• 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 »
Greystone Secures Bridge Loan For SNF Campus in Pennsylvania

Greystone Secures Bridge Loan For SNF Campus in Pennsylvania

Greystone Managing Director Fred Levine recently provided a $15.8 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a skilled nursing, memory care and personal care campus in Erie, Pennsylvania. The purchase of Saint Mary’s East, now known as Nightingale Nursing and Rehab Center, was handled by Toby Siefert and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage and made possible by a two-year floating rate, interest-only loan. Greystone plans to convert the debt to a permanent HUD loan. Six buildings house 139 skilled nursing beds (39 of which are reserved for memory care patients), 131 certified personal care beds, and 91 independent living units. The original St. Mary’s East building was... Read More »
CBRE Finances New Senior Housing Construction in North Carolina

CBRE Finances New Senior Housing Construction in North Carolina

The Village on Morehead, a to-be-built, Class-A, 199-unit senior living complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, has secured construction financing courtesy of CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root. CBRE arranged this loan on behalf of a joint venture between Bridgewood Property Company and Harrison Street.  This 12-story independent and assisted living community will be operated by Retirement Center Management (RCM), Bridgewood’s wholly-owned management group. The Carolinas Medical Center, North Carolina’s largest hospital, is located less than a mile from the community.   CBRE originated a four-year, floating-rate loan with full term of interest only and... Read More »
Capital Funding Group Closes Big Bridge Financing

Capital Funding Group Closes Big Bridge Financing

Capital Funding Group announced its largest single financing deal in 10 years, closing a bridge-to-HUD loan totaling more than $650 million. The purpose of the loan is not known, nor the properties being financed, but the deal takes CFG’s year-to-date dollar volume to over $1.5 billion of secured loans. Director Craig Casagrande and Senior Associate Andrew Jones originated the transaction for CFG.  Read More »
SLIB Sells Two Memory Care Communities in Illinois

SLIB Sells Two Memory Care Communities in Illinois

Ryan Saul and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage recently facilitated the $3.75 million sale of Life’s Journey Senior Living of Taylorville and Paris in their respective towns in Illinois.  Owned by a publicly-traded REIT, both properties offer memory care services. Built in 2012 with renovations in 2014, the Taylorville location has 25,000 square feet and a 69% occupancy rate over its 46 units. The Paris location, built in 1998, is 9,200 square feet and has an occupancy of 96% across its 23 units. There are a combined 77 beds over 69 units, resulting in a price per unit of around $54,300, which falls below the $191,800 per unit average price for assisted... Read More »
KeyBank Secures Financing For California SNF

KeyBank Secures Financing For California SNF

Eagle Arc Partners, a healthcare real estate investment firm, received a $10.2 million fixed-rate loan from KeyBank Real Estate Capital through the Federal Housing Authority’s (FHA) 232/223(f) mortgage insurance program to refinance Livermore Healthcare in Livermore, CA.  Livermore Healthcare is a 30-unit, 83-bed skilled nursing facility. The property was built in 1966 and received minor improvements in 2019, including new vinyl flooring in various common area rooms and hallways. The loan has a fully amortizing 35-year term and will pay off an existing bridge loan. KeyBank provided the original acquisition financing for Eagle Arc’s acquisition of 35 total skilled nursing... Read More »
VIUM Adds New Hire Amid Flurry of Deals

VIUM Adds New Hire Amid Flurry of Deals

Two months ago, VIUM Capital announced the hiring of four more experienced bankers, all of whom had worked at Lancaster Pollard (like VIUM’s founders Steve Kennedy and Kass Matt) at one point in time. But their latest addition will come from National Center for Assisted Living. NCAL Executive Director Scott Tittle announced he will leave the organization after six years and will join VIUM in September. He is joining as a Managing Director and the firm’s first Head of Government Relations and External Affairs. As a licensed attorney, Mr. Tittle brings over 15 years of experience helping assisted living and skilled nursing operators with their regulatory, reimbursement and advocacy needs.... Read More »