• 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 »
CareTrust REIT Doubles Down in Texas

CareTrust REIT Doubles Down in Texas

CareTrust REIT just keeps on growing, adding its 212th net-leased property to its portfolio. The target, a 118-bed skilled nursing facility in Dallas, Texas, sold for approximately $10.0 million, or about $84,750 per bed, inclusive of transaction costs. The land it sits on is subject to a long-term ground lease in favor of the Dallas Housing Authority. CareTrust funded the deal with cash on hand, and leased the facility to Next Gen P, LLC under a master lease with an initial lease term of 15 years, two five-year renewal options and CPI-based rent escalators. The deal follows CareTrust’s larger acquisition of 12 former Senior Care Centers skilled nursing facilities in Texas and Louisiana... Read More »
Oxford Finance Funds Sterling Senior Care Acquisition

Oxford Finance Funds Sterling Senior Care Acquisition

Maryland-based operator of senior care facilities across the Mid-Atlantic, Sterling Senior Care, acquired another Maryland skilled nursing facility, following its 2018 acquisition of a 129-bed Boonsboro facility for $15.55 million. The most recent transaction featured a 129-bed facility in Belkamp, located in northeast Maryland. To fund the deal, Sterling turned to Oxford Finance, which closed a term loan and a revolving line of credit for the company. With that financial flexibility going forward, we expect to hear of more acquisitions from Sterling Senior Care. Read More »
Ensign Adds Arizona and California Campuses

Ensign Adds Arizona and California Campuses

The Ensign Group added to its expanding portfolio with two large acquisitions in Arizona and California. First, the company purchased two large senior care campuses in Peoria and Mesa, both in the Phoenix MSA. The Peoria campus includes a 150-bed skilled nursing facility and a 70-unit independent living community, while the Mesa property features a 58-bed SNF and a senior living community with 88 independent living and 18 assisted living units. They were both previously operated by a faith-based not-for-profit, so we imagine some expense controls are in store. Ensign’s Arizona-based subsidiary Bandera Healthcare will take over operations. Then, to California, where Ensign acquired the... Read More »
Clousing and Byrne Close Pair of Peach State Sales

Clousing and Byrne Close Pair of Peach State Sales

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Bradley Clousing and Patrick Byrne sold a pair of personal care facilities in the Peach State. Both communities were losing money, largely as a result of heavy competition. It didn’t help that they were both built in the late-1990s, which is now considered to be old. The seller, MedProperties, even invested in updates over the years, but in the end decided to exit the operational outliers. The first transaction featured a 64-unit assisted living/memory care community in Sandy Springs, an affluent suburb north of Atlanta, a notoriously overdeveloped market. MedProperties had acquired the community in 2012 for $6.6 million when it was operating at a 21%... Read More »
Blueprint Leases St. Louis-Area Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Blueprint Leases St. Louis-Area Skilled Nursing Portfolio

A portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities and 444 total beds in the St. Louis, Missouri area found a new operator/tenant thanks to Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Billy Lichtenstein of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Featuring positive cash flow (benefitted by Missouri’s Medicaid rate increase) and desirable locations near Barnes-Jewish Hospital, these facilities are owned by an Illinois-based owner/operator that decided to shift its focus to other owned and recently acquired facilities in Arizona and Illinois. A growing operator with an existing presence in the state was chosen as the new operator for its commitment to capital improvements. The transaction was structured... Read More »