes Five HUD Financings

Walker & Dunlop Closes Five HUD Financings

Working on behalf of Saber Healthcare Group and Regency Senior Living, Kevin Giusti of Walker & Dunlop went through HUD to arrange five financings for five separate senior care properties located in three states. The transactions include a $14.5 million financing for a senior living community in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, $12 million for an assisted living/memory care community in Morristown, Tennessee, and three loans totaling $13.65 million for three properties in Ohio. One of the properties with existing short-term bank and agency debt was able to refinance into a single loan that also funds a planned 16-unit addition. Read More »
Big Rock Partners Opens Second Senior Living Community

Big Rock Partners Opens Second Senior Living Community

Big Rock Partners had cause for celebration this week, as its second senior living development opened in Florida, at a total cost of $82 million, or $343,000 per unit. Situated on nine acres (purchased in 2014 with the help of a $4.5 million loan from Sabra Health Care REIT) in the Walt Disney Company-developed master planned community of Celebration (Orlando MSA), the community features 151 independent living units, 55 assisted living units and 33 memory care units. Life Care Services operates the campus, which not only is pet-friendly, but comes with a host of amenities such as gourmet dining venues, a high-end cinema, indoor aquatic center and a rooftop bar, among others. Adventist... Read More »