• 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 »
Blueprint Handles Detroit Transaction

Blueprint Handles Detroit Transaction

Blueprint announced its role in the sale of a Class-A seniors housing community in an affluent suburb of Detroit. We learned of the deal in December, when Silver Wave Capital, Persimmon Ventures and Synergy Senior Management announced that the buying group acquired Avalon at Auburn Hills. Built in 2018, the community features 58 assisted living and 44 memory care units. The Auburn Hills market was overdeveloped for seniors housing services, and we understand that the property never reached stabilization, with occupancy below 50%. It was previously owned by Hudson Advisors, an affiliate of Lone Star Funds that purchased the community as part of the five-property Great Lakes Portfolio in... Read More »
CIBC Provides SNFs Financing

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

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

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 »
Sonida Acquires in Ohio

Sonida Acquires in Ohio

Cushman & Wakefield facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in 2022, Airy Hills at North Bend Crossing features 50 assisted living and 32 memory care units. However, the community was never opened due to foreclosure on the construction borrower. In 2019, Northmarq secured $18.2 million of construction debt from a regional bank, with a three-year, interest-only loan. In addition, the project received $5.5 million of PACE equity and another $5.3 million of equity to round out the capital stack. It did not help that the community sits adjacent to the 121-unit Wellington at North Bend Crossing Community that was developed by the same entity. Sonida... Read More »