• 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 Closes Chicagoland Refinance

M&T Realty Closes Chicagoland Refinance

M&T Realty Capital Corporation provided a $15.145 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance an 80-unit active adult community in St. Charles, Illinois (Chicago MSA). Steven Muth and Matthew Pipitone led the financing for M&T, while Eric Johnson of Ziegler arranged the deal. The loan came with a 10-year term and a fixed interest rate below 4.00%. It was structured with five years of interest-only payments, followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. Also, the loan carried a declining prepayment schedule, which provides the borrower, who remains undisclosed, additional flexibility in future years.  The community being refinanced was extremely well occupied... Read More »
NorthMarq Refinances Merrill Gardens Community

NorthMarq Refinances Merrill Gardens Community

A Merrill Gardens-operated senior living community in Rancho Cucamonga, California just refinanced its debt with a $31 million loan arranged by Stuart Oswald and Gordon Mickelson of NorthMarq. Owned by a joint venture between Merrill Gardens and AEW Capital Management, the three-year old community features 112 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care.  A life insurance company provided the debt, which came with a five-year term and 30-year amortization. NorthMarq structured the loan prior to stabilization, but the community was approaching that level upon closing.  Read More »
Welltower Obtains Cheap Capital

Welltower Obtains Cheap Capital

There has been a lot of noise over the past year about the debt markets being “closed,” or partially so, spreads widening, terms tightening and lenders not wanting to venture into loans with new borrowers. And, we have to mention, Treasury rates have risen significantly, with the 10-year rate actually tripling from its low in 2020.  With that as background, we were glad to see that Welltower was able to sell $750 million in unsecured 10-year notes at an interest rate of 2.8%. That represents a spread of just 120 basis points over the 10-year Treasury rate. If not a record, that is close to a record low spread for a healthcare REIT raising funds on an unsecured basis. And it... Read More »
Hollywood, Florida Acquisition Sees Multiple Sources of Financing

Hollywood, Florida Acquisition Sees Multiple Sources of Financing

IDB Bank and Contemporary Healthcare Capital collaborated on a financing package to support the acquisition of an assisted living community in Hollywood, Florida. Built in the early 1960s and renovated in 2016, this community boasted an average occupancy of 96.5% in the last 12 months, an impressive feat to say the least. It features 105 beds in 57 units and is being purchased by an assisted living owner/operator looking to grow its presence in Broward County. They already own one community in Hollywood and provide third-party operations for another local community for 428 Healthcare Management.   To fund the deal and some immediate repairs, IDB first placed a... Read More »
Meridian Makes It Happen Down South

Meridian Makes It Happen Down South

Meridan Capital Group’s seniors housing and healthcare team secured a recapitalization refinance for an eight-property seniors housing portfolio in the Southeast. Located in South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, the communities comprise 296 independent living units, 172 assisted living units and 79 memory care units for a total of 547 units. The names of the properties and total amount of the financing were not disclosed.   Dominion Senior Living developed and operated them but will stay on as operator for the new owner, Harrison Street. Meridian’s Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik and David Gottlieb negotiated the... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Finances Oklahoma SNF Portfolio Acquisition

Carnegie Capital Finances Oklahoma SNF Portfolio Acquisition

A skilled nursing portfolio sold in Oklahoma thanks in part to acquisition financing secured by JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital. Totaling 430 beds, these facilities are located in southern Oklahoma in Marshall, Bryan and Love counties. They were operating well, but there is some upside in operations and census. The existing operator executed a purchase option to take over the portfolio at a price of $13.5 million, or $31,400 per bed.  Mr. Stettin secured both a first mortgage and mezzanine financing, with a blended rate of 7.3%, to fund the deal. The senior debt came with an interest rate of 5.75% over LIBOR with a 1.00% floor, while the mezzanine debt had a rate of 15.00% over... Read More »