• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
White Oak Healthcare REIT Makes First Acquisition

White Oak Healthcare REIT Makes First Acquisition

Earlier this year, White Oak Healthcare Finance announced that it was forming a new REIT to invest up to $500 million in seniors housing and skilled nursing acquisitions. To do that, they hired a new team consisting of Jeff Erhardt, Paul Nevala, Mike Treiber and John Brussard, all of whom founded Capital Healthcare Investors, a wholly owned subsidiary of MTGE Investment Corp., a publicly traded hybrid REIT. Now, the REIT, appropriately named White Oak Healthcare REIT, is making its first acquisition, involving a four-property senior living portfolio. Located in Arkansas (2), Florida and Pennsylvania, the portfolio features a total of 104 independent living, 230 assisted living and 103... Read More »
SLIB Announces Two Assisted Living Sales in the Southeast

SLIB Announces Two Assisted Living Sales in the Southeast

Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced two sales in the Southeast. First, Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing represented a local owner in their exit from the seniors housing market by selling their personal care home in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Built in 1999, the community has 38 units (all of which feature a private bathroom), with 11 dedicated to memory care. There is limited competition, and the community has historically been well occupied, currently at 95%. It also has a good local reputation. However, the operating margin could be improved significantly from 8% on approximately $1.45 million of revenues. The buyer, a regional owner/operator based in Mississippi, plans to... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Wyoming Transaction

Blueprint Closes Wyoming Transaction

It’s not often we see Wyoming deals come across our desks, but Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors just announced one for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Casper. Previously owned by a national owner/operator of more than 150 SNFs across the country, the facility was facing a years-long occupancy decline. In-place cash flow was also negative, and during the marketing period, the facility both landed on the SFF list and graduated from it. The good news for the buyer was that the well-maintained facility had strong historical operations, with past revenue and EBITDAR exceeding $9.8 million and $2.1 million, respectively. That attracted a respected national owner/operator, who paid... Read More »
Brookfield Bets Big on Australian Seniors Housing Market

Brookfield Bets Big on Australian Seniors Housing Market

Looking outside of the U.S. seniors housing market, it’s obvious that the sector is a popular target in markets around the world. Just look at Ventas’ doubling down on the Canadian seniors housing market with its C$2.4 billion portfolio acquisition of 31 retirement communities in Quebec earlier this summer, nearly doubling its portfolio from 41 properties to 76, with the NOI of those properties expected to make up 21% of its entire SHOP NOI. For them, Canada has been a very good performer. Australia has attracted the interest of Canadian investment fund Brookfield, which is spending A$1.27 billion ($860 million), on Aveo, a Sydney-based company that owns and operates 94 retirement... Read More »
Busy Berkadia Closes Two Transactions

Busy Berkadia Closes Two Transactions

Berkadia has been busy this August, closing the sale of one senior living community and arranging financing for the development of another one. Joe Leon and Michael Thagard handled the sale, which featured a 310-unit independent living community in Westminster, California. The seller was the Zinn Group, controlled by the Zinngrabe family which had owned the community for over 30 years. The local market around Westminster and Huntington Beach is strong, with occupancies averaging above 98%. So the buyer, an experienced owner/operator, will be able to hit the ground running. Then, to the development, for which Monica Newman originated a $31.76 million construction loan through HUD for a... Read More »