• 60 Seconds with Swett: Navigating the Next Five Years in Seniors Housing M&A

    Are we entering the golden age of seniors housing? Next year, the first baby boomers will start turning 80, and with the current lack of new construction, occupancy rates are already rising before the real demographic wave hits. Many investors, both veterans and those new to our space, will feel pressure to grow their seniors housing holdings to... Read More »
  • Blackstone Sheds Another Asset from Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

    Blueprint handled a couple of sales in Florida and Nevada. The first in Florida involved a global private equity firm selling a 145-unit assisted living and memory care community in Boca Raton, Florida. Ben Firestone, Dillon Rudy and Jacob Ghel of Blueprint facilitated The Atrium at Boca Raton’s ownership transfer. The community presented certain... Read More »
  • CareTrust REIT Establishes SHOP Platform

    Three Texas seniors housing communities with 270 assisted living and memory care units were acquired by CareTrust REIT, Inc. The publicly traded REIT purchased the communities for $40 million, or $148,100 per unit. This marks the first investment of CareTrust’s SHOP platform. The communities were 86% occupied at the time of acquisition and will... Read More »
  • Ensign Grows Through Separate Transactions in Three States

    The Ensign Group, Inc. increased its portfolio through three separate acquisitions in Kansas, Arizona and Colorado. The publicly traded provider expanded its growing Midwest footprint through its Kansas acquisition of the real estate and operations of Willow Point Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a 45-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas... Read More »
  • Developer/Operator Divests to PE Firm

    A developer and operator sold Rivertown Ridge, a Class-A seniors housing community in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming, Michigan, to a private equity firm. This community, built in 2020, features 152 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, and has exhibited strong performance.  The seller, Redstone Homes, was... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Refinance & Partnership Buyout in Wisconsin

Ziegler Secures Refinance & Partnership Buyout in Wisconsin

Ziegler’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice has successfully closed the refinance and partnership buyout of a family-owned post-acute care provider in southeastern Wisconsin. Eskay Real Estate 2020, Inc. (Eskay) owns and operates two campuses in the towns of Union Grove and Lomira, providing both skilled nursing and assisted living services at each location. The properties held two SBA loans, which Eskay wished to refinance, and one of the partners also chose to divest his majority interest in the company.  In comes Ziegler, which refinanced the loans with $9.557 million of HUD debt. Proceeds from the permanent debt allowed Eskay’s CEO,... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Bond Closing For Ohio Not-For-Profit

Ziegler Secures Bond Closing For Ohio Not-For-Profit

The Ziegler team closed a bond issuance for Community First Solutions to fund an expansion and capital improvements project across its senior living operations in Ohio. A not-for-profit company operating in Butler County, Community First Solutions (CFS) operates two CCRCs and a post-acute rehabilitation center in Hamilton, Ohio, plus an array of behavioral health services, pharmacy services, meal delivery service and other community-based supports in the state.   There were a number of individual bank notes that had various rates and maturities across CFS’ operation, so Ziegler consolidated that debt by issuing two series of bonds through the Butler County Port Authority, including $15.31... Read More »
Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing For CCRC Expansion

Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing For CCRC Expansion

Ziegler placed and closed a $38 million revenue bond series for Christian Retirement Homes to finance an expansion of its CCRC campus in Lincoln, Nebraska. Opened in 1968, the not-for-profit community has grown over the years to now include 121 independent living units, 53 assisted living units and 22 skilled nursing beds in four residential buildings. In 2017, Transforming Age affiliated with the not-for-profit to provide governance, management and financial support of the campus.   Management decided to expand with a new four-story building that will house 50 independent living units. Plus, they wanted to convert 10 assisted living units into five penthouse independent living units.... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Nine-Figure Refi

Ziegler Closes Nine-Figure Refi

Investment banking firm Ziegler closed a $114.82 million tax-exempt refinancing for Springpoint Senior Living, a major regional not-for-profit provider based in New Jersey. Springpoint operates eight CCRCs (LPCs) in New Jersey and Delaware, 19 affordable housing communities, a home care agency and a continuing care at home program.  Springpoint formed a new obligated group for this refinancing, which consists of the corporate entity plus the six CCRCs in New Jersey. The new financing repaid outstanding debt and also reimbursed the obligated group for $25 million in recent capital expenditures. The $114.82 million bond issue was rated BBB+... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Bond Refinance for Adventist Healthcare

Ziegler Secures Bond Refinance for Adventist Healthcare

Utilizing a relationship stretching back nearly two decades, not-for-profit Adventist Healthcare worked with the team at Ziegler to refinance its outstanding bonds. Issued through the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities, the transaction consisted of $18.725 million in fixed-rate bonds and another fixed-rate bond issue of $48.12 million with a delivery date in October 2021. Proceeds of this financing will be used to current refund the Series 2014A bonds, forward refund the Series 2011A bonds, and pay costs of issuance. Adventist HealthCare, which operates three acute care hospitals, a behavioral/psychiatric hospital, and a rehabilitation hospital, was also able to achieve... Read More »