• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »
Ziegler Finances SNF Expansion for Large Florida CCRC

Ziegler Finances SNF Expansion for Large Florida CCRC

A massive senior living community in Fort Myers, Florida, has plans to replace its skilled nursing facility, and just received bond financing to do it. Ziegler arranged the placement of the $81.16 million in bonds for the Obligated Group, which consists of two Florida not-for-profit organizations: The Christian and Missionary Alliance Foundation, Inc. (d/b/a Shell Point) and The Alliance Community for Retirement Living, Inc. Shell Point operates the Fort Myers campus, which includes 1,292 independent living units, 410 assisted living units and 219 skilled nursing beds spread across two locations that total 225 acres. The campus has come a long way from the original 48 IL units built in... Read More »
Another Lender Enters Senior Living Development Space

Another Lender Enters Senior Living Development Space

Senior living development is certainly not starved for capital, as another lender has entered the senior living development space. Commercial Real Estate Finance is currently involved in the retail, multifamily, single-family and hospitality markets, but it recently added a senior living division. Its services were retained by WRC Development Partners LLC to procure a $26 million construction loan for the development of an assisted living/memory care community in Columbus, Ohio. The property will feature 115 units and 130 beds. Commercial Real Estate Finance also arranged $34 million in development financing for a 132-unit senior living community being built by WRC in New Windsor, New... Read More »
Amenity-Rich Independent Living Opening in Virginia

Amenity-Rich Independent Living Opening in Virginia

A brand-new independent living community is set to open this month in the Richmond, Virginia market to the tune of $31.6 million, or $213,500 per unit, to build. Featuring 10 different floor plans and one- or two-bedroom unit options, the Henrico community is located adjacent to a gated active adult community, where its resident will have access to the amenities. However, it also has its own numerous amenities, including an indoor pool, movie theater, four dining venues and a gazebo complete with fire pits and a full-service bar, to name just a few. Arlington, Virginia-based Bonaventure Realty Group developed the luxury community, and Solvere Living, an affiliate of Solutions Advisors... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Active Adult Financing

Grandbridge Arranges Active Adult Financing

With Baby Boomers still too young to move into most seniors housing communities and labor costs growing, many companies see opportunity in the active adult market, which some view as a largely untapped market. We’ll have to see how “under the radar” these assets will stay in the next couple of years. Jumping into the market, Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group just facilitated construction financing for the development of a 318-unit age-restricted community in Plano, Texas operated by Life Style Management Inc. The transaction consisted of about $62.3 million in taxable and tax-exempt bonds under the 142(d) bond program administered by BB&T Capital Markets.... Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Opens High-End Maryland Community

Capitol Seniors Housing Opens High-End Maryland Community

Capitol Seniors Housing just opened an assisted living/memory care community in the Baltimore area at a cost of $27.2 million, or nearly $325,000 per unit. Unique to the community (and probably pushed up its development cost) is its location adjacent to the 79-acre Waugh Chapel Towne Centre, which features a Wegmans, Target, Dicks, an IMAX theater and others. The community itself, in addition to its 84 units, featured a second-story terrace, a courtyard and a number of amenities. Moseley Architects designed the building, with Faulkner Design Group designing the interior. CSH hired The Arbor Company to manage the community and to oversee its fill-up. Read More »
NHI Provides Construction Financing for Wisconsin Development

NHI Provides Construction Financing for Wisconsin Development

A new assisted living/memory care community is being built in Oshkosh, Wisconsin thanks to a construction loan provided by National Health Investors. Totaling 66 beds, this development will be managed by 41 Management upon completion in about a year. 41 Management has been growing steadily since its founding in 2011, with a portfolio now numbering 28 communities throughout the Midwest, not including two other properties currently in development. This is NHI’s first deal with the operator. The $10.8 million loan comes with a five-year term and annual interest rate of 8.5%, plus two one-year renewal options. Funding of the construction will also be provided by periodic draws on NHI’s... Read More »