• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »

VIUM Capital Secures Six Bridge Loans and a HUD Refinance

VIUM Capital followed up its $1.3 billion in transaction volume for the first half of 2022 with a healthy $100 million in closed transactions across seven properties in July. The activity comprised six bridge loans and one HUD refinance in six states from Pennsylvania to Washington.  The $13.68 million HUD loan was arranged for a 199-bed CCRC in Arizona. A not-for-profit acquired the property in January 2021 with the help of an acquisition bridge loan also secured by VIUM. It features 12 independent living units, 93 assisted living units and 94 skilled nursing beds. The largest loan, totaling $20 million, was arranged for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio to refinance $9 million... Read More »

Forefront Living Building New Plano Campus

Chicago-based investment bank Ziegler closed $197 million in tax-exempt and taxable bonds to fund the ground-up construction of Outlook at Windhaven Forefront Living. Set in Plano, Texas, the community will consist of 153 independent living units, 32 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. Its owner, Forefront Living, a Texas not-for-profit organization formerly known as Presbyterian Communities and Services, will also operate the community. The bonds consist of $109.5 million Series 2022A tax-exempt bonds, $88.2 million Series 2022B tax-exempt mandatory paydown securities, and $1.3 million in Series 2022C taxable bonds that were sold publicly to institutional investors. The... Read More »

Greystone Affiliate Builds Low-Income Seniors Housing

Greystone affiliate America First Multifamily Investors, L.P. (ATAX) announced that it has purchased $72 million in tax-exempt and taxable mortgage revenue bonds for the acquisition of land and construction of a 200-unit seniors affordable housing property in Los Angeles. The community will be named Residency at the Entrepreneur and will provide housing for seniors earning a range of 30% to 80% Area Median Income. In addition, 99 of the units will be master leased by The People Concern, whose constituents are seniors, individuals at risk of homelessness, and low-income families.  At completion, the community will be owned by Residency at the Entrepreneur, LP, a California limited... Read More »

Northland Networks Closes Construction Loan

Northland Networks recently closed a senior housing construction loan for a project in Ormond Beach, Florida (Daytona Beach MSA). RBS Development Group LLC, an experienced assisted living developer in the state of Florida, is building the community to feature 131 units of assisted living and memory care. Northland Networks served as exclusive placement agent for the $28.5 million loan participation, and Meridian Capital Group handled the transaction. This week, Northland also branched out of the seniors housing business to close a first mortgage loan for Sunview Medical Day, an outpatient behavioral health facility managed by Cedar Health in West Palm Beach, Florida. Northland once again... Read More »

Ziegler Finances Virginia CCRC Expansion

Ziegler has successfully closed financing for Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury, (SVWC) a large CCRC in Winchester, Virginia. The financing consists of $71 million Series 2022A and 2022B bonds, for the Virginia-based not-for-profit. Founded in 1982, SVWC serves nearly 400 residents on its 87-acre campus with 218 independent living units (164 apartments and 54 cottages), 48 assisted living units, 12 memory care units and 51 skilled nursing beds.Plans for an independent living expansion project are in place, which will include 48 new units. To fund the expansion, SVWC issued two tranches of draw down bank loans that were purchased by Atlantic Union Bank and Pinnacle Financial Partners... Read More »

CA Ventures Partners on Oregon Construction Project

A joint venture between CA Ventures and an institutional equity partner is building a 206-unit senior living community in Beaverton, Oregon (Portland MSA) with construction financing arranged by CBRE National Senior Housing. Anthology of Beaverton will consist of 206 independent living, assisted living and memory care units near the Tanasbourne shopping district, which includes a Whole Foods, Starbucks, REI, and several other shopping and dining locations. Anthology Senior Living, CA Venture’s senior living platform, will operate it upon completion. The transaction also marked the beginning of Anthology’s strategic alliance with Formation Development Group, having contributed to the... Read More »