• 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 »
VIUM Capital Closes $2.1 Billion in 2022 Transaction Volume

VIUM Capital Closes $2.1 Billion in 2022 Transaction Volume

VIUM Capital closed out its 2022 with $2.1 billion in transaction volume across 70 deals, setting another annual record for the company that launched in early 2020. The transactions comprised bridge loans and permanent debt secured for 186 separate properties in 22 states. Helping to propel the firm’s productive year was its joint venture with Merchants Capital to launch a healthcare debt fund and its acquisition of Armstrong Mortgage Company to become a stand-alone HUD/GNMA approved lender/servicer.  Some of the recent activity included three loans closed for senior care facilities in three states. There was an $18.1 million bridge-to-HUD loan to support the acquisition of a skilled... Read More »
Greystone Secures Fannie Mae Loan for LCS Community

Greystone Secures Fannie Mae Loan for LCS Community

On the same day that Tyler Armstrong of Greystone arranged a bank loan for LCS to refinance a 169-unit senior living community in Waco, Texas, he also secured a $40.387 Fannie Mae refinance for another LCS-owned community in League City, Texas (Houston MSA). Built in 2018 by LCS Development, The Delaney at South Shore features 204 units and nearly 205,000 square feet of independent living, assisted living and memory care.  Mr. Armstrong structured a fixed-rate, non-recourse loan with a 10-year term, 30-year amortization and five years of interest only. Read More »
VIUM Capital Closes $2.1 Billion in 2022 Transaction Volume

Walker & Dunlop Refinances Nebraska Communities

Walker & Dunlop provided HUD refinancings for two assisted living communities in Nebraska: Fallbrook Assisted Living and Memory Care in Lincoln and Oxbow Living Center in Ashland. Kevin Giusti and Mikko Erkamaa led the W&D teams in both deals on behalf of the borrower, MJ Senior Housing. Both transactions refinanced floating-rate debt and provided cash proceeds. Opened in 2019 with 71 units of assisted living and memory care, Fallbrook received a $13.3 million loan. Oxbow, which was built more than 16 years ago with 79 AL and MC units in three stories, received a $7.6 million loan. Read More »
Lument Handles Sale & Two Financings

Lument Handles Sale & Two Financings

The Lument team pulled double duty for the sale of two assisted living communities in Florida, representing the seller in the deal and arranging acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer. Savannah Court of Lake Wales and Savannah Court of Haines City, which both feature 45 units of assisted living, were acquired by Innovation Senior Living. Both serve Medicaid-waiver residents, and Innovation has plans to add 15 licensed beds to each community, in addition to growing census and investing in renovations. The additional beds will allow the communities to accept more Medicaid waiver residents into double occupancy rooms.  Innovation funded the purchase with a single loan in a cross-pool... Read More »
Greystone Secures Two Bank Refinances

Greystone Secures Two Bank Refinances

Greystone placed a $22.5 million loan with a regional bank to refinance TREEO South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Utah. Tyler Armstrong of Greystone closed the transaction on behalf of Leisure Care. The community was built in 2015 by One Eighty with the help of $3.65 million in mezzanine financing arranged by HJ Sims. The new mortgage comes with a floating rate, five-year term and 30-year amortization. It was structured with one year of interest-only payments and a mid-200s basis point loan spread over SOFR. Mr. Armstrong also placed a $30 million loan with a national bank for LCS to refinance The Delaney at Lake Waco, a 169-unit senior living community in Waco, Texas.... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Refinances Wisconsin AL Community

Walker & Dunlop Refinances Wisconsin AL Community

Walker & Dunlop arranged a $14.7 million HUD loan to refinance Reena Senior Living, an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin (between Madison and Milwaukee). The community consists of a three-story assisted living building that was built in 2016 and a one-story memory care addition that was built in 2019. Kevin Giusti and Matthew Lund of Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Tukka Properties, a Wisconsin-based senior living developer that has partnered with Lifesprk Senior Living, which acquired Tealwood Senior Living in 2021. Read More »