• 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 »
Carnegie Capital Closes Acquisition Financing

Carnegie Capital Closes Acquisition Financing

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital has announced another acquisition financing, this time for two skilled nursing facilities in north central Texas. Combining for 206 licensed beds and 54,000 square feet, the facilities were built in the mid-1970s. Occupancy could be improved, but that is not surprising given the past year. A national private fund emerged as the buyer, partnering with regional and local operators to manage the facilities.   They paid $8.5 million, or $41,300 per bed. Mr. Stettin secured a hybrid bank/private loan at 80% loan-to-cost (so, $6.8 million), which came with a three-year, interest-only term and a rate in the mid-4s.  Read More »
CBRE Closes Large Florida Refinancing

CBRE Closes Large Florida Refinancing

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg closed a large refinancing for a seniors housing community still in early-stage lease up in the Miami, Florida market. The community is also large and considered to be upscale.   Working with a debt fund, CBRE secured a $78 million loan, which came with a three-year term and a floating interest rate. There was also a full term of interest only. Given the property is still in lease-up, we assume that this loan took out previous construction debt, but no other details were disclosed.  Read More »
Affordable Housing Deal Gets Multiple Financing Sources

Affordable Housing Deal Gets Multiple Financing Sources

Community Preservation Partners and Hampstead Development Partners turned to KeyBank to secure capital to acquire and renovate an affordable senior apartment community in New Haven, Connecticut. Originally built in 1973, the Section 8 community consists of 121 units, split between 106 one-bedroom and 15 two-bedroom units. Plus, there is one ground-level retail bay, which includes a KeyBank branch, in the nine-story building. Going forward, the property will have a Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contract covering 112 units for 20 years, and the other nine units will also operate as tax-credit units.   KeyBank Community Development Lending and... Read More »
Greystone Handles HUD Refinance of Wisconsin SNF Portfolio

Greystone Handles HUD Refinance of Wisconsin SNF Portfolio

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a total of $34.96 million in HUD loans for a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities spread across southeastern Wisconsin. Totaling 558 beds, the facilities are located in Antigo, Burlington, Manitowoc and Kenosha.   The in-state borrower, Champion Care, purchased them in 2017 and will continue with ongoing property improvements. So, to refinance existing debt and help support those improvements, they obtained 30-year debt with a low fixed interest rate from HUD.   Read More »
Construction Costs Go Up for Indiana Senior Living Project

Construction Costs Go Up for Indiana Senior Living Project

Rising construction costs have stymied a number of senior living construction projects (much to the relief of thousands of operators looking to quickly recover their occupancies), but one development is still going ahead, albeit with a $3 million increase in financing. Evergreen Real Estate Group is building a 120-unit Medicaid assisted living community in Goshen, Indiana, which will feature 49 studio and 71 one-bedroom units, with Gardant Management Solutions serving as operator. Development costs were originally estimated to be $28 million, or $233,300 per unit. The plan was approved in late 2019, and the Goshen City Council approved the issuance of up to $22 million in tax-exempt... Read More »
Ziegler Closes “Green Bond” Financing

Ziegler Closes “Green Bond” Financing

Ziegler announced that it will soon issue the first ever “Green Bond” financing for a senior living development. And it is for quite a sum. Enso Village, located in Healdsburg, California, is set to open in 2023 with 221 independent living units, 30 assisted living units and 24 memory care units on a 16-acre campus. It is being sponsored by the San Francisco Zen Center, a network of affiliated Sōtō Zen practice and retreat centers in the Bay area, and The Kendal Corporation, a national not-for-profit provider of senior living services. Greenbrier Development is building the campus, which has already achieved 94% reservations two years out from opening. Quite impressive.  Enso Village will... Read More »