In a first for the seniors housing industry, Greystone closed Freddie Mac’s first-ever lease-up loan for a client in Northern California. More common in the multifamily market, the lease-up program is for experienced clients to lock-in low interest rates earlier in the process for refinancing newly-built properties. Now, for a just-built 66-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Jose, the team of Scott Kavel, Neal Raburn and Cary Tremper of Greystone provided a $27.5 million Freddie Mac loan, with an 11-year term, 30-year amortization and a fixed interest rate. The loan takes out the original construction loan just three months after the community opened. We suspect lease-up was going well. In today’s current interest rate environment, locking in a low rate now is becoming increasingly important. That’s good news for the borrower, Oakmont Senior Living.