MOORESTOWN, N.J. — Private equity investment firm Tryko Partners has acquired Lutheran Crossings at Moorestown, a seniors housing community in Moorestown, an eastern suburb of Philadelphia. Situated on 14 acres, the property features 201 beds of skilled nursing and a 63-unit assisted living campus. The new ownership will implement a two-phase, $12 million capital improvement campaign and will rebrand the property as Cambridge Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and Cambridge Enhanced Senior Living. Immediate improvements, valued at approximately $4 million, will include the modernization and reintroduction of two units housing 81 skilled nursing beds. Further improvements will include the incorporation of a therapy gym, renovations to the facility’s lobby and common areas and upgrades to mechanical systems and roofs. Marquis Health Services, Tryko Partners’ healthcare affiliate, will manage the community. The sales price was undisclosed.
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GILBERT, ARIZ. — Green Courte Partners has acquired The Aspens at Mariposa Point, a 202-unit seniors housing property in Gilbert, just southeast of Phoenix. The price was not disclosed. Despite only being opened last month, the new owner will convert the active adult community into full-service independent living. The conversion project will include expanding the dining area, modifying the existing kitchen and adding a third-party-operated home health office. Green Courte’s wholly owned operator True Connection Communities will manage the property. Green Courte made the acquisition through its fourth investment fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners IV. It is the investor’s 11th senior living community.
LOS ANGELES — Seniors housing development costs are expected to rise modestly in 2020, with labor and land the primary drivers of higher expenditure, according to research from Los Angeles-based CBRE. Total cost for a seniors housing development rose by 6.4 percent in 2019 to an average of $317 per square foot. Average returns (stabilized net operating income as a percentage of overall development costs) rose to 9.5 percent, up approximately 60 basis points in 2019. This is attributable to an uptick in perceived risk due to lower occupancy rates on a national basis. “While seniors housing development activity is expected to remain strong in 2020, returns on cost expectations have increased, which is evidence of elevated perceived risk,” says James Graber, managing director of valuation and advisory services for CBRE. “Developers are applying a more rigorous project selection process to position each planned community for success; this disciplined approach has resulted in a tempered number of construction starts projected for this year. “Overall, the ‘flight to quality’ is a primary driver in the seniors housing development process, incorporating a well-organized collaboration between developer, operator and capital markets,” concludes Graber. Hard costs (e.g. labor, site work, foundation, building shell construction, …
WIMBERLEY, TEXAS — Civitas Senior Living has opened Alexis Pointe Senior Living, an 83-unit seniors housing community in Wimberley, located outside San Marcos in Central Texas. The property is located near Wimberley Town Square, the Cypress Creek Nature Preserve and Blue Hole Regional Park. Alexis Pointe Senior Living features 49 assisted living apartments, 24 memory care suites and 10 independent living cottages, as well as resort-style amenities.
LONGVIEW, TEXAS — MedCore Partners and The National Realty Group (TNRG) have acquired Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit seniors housing community in Longview, approximately 60 miles west of Shreveport, La. The campus offers 126 independent living, 41 assisted living and 22 memory care residences. The buyers intend to develop land adjacent to the existing campus to add independent living cottages by early 2021. Integral Senior Living (ISL) will manage the community. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — BB&T Capital Markets has closed on $70.2 million in bond financing to fund the expansion of Clark Retirement Community’s Keller Lake campus in Grand Rapids. The financing consists of $64.5 million in tax-exempt bonds and $5.7 million in taxable bonds, all at a fixed rate. The developer is currently underway on the Keller Lake expansion.The project will add 53 independent living units to the continuing care retirement community. Upon completion, Clark Retirement Community’s two campuses will total 185 independent living units, 230 assisted living units and 39 skilled nursing beds.
Cushman & Wakefield Negotiates $76.6M Sale of 10-Property Seniors Housing Portfolio in Metro Miami
by Alex Tostado
MIAMI — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $76.6 million sale of a 10-property, value-add seniors housing portfolio in Miami-Dade County. The portfolio includes a mix of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, which together comprise 1,289 beds and 370,862 square feet. Robert Kaplan and Mark Rutherford of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, A.D.M.E. Investment Partners, in each transaction. The individual buyers were not disclosed. Bruce Gibson of Senior Capital Advisors was the co-broker on all transactions, except those for Oceanside Extended Care Center, which were co-brokered by Cushman & Wakefield’s Calum Weaver. The properties in the portfolio include: Fair Havens Center, a 101,814-square-foot skilled nursing and assisted living facility with 557 units and 329 beds. The property sold for $26.4 million, or approximately $80,394 per bed. Harmony Health Care, an 83,526-square-foot skilled nursing facility with 96 units and 203 beds. The property sold for $19.6 million, or approximately $96,307 per bed. Oceanside Extended Care, a 52,133-square-foot skilled nursing facility with 196 one-bed units. The real estate sold for $17.6 million, or approximately $89,923 per bed, and the license sold in a separate transaction for $5.9 million. Nursing Center at Mercy, a 43,357-square-foot skilled nursing facility with 64 units …
MADERA, CALIF. — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has arranged the sale of Cedar Creek Senior Living, a 112-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community. The property is located in Madera, approximately 25 miles northwest of Fresno. Originally built in 2005, the community averaged 87.6 percent occupancy in the year leading up to the sale. ESI represented the seller, an independent owner. A California-based REIT acquired the property for an undisclosed price.
Despite enduring a federal government shutdown for 35 days that temporarily put a crimp in loan processing, the HUD/FHA Section 232 mortgage insurance program used to finance seniors housing properties rallied to post a solid performance in fiscal year 2019. The volume of loans closed during the 12-month period that started Oct. 1, 2018 and ended Sept. 30, 2019 totaled $3.7 billion. That’s up from $3.6 billion the prior fiscal year. The HUD/FHA Section 232 program — more commonly referred to as the HUD Lean program — helps finance nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as board and care facilities. The Lean process developed by HUD in 2008 is a methodology based on the Toyota model to increase efficiency by reducing waste. In short, the goal is to eliminate historical inefficiencies in the processing and approval of HUD loan applications. Dissecting the data Although the government shutdown that occurred in late December 2018 and January 2019 resulted in the program’s loan count dropping from 317 to 288 on a year-over-year basis, the average loan amount increased 14 percent during the same period to reach a record high of nearly $13 million. “This was driven not only by some …
PORTLAND, ORE. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of Senior Haven, an assisted living community in Portland, Oregon. The property features 47 units totaling 50 beds. The community was built in 2012 and expanded in 2018. The facility is approximately 19,337 square feet and is situated on approximately 1.29 acres of land. A local owner-operator sold the property for an undisclosed price, and will continue to serve as a consultant post-closing. Senior Haven is the seller’s only senior living community. The buyer is a regional operator with several communities in Washington. This is the company’s first foray into Oregon. Brad Goodsell, Jason Punzel and Vince Viverito of SLIB handled the transaction.