• 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 »
Grandbridge Secures Rate Reduction Transactions

Grandbridge Secures Rate Reduction Transactions

The team at Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranged three interest rate reduction (IRR) modifications through HUD, with Artin Anvar leading the way on the deals. The largest transaction featured a $9.2 million loan secured by a 108-unit affordable senior apartment community in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Reno & Cavanaugh arranged the original $9.94 million HUD loan.  The other two transactions came in under $1 million, with a $985,000 loan secured by a 35-unit assisted living community in Seattle and a $956,000 loan secured by a 54-unit memory care community also in Seattle. Both loans featured 20-year terms and 20-year amortization schedules.  Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Goes All Out in April

Meridian Capital Group Goes All Out in April

April showers certainly brought a dizzying number of financings closed by the team at Meridian Capital Group, arranged for a combination of 26 assisted living and skilled nursing facilities in seven states. Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, David Gottlieb and Jacob Scott negotiated the transactions, which totaled $352 million. Maybe now they’ll have time to smell the May flowers.  The highlight of the two weeks was a $136 million bridge-to-HUD refinance for five facilities totaling 830 skilled nursing and 24 assisted living beds in Maryland. There were also several acquisition financings, the largest being a $62.4 million loan from a commercial bank along... Read More »
HHC Finance Wraps Up April HUD Activity

HHC Finance Wraps Up April HUD Activity

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) is also continuing to take advantage of historically low interest rates by arranging HUD refinances for its clients. Recently, the company secured three loans totaling more than $33 million for three senior care facilities. You can read about that deal here.   Then, HHC Finance wrapped up its April activity with $67 million of HUD loans closed for a portfolio of six skilled nursing facilities in Georgia. Built from 1968 to 1993, the facilities all total 620 beds. HHC Finance also closed an $18 million loan modification for an Illinois SNF. All in a month’s work.  Read More »
Greystone Refinances Long Island SNF

Greystone Refinances Long Island SNF

Greystone’s HUD streak continues in the Northeast, following up on its refinance of a Yonkers, New York skilled nursing facility with a financing closed for a large skilled nursing facility on Long Island. Featuring 214 beds, the facility was originally built in 1972 on Long Island’s North Shore. It provides care for high-acuity, medically complex patients, with services ranging from cardiac care and post-surgery orthopedic rehab to physical and occupational therapy.   Fred Levine arranged a $17.3 million HUD loan through the agency’s Section 223(a)(7) program, thereby lowering the borrower’s interest rate and extending their amortization period. The borrower was also able to raise... Read More »
CBRE Closes Two Financings

CBRE Closes Two Financings

CBRE has secured a couple of financings for seniors housing clients on opposite sides of the country. First, in the Northeast, the team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Matthew Kuronen arranged a Fannie Mae loan to refinance a 269-unit rental CCRC located near Providence, Rhode Island. The property received a $39 million loan, or $145,000 per unit, with a seven-year term, fixed interest rate and two years of interest only.  The same CBRE team also arranged construction financing for a to-be-built seniors housing community in Portland, Oregon. Set in a 16-story high-rise in the city’s Pearl District, the community will feature 177 independent living, 77 assisted living and 20 memory care... Read More »
Mitchell Family Office Takes Over American Health Partners’ SNF Portfolio

Mitchell Family Office Takes Over American Health Partners’ SNF Portfolio

Mitchell Family Office (MFO) has acquired the skilled nursing division of American Health Partners, which was formerly owned by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Having experience with ESOPs, with their transaction closed for a major Midwest senior care operator last week, Lument arranged a $168 million bridge loan to support MFO’s acquisition. Conner Girdley and Brandon Gill handled the transaction for Lument and were brought on in late summer 2020 to act as placement agents.  Proceeds of the loan were used to acquire the skilled nursing portion of the acquisition for an undisclosed price. In addition to its 29 skilled nursing facilities, the company is also focused on inpatient... Read More »