• 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 »
Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare team announced another $219 million in transaction volume closed across eight skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living and memory care properties in seven states in September. The team that negotiated these deals included Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, Rafi Sod, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott.   There were a few acquisition loans, the largest being a $68 million loan from a commercial bank plus a $2.5 million A/R line for a CCRC in Michigan totaling 89 skilled nursing, 65 assisted living, 852 independent living and 31 memory care beds. Meridian also arranged the LP equity for the... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Closes a Strong September

Live Oak Bank Branches Out with Two Financings

Live Oak Bank announced its latest closings for a couple of construction projects. First, to build a high-quality, 68-unit assisted living community in Fairbanks, Alaska, the bank provided $15 million in debt for the borrower and developer, Frontier Partners, LLC, which has familiarity in the market. The debt was structured into two loans utilizing the SBA 504 program, including an interim construction loan totaling $10.2 million to be held by Live Oak and a second bridge loan prior to the 504 Debenture totaling $4.8 million.  Next, Live Oak closed a $5 million SBA 7a construction loan with a $3.4 million conventional pari-passu loan for Lotus Senior Living to... Read More »
HHC Finishes September With Several HUD Refinances

HHC Finishes September With Several HUD Refinances

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) is having a strong September, closing another $58 million in HUD refinance loans. The transactions included a $42 million loan for a 260-bed skilled nursing facility followed by $11 million in financing for a 100-bed skilled nursing facility. Both facilities are located in southern California, and the two HUD loans refinanced substantially higher rate conventional debt while also providing the experienced regional owner with longer-term financing.  HHC Finance followed those closings with a $5 million HUD refinance for a 70-bed skilled nursing facility located in Missouri. Elan Magence, Senior Vice president at HHC Finance, originated all... Read More »
Selectis Health Refinances CCRC in Oklahoma

Selectis Health Refinances CCRC in Oklahoma

Selectis Health, Inc. (OTC: GBCSD), f.k.a. Global Healthcare REIT, Inc, has refinanced its mortgage at Southern Hills Retirement Community in Tulsa, Oklahoma for $8.03 million, following renovations across the campus and the hiring of a new executive director. Greystone’s Derek Dobrin originated the deal. Southern Hills, a 40-year old CCRC that provides independent living, assisted living, and short- and long-term care services, has faced roadblocks over the last year, including winter weather damage and Covid-19 related issues. Upon closing this deal, Selectis paid off the remaining loan balances on its assisted and independent living portions. Therefore, Selectis now owns the... Read More »
Hunt Capital Finances Affordable Housing Redevelopment

Hunt Capital Finances Affordable Housing Redevelopment

Hunt Capital Partners, CRP Affordable Housing and Community Development LLC, and CRP’s affiliate Castellan Holdings LLC have closed a $5.6 million low-income housing tax credit equity financing for St. Stephen’s Retirement Center in San Diego, California. The tax credit equity will be used to renovate 60 affordable housing units for seniors and convert them from Section 202 Project Rental Assistance Contracts (PRAC) to Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) contracts. This transaction was the first development in California and the fifth in the United States to perform this conversion under the Second Component of the Rental Assistance Demonstration program. Originally built in... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Loan for Wisconsin Community

Grandbridge Arranges Loan for Wisconsin Community

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC’s Artin Anvar recently arranged a $12.6 million HUD loan for a 100-unit, 146-bed seniors housing community in Menasha, Wisconsin. The three-building campus received a permanent, fully-amortizing loan through HUD’s Interest Rate Reduction (IRR) loan program, featuring a 26.3-year term and amortization period, and a fixed interest rate of 3.2%. Proceeds of the loan will be used to pay off an existing Grandbridge HUD loan. The borrower and name of the facility were not disclosed. Read More »