• 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 »

Live Oak Bank/Berkadia Close Utah Loan

Live Oak Bank closed a $16.3 million A/B unitranche loan for an owner/operator of skilled nursing facilities in Utah. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group assisted in the process, too. The financing provided bridge-to-HUD debt for a 38-bed transitional care/skilled nursing facility that opened in 2019 and provides short-term rehabilitation services. The loan announcement comes after Live Oak Bank closed a $13 million loan to refinance a 94-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lawrenceville, Georgia. That property also opened in 2019 and was leasing up when the pandemic began. So, the loan allows for additional time to fill the community before a... Read More »
Lument Refinances Two Oklahoma SNFs

Lument Refinances Two Oklahoma SNFs

Lument closed $16.9 million in HUD financing for two skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma. The two skilled nursing facilities combine for a total of 266 beds. One was built in 2006, with an addition completed in 2010, while the larger facility was built in 1953 and renovated in 1967, 1985 and 2018. Bill Wilson, managing director at Lument, arranged the loans, which were issued with 35-year amortizations and fixed interest rates. They replaced existing variable-rate, personally guaranteed commercial bank debt and also reimbursed nearly $2 million of the borrower’s previous capital expenditures. Read More »
Midcap Financial Closes Loan on a Seniors Housing Portfolio

Midcap Financial Closes Loan on a Seniors Housing Portfolio

MidCap Financial announced the closing of a transaction with a joint venture between NexCore Group and an affiliate of Heitman LLC. The floating-rate first mortgage loan facilitated the recapitalization of six seniors housing communities totaling 821 independent living, assisted living and memory care units across the southeast. All of the communities are located in Florida.  The operator of the communities will be NexCore’s seniors housing development and management division, Experience Senior Living. MidCap Financial’s loan is structured to both facilitate the recapitalization of the communities and provide future funding to complete construction of one of the... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges Ohio Refinancing

Walker & Dunlop Arranges Ohio Refinancing

Walker & Dunlop arranged a $10.9 million HUD 232/223(f) refinance of a skilled nursing facility in Marysville, Ohio (Columbus MSA). Built in 1967, Monarch Skilled Nursing & Rehab comprises 75 units and recently underwent a rehabilitation of the existing units in addition to adding assisted living units to the facility. The refinancing was arranged on behalf of Janet Harris and Holland Management. Frank Cassidy of Walker & Dunlop handled this transaction. Read More »
White Oak Healthcare Partners Closes Two Transactions

White Oak Healthcare Partners Closes Two Transactions

White Oak Healthcare Partners, a subsidiary of White Oak Healthcare Finance, secured a $32.8 million financing for the acquisition of a skilled nursing facility in Southern California. A private investment firm acquired the facility, which is triple-net leased to an operator with experience in the state of California. The three-year, variable-rate loan came with two one-year extension options and was sized to HUD guidelines. Ross Holland and Joe Munhall originated the transaction. White Oak Healthcare Partners also executed a financing of just over $19 million for the acquisition of another skilled nursing facility in California for an owner/operator with significant experience in the... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Refinance in Oklahoma City

Live Oak Bank Closes Refinance in Oklahoma City

Live Oak Bank announced it has closed a $13 million refinance loan for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based Mansions Senior Living. The financing supported the refinance of existing debt for a 94-unit assisted living and memory care community in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which originally opened in 2019. The property was still in lease-up when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the subject loan will allow additional time for the property to complete that lease-up. Live Oak Bank’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Real Estate lending platform provided the financing for this transaction. Read More »