• 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 »
Florida Trio Trades to AEW

Florida Trio Trades to AEW

A seniors housing portfolio that includes Watercrest Buena Vista, Watercrest Spanish Springs and Watercrest Winter Park in Florida sold to AEW Capital Management. The three communities total 416 units in The Villages and Winter Park. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team represented the seller, Titan Development, in the transaction, which saw AEW retain the current operator, Watercrest Senior Living, as the third-party operator. JLL is also handling the acquisition financing on two of the assets for the buyer, which will close in January 2025. Completed in 2018, Watercrest Buena Vista offers 224 units in a three-story, Class-A building, including 118 independent living, 74 assisted... Read More »
Struggling SNF Sells in Michigan

Struggling SNF Sells in Michigan

Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of the Villages of Lapeer, a skilled nursing facility in Lapeer, Michigan, approximately 50 miles northwest of Detroit. It was built in 1959, comprises 87 beds, and sits on 5.6 acres. Like many SNFs, the Villages of Lapeer faced operational and compliance challenges during the pandemic, which impacted census and overall performance. The seller was an independent owner/operator seeking to transition out of the skilled nursing industry. Recognizing the seller’s need to exit, ESI expedited the process by bringing in a regional ownership group active in Michigan, which executed the deal within four months from start to finish. Read More »
Northland Networks Arranges Two Acquisition Loans

Northland Networks Arranges Two Acquisition Loans

Northland Networks, a member of the First National of Nebraska family, ended 2024 on a high note, closing two acquisition financings for skilled nursing clients in the last several months. One was for a 59-bed skilled nursing facility in rural southern Kentucky that was built in the late-1970s by the same family that is now selling it. The facility could improve its operations, and that will be the task of a Northeast-based real estate investment firm to turn around with an operating partner. Seth Kahn of Northland arranged an acquisition loan with a bank, structuring it with a five-year term, one year of interest only, an attractive interest rate and at 80% loan-to-value. ... Read More »
CareCore Health Acquires in Ohio

CareCore Health Acquires in Ohio

Forest Healthcare Properties facilitated the sale of a 106-bed skilled nursing facility in Auglaize County, Ohio, that was built in 1984 and was 85% occupied. The seller was a real estate investment firm looking to exit the state, and the buyer was CareCore Health, which has nine other healthcare properties in Ohio and was looking to expand. Multiple offers were received.  Forest additionally helped facilitate a transaction involving a Kentucky skilled nursing portfolio. The portfolio features over 1,000 beds, and the facilities were well-positioned with strong in-place cash flow in this off-market transaction. Both parties involved were large companies, one with a footprint in the... Read More »
Regional Owner/Operator Acquires in Washington

Regional Owner/Operator Acquires in Washington

Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of Moran Vista Senior Living in Spokane, Washington. Built in 1997 and expanded and renovated in 2008, it is situated on approximately 4.76 acres and comprises 131 (30 independent living, 86 assisted living and 15 memory care) units. Occupancy was 88% at the time of sale.  The seller was a Pacific Northwest owner divesting to focus on core assets within its portfolio, and the buyer is a regional owner/operator with approximately 20 communities in Washington and Arizona. The community sold for $22.5 million, or $172,000 per unit, at a 3.06x GIM. Read More »
Ensign Expands in Tennessee and Alabama

Ensign Expands in Tennessee and Alabama

The Ensign Group, Inc. acquired the operations of nine skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee and Alabama: Meadowbrook Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (83 beds in Pulaski, TN), Wellpark Health and Rehabilitation (30 beds in Knoxville, TN), Legacy Park Health and Rehabilitation (176 beds in Knoxville), VanAyer Senior Living and Rehabilitation (91 beds in Martin, TN), Union City Health and Rehabilitation (115 beds in Union City, TN), Decatur County Healthcare (125 beds in Parsons, TN), Savannah Nursing and Rehabilitation (120 beds in Savannah, TN), Westwood Nursing and Rehabilitation (90 beds in Decaturville, TN) and The Health Center at Research Park (91 beds in Huntsville, AL). ... Read More »