• 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 »
Bellwether Refinances for HRA

Bellwether Refinances for HRA

Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC (BWE), a national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, closed a $21 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance HarborChase of Naperville, an assisted living and memory care community located in Naperville, Illinois. BWE’s Ryan Stoll and Taylor Mokris originated the loan on behalf of the borrowers, affiliates of Bourne Financial Group and HRA Senior Living (Harbor Retirement Associates).  Opened in 2016, the community has 101 units in two stories. HRA Senior Living operates it, in addition to four others in the state of Illinois. Its original construction loan was taken out as a result of this transaction. The new loan has a... Read More »
Lument Closes Nearly $1.5 Billion in 2021 Seniors Housing Transactions

Lument Closes Nearly $1.5 Billion in 2021 Seniors Housing Transactions

Lument announced today that it closed 137 seniors housing and care transactions in 2021 totaling $1.49 billion, a record for the company, representing financings in 31 states. The volume included 18 HUD 232/223(f) transactions totaling $154.4 million, eight HUD 223(a)(7) refinances totaling $114.4 million, two HUD 223(f) refinances totaling $30.5 million, and a new construction loan from HUD for an assisted living community in Illinois. The firm closed deals across the country, with 21 transactions for clients based in Ohio, 17 in Indiana, 12 in Illinois, eight in Virginia, and six each in California, Minnesota and Oklahoma, among others. In all, Lument also originated 92 rate... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Provide Funds to SNF Portfolios Struggling During COVID

Walker & Dunlop Provide Funds to SNF Portfolios Struggling During COVID

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced that it structured a little over $77 million in financing for two skilled nursing portfolios totaling ten properties and 848 units. The Cascades Portfolio, located throughout Utah, totals seven properties and 693 units. The Rollins-Nelson Portfolio includes three properties and 155 units located in Englewood, Long Beach, and Perris, California. Walker & Dunlop’s Kevin Giusti, Brian Neal, and Andrew Westling arranged financing from HUD, a regional bank and a finance company to provide for the Cascades portfolio. For the Rollins-Nelson portfolio, the team refinanced the existing HUD loan, capitalizing on a low interest rate and extending the term... Read More »
BMO Harris Provides $380 Million Credit Facility for Institutional Investor

BMO Harris Provides $380 Million Credit Facility for Institutional Investor

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group announced its role as lead arranger and administrative agent on a portfolio term loan refinancing facility in excess of $380 million for 15 seniors housing communities throughout the United States. The properties are managed by five regional operating partners and include over 1,700 units of independent living, assisted living, and memory care. BMO partnered with Capital One, N.A., which served as joint lead arranger, to form the syndicate for the facility, which will be offered at a floating rate. The properties’ owner is a national senior housing real estate investor.   Read More »
NHI Funds Construction for Wisconsin AL/MC Community

NHI Funds Construction for Wisconsin AL/MC Community

Development has slowed, but we all know it has not stopped. One of the main barriers to getting development projects off the ground these days has been securing financing for them, considering the risks of funding a project amid soaring construction costs and an uncertain stabilization period. But certain projects are going ahead, and National Health Investors, Inc. announced that it will fund a $28.5 million construction loan to build The Courtyard of Fitchburg, a 108-unit assisted living/memory care community in Fitchburg, Wisconsin (Madison area). The four-year loan comes with an annual interest rate of 8.5% and two one-year extensions. Plus, NHI has a purchase option on the property... Read More »
Jacksonville Community Refinances

Jacksonville Community Refinances

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranged $19.5 million in financing for Starling at San Jose, a seniors housing community in Jacksonville. The transaction retired a bridge loan with Grandbridge’s parent company, Truist Bank. Built in 2017, the community features 66 assisted living and 24 memory care units. It was developed by Starling, with Choate Construction serving as the contractor. No other details about the property were disclosed. Richard Thomas and the Grandbridge’s Atlanta-based Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance team arranged the financing.  Read More »