• 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 »

Now’s the time for Baby Boomers

If you have been reading The SeniorCare Investor in the past couple of years, you know that we have not bought into all of the talk of demographics so popular in the industry today. The oldest Baby Boomer is 69 now, and we do not believe they will be moving en masse into the communities being constructed today for another 15 or 20 years. And as they live longer, though unhealthier, technology and health innovations may be able to keep them in their homes for even longer. Plus, there’s the issue that the Baby Boomers may not even want to move into the product being built today, much less the communities constructed 10, 20 or 30 years ago. However, the tragic irony is that today may be the... Read More »

PinPoint spins off to focus on seniors housing

PinPoint Commercial, a national boutique development partnership that has created over $600M in industrial, medical, retail and senior housing assets, is creating a new company, PinPoint Senior Living (PSL), to focus on the development of new senior living communities. We have written before of Pinpoint Commercial’s “Legacy” brand of seniors housing (see: Assisted Living technology at its best), and the company has so far developed eight properties in Texas, New Mexico, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida. This July, Legacy at Highwoods Preserve in Tampa, Florida is set to open, with 60 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, to be operated by Thrive Senior Living. But with this new... Read More »

Ziegler closes $135 million for Covenant Retirement Communities

Ziegler closed over $135 million in financing for Covenant Retirement Communities (CRC), an Illinois not-for-profit that owns and operates CCRCs in several locations throughout the U.S. The Obligated group consists of 4,769 units in 14 communities across eight states, with 3,065 independent living units, 755 assisted living units, and 949 skilled nursing beds. To refund the company’s outstanding Series 2005 bonds in the amount of $118.11 million, fund a debt reserve fund and pay certain costs of issuance, CRC issued $112.8 million in fixed-rate refunding bonds. Closing concurrently was $22.34 million of variable rate refunding bonds, which were immediately placed with Bank of America with... Read More »

Another property for Shamrock

A joint venture developing a portfolio of senior living communities in Northern California is adding its sixth property to its partnership, called The Shamrock Alliance. Portland, Oregon-based Shamrock Holdings, together with CB|Two Architecture and Construction and Artēgan Senior Living, is planning to build a 130-unit rental CCRC in Folsom, California (in the Sacramento area). Just breaking ground last week and expected to open next summer, the community will feature 85 independent living, 26 assisted living and 19 memory care units, to be managed by Artēgan. Typically, the projects are in a 140,000 sq. ft., three-story building located on an infill site. To fund the development,... Read More »

HCP funds future growth

Looking to fund its future growth, HCP recently priced $750 million of senior unsecured notes with a fixed rate of 4.00% for 10 years. The price to investors was 99.126% of the principal amount, representing a yield-to-maturity of 4.107%, and a spread over Treasuries of about 195 basis points. After expenses, the net proceeds of the offering are approximately $736.5 million, which HCP plans to allocate to pay off a portion of the debt used for its recent $849 million acquisition of 35 private pay seniors housing communities from Chartwell and its $161 million acquisition of a medical office building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This offering follows HCP’s amending of its master lease... Read More »