• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »

Avenida Partners Building New AA Community in Folsom

Cushman & Wakefield exclusively advised Avenida Partners in the procurement of $70 million in joint venture equity and construction financing for its to-be-built active adult community in Folsom, California (Sacramento MSA). The general partner equity was provided by Blue Mountain Enterprises, and the limited partner equity was provided by Argosy Real Estate Partners. Comerica Bank provided the construction financing. Cushman & Wakefield’s Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig and Tim Hosmer worked on the transaction. Avenida Folsom will be a trophy 154-unit active adult community featuring abundant amenity spaces and valley views from a fourth-floor sky terrace. The... 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 »