• 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 Secures Six Bridge Loans and a HUD Refinance

VIUM Capital followed up its $1.3 billion in transaction volume for the first half of 2022 with a healthy $100 million in closed transactions across seven properties in July. The activity comprised six bridge loans and one HUD refinance in six states from Pennsylvania to Washington.  The $13.68 million HUD loan was arranged for a 199-bed CCRC in Arizona. A not-for-profit acquired the property in January 2021 with the help of an acquisition bridge loan also secured by VIUM. It features 12 independent living units, 93 assisted living units and 94 skilled nursing beds. The largest loan, totaling $20 million, was arranged for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio to refinance $9 million... Read More »

Forefront Living Building New Plano Campus

Chicago-based investment bank Ziegler closed $197 million in tax-exempt and taxable bonds to fund the ground-up construction of Outlook at Windhaven Forefront Living. Set in Plano, Texas, the community will consist of 153 independent living units, 32 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. Its owner, Forefront Living, a Texas not-for-profit organization formerly known as Presbyterian Communities and Services, will also operate the community. The bonds consist of $109.5 million Series 2022A tax-exempt bonds, $88.2 million Series 2022B tax-exempt mandatory paydown securities, and $1.3 million in Series 2022C taxable bonds that were sold publicly to institutional investors. The... Read More »

CareTrust REIT Provides “B” Piece Loan

CareTrust REIT announced that it has extended a $22.25 million “B” piece secured loan for the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in California, with White Oak Healthcare Partners structuring the financing package. The portfolio comprises approximately 600 beds, and a private investment firm was the buyer. The “B” piece of the secured term loan carries a three-year maturity with two, one-year extensions and an annual SOFR-based interest rate with a minimum floor of 8.5%. White Oak also structured $53.4 million in financing to fund the deal. The borrower and operator were undisclosed, but both have long established relationships with CareTrust. This follows the REIT’s... Read More »

Blueprint Capital Markets Finances Lloyd Jones Acquisition

We recently learned that Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors not only represented the REIT owner of an Indiana community that it sold, but Blueprint Capital Markets, run by Alex Florea, secured acquisition financing for the buyer, Lloyd Jones. Rittenhouse Village of Valparaiso, a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2009 in Valparaiso, Indiana. The property appears on National Health Investors’ most recent property list, with Discovery Senior Living serving as the operator/lessee, revealing NHI as the seller in this transaction. The historically profitable community was negatively impacted by the pandemic but started to rebound operationally. Blueprint Capital... Read More »

Monarch Advisors Primes Oregon Community for Permanent Refinance

Monarch Advisors, an affiliate of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, closed a new loan to refinance and expand a 38-unit memory care community in the Portland, Oregon area. The local owner engaged Monarch to source $8.75 million of senior debt for the transaction. Alec Blanc of Monarch secured a commitment from a regional bank that specializes in senior housing nationally. The loan retired the existing bank debt on the property and provided cash at closing to fund a 16-unit expansion. At less than 60% of the as-stabilized value, the community will be well-positioned for a permanent mortgage upon completion and lease-up. The rate floats at Prime with typical financial covenants and... Read More »

Fortress Investment Group Acquires Scottsdale Property

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the sale and acquisition financing for Andara Senior Living, an independent and assisted living community in Scottsdale, Arizona. This transaction was CBRE’s third financing of the community, having previously arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the current seller (real estate investment firm Reliant Group) in 2012 and an agency refinance in 2018. Reliant decided to turn over its asset into the hands of a joint venture between Colonial Oaks Senior Living and Fortress Investment Group. Built in 2010, the community consists of 170 total units spread across a campus of two, three-story residential wings interconnected by a covered walkway. Through... Read More »