Transactions & Financings: Columbia Pacific’s $177M Canadian Portfolio Sale; New Senior’s $270M Refinancing

Columbia Pacific sells Canadian portfolio for $177M Columbia Pacific Advisors is selling a six-property Canadian senior housing portfolio to Singapore Press Holdings for $176.6 million (C$232.9 million). The properties total 717 units and include: Heritage Meadows Gracious Retirement Living, an independent living community in Cambridge, Ontario The Bradley Gracious Retirement Living, an independent living community […]

Welltower CEO: We Aim To Mimic High-End Senior Living at $1,000 Price Point

Real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL) made headlines last week with the official introduction of its new middle-market brand, welltowerLIVING. On Monday, Welltower CEO Tom DeRosa provided additional insight into how the plans for welltowerLIVING fit into a larger strategy to create senior living options for the vast cohort of aging middle-income baby boomers. […]

Frontier Brings New Hospitality, Memory Care Approaches to Fast-Growing Portfolio

Frontier Management hit an important milestone last year: its 100th community. While the Portland, Oregon-based senior living operator had been on an upward growth trajectory, its portfolio expanded rapidly last June with the addition of 20 memory care communities owned by real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and formerly operated by Silverado. Now — […]

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 […]

Welltower Launches welltowerLIVING Brand To Serve 55-Plus Market

Welltower (NYSE: WELL) is launching a new “senior apartment” housing brand called welltowerLIVING, geared toward wellness and social connectivity for the 55-plus crowd. The real estate investment trust (REIT) on Wednesday announced the launch of the product, which also will feature a lower price point than the traditional private-pay senior housing in Welltower’s portfolio. “This […]

Welltower To Sell Senior Living Portfolio For More Than $740 Million

Real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL) has reached a definitive agreement to sell a senior housing portfolio for more than $740 million. The Toledo, Ohio-based company announced the transaction in its Q4 and full-year 2019 earnings release on Wednesday, but did not disclose which operating company is involved. Welltower declined to provide further details […]

Related, Atria, Welltower, Spitzer Close on JV for Hudson Yards Highrise

Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and Atria Senior Living are involved in the mixed-use tower development by Related Companies and the real estate firm of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer near the Hudson Yards mega-redevelopment. Related, the New York-based real estate developer, announced the strategic partnership in a press release on Wednesday, February 5. In June […]

NHI CEO: Real Estate Investment Trusts Could Feel Buyer’s Remorse Over RIDEA

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) might soon feel “buyer’s remorse” over recent decisions to bulk up their senior housing operating portfolios, according to Eric Mendelsohn, CEO of National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI). In recent years, several factors drove some REITs to go big on RIDEA. With new supply, labor and other challenges squeezing their net […]

Welltower, Ensign Group Drive 2019 Long-Term Care M&A Activity

Interest in long-term care assets continued to lead health care merger and acquisition activity in 2019, although overall activity declined slightly amid growing uncertainty over the global economy, major health care policies and the 2020 elections. Notably, deal volume for long-term care assets, which includes assisted living, accounted for 34% of health care M&A activity […]