• 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 »
X-Caliber Capital and CastleGreen Finance Close Senior Care Financing Package

X-Caliber Capital and CastleGreen Finance Close Senior Care Financing Package

X-Caliber Capital announced its affiliate companies, X-Caliber Rural Capital (XRC) and CastleGreen Finance (CastleGreen), closed a combination of USDA and Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing for Milford Wellness Village, a multi-tenant medical space in Milford, Delaware that supports Milford, Kent and Sussex counties. The property includes a 150-bed skilled nursing facility and is owned by Nationwide Healthcare Services, a growing SNF operator based in Brick Township, New Jersey.   XRC provided $25 million through a USDA Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan to pay off construction financing and provide for future improvements, and CastleGreen provided $7.2... Read More »
Helios Arranges Bridge Acquisition Loan for Texas SNF 

Helios Arranges Bridge Acquisition Loan for Texas SNF 

Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged a $14.2 million acquisition loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Rockwall, Texas on behalf of the buyer, HACO Health Solutions. HACO had operated the facility under a lease with a third-party landlord. The property is located in a desirable suburb of Dallas, maintained an excellent clinical reputation, offered a rehab program and reported strong financial performance. So, HACO wished to acquire the real estate and approached Helios to secure financing for the purchase. Helios ended up arranging a non-recourse bridge loan from a national specialty lender.  Read More »
CIBC Finances SNF Portfolio Takeover

CIBC Finances SNF Portfolio Takeover

A large Midwest-based operator purchased a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities and 970 beds in Pennsylvania (11) and Delaware from its landlord, a private equity firm that has been divesting. The buyer assumed HUD debt, and CIBC Bank USA financed a $73 million acquisition loan to help cover the $140.5 million, or $144,800 per bed, purchase price. Operating performance across the portfolio has been trending favorably, and the buyer will continue to utilize its economies of scale and knowledge of the market to boost census and enhance cash flow. It helps that they had been operating the buildings for at least four years prior to this acquisition, so they can hit the ground running as... Read More »
Newmark Arranges Numerous Bank Financings

Newmark Arranges Numerous Bank Financings

After a successful start to the year for M&A, Newmark was quite prolific on the financing front as well. The team arranged $53 million in acquisition debt from Regions Bank for The Carlyle Group’s December 2021 purchase of The Solea Portfolio. Totaling 463 active adult units, the three communities are located in San Antonio, Katy and Houston, Texas, respectively. They were previously owned by a joint venture between Entrepreneurial Properties Corporation and Sparrow Partners.   Next, Newmark arranged four bank refinances on behalf of Caddis Partners for four of its “Heartis” communities. Comerica Bank provided a $20.8 million loan for the 106-unit Heartis North Shore in Wisconsin and a... Read More »
Ziegler Finances Richmond Campus Expansion 

Ziegler Finances Richmond Campus Expansion 

Three years ago, Westminster Canterbury Richmond announced plans for a Vibrancy! Project at their 809-unit life plan community located in Richmond, Virginia. Currently, the community has 487 independent living units, 164 assisted living units and 158 nursing units. We assume occupancy is pretty good because they will be adding an additional118 IL units. It originally opened in 1975 as one of the first LPC’s in Virginia and has become of the largest not-for-profit single-site communities in the country.  There are two parts to the expansion. In what will be known as the Vitality Tower, 42 new IL units will be built atop a new fitness and wellness center. This center will attach... Read More »
NewPoint’s Next New Hires

NewPoint’s Next New Hires

In the midst of a spate of hiring, NewPoint Real Estate Capital announced that Sean Huntsman is joining the firm as Senior Managing Director, Seniors Housing Originations and Katherine Stewart as Managing Director and lead for NewPoint’s Seniors Housing Agency Platform. The new hires expand NewPoint’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare lending platform, after NewPoint acquired Housing & Healthcare Finance in December 2021.  Specifically, the team plans to expand into the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seniors housing space in addition to originating proprietary bridge loans for independent and assisted living properties. Mr. Huntsman and Ms. Stewart will be based in NewPoint’s new Southern... Read More »