• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »
Covenant Living Communities Expands in Illinois

Covenant Living Communities Expands in Illinois

Covenant Living Communities and Services enlisted Chicago-based construction company, Leopardo, and Atlanta-based architects, THW Design, for a $66.5 million expansion project at the assisted living community Covenant Living of Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois. This expansion involves the construction of three new three-story carriage homes, resulting in the addition of 36 new one- and two-bedroom apartments. Each apartment will feature a spacious patio or balcony and a private garage. Additionally, the “Town Center” will undergo a substantial 9,000-square-foot expansion, enhancing both indoor and outdoor dining venues. The project is slated for completion in late 2025. Read More »
Construction Coming to a Close for NY Development

Construction Coming to a Close for NY Development

FilBen Group, an owner/developer, and its equity partner RSF Partners are nearing completion of their $54 million seniors housing development in Montebello, New York, in the Lower Hudson Valley. The four-story Braemar at Montebello will be complete in 2024 and feature 133 total units. Of those, there are 66 studio, 14 one-bedroom and 53 two-bedroom units (semi-private “friendship” units each with approximately 600 square feet) across 133,675 total square feet. There will also be shared public spaces on the main, second and third levels.  The community is adjacent to the Montebello Commercial Center, which offers retail, entertainment, dining and medical services. Good Samaritan... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: CCRCs Still Ahead on Occupancy

60 Seconds with Swett: CCRCs Still Ahead on Occupancy

Ziegler recently came out with its analysis of the latest NIC MAP occupancy statistics for CCRCs, or LPCs, and the sector continues to outperform the separate seniors housing and care sectors. For independent living units, the average occupancy for CCRCs was 90.5% compared with 84.2% for IL units not within a CCRC. In the assisted living sector, AL units within CCRCs were on average 87.5% occupied, versus 83.1% outside of CCRCs. Memory care averaged 86.5% occupancy within CCRCs and 83.4% outside of them, and skilled nursing beds were 83.6% and 82.2% occupied, respectively, although CCRCs have been shedding their SNF beds over the last several years and the beds remaining would... Read More »
New Development Is Not Dead

New Development Is Not Dead

New development is not dead, as Chelsea Senior Living and global real estate developer Trammell Crow Company teamed up to open a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. In this current environment, most agree that the only developments that work are high-end communities in high-barrier-to-entry markets where intense competition and pressures on staffing costs are less. Most lenders certainly agree with that, too, and The Chelsea at Fair Lawn is located in an affluent suburb of New York City. Not only that, it is the borough’s first assisted living/memory care community.  The three-story community opened in September 2023 with 67 units. Residents can... Read More »
DHC Announces A New President

DHC Announces A New President

Diversified Healthcare Trust announced that with its failed merger with Office Properties Income Trust (both companies are managed by The RMR Group) it would be making changes to its board and executive leadership team. Well, President and CEO Jennifer Francis is retiring at the end of the year, to be replaced by Christopher Bilotto, an executive vice president of The RMR Group and current president and COO of Office Properties Income Trust. If the aforementioned merger had been completed, Bilotto was set to lead the combined companies. Francis had been a part of Diversified Healthcare Trust’s (DHC) senior management team since 2018 and was a managing trustee since 2021. She will continue... Read More »
Construction Coming to a Close for NY Development

New Seniors Housing Community Coming to Virginia

Hoffman & Associates and Experience Senior Living are teaming up to develop a seniors housing community in Northern Virginia, with opening expected sometime during fourth quarter 2026. The Reserve at Falls Church is set to be 15 stories with over 200 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. The community will have numerous amenities such as a spa with a saltwater pool, a sky bar and electric vehicle transportation services. It will be located within the 10-acre West Falls mixed-use development that’s currently underway. West Falls will feature apartments, condominiums, shops, restaurants, service retailers, a hotel and a medical office building, plus a central... Read More »