Woodmont Properties Taps Industry Veteran To Launch Senior Housing Pipeline

A growing number of multifamily real estate developers are entering the senior housing space, encouraged by demographic trends showing an explosion in the 85-plus generation over the coming decades. Among the latest is Woodmont Properties. The Fairfield, New Jersey-based firm recently launched a senior housing division and tapped industry veteran Stephen Nichols to lead it. […]

Transactions & Financings: Welltower’s $3 Billion Revolving Credit Facility

Welltower Secures $3 Billion Revolving Credit Facility Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) recently entered into a credit agreement that consists of a $3 billion unsecured revolving credit facility, a $500 million unsecured term credit facility and a CAD 250 million unsecured term credit facility. The Toledo, Ohio-based health care real estate investment trust (REIT) reached the […]

Brookdale CEO: Senior Housing Portfolio Should Be 20% Smaller Within 3 Years

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) is continuing to make headway with its real estate investment trust (REIT) partners as it shrinks its portfolio and re-balances from leased properties toward owned assets. Brentwood, Tennessee-based Brookdale is the nation’s largest senior housing company, with a total portfolio of about 1,010 communities. The goal is to reduce that […]

Transactions & Financings: HFF, Summit Senior Living, Capital One

HFF Advises on $115 Million Financing for Seattle Senior Housing Development Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) has advised Columbia Pacific Advisors on the $114.69 million financing for a luxury, high-rise senior housing property in Seattle. The 24-story property—620 Terry—will offer 243 Class A residential units comprising 194 independent living units, 21 assisted living units and 28 […]

HCP Bullish on Portfolio with New Operators, Less Brookdale

HCP, Inc. (NYSE: HCP) has come a long way from the company it was a few years ago. “By all measures, 2017 was a pivotal year in our transformation of HCP,” Thomas Herzog, president and CEO of the Irvine, California-based real estate investment trust (REIT), said during the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 earnings call […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Chevalier, Columbia Pacific Advisors

CBRE Arranges $6.8 Million Sale of California Seniors Housing Community CBRE, a large commercial real estate and investment firm, brokered the sale of Williams Senior Apartments, a 28-unit age-restricted senior housing community in Brea, California. Restoration Enhancement acquired the property from a private seller for $6.8 million. Chevalier International Holdings, Ltd. Acquires Two Detroit-Area Senior Living […]

Long-Term Care Megadeals Boost Health Industry M&A

The U.S. health services industry saw an “unusually high number of megadeals” in the second quarter of 2017—some of which took place in the long-term care sub-sector, according to data published by audit, assurance, tax and consulting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). Overall, 219 deals occurred throughout the health services industry in the second quarter, totaling to […]