• 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 »
M&T Realty Capital Arranges Refinancing in Oregon

M&T Realty Capital Arranges Refinancing in Oregon

M&T Realty Capital’s Steven Muth led the refinancing of a 98-unit memory care community in Portland, Oregon. The $20 million HUD loan was non-recourse and featured a 35-year fully amortizing term with a fixed interest rate below 2.4%. The debt came in at around an 80% loan-to-value, putting the value of the property at $255,100 per unit. This loan refinanced M&T Realty’s existing bridge loan on the property, which was secured at the beginning of March for a local owner/operator to acquire the community from a California-based national operator. Cushman & Wakefield handled that off-market sale. Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Philadelphia Operator

Ziegler Closes Financing for Philadelphia Operator

Ziegler arranged $39.4 million in bond financing for Simpson, a nonprofit operator based in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia. Formerly known as Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged, the borrower operates three CCRCs in the region: Simpson House in Philadelphia, Simpson Meadows in Downington and Jenner’s Pond in West Grove. In total, the portfolio includes 482 independent living, 56 personal care, 118 assisted living and 178 skilled nursing units. As a result of this financing, Simpson’s entire capital structure now comprises all public, fixed-rate bonds. Proceeds from this deal will refinance existing bonds from 2015 and fund capital expenditures, among other uses.  Read More »
Greystone Arranges Financing for Atlanta Community

Greystone Arranges Financing for Atlanta Community

Greystone arranged financing for a 193-unit seniors housing complex in Atlanta owned by Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I LP. Matt Miller of Greystone’s Senior Housing Capital Markets Team handled the transaction, which did not disclose loan amounts. However, a large regional bank provided the funds, which include a three-year term. The property, managed by an experienced regional operator, includes independent living, assisted living and memory care units across two construction phases, the second of which was completed in late 2020.  Read More »
JLL Arranges Two Refinances Through Debt Funds

JLL Arranges Two Refinances Through Debt Funds

The team at JLL Capital Markets refinanced a couple of seniors housing properties in the Southeast, working with a debt fund in both transactions. The first, and largest, deal saw a five-year $57.5 million loan arranged for Windsor at Celebration, a 239-unit, luxury seniors housing community near Orlando in Celebration, Florida. Built in 2018 by a partnership between Square Mile Capital Management and Big Rock Partners, the community features 133 independent living, 73 assisted living and 33 memory care units in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom suites averaging 853 square feet. JLL’s Senior Director Joel Mendes, Senior Managing Director... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Florida CCRC Operator

Ziegler Closes Financing for Florida CCRC Operator

Ziegler closed a $16.645 million bond series for Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, Inc. (Oak Hammock), a not-for-profit corporation formed in 1998 to own and operate a large CCRC in Gainesville, Florida. The 135-acre campus consists of 269 independent living units, 46 assisted living units, 24 memory support units and 73 skilled nursing beds. All of the skilled nursing beds are Medicare certified and currently maintain a five-star CMS rating.  The proceeds of the Series 2021 bonds will be used, together with other available funds, to refinance outstanding Series 2017B Notes, finance approximately $1.876 million of capital expenditures, and fund a debt service reserve... Read More »
BMO Harris Bank Closes Loan for SNF Portfolio

BMO Harris Bank Closes Loan for SNF Portfolio

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed a $30 million term loan and a $35 million revolving line of credit for a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities operated by Life Generations Healthcare LLC. Headquartered in Santa Ana, Life Generations operates 28 communities in California and Nevada with over 3,100 licensed beds. In addition, the company offers behavioral health programs, assisted living and memory care services. Further details on the financing were not disclosed.  This news follows BMO Harris Bank’s announcement that it provided a $123 million loan to an affiliate of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. That loan provided... Read More »