• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Jason Dopoulos of Lancaster Pollard secured construction financing through HUD on behalf of Sunshine Retirement Living to expand its presence in southern California. Already with two senior living communities in the San Diego area, the Oregon-based Sunshine, along with Welbrook Senior Living, is working on building its first in the Los Angeles MSA. The Fountain Valley community will feature 106 assisted living and 39 memory care units when it opens in 2020. Situated about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles, it is also ideally located next to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, which certainly adds to the property’s appeal. With its low interest rate, the $36 million HUD loan should help... Read More »
Coast-To-Coast Closings From CBRE

Coast-To-Coast Closings From CBRE

Aron Will of CBRE continued his recent run of activity with two more transactions. Up first was a bank financing arranged on behalf of a joint venture between Bourne Financial Group and HRA Senior Living to refinance their newly-built 96-unit assisted living/memory care community in Wilmington, Delaware. The high-quality community boasts an upscale salon and spa, as well as a bocce court, yoga and fitness studios. It’s also located near two large shopping centers. CBRE secured a $25.5 million, five-year non-recourse loan with 36 months of interest only shortly after the property received its certificate of occupancy. Estimated lease-up figures in the affluent area must have been... Read More »

New player in transitional care

It may sound odd to talk about a robust development pipeline of transitional care facilities and not focus on Mainstreet, which has dominated the market with plans to invest up to $5 billion in the next five years. Nevertheless, a new entrant to the transitional care market, National Healthcare Realty (NHR), is setting out to build 20 facilities in the next three years as the preferred developer for Welbrook Senior Living (not to be confused with Mainstreet’s “Wellbrooke” brand of facilities). Led by Mark Wimer, formerly of Kindred Healthcare and Sun Healthcare Group, Welbrook currently has six facilities located in California, Nevada and Utah, while also self-developing two more... Read More »