• 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 »
JLL Capital Markets Arranges JV Equity for Construction Project

JLL Capital Markets Arranges JV Equity for Construction Project

At a time when construction financing is hard to come by, JLL Capital Markets announced that it worked on behalf of Centric Development LLC to arrange joint venture equity for a seniors housing development project in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Located across the street from Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center, the project is a 153,000-square-foot building on a 16.2-acre parcel that will contain 106 assisted living one- and two-bedroom units and 36 memory care units. It is set to open in 2025 and will include luxury finishes. The JLL Capital Markets Advisory team was led by Managing Director Joel Mendes, Senior Managing Director Anthony T. Fertitta Jr. and Associate Billy... Read More »
Dwight Capital Announces Latest Activity

Dwight Capital Announces Latest Activity

Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust, financed over $118.35 million in seniors and healthcare financing during the first quarter of 2023. Among those transactions, Dwight closed a $31.2 million HUD refinance for Riverfront Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in Pennsauken, New Jersey. The SNF features a beauty salon, gym, lounges, landscaped outdoor spaces and waterfront views. The HUD loan refinanced an existing bridge loan that was provided by Dwight Mortgage Trust in June 2022. Managing Director of Healthcare Finance, Adam Offman, originated this transaction. Some other notable transactions from the quarter included a $40... Read More »
BWE Refinances Newly Built AL/MC Community

BWE Refinances Newly Built AL/MC Community

Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital (BWE), a national mortgage banking company, closed the refinance of a newly-built assisted living/memory care community in Levittown, New York. Taylor Mokris and Ryan Stoll of BWE originated the $26.66 million loan through a regional bank on behalf of the borrower, a regional developer and owner of seniors and affordable housing.   Opened in November 2020, Village Green features both assisted living and memory care options. It was around 80% occupied at the time of the transaction. With the time to refinance approaching, the BWE Seniors Housing and Care team ran a competitive process to source multiple bank quotes on behalf of their client.... Read More »
Ziegler’s Advanced Pricing Saved Millions

Ziegler’s Advanced Pricing Saved Millions

Not many borrowers are refinancing their debt in today’s high-interest rate environment, but if you made the decision to forward price in January of 2022, you were in a great position. That is what Ziegler did for Presbyterian Retirement Communities, which is part of Westminster Communities of Florida, the largest operator of CCRCs in Florida and the 11th largest not-for-profit in the country. Ziegler forward priced $142.6 million of tax-exempt bonds in January 2022 for delivery in May 2023. The bonds have a weighted average maturity of 17 years and an overall yield to maturity of 3.35%. It is doubtful they could achieve any rate close to that today. The total savings on the refinance will... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Secures Bank Refinance

Carnegie Capital Secures Bank Refinance

A regional owner/operator borrower engaged JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital to source a loan to pay off its maturing bridge acquisition debt on a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities with 309 beds in southern Oklahoma. The current owner had been operating the assets for a number of years before exercising on a purchase option to buy them over two years ago. A HUD takeout was part of the plan, but the portfolio needed more time to stabilize. Portfolio-wide EBITDAR was near break-even prior to debt service, and state approval of the new Medicaid reimbursement rates wasn’t issued prior to closing the new loan. Carnegie sourced multiple term sheets from banks, credit unions,... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Releases Latest Activity

Meridian Capital Group Releases Latest Activity

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team has closed more than $515 million in transaction volume since mid-March for a combination of 33 facilities in seven states. That is a healthy chunk of all the lending that is getting done these days. The transactions were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson. Most notably, the team arranged $185 million in financing from a commercial bank and finance company to facilitate the acquisition of 13 skilled nursing facilities totaling 1,002 beds in West Virginia. Omega Healthcare Investors purchased four of the facilities and co-invested with a private family office on... Read More »