Transactions & Financings: Blueprint Arranges Sale to Lloyd Jones; Cushman & Wakefield Arrange Pair of Financings

Financings Ziegler Closes $71 M for Virginia Community Ziegler announced the successful closing of $71 million Series 2022A and 2022B bonds for Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury (SVWC). SVWC is a nonprofit organization that operates a Westminster, Virginia-based life plan community with nearly 400 residents with 218 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 12 memory care […]

Transactions & Financings: JLL Facilitates Sale to Cogir; VIUM Closes $1.1B in Q2

Financings VIUM Capital Closes $1B in Q2 VIUM Capital, a senior housing and healthcare lender, announced that 2Q2022 was the most productive quarter in the company’s history with $1.1 billion in transactions. The active second quarter brings the total volume of deals to $1.4 billion over 44 loans including financing projects in 16 states. Columbus, […]

Transactions & Financings: Ziegler Closes $193M for 10th Largest Life Plan Community; Mission Senior Living Expands in New Mexico

Transactions The Green House Project and the Pioneer Network Team Up The Green House Project and Pioneer Network announced they would enter into a formal alliance with the goal of sparking cultural, organizational and physical change in senior living and senior care. The two brands share roots and have long worked together. The Pioneer Network […]

Transactions & Financings: Cushman & Wakefield Brokers PGIM-Revera JV; HumanGood Affiliates with Washington Provider

Earlier this month, PGIM Real Estate and Revera Communities affiliate Signature Senior Lifestyle announced a joint venture to develop and manage senior housing communities in the United Kingdom, focusing on submarkets in the greater London area with strong demographic demand. Earlier this week, global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) announced that […]

52% of Senior Housing Leaders Say Operating Expenses Will Be Permanently Higher

A majority of senior living professionals believe that the Covid-19 pandemic will result in permanently higher operating expenses. That’s according to the 2020 Seniors Housing Investor Sentiment Survey from National Real Estate Investor and the National Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). This year’s survey garnered responses from 167 participants from a range of […]

Transactions & Financings: Related Cos. JV Lands $276M; New Senior Completes $385M Portfolio Sale

New Senior completes $385M AL/MC Portfolio sale New Senior Investment Group (NYSE: SNR) completed the $385 million sale of its entire assisted living and memory care portfolio for a gross sale price of $385 million (the “Transaction”). Proceeds from the transaction, which was first announced last November, were used to reduce debt by approximately $360 […]

Movers & Shakers: New Ecumen CFO; Welltower Names Global Head of Senior Housing

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Transactions & Financings: Brookdale’s $160M Credit Facility; Westmont Living’s $58M Acquisition

The NIC Fall Conference is underway in Chicago and the deals are flowing like wine. Here are some recent transactions. Brookdale secures $160M credit facility Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) secured a $160.3 million credit facility for a five-community, 945-unit portfolio in Alabama, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. Brookdale has owned and operated the portfolio for […]

Transactions & Financings: Griffin-American’s $400 Million Credit Facility

Bank of America’s $400M Credit Facility for Griffin-American Healthcare REIT Griffin-American Healthcare REIT co-sponsors, Griffin Capital and American Healthcare Investors, announced that the REIT and certain of its subsidiaries have entered into a new credit facility totaling $400 million with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, KeyBank Capital Markets and Citizens Bank, National Association […]