• 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 »
Berkadia Arranges Active Adult Sale and Financing

Berkadia Arranges Active Adult Sale and Financing

Berkadia Institutional Solutions announced the sale and financing of a 55+ rental community in Dallas, Georgia. Earlier this month, Levin Pro LTC covered the sale of the community, which was Hardy Springs, a 149-unit single-story, built-for-rent community in the Atlanta suburb. Managing Director Russ Hardy of Berkadia Atlanta and Directors Brooks Minford and Simona Wilson of Berkadia Seniors Housing and Healthcare completed the $47.75 million, or $320,000 per unit, sale on behalf of the seller, Georgia-based Highlands Residential. John Bray of Berkadia arranged acquisition financing through Fannie Mae to support the transaction. The buyer is South Carolina-based and emerging active adult... Read More »
Berkadia Arranges Active Adult Sale and Financing

Cain Brothers Closes Bond Financing for Carmel Manor

Working on behalf of Carmel Manor, Inc. and its sponsor, The Carmelite System, Inc., Cain Brothers successfully closed $17.14 million of healthcare facilities revenue refunding bonds through Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority. The proceeds from the tax-exempt, public, fixed-rate bonds were used to refinance an existing bank loan and pay certain costs of issuance. Also as part of the refinancing, an outstanding fixed-pay interest rate swap that hedged the refunded bank loan was terminated and resulted in a $1.4 million positive termination payment to Carmel Manor, a Kentucky-based not-for-profit corporation that operates a senior care facility with 95 skilled nursing beds, 80... Read More »
VIUM Capital’s Productive October

VIUM Capital’s Productive October

VIUM Capital announced it has closed four transactions totaling more than $250 million to kick off an active fourth quarter. In Indiana, VIUM kicked off October by closing a $136.8 million acquisition loan for a skilled nursing portfolio comprising 1,470 beds across 17 facilities. The purpose of the bridge was to acquire the real estate associated with these facilities and immediately refinance as many of the loans as possible to HUD. Most of the buildings are stabilized with a strong credit tenant and manager in place, so they stand a good chance. VIUM closed another acquisition loan totaling $16.34 million for a 64-unit assisted living community in Michigan. There was an initial $4... Read More »
Lument Advises SNF Sale in Pennsylvania

Lument Advises SNF Sale in Pennsylvania

Lument Securities announced the sale of a Philadelphia-area nonprofit skilled nursing facility. Built in 1973 and renovated with a $3.5 million renovation in 2016, Saunders House comprises 180 beds and sits on 5 acres in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The nonprofit used the proceeds from the sale to fund a foundation that supports seniors housing and healthcare providers whose residents may lack financial resources. Laca Wong-Hammond and Dominic Porretta of Lument Securities handled the transaction. Read More »
Meridian Closes Over $900 Million of Acquisition Loans and Refinances

Meridian Closes Over $900 Million of Acquisition Loans and Refinances

We know that closing M&A transactions and financings has gotten much more difficult in the last couple of months, but Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare team announced $913 million in transaction volume over the past two months, bringing their year-to-date total to nearly $4 billion in 2022. Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson negotiated the deals. The highlight had to be a $319.2 million acquisition loan along with $31 million in A/R financing from a commercial bank, finance company, and mezzanine lender for 18 skilled nursing facilities comprised of 2,185 beds in Florida. But the team also closed a $120.4 million loan from a commercial bank along with a $7 million A/R... Read More »
Cambridge Closes Iowa HUD Loan

Cambridge Closes Iowa HUD Loan

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies provided a $10.4 million HUD loan to refinance Oakview Nursing and Rehabilitation and Ridgeview Assisted Living, a senior care campus also known as The Views of Burlington. Located in Burlington, Iowa, just across the Mississippi River from Illinois and just north of the Missouri border, Oakview is a 60-bed skilled nursing facility and Ridgeview is a 42-bed AL community. The campus’s Iowa-based limited liability company owner received a fully amortized, 35-year loan. It is the third loan closed in 2022 with commercial mortgage broker Denny Howell of Howell Investment Finance. Read More »