MACUNGIE AND PALMERTON, PA. — A joint venture between Care Investment Trust LLC and Inspirit Senior Living has acquired The Villages at Palmerton in Palmerton and The Willow in Macungie for $13 million. Both towns are located in the Lehigh Valley, north of Philadelphia and west of New York City. The sellers are LifeCare Holdings LLC and The Weston Group Inc. The new owners will rebrand the properties as “The Willow, an Inspirit Senior Living Community” and “The Palmerton, an Inspirit Senior Living Community.” Both communities were built between 2002 and 2003 and were approximately 90 percent occupied at closing. The properties offer a combined 111 units of assisted living and memory care. Care and Inspirit plan to spend approximately $850,000 to refurbish the communities. Affiliates of Inspirit will operate and manage the communities. Care Investment Trust is a seniors housing real estate investor and wholly owned subsidiary of Tiptree Inc. (NASDAQ: TIPT). Inspirit is a seniors housing owner-operator that, following this acquisition, now operates four communities in Tennessee, Virginia and Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 2015.
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SEATTLE AND VANCOUVER, WASH. — Columbia Pacific Advisors, a real estate investment fund manager, has agreed to acquire Hawthorn Retirement Group, a seniors housing owner-operator, for an undisclosed price. Both firms are based in Washington state, Columbia Pacific in Seattle and Hawthorn in Vancouver. Hawthorn’s portfolio includes 55 communities in operation and 24 under construction or in pre-development across 20 states and two Canadian provinces. The acquisition includes the portfolio as well as Hawthorn’s management and construction business. Though terms of the deal are not disclosed, a press release from Columbia Pacific implied that the existing corporate structure of Hawthorn will be maintained. Pat Kennedy, CEO of Hawthorn, will stay on as a Hawthorn senior executive. Seniors housing has long been a focus of Columbia Pacific, which has developed or acquired more than 300 communities totaling 25,000 units over the last 10 years. The company also invests in standard multifamily and other commercial real estate sectors. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the summer.
Healthcare Transactions Group Arranges Sale of Operations of 1,906-Bed Skilled Nursing Portfolio in Pennsylvania
by Amy Works
PHILADELPHIA — Healthcare Transactions Group Inc. has arranged the sale of the operations of an eight-location, 1,906-bed skilled nursing portfolio in Pennsylvania. Mid-Atlantic Health Care LLC of Maryland sold the operations to Mima Healthcare, which is based in New Jersey. Of the properties, six are in the greater Philadelphia area and two are in Central Pennsylvania. The portfolio produces annual revenue in excess of $205 million. The sales price and names of facilities were not disclosed. A national REIT will continue to retain ownership of the real estate involved in the transaction. Mark Davis of Healthcare Transactions Group initiated the transaction for the seller.
OCEAN GROVE, N.J. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) has arranged the sale of Francis Asbury Manor, a 131-unit assisted living facility in Ocean Grove, a coastal community adjacent to Asbury Park. Sage Healthcare Partners acquired the community from United Methodist Communities for $18.3 million, or $139,000 per unit. Built in 1949 on a 1.9-acre lot, Francis Asbury Manor comprises 103 assisted living units and 28 memory care units. The facility is within walking distance to downtown Ocean Grove and the boardwalk. Mark Myers, Joshua Jandris and Charles Hilding of IPA represented the seller in the deal.
Monticello Provides $69.3M Acquisition Loan for 616-Bed Skilled Nursing Portfolio in Massachusetts
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — New York-based Monticello Asset Management, through one of its investment vehicles, has provided $69.3 million in acquisition financing for a four-property skilled nursing portfolio in Massachusetts. The borrower was 50 Christy Place LLC. The specific facilities acquired were not disclosed. The portfolio totals 616 beds, including 100 for assisted living, with an average year built is 1994. The properties have an average total land area of 3.8 acres and an average size of 70,000 square feet. The new owners plan to improve operating efficiencies and leverage a large network of corporate services and operating experience. The financing was structured as a bridge-to-HUD transaction.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Kirco and its construction management affiliate Kirco Manix, in partnership with Phoenix Senior Living and EDT Inc., has broken ground on The Bluffs at Greystone, a 132-unit senior housing community in Birmingham. The community will provide both independent and assisted living and will be designed to include memory care units in the future. Slated to open in July 2018, the property will feature an indoor pool, wellness center, dining, beauty salon, yoga studio and demonstration kitchen. The project marks Kirco’s entrance into the senior living sector in the state of Alabama.
BRENTWOOD, TENN. — Zhonghong Zhuoye Group Co. Ltd., a Chinese real estate investor, has reportedly offered approximately $3 billion for the acquisition of Brookdale Senior Living, according to a report by news agency Reuters, which cited people familiar with the matter. If the Brookdale deal were completed as reported, it would be by far the largest Chinese investment in U.S. seniors housing to date. Headquartered in Brentwood, Brookdale is by far the largest owner and operator of seniors housing in the United States. Its operational portfolio includes 1,052 properties and 103,00 units, according to the company’s first-quarter report, which is nearly triple the size of the next largest competitor. The company has struggled since its $2.8 billion acquisition of fellow seniors housing giant Emeritus in 2014. After initially experiencing a lift in the months following the merger, Brookdale’s stock price fell from $38.16 per share on March 2, 2015, to $11.80 per share on Feb. 8, 2016. Rumors of a sale of the company have swirled for months. Following the Reuters report on Tuesday, Brookdale’s stock price saw a brief lift of 6 percent to as high as $15.18 per share, but quickly fell back down to a close of …
LOS ALTOS, CALIF. — ABHOW will cut the ribbon next week on a $100 million expansion at The Terraces at Los Altos, a continuing care retirement community in Los Altos, which is located between San Jose and San Francisco. The project, which was executed in multiple phases, most recently added 81 new apartments, a fitness center and spa, dining venues, library and movie theater. The first phase, completed in 2014, added 30 skilled nursing suites and 16 memory support suites. The second phase added 30 assisted living residences. ABHOW both owns and operates the community. Next month the company will merge with fellow West Coast nonprofit operator be.group and rebrand as HumanGood.
NEW YORK CITY — Maplewood Senior Living and Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. (NYSE: OHI) will break ground today, June 14, on Inspir | Manhattan, a 215-unit seniors housing community on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. The 23-story, 212,000-square-foot building will offer assisted living, memory care and “enhanced care” units. Westport, Conn.-based Maplewood Senior Living currently operates 13 other communities in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio.
AURORA, COLO. — Pathfinder Partners, a San Diego-based investment firm, has acquired a 104-unit independent living community within the Shalom Park Senior Living Campus in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Pathfinder, along with Denver-based Hillcrest Development Group, paid $16 million for the property and plan to implement $3 million of improvements. The community, which Pathfinder will rebrand as V-Esprit, is situated on approximately 15 acres and includes 104 units consisting of 60 apartments and 44 patio homes averaging 1,050 square feet. The seller was Shalom Park, a Colorado nonprofit that still owns the balance of the Shalom Park Senior Living Campus. V-Esprit residents will continue to have access to the combined campus amenities. The $3 million renovation project is slated to include converting four of the one-bedroom apartment units (leaving 100 units in total) into a clubhouse and card room, and renovating and modernizing the theater room, library, communal dining area and leasing office. Pathfinder also plans to make improvements to the apartment interiors. This is Pathfinder’s first seniors housing acquisition.