• Brookdale Hires New CEO

    Six months after its CEO Cindy Baier exited the firm, Brookdale Senior Living has announced its new CEO. Nick Stengle will take the job, effective October 6, coming from Gentiva, a major home health & hospice provider where he was president and COO. He has some seniors housing experience, too, working as EVP and COO at Sunrise Senior Living... Read More »
  • Large Kentucky SNF Portfolio Trades

    There is something going on in the Kentucky skilled nursing market, with a favorable rebasing change that was approved by the legislature in July 2024 leading to a significant increase in Medicaid funding, along with increased interest in owning and operating facilities in the Commonwealth. We imagine that facilities are realizing an immediate... Read More »
  • Details on Marx Development Group’s Nine-Figure SNF Deal

    Marx Development Group and its affiliate Majestic Care’s acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities in West Virginia is set to close at the end of October, and the deal is still attracting a lot of attention in the state. That is because the seller is the State of West Virginia, and headlines are usually made when a for-profit buyer is taking... Read More »
  • Seller Exits Seniors Space with Sale to Private Equity Group

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Brad Goodsell, Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham teamed up to sell Westmont of Brentwood, a 132-unit seniors housing community in Brentwood, California. This was the seller’s only seniors housing asset, and they are exiting the space. Built in 2007, the community features... Read More »
  • Former Brookdale Asset Sale Sets Record Per-Unit Price in Montana

    A standalone independent living community in Great Falls, Montana, just sold for one of the highest per-unit prices in the state. Developed in 1995, The Iris Senior Living was the highest-quality IL building in the area and was consistently fully occupied. It features 60 units and operates at a nearly 40% margin. Even though it is an older... Read More »
Forbright Bank Announces Several Financings

Forbright Bank Announces Several Financings

Forbright Bank had a busy end to the summer, announcing a series of closings for a mix of seniors housing and skilled nursing properties across the country. The largest individual transaction was a $50 million term loan that refinanced the existing debt on three skilled nursing facilities in Florida. Forbright underwrote the bridge-to-HUD loan for a near-term HUD takeout to be facilitated by its HUD team. The bank also provided a $3 million revolver to support the facilities’ working capital needs. Forbright also partnered with HJ Sims to provide a $38 million bridge loan to fund the acquisitions of three skilled nursing facilities in Chicagoland.  Forbright financed a few other... Read More »
Joint Venture Receives Acquisition Financing

Joint Venture Receives Acquisition Financing

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group announced its role in providing acquisition financing to IRA Capital and Principal Asset Management for their purchase of an 89-unit seniors housing community in Gilbert, Arizona. American Care Concepts and Reichmann International Realty Advisors developed American Groves Senior Living in 2021 and have owned it since then. Each of the 89 units can transition between independent and assisted living in response to changing resident needs. Currently, occupancy is 100%, and we imagine the property operated at a healthy margin.  IRA Capital and Principal Asset Management announced that they paid $44.5 million, or $500,000 per unit, for the... Read More »
Wyoming SNF in UPL Program Refinances

Wyoming SNF in UPL Program Refinances

KC Peterson of PM Advisors secured a HUD refinance of a 60-bed skilled nursing facility in Evanston, Wyoming. The refinance, which totaled just under $4 million, was completed through Bedford Lending, a direct HUD lender. Prior to entering the 232 program, the facility had performed necessary capital improvements including adding a large multiday generator.  PM Advisors refinanced the entirety of the existing loans and capital improvement debts. The project is the first and only UPL project in Wyoming, with North Big Horn Hospital District as the sublessee operator. HUD has previously approved this legal structure with Indiana, Utah and Texas (with its QIPP program) hospital operators... Read More »
HUD Announces Loan Sale

HUD Announces Loan Sale

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced Healthcare Loan Sale 2026-1 (HLS 2026-1). On October 22, 2025, HUD will offer eight (8) Secretary-held, non-performing commercial mortgage loans for sale. The portfolio consists of Section 232 vacant healthcare loans with a combined unpaid principal balance of approximately $58 million. Each loan is secured by a first-lien mortgage on healthcare facilities located across Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Missouri and Minnesota. HUD reserves the right to add or remove loans from the sale at its discretion. For further details regarding the healthcare loans offered in the HLS 2026-1 auction, please visit... Read More »
Senior Care Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan

Senior Care Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan

Capital Funding Group closed a $121.5 million bridge loan. The deal supports the refinancing of twelve skilled nursing and assisted living properties, with ten in Texas and two in Maryland, featuring a total of 1,625 beds. Tim Eberhardt, Craig Casagrande and Catherine Mansel originated the transaction, which closed in September. This follows CFG’s announcement that highlighted the closing of six deals for over $86 million in financing on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers. The deals supported financing for two memory care communities, four skilled nursing facilities and one psychiatric hospital throughout Missouri, California, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. CFG closed the... Read More »
Bridge-to-HUD Loan Facilitates Grace Manor’s Financing Transition

Bridge-to-HUD Loan Facilitates Grace Manor’s Financing Transition

Sims Mortgage Funding (SMF) took out a bridge-to-HUD financing for Grace Manor at North Park at the end of August. The bridge component was a unitranche loan originally issued in February 2020 by Lakeland Bank and an affiliate of SMF’s parent company, HJ Sims, which the borrower used to purchase a 52-bed assisted living and memory care community in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. The new $9.63 million HUD-insured loan has a 35-year amortization and represents 78.3% of the asset’s value, underwritten at a 1.46x debt service coverage ratio. The loan, insured under the Section 232/223(f) program, covered 100% of the cost of refinancing, including capital reserves, repairs, deferred interest, HUD... Read More »