• 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 »
Blueprint Facilitates Refinancing of Two Communities

Blueprint Facilitates Refinancing of Two Communities

Green Lake Senior Living, a Washington State owner/operator, was able to procure a cash-out refinance on two of its seniors housing communities in the Tri-Cities area with the help of Alex Florea and Dan Mahoney at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Capital Markets group. Green Lake acquired the communities during the pandemic as value-add investments from a pair of national operators. Both were older, “C” quality communities combining for 160 beds.  Green Lake was able to quickly improve performance through its regional presence and by leaning into the state’s Medicaid program. Such an improvement made a cash-out refinance a no-brainer, and Blueprint marketed the... Read More »
Regions Bank Originates Loan for L.A. Construction Project

Regions Bank Originates Loan for L.A. Construction Project

The Regions Bank Healthcare Real Estate team, including Chris Honn and Amber Crosby, originated a $21.7 million construction and mini-perm loan for a joint venture between a Southeast-based developer/operator, an Arizona-based partner/operator and a Midwest-based private equity firm. The project, located in Los Angeles County, is expected to include 80 units, comprising 58 assisted living and 22 memory care units. The loan amount is approximately $271,250 per unit. It has a floating rate across a five-year initial term, four years of interest only and a staged reduction in loan repayment recourse. At or prior to maturity, Regions may also provide an agency permanent debt solution for the... Read More »
HHC Finance Refinances Two Idaho Communities

HHC Finance Refinances Two Idaho Communities

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance), which recently announced that it is now part of and will be known as NewPoint Real Estate Capital going forward, closed a $19.5 million HUD refinance for Homestead Senior Living in Rexburg, Idaho. The loan refinanced conventional debt with a much higher rate and allowed the borrower to get an interest rate in the low-mid two’s.  Homestead has 178 units of assisted living, memory care and independent living services across two campuses in Rexburg and nearby St. Anthony. Both properties were built in the early 2000s and have undergone several expansion projects over the last 15 years. Helios Healthcare Advisors brokered the deal, and Charles... Read More »
Ziegler Provides Financing for Ohio Not-For-Profit

Ziegler Provides Financing for Ohio Not-For-Profit

Ziegler announced it has priced Series 2022 bonds on behalf of Ohio Living, a not-for-profit owner/operator of twelve seniors housing communities in Ohio. Nine of the properties are full-service life plan communities offering independent and assisted living units, along with skilled nursing beds. Proceeds from the bonds will be used to refund Series 2013A bonds and pay costs of issuance associated with the financing.  The bonds will realize net present value savings on the Series 2013A refunding in excess of $15 million, or greater than 30%. The Series 2022 Bonds consists of tax-exempt fixed interest rate serial bonds and a final term bond. They have a 19-year maturity that “wraps” around... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Secures Refinance of AL Community

Carnegie Capital Secures Refinance of AL Community

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital helped secure the refinance of a small assisted living community in a secondary market near Charlotte, North Carolina. The community was built in the 1980s and features under 30 units of assisted living. It operated well throughout the pandemic, and around half of its census comprised Medicaid residents. There was a triple-net lease on the property that was set to expire prior to the loan’s maturity.  With the help of Mr. Stettin, the community’s mom & pop owner secured a roughly $1.5 million loan from a local bank with a sub-4% interest rate fixed for a five-year term. It came with no prepayment penalty for the life of the loan and paid off all secured... Read More »
Blueprint Facilitates Refinancing of Two Communities

CIT Arranges Refinancing in Arizona

CIT Group Inc.’s Healthcare Finance team recently arranged a $34 million refinancing of the Enclaves at Chandler, a 162-unit community in Chandler, Arizona. Built in 2018, the Enclaves features 89 independent living units, 49 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. It’s located in an attractive location with strong demand for seniors housing services. Spectrum Retirement Communities LLC, a developer and owner/operator of seniors housing based in Denver, Colorado, was the borrower. Read More »