• Helios Healthcare Advisors Handles Refinancing

    Helios Healthcare Advisors structured and arranged a credit facility used to refinance and consolidate existing senior debt as well as to provide construction financing for a new development. The facility was secured by a portfolio of nine assisted living and memory care communities in Louisiana. A New Orleans-based regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • Live Oak and Berkadia Team Up on Bridge Loan

    Live Oak Bank recently closed a $34.3 million bridge loan in partnership with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for a two-property portfolio owned and operated by BrightSpace Senior Living. The communities are located in the Nashville, Tennessee, and Boise, Idaho MSAs. The loan was structured in an A/B arrangement, with Berkadia funding the... Read More »
  • California Memory Care Communities Receive HUD Loans

    Lument closed two HUD loans totaling $20.7 million to refinance two memory care communities in northern California. Doug Harper, managing director at Lument, co-originated the loan with Grant Goodman of G Capital. The two communities are Crescent Oaks Memory Care, which features 22 units and 36 beds in Sunnyvale, and Silver Oaks Memory Care,... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Two Seniors Housing Transactions

    Berkadia closed the sale of two separate assets in Florida and Georgia. First, Berkadia was engaged by a national owner/operator in the sale of a CCRC in South Florida. The property appears to be Abbey Delray, a 505-unit community originally built in 1979 in Delray Beach that features 327 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 30... Read More »
  • Fortress Buys Large Seniors Housing Campus

    Fortress Investment Group just purchased one of the largest rental seniors housing communities in the country, adding The Village at Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida, to its portfolio. Regionally anchored by the University of Florida and the innovative UF Health network, and located directly across from SantaFe College, the 100+ acre campus... Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Big-Time CCRC Development

For those of you who know me, you know I have been a big fan of the CCRC model, and have been for decades. And for those of you who still think the entrance-fee CCRC model is dead, well, think again when you hear this. HJ Sims recently closed on what may be one of the largest tax-exempt bond financings for a single-site CCRC new development, if not the largest. The total bond issuance comes to $398 million, or just over $1.5 million per unit, with maturities ranging from four years to 35 years. The interest rates range from 2.875% to 4.625%. It is located in Westchester County, New York. The community will be situated on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York. There... Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Winners and Losers

As we have mostly finished with the third quarter earnings results, it does appear that the market continues to bifurcate between the winners and losers. Or, at least, between those who are successfully coming out of the pandemic and those who are maybe struggling to recover more than their peers. One example is CareTrust REIT which believes that its tenants will be above pre-pandemic occupancy levels by summer 2022, while others are looking at a year or two beyond that, or longer, and that is if they can successfully deal with the labor shortages and increasing wages. If they can’t deal with the labor problems, then their census issues will most likely remain a major headwind. Look, all... Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe & Ben Swett: See Y’all in Houston

A lot has changed since we were last elbow bumping with people at the San Diego NIC conference in March 2020. There have been some other in-person conferences in the last few months, but next week’s NIC will be really the first time that the senior care industry is reunited since the pandemic. And we are looking forward to seeing everyone once again. When we’re in Houston, we’d love to hear about your experiences, the difficulties and your successes in the last year and a half whether as an operator, investor, lender or broker. And of course, about any deals you are currently working on. But we are also going to be asking for your predictions in 2022. Be forewarned. We also have our own... Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Losing a Patriot, But Not to COVID

We lost a true patriot this week, Colin Powell, and I had the fortunate opportunity to meet him at my brother’s swearing in ceremony at the State Department. I think I committed a faux pas, however, as I brought his autobiography with me and asked him to sign it. I guess you just don’t do that with a sitting Secretary of State, in his office. But I did, and he obliged. What bothered me about the announcement of his death was that the family stated it was from complications from COVID-19. The reality is he was 84 years old, had Parkinson’s Disease and multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body’s immune system. The bottom line is that he was in bad health... Read More »
60 Seconds with Ben Swett: The Labor Problem Gets Worse

60 Seconds with Ben Swett: The Labor Problem Gets Worse

There’s no hiding from the labor shortage affecting senior care facilities. According to a September survey from the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living, 99% of nursing homes and 96% of assisted living communities reported having either low-level, moderate-level or high-level staffing shortages. So only 1% and 4% of those facilities, respectively, are fully staffed? That is astounding. 28% of AL communities reported limiting new admissions because of the shortages, which is not good, but 58% of SNFs have had to turn away patients or referrals. Not only are they losing out on revenue, but they don’t have the opportunity to prove their worth in the... Read More »