• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Waypoint

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Waypoint

There’s a new entrant in the seniors housing industry. Real estate investment manager Waypoint Residential, predominantly focused on conventional multifamily and student housing, just made its first acquisition of a senior living community in the town of Starkville, Mississippi (home of Mississippi State University), for $22.7 million, or about $276,800 per unit. Developed in January 2016 by CR Properties, LLC and Blake Management Group, this community has 14 independent living, 43 assisted living and 25 memory care units. After already bringing occupancy to 100%, Blake Management Group will continue to manage the community. Josh Randolph of Colliers International represented the seller in... Read More »
Watercrest and Waypoint

Watercrest and Waypoint

With its latest seniors housing development in Georgia, Watercrest Senior Living Group is also adding a new partner to its growing roster of development/equity partners. Waypoint Residential, a real estate investment firm focused on multifamily and student housing, is making its debut in the seniors housing industry with this project. Expected to break ground next month and open in late Spring 2019, the community is one of Watercrest’s new prototypes (with at least two others like it to be built in Columbia and Bluffton, South Carolina) with 75 units of assisted living and 32 memory care units. It is located in Newnan, Georgia, which is about 20 miles southwest of Atlanta, and marks... Read More »