Transactions & Financings: Ensign Buys Two Communities in Texas

The Ensign Group Acquires Two Texas Assisted Living Facilities The Ensign Group, Inc., parent company of the Ensign group of skilled nursing, rehabilitative care services, home health care, hospice care and assisted living companies, has announced that its assisted and independent living portfolio company acquired the real estate and operations of two 37-unit AL facilities […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Fortis Files for Receivership

Fortis Management Group Files for Receivership Fortis Management Group filed for receivership in an agreement with its landlords, the company revealed on July 12. The Milwaukee-based management company operates 60 skilled nursing facilities and five independent and assisted living communities throughout Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Read the full story on Skilled Nursing […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV

Griffin-American Acquires Five-Building Portfolio Near St. Louis American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Company, the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, acquired the five-building SW Illinois Senior Housing Portfolio in the St. Louis metro area. The property was purchased from A&M Property Holding, an unaffiliated third party represented by Jeff Binder and Patrick Byrne of Senior Living Investment […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Benchmark Senior Living

Benchmark Senior Living Buys CCRC Near Boston A continuing care retirement community (CCRC) near Boston has a new owner. Benchmark Senior Living, which is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, acquired New Pond Village, a 199-unit senior living community in Walpole, Massachusetts. National real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield negotiated the sale. New Pond Village is an 199-unit entrance-fee CCRC that […]

Monday Jump-Start: Brookdale Sale Talks Ongoing

Happy Monday! It’s a busy time in the senior housing industry as public companies begin to share their latest financial results. It’s also a busy time in “funny hat” news, due in part to one half of an athletic elderly couple. Here’s what you may have missed last week: HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) is on […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Care Capital Properties

Care Capital Properties to Acquire $400 Million Behavioral Health Portfolio Care Capital Properties, Inc. (NYSE: CCP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire six behavoiral health hospitals in a sale-leaseback transaction for $400 million and to fund up to $50 million in capital expenditures to finance expansion and improvements in the portfolio. The properties […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: HCP Completes $1.125 Billion Brookdale Sale

HCP Completes $1.125 Billion Sale of Brookdale Portfolio Healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) HCP (NYSE: HCP) completed the previously-announced sale of a portfolio of 64 triple-net assets leased to Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. (NYSE: BKD) to affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII L.P. in a deal worth $1.125 billion. HCP expects to record a […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Blackstone Deals

Blackstone Buys Florida Properties for $155 Million Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) purchased four senior living communities from Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) in South Florida for a combined $154.7 million. The acquisitions are part of a previously announced $1.13 billion deal between Blackstone and Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD). The transactions include: Mangrove Bay, a 155-unit complex […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: CareTrust REIT, NHI

Texas Investors Buy $185 million SNF Portfolio Dallas businessmen Chuck Putnam and Donald Kivowitz have purchased a portfolio of 10 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Maryland and Pennsylvania for $185 million. The portfolio includes approximately 1,297 beds total. The transaction was financed by a syndication led by Bank of Texas, an affiliate of BOK Financial […]