• 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 »
Ziegler and M&T Realty Capital Corporation Colorado Refinancing

Ziegler and M&T Realty Capital Corporation Colorado Refinancing

Ziegler, in partnership with M&T Realty Capital Corporation, announced a $19.4 million Fannie Mae loan on behalf of Essex Communities to refinance the existing debt of Carmel Oaks. The 86-unit independent living community stands three stories tall and sits on four acres in Lakewood, Colorado (Denver MSA). The 10-year, fixed-rate loan was structured at 75% loan-to-value with five years of interest-only payments, followed by 30-year amortization. The loan also carried a declining prepayment schedule, which will provide the borrower with additional flexibility in future years. In addition to refinancing the existing debt, the loan also provided funding for Essex to recover capital... Read More »

CBRE Arranges Construction Financing

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged construction financing for The Crestmoor at Green Hills in Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of a joint venture between Bridgewood Property Company and Harrison Street. Aron Will and Tim Root arranged the loan, which featured a five-year term and was provided by a regional bank. The community will be operated by Bridgewood’s wholly owned management company, The Aspenwood Company. The community will be situated on a 0.99-acre irreplaceable parcel directly abutting the Green Hills Mall in the heart of the Green Hills neighborhood, an affluent neighborhood in Nashville. The proposed project will consist of 117 independent living units, 45 assisted living... Read More »

Ziegler Announces Multiple Financings

Ziegler announced the closing of $42.4 million of Cinderella Bank Placement bonds and a $7 million taxable revolving line of credit for Rose Villa, an Oregon not-for-profit corporation. Operating as a CCRC on 21.5 acres just southeast of Portland, Oregon, the community comprises 261 independent living units, 16 skilled nursing beds and 16 residential care (assisted living) beds. In addition, Rose Villa’s Phase III project consists of 41 new independent living units, and a replacement supportive care neighborhood opened in July 2022. The Phase III project is 100% presold. The borrower will use the proceeds of the Series 2022 bonds, and other available funds, to refinance the Series 2014A... Read More »

VIUM Capital Closes Four Acquisition Loans

The acquisition loans keep coming from VIUM Capital, which closed out September with four closings totaling more than $120 million in volume. The largest bridge loan, reaching $47.73 million, financed an East Coast-based owner/operator’s purchase of seven skilled nursing facilities in Colorado. Built between 1957 and 2017 (averaging 1999), the portfolio comprises seven skilled nursing facilities and a total of 558 beds in the southwestern part of the state. Before the pandemic, the portfolio was 77% occupied and produced nearly $6.2 million in annual NOI. But throughout the pandemic, occupancy decreased to 65% and NOI dropped. In the end, the portfolio sold for $51.5 million, or $92,300... Read More »

KeyBank Returns to Waltonwood Lake Boone

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured a $53.1 million permanent loan from Fannie Mae for Singh Development, a real estate developer, for its Waltonwood Lake Boone senior living community in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 2018, the Class-A community comprises 181 total independent living, assisted living and memory care units. In 2019, Peter Trazzera of KeyBank originally provided a bridge loan for the community, but the new Fannie Mae financing will allow Waltonwood to recapitalize the community with a 10-year fixed rate loan and provide additional capital for future growth within their portfolio. Singh Development currently has 13 communities operating under the Waltonwood brand in... Read More »

CBRE Refinances Coastal California Community

California-based owner/operator Westmont and a group of individual investors refinanced their senior living community on the central California coast. Located near San Luis Obispo, The Oaks at Nipomo opened in 2017 with 97 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Westmont has operated the community since its opening, and occupancy is currently above 95%, with improving operational metrics too. The CBRE National Senior Housing team of Aron Will and Adam Mincberg and the CBRE Multifamily team of Andrew Behrens and Jesse Weber arranged a $16.2 million loan through CBRE’s Freddie Mac Optigo lending platform. The fixed-rate loan came with a 10-year term and five years of... Read More »