Transactions and Financings: IRA Capital Acquires 140-Unit Community; Ziegler Closes on $76.9M Bond Series for LPC 

Acquisitions IRA Capital acquires $41M, 140-unit community IRA Capital, a private equity firm, announced that on Dec. 21 it had acquired the 140-unit San Clemente Villas by the Sea. According to a press release, the acquisition cost $41 million, and IRA Capital plans to invest additional capital to “elevate the senior living experience” at the […]

Transactions & Financings: SLIB Announces Handful of Deals, Ziegler Closes $24M for Eliza Jennings Refinance

Sales SLIB Aids in Sale of Georgia AL Community Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) announced its role in the sale of an Atlanta-area assisted living community. The community, called Laurel Lodge Assisted Living, includes 72 units in Cleveland, Georgia, which is located about 90 miles northeast of Atlanta. Laurel Lodge was at 100% occupancy at […]

Transactions: CIT Finds $34 Million for AZ Senior Community; Ziegler Prices Ohio Living Bonds

Financings Regions closes on $21 million for construction The healthcare real estate team of Regions Bank closed on a loan for more than $21.7 million at approximately $271,000 for new construction. The loan will build an 80-unit community located in Los Angeles County. The borrowers are a joint venture that includes a developer/owner, a partner/operator, […]

Transactions & Financings: Pennant Group Expands Credit Facility; Springpoint’s $115M Refinancing

The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) gave itself more financial flexibility a year into the coronavirus pandemic. The Eagle, Idaho-based company amended its revolving credit facility to $150 million, of which only $18.3 million was drawn as of February 22. Coupled with strong cash flow, expands Pennant’s ability to opportunistically target senior housing, home health and […]

Evans Senior Investments, Carnegie Capital Launch Brokerage JV for Senior Housing

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) and Carnegie Capital on Monday announced a joint venture aimed at expanding business solutions for clients in the senior housing capital markets and acquisitions landscape still disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The venture gives ESI, a sell-side brokerage with offices in Chicago and Denver, access to a wider range of lenders […]

Transactions & Financings: Brookdale Turns Over Operations of 4 Communities; JLL Completes $19M Sale

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) is making progress on its ongoing portfolio optimization initiative. The largest senior housing provider in the U.S. recently exited management arrangements on four communities in California. Dallas-based Pegasus Senior Living assumed management of two communities in suburban Sacramento, which were rebranded as Elk Grove Park, in Elk Grove; and Sterling […]

Transactions & Financings: Ziegler’s $122M Financing Deal Volume; Randall Residence Adds Ohio Community

Sales and operator transitions Livingston Street Capital affiliate acquires Maryland active adult community An affiliate of Livingston Street Capital has acquired Alta at Regency Crest, a 150-unit, 55-plus active adult community in Ellicott City, Maryland. This is Livingston Street’s fourth recent active adult acquisition. Previously, the firm purchased two communities in Utica and Albany, New […]

Senior Living Deals Face ‘Real Issue with Debt,’ Longer Timelines, Stiffer Requirements

Senior housing capital markets remain unstable, four months after the coronavirus pandemic. But they are no longer in a state of “peak volatility.” Debt and equity lenders are returning to the space, but debt lenders in particular are slower to announce their presence, quick to retreat back to the sidelines, and are extremely cautious with […]

Transactions & Financings: ‘Big 3’ REITs in Fed’s Bond Buying Program; Ziegler’s $278M Deal Volume

Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program includes Welltower, Ventas, Healthpeak Welltower (NYSE: WELL), Ventas (NYSE: VTR) and Healthpeak Properties (NYSE: PEAK) are among the real estate investment trusts receiving funding as part of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), The Real Deal reported. The program, established as part of the […]

Sabra, TPG Sell 8-Property Enlivant Portfolio in Pacific Northwest

A joint venture of Sabra Health Care REIT (Nasdaq: SBRA) and private equity firm TPG completed a sale of eight senior housing communities totaling 321 units in Oregon and Washington state to an Arizona-based private investor making its first senior housing acquisition. These communities were operated by Enlivant and were underperforming, Sabra CEO Rick Matros […]