• EBSC Provides Financing for Michigan Asset

    EBSC Lending provided $26.2 million in financing for an affordable seniors housing community in Michigan. The borrower is a not-for-profit owner/operator with experience in hospitality that will use the proceeds to refinance existing debt and fund capital improvements. Specific upgrades will target unit interiors, building exterior, elevators,... Read More »
  • The Benoit Group Finances Atlanta Project

    The Benoit Group, in partnership with Atlanta Housing, received financing for the development of Englewood Senior in Atlanta. This affordable seniors housing project marks the first redevelopment phase of a master-planned, mixed-use, multi-plase community on the 30-acre site of the former Englewood Manor public housing site. Built in 1971,... Read More »
  • National Lending Group Divests in Wisconsin

    Justin Knapp, Nick Stahler and Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap recently closed the receivership sale of an 86-bed skilled nursing facility in Wisconsin. The Knapp-Stahler Group represented the seller, a national lending group that also provided financing for the deal.  The borrower/buyer was a local operator with ties to an East... Read More »
  • CFG Secures Bridge-to-HUD Loan for Ohio Skilled Nursing Facility

    Capital Funding Group secured financing for a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The bridge-to-HUD loan totals $13.5 million and supports the refinancing of this 120-bed SNF. Tim Eberhardt and Ava Julio of CFG originated the transaction.  This financing follows CFG’s closing of two HUD loans on... Read More »
  • CBRE Secures Financing For Class-A Seniors Housing Community

    CBRE secured financing for a Class-A seniors housing community in North Dakota on behalf of a joint venture borrower. Built in 2017, New Perspective West Fargo is in Fargo, one mile from Sanford Medical Center, North Dakota’s newest and largest medical center. The community features 128 independent living, assisted living and memory care units... Read More »
Bascom’s First Seniors Housing Acquisition of 2024

Bascom’s First Seniors Housing Acquisition of 2024

The Bascom Group, a private equity firm specializing in value-add multifamily, commercial and non-performing loans, real estate-related investments and operating companies, acquired a seniors housing community in Boulder City, Nevada, to expand its portfolio. This marks its fifth acquisition of 2024, but first in seniors housing, following the purchase of three multifamily communities and one student housing community. Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction.  Built in 1999, Homestead at Boulder City is an assisted living community with 72 units on 6.39 acres that comprises 55,305 square feet. The... Read More »
Forbright Bank Closes Three Bridge Loans

Forbright Bank Closes Three Bridge Loans

Forbright Bank’s Healthcare Lending team closed three new bridge loans in the first quarter of 2024 to help finance the acquisition of two assisted living communities and two skilled nursing facilities in the Southeast and Midwest. In total, the properties comprised around 500 beds and ranged in age from a few years to 15 years old. Renovations are also planned across the locations. In these transactions, Forbright closed more than $50 million of bridge and bridge-to-HUD financing for several well established owner/operators. Read More »
Berkadia Secures $48 Million in HUD Refinancings

Berkadia Secures $48 Million in HUD Refinancings

Berkadia announced the closing of $49.4 million in 232/223f HUD refinancings across five transactions in four states. The loans carried an average loan-to-cost of 75% and an average term of 33 years. Four of the loans refinanced bridge loans closed from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet. Steven Muth and Rafael Nobo originated a $15.95 million 232/223f HUD loan on a 73-unit seniors housing community in Northern Virginia for a Mid-Atlantic-based owner/operator. The community featured primarily assisted living and memory care services, with some independent living units. Occupancy was 94% at the time of closing. The 35-year fixed rate loan represented 77% LTC and retired a Berkadia bridge... Read More »
VIUM Capital Raises Its HUD Activity

VIUM Capital Raises Its HUD Activity

Fresh off celebrating its four-year anniversary on April 1, VIUM Capital announced its first quarter transaction activity, which included 14 debt financings closed for 31 total properties. In total, the firm arranged $337 million in total financing during the quarter. Located across nine states from North Carolina to Oregon, 16 of the properties were seniors housing communities, two were rental CCRCs and 13 were skilled nursing facilities.  VIUM closed nine HUD 232/223f refinancings, taking out VIUM bridge debt in all but one of the transactions. That marked the first quarter that VIUM’s HUD closings exceeded their bridge loan closings, and we know there are many more bridge loans... Read More »
CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For Florida SH Community

CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For Florida SH Community

CBRE Capital Markets secured acquisition financing for a seniors housing community in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, on behalf of Starling, a regional senior living development and management company based in Jacksonville, Florida. Built in 2015, Starling at Ponte Vedra features 86 assisted living and memory care units.  The borrower will use a portion of loan proceeds to effectuate a capital expenditure program. CBRE secured this three-year, $16.2 million loan through Live Oak Bank. Aron Will, Phil Rachels and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, while Brad Clousing and Daniel Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale. Read More »
Helios Handles Sale, Recap and Financing

Helios Handles Sale, Recap and Financing

Helios Healthcare Advisors structured the sale and recapitalization of an assisted living and memory care provider in Wisconsin. Through the provider’s lender, a publicly traded regional bank with $23 billion in assets, Helios was brought into the process to advise all stakeholders on a viable path to exit the credit and assets associated with the organization. The first step was divesting the non-performing assets to regional operators including behavioral health providers in Wisconsin, which Helios handled. Then, they repackaged the remaining performing assets, brought in a new operator, and arranged the debt to recapitalize the portfolio, keeping the existing financial partner involved... Read More »