• 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 »
Hines Launches Flagship Tactical Fund Series Program

Hines Launches Flagship Tactical Fund Series Program

On January 10, Hines announced the launch of its flagship tactical fund series in the United States. The fund is looking to raise $1 billion in equity by May 2022, which would provide purchasing power of $2.5 billion after leverage. Their goal is to renovate struggling and undervalued properties in 30 of the country’s largest cities, including senior living communities hampered by the pandemic. Hines is banking on the fact that many owners may have to reexamine their portfolios, or pivot altogether, after the last couple of years, and we would not disagree. The Hines U.S. Property Recovery Fund is a closed-end, diversified fund, targeting tactical investment opportunities across the... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Community in Oregon

CBRE Refinances Community in Oregon

Harrison Street and The Springs Living recently refinanced its jointly owned seniors housing community in Lake Oswego, Oregon (Portland MSA), with the help of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root of CBRE National Senior Housing. CBRE had also arranged the original construction loan for the community in 2017, so the team was clearly familiar with it. They secured a non-recourse, four-year loan, with a floating rate and three years of interest only, through a national bank. Opened in 2019 with 216 independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the community also features amenities like a rooftop deck with covered dining and a wine bar, an indoor heated swimming pool and hot tube,... Read More »
X-Caliber Arranges Financing for SNF Portfolio in New England

X-Caliber Arranges Financing for SNF Portfolio in New England

A portfolio of 10 skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts and Connecticut has been sold to an experienced and highly regarded owner/operator with financing in hand from X-Caliber Capital. The $100 million loan comes to about $70,000 per bed in debt, placing the purchase price somewhere above that. Built in the 1980s and 1990s and totaling 1,416 skilled nursing beds, the properties are cash flowing and have occupancy around 85%. The purchase price and other details are undisclosed. Read More »
CIBC Arranges Financings for Several SNF Purchases

CIBC Arranges Financings for Several SNF Purchases

One side to the surge in M&A activity in the last couple of weeks is the financing side of it, and CIBC Bank USA announced a couple of acquisition loans for skilled nursing purchases. CIBC’s Adam Panos first closed a $91 million loan with a three-year term for Summit Healthcare REIT’s acquisition of eight skilled nursing facilities totaling 826 beds. The purchase price came to $130 million, or $157,000 per bed, and brings the private REIT’s total 2021 investment in skilled nursing M&A to $150 million. Summit is leasing the facilities back to a local operator on a triple-net basis. CIBC served as the sole senior lender, and Oxford Finance also worked on financing the deal.   Next,... Read More »
Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

Meridian Closes Slew of Transactions to End 2021

It was a banner year for Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team, which closed more than $5.5 billion in transaction volume in 2021, including $918 million in transactions for 56 seniors housing and healthcare facilities in 16 states over the last month to end the year.   These transactions were negotiated by Senior Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team, Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin; Managing Director, Josh Simpson; Vice Presidents, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, and Rafi Sod; and Senior Associates, Yuval Hananya, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott.  The team’s December transactions include several refinances, including a $130... Read More »
JLL Arranges Refinance for Texas Community

JLL Arranges Refinance for Texas Community

JLL Capital Markets arranged a $37.5 million refinance for Hidden Springs of McKinney, a 194-unit independent living/assisted living/memory care community in McKinney, Texas. Joel Mendes and Jason Skalko represented the borrower, a joint venture between CREC Real Estate and Madison Marquette, in securing a non-recourse, fixed-rate loan through a life insurance company. The loan came with a five-year term, with extension options. Completed in 2020, Hidden Springs of McKinney features large units and high-end finishes, with plentiful amenities like an indoor pool, fitness center and dog park.  Read More »