• 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 »
  • PCP Purchases Ohio Assisted Living Community

    Phorcys Capital Partners LLC, the investment advisor to Phorcys Senior Housing Recovery Fund LP (SHRF), announced it acquired a seniors housing community in Wickliffe, Ohio, through a trustee-directed short sale for $13.0 million, or $81,000 per unit. This is PCP’s second investment in SHRF, and it will continue to focus on the winding down of... Read More »
  • Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »
Thank Wayne Kaplan

Thank Wayne Kaplan

Offering free meals to federal workers without a paycheck is the way to go. For all of you who have descended on Los Angeles for the annual ASHA meeting this week, please thank Wayne Kaplan of Premier Senior Living for their generosity, and smarts. At the company’s 23 assisted living and memory care communities located in six states, they have been offering federal workers going without a paycheck free meals at their communities. It can be breakfast, lunch and dinner. While we don’t know how many people took them up on this offer, think of the goodwill it will generate across their locations, especially when the word gets out. We are making the assumption, of course, that the food is good.... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard Lands Another HUD Loan

Lancaster Pollard didn’t rest on its laurels for long. After HUD announced that Lancaster Pollard beat out all other HUD LEAN lenders in both number of transactions (79) and loan volume (nearly $770 million), the firm closed another HUD loan on behalf of Premier Senior Living. A group of seven of its senior care facilities in the Southeast were previously financed with bonds from a national bank that were set to mature in the fall of 2017. So, Ross Holland and Jason Dopoulos of Lancaster Pollard arranged a $47.1 million loan to refinance the portfolio, which included orchestrating a master lease and debt allocation for four of the communities. The loan also funds replacement reserves for... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard’s $50 Million Month

Lancaster Pollard showed off its financing prowess, closing a variety of transactions this month that totaled over $50 million. Bill Wilson first arranged a $9.5 million HUD loan on behalf of an Oklahoma City-based senior care operator to refinance one of its skilled nursing facilities and fund the recent construction of a therapy addition. Lancaster Pollard and the borrower have a strong relationship, working together on five transactions, totaling over $40 million, since 2014. Mr. Wilson, with assistance from Joe Munhall, also obtained a $17.4 million construction loan for a 120-unit senior living community (with independent living, assisted living and memory care) in Lincoln, Nebraska.... Read More »

CareTrust REIT’s Wisconsin senior care strategy

CareTrust REIT just doubled down on its Wisconsin senior care strategy. Almost a year after acquiring an assisted living community in West Allis, Wisconsin from Priority Life Care (and then leasing it back), CareTrust is acquiring two more memory care communities in the Milwaukee MSA for approximately $26.1 million, or $296,591 per unit. The communities were well occupied (both at 97%) and relatively recently built (one property was built in 1997 and 2011 and the other was in 2013). Added to a master lease with Premier Senior Living for the remaining initial term of 14 years (with two five-year renewal options and CPI-based rent escalators), the communities are expected to generate annual... Read More »

CareTrust’s buying spree continues

CareTrust REIT entered the Michigan market, acquiring four assisted living/memory care communities in the state for $30.8 million, or $163,830 per unit. The assisted living/memory care portfolio includes a 46-unit community in Clarkston, a just-built 40-unit community in Goodrich, a 62-unit community in Burton and a 40-unit community in Lapeer. Similar to previous transactions this year, CareTrust immediately leased the communities to an existing operating partner, this time the REIT amending a master lease with Premier Senior Living. The lease will generate approximately $2.7 million in annual rental revenue, but because of the brand-new Goodrich community, CareTrust gave Premier a... Read More »