• 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 »
The FY2022 HUD Rankings

The FY2022 HUD Rankings

The golden age of HUD LEAN lending is over, for now, as transaction and dollar volume in the agency’s fiscal year 2022 fell by 32% and 35%, respectively, from their FY2021 firm commitments. FY2021 was the peak, with $4.88 billion in firm commitments across 426 transactions, up from $4.08 billion and 335 transactions, respectively, in FY2020. But now, dollar volume dropped to $3.3 billion across 279 transactions in FY2022, which represents the lowest dollar volume since FY2016 ($2.84 billion) and lowest transaction total in recent memory. And this most recent fiscal year includes nearly two full quarters when interest rates were still near zero. We know that interest rates are still low,... Read More »
Brookdale Announces Large Refinance of 2023-Maturing Debt

Brookdale Announces Large Refinance of 2023-Maturing Debt

Amid rumors of a company sale process being initiated, Brookdale Senior Living came out with some news about its occupancy and balance sheet. Consolidated occupancy for September 2022 showed a 50-basis point sequential increase both on a weighted basis and a month-end basis to 76.9% and 78.4%, respectively. Month-end occupancy has now increased by 420 basis points so far in 2022. A couple more years like that should put Brookdale in a much better position, but two more years of 400-basis point occupancy increases are no guarantee, especially if 2022 saw the company gain much of the “low-hanging fruit” post pandemic. Brookdale also announced that it refinanced substantially all of its 2023... Read More »
Colliers Mortgage Refinances Texas Senior Living Community

Colliers Mortgage Refinances Texas Senior Living Community

Corley Audorff, Troon Dowds and Josh Williams of Colliers Mortgage arranged a $38 million refinance of a 159-unit seniors housing community in Bryan, Texas. Featuring independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the community is part of a larger 1,000-acre, master planned community, adjacent to a golf and country club, and has close ties with Texas A&M University, located only a few miles away. The loan carries a three-year term on an interest-only basis for the first two years and was arranged for an undisclosed borrower. The transaction comes after Messrs. Audorff and Williams were joined by Nick Skarich and Steven Marx to close a bridge acquisition loan for a portfolio... Read More »
Colliers Mortgage Funds Texas SNF Portfolio Acquisition

Colliers Mortgage Funds Texas SNF Portfolio Acquisition

Nick Skarich, Steven Marx, Corley Audorff and Josh Williams of Colliers Mortgage closed a bridge acquisition loan for a portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities in Texas. Totaling 358 beds and enrolled in QIPP, the facilities will also receive about $3.5 million in renovations from the undisclosed borrower/buyer. They obtained an $11.8 million loan with a three-year term, two one-year extensions and an interest-only period. Read More »
White Oak Healthcare Partners Closes Slew of Financings

White Oak Healthcare Partners Closes Slew of Financings

White Oak Healthcare Partners reported a busy month of September, closed six loans totaling more than $275 million in volume, all of which came with three-year, variable-rate terms. In Georgia, the debt fund closed a $110.6 million recapitalization for the landlord of a 700-bed portfolio of skilled nursing facilities. The facilities are triple-net leased to an experienced operator with a strong presence in the state. Sized to HUD guidelines, the loan will be used to refinance existing bank debt, fund closing costs and provide a dividend to the ownership group. Derek Whelan and Joe Munhall originated the transaction. Another recapitalization occurred in Ohio and California. Ross Holland and... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Finances Texas Transaction

Carnegie Capital Finances Texas Transaction

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital helped a private, Atlanta-based fund acquire a portfolio of nine skilled nursing facilities in Texas by arranging an $87.5 million bridge loan to fund the deal. Totaling 1,050 beds, the facilities were on average around 25 years old, with decent occupancy ranging from the high-70s to the low-80s. The facilities were also enrolled in QIPP and UPL, making the portfolio much more attractive to a potential buyer. That interested party was an Atlanta-based company that owns more than 30 SNFs in four states, which will bring in one of the largest operators in Texas to operate the facilities going forward. They paid $100 million, or $95,200 per bed, and the... Read More »