BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Harbert Management Corp. (HMC), a Birmingham-based investment company, has closed Harbert Seniors Housing Fund II with total equity commitments of $510 million. HMC plans to invest the money into seniors housing throughout the United States. Investors are largely institutional and private, and include both domestic and international sources. The fund has been used toward eight transactions already representing nine seniors housing communities, including three joint-venture development opportunities. HMC is seeking diversity in geography, operators and acuity level of the residents.
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KANSAS — Monticello has provided $15.5 million in first lien debt financing for a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Kansas. The properties total 282 beds, and the transaction includes two acquisitions and two refinancings. The borrower is an owner-operator with a total portfolio of 945 licensed beds.
ATLANTA — WelcomeHome Software, an Atlanta-based tech company, has launched a new customer relationship management (CRM) product targeting the seniors housing industry. Development of the product took two years, and senior living experts were brought in to drive the process. Vitality Senior Living in Brentwood, Tennessee, was one of the first companies to pilot the software. “When we set out to build WelcomeHome, our mission was to make the lives of sales and marketing teams easier while improving the economics and operation of their communities,” says John Lariccia, WelcomeHome’s co-founder …
HJ Sims Hires Two Seniors Housing Experts, Expanding Investment Banking Team to West Coast, Midwest
by Jeff Shaw
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — HJ Sims has added two senior bankers as the firm opens new offices in the Midwest and on the West Coast. Lynn Daly joins Sims as executive vice president in its new Chicago location. She has over 30 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in financing. Daly was acting head of senior living investment banking at BB&T Capital Markets, where she managed BB&T’s senior living relationships in the Midwest, facilitating financings of $1.3+ billion. Prior to BB&T Capital Markets, Daly spearheaded the Catholic Initiative within senior …
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $22.2M Sale of The Pointe at Ocean Boulevard in Stuart, Florida
by Jeff Shaw
STUART, Fla. — Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets has arranged the sale of The Pointe at Ocean Boulevard, a seniors housing community in Stuart, approximately 100 miles north of Miami. Sentio Investments sold the asset to an affiliate of Waypoint Real Estate Investments for $22.2 million. Arrow Senior Living will continue to operate the community The Pointe at Ocean Boulevard features 150 units of independent living near the city’s waterfront and downtown areas. The property was built in 1986 and recently renovated. The Cushman & Wakefield team involved …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) completed the first quarter of 2020 with $369.5 million in profits, largely due to a series of asset sales, according to the company’s quarterly report. Brookdale now has $500.7 million cash on hand that it may need to ride out the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nashville-based company, which is the largest operator of seniors housing in the United States reported it incurred $10 million in coronavirus-related expenses in the first quarter. Given that the full effect of the …
CHICAGO — Evans Senior Investments (ESI), a Chicago-based brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of six skilled nursing facilities in Michigan totaling 496 licensed beds. A publicly traded REIT sold the portfolio to an undisclosed buyer for $36 million, or $73,000 per bed. The portfolio’s occupancy was 86 percent with $43 million in annual revenues. However, the seller chose to divest the properties upon finding out the tenant would no longer be able to meet its lease obligations due to having to pay back millions in improper Medicaid payments.
PALM COAST, Fla. — Atlantic Housing Partners has opened Central Landings Senior Living, a $14.8 million affordable seniors housing community in Palm Coast. The 83-unit facility is reserved for those 62 years of age and older earning between 40 and 80 percent of the area median income. The community is situated within the Palm Coast Town Center, a master-planned development that will include up to 2,500 multifamily units, 1.4 million square feet of office space and 3.4 million square feet of commercial space, including a movie theater and a hotel. …
SOUTHBRIDGE, MEDFORD and AUBURN, Mass. — Let’s Pave, a pavement management company, has completed its Road to Recovery initiative by delivering supplies and gift cards to nursing homes and other frontline workers throughout Massachusetts. CEO C.B. Kuzlik personally made the 35-hour round trip from the company’s Chicago-area headquarters to deliver the supplies. Recipients were Harrington Hospital in Southbridge, Glen Ridge Nursing Care in Medford, Courtyard Nursing Care Center in Medford, and Auburn Youth and Family Services in Auburn. The company raised more than $40,000 for healthcare and senior living workers, …
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC), an Annapolis-based nonprofit data firm serving the seniors housing industry, has unveiled a new set of data and analytics offerings dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The information is available to the public, at no cost, at the COVID-19 Resource Center on NIC’s website. The new offerings include Executive Survey Insights, a weekly “pulse” of the industry from hundreds of operators; faster turnaround on NIC MAP information; a Leadership Huddle webinar series; free access to NIC’s braindate video …