


CIBC Provides SNFs Financing
CIBC Bank USA provided a $67 million term loan to finance the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities and the refinance of 21 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities located throughout Wisconsin. CIBC also provided an aggregate $21 million of working capital via multiple revolving lines of credit to 53 skilled nursing/assisted living facilities primarily located in Wisconsin. The borrowing group had recently received substantial reimbursement support from the state. Peter Kane and Michael Velazquez handled the transaction for CIBC Bank USA. Read More »
Local Operator Secures Acquisition Financing
JLL Capital Markets arranged $39.98 million in acquisition financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities totaling 344 units in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon, on behalf of a local operator. JLL secured the three-year, floating-rate financing from a regional bank. The JLL Seniors Housing Capital Markets team representing the borrower was led by Senior Director Alanna Ellis and Associate Alex Sheaffer. The portfolio comprises Evergreen Senior Living, Timber Pointe and Woodside Senior Living, which together offer 43 independent living, 245 assisted living and 56 memory care units. All of the properties were built between 1996 and 2006 and were fully renovated in... Read More »60 Seconds with Swett: 2025 Set for Healthcare M&A Growth
The word from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, which kicked off in San Francisco this week, is that M&A activity in the biopharma/life sciences space will likely grow in 2025 after a relative downturn in 2024. A more business-friendly administration in D.C. combined with an enormous amount of dry powder set to do deals, including some bigger billion-dollar-plus ones too. Indeed, our own M&A data from LevinPro HC, which tracks all the healthcare services and tech deals, showed the 2024 total decline to just under 2,000 deals for the year, a 10% decrease from 2023’s activity and a 19% decrease from 2022’s. Dollar volume also dropped below $200 billion in total disclosed purchase... Read More »
Ten Seniors Housing Communities Change Hands in Michigan
Meiser Commercial Real Estate was engaged by DeShano Companies, a development company that specializes in apartments and entered the assisted living industry in 2016, in its divestment of ten seniors housing communities that it built in Michigan. Madison Meiser and Bill Meiser handled each of the ten, separate transactions. This was a roughly 20-month closing process. First, in April 2023, an assisted living community in Coleman sold for $1.65 million, or $83,000 per unit. It was built in 2017 and features 20 units. The community was losing money at the time of sale, and was 70% occupied. It was sold through a land contract. Next, in June 2023, a 20-unit assisted living/memory care... Read More »