• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Prevarian Senior Living Divests Community in Oklahoma

Prevarian Senior Living Divests Community in Oklahoma

JLL Capital Markets arranged the sale of Prairie House, a 105-unit assisted living/memory care community located in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Located on the Ascension St. John Broken Arrow campus, which is affiliated with Ascension St. John Hospital, the community was built in 2017 and has 73 assisted living and 32 memory care units.  The seller, represented by JLL’s team, which was led by Managing Director Charles Bissell with support from Analysts Zach Brantley and Hope Brunner, was Prevarian Senior Living. The buyer was Wichita, Kansas-based Legend Senior Living, with Prairie House being Legend’s fourth Tulsa-area community and 11th community in the state. Managing Directors Chris Cain... Read More »
BWE Secures Freddie Mac Refinance

BWE Secures Freddie Mac Refinance

BWE, a national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, arranged a $1.28 million loan through Freddie Mac’s Targeted Affordable Housing program to refinance an 81-unit affordable housing community for seniors. Cottonwood Senior Apartments in Placerville, California, restricts all units in the building to residents earning at or below 40% of the area median income (AMI).  The fixed-rate loan has a 15-year term with three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization. The borrower intends to use the loan to pay off an existing line of credit. Jon Killough, Executive Vice President in BWE’s Alabama office, and John Roberts, Vice President in the firm’s Dallas, Texas,... Read More »
New Active Adult Community Refinances Its Construction Debt

New Active Adult Community Refinances Its Construction Debt

JLL Capital Markets arranged $47 million in financing for Amaranth at North Brunswick, an active adult community in North Brunswick, New Jersey, that was recently constructed. The community has 222 units, and experienced strong lease-up. It is a luxury community with amenities such as a demonstration kitchen, yoga room, dog park and dog day spa.  To retire the property’s existing construction loan, Nuveen Real Estate provided the seven-year, fixed rate loan for the borrower, Kaplan Companies. JLL’s team was led by Michael Klein, Matthew Pizzolato and Michael Meisner. Read More »
Institutional Sellers Divest Three Tennessee Properties

Institutional Sellers Divest Three Tennessee Properties

Tennessee has been a popular acquisition destination in seniors housing in the last couple of months, with six deals featuring nine properties since mid-May. Brooks Blackmon of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors took part in a couple of recent Tennessee transactions. He and Kyle Hallion teamed up on the sale of a 48-unit assisted living community in Chattanooga, working on behalf of a repeat institutional REIT seller. Originally built in 2000, the community had historically operated strongly and showed well. Blueprint conducted a targeted marketing campaign and received several competitive offers within 30 days of initial marketing. An undisclosed party acquired the property as part... Read More »
CBRE Refinances West Coast Community

CBRE Refinances West Coast Community

CBRE arranged the refinance of The Springs at Tanasbourne, a Class-A seniors housing community in Hillsboro, Oregon, on behalf of a joint venture between an institutional partner and The Springs Living. Aron Will, Matt Kuronen and Michael Cregan of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the financing. The community was originally developed in 2009 by Springs and is situated within the affluent west-Portland submarket of Hillsboro. It features 148 independent living, 70 assisted living and 12 memory care units. CBRE originated a $57.5 million, five-year loan with five years of interest only through its Fannie Mae DUS lending platform. Read More »
Institutional Sellers Divest Three Tennessee Properties

VIUM Capital Announces Q2 Financing Activity

VIUM Capital closed 11 financings totaling over $350 million in the second quarter of 2023, including bridge, HUD and tax-exempt bond financings for 57 separate properties in 10 states. One of the bridge loans was arranged to finance a family partner buy-out of a 329-bed skilled nursing portfolio in Missouri. The loan totaled $13.25 million and should be ready to be submitted to HUD in six to nine months.  Another bridge loan, totaling $20 million, funded the acquisition of an assisted living portfolio in Oregon and its subsequent conversion to memory care. There were 140 units across 10 small communities.  One of the HUD highlights was a $17.874 million loan arranged for a... Read More »