• 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 »
Regions Bank Announces Several Loan Closings

Regions Bank Announces Several Loan Closings

Loan requests keep pouring into Regions Bank, and the team has been for the most part obliging. Of course, the bank has to be discerning on which projects or deals to fund, and most likely more conservative in its terms, but we’re happy to see a continuous flow of activity from them. We know most lenders would like to be closing more deals, if it were not for the slower third-party approvals and inspections these days.   Jack Boulder of Regions Bank completed a two-part financing to support Trilogy Health Services’ acquisition of four skilled nursing and assisted living properties. Located in Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan, the properties all provided a mix of... Read More »
KeyBank Refinances Two Bickford Senior Living Properties

KeyBank Refinances Two Bickford Senior Living Properties

Bickford Senior Living refinanced two of its seniors housing communities in Iowa through HUD, with the help of John Randolph of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Commercial Mortgage Group and Grant Saunders of KeyBank’s Healthcare Finance Group. Bickford received $17 million in combined HUD financing, with fully amortizing 35-year terms.  Both communities were built in 1998, with the Davenport location including 35 assisted living and seven memory care units and the Marion campus comprising 31 assisted living and seven memory care units. They are two of Bickford’s 65 seniors housing operations in 11 states. In addition to visiting physical, occupational and speech... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

The team at Live Oak Bank arranged a couple of financings for two owner/operator clients. First, to refinance a newly built memory care community in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Live Oak provided a five-year, floating rate bridge loan totaling $12.3 million to the developer, Watercrest Senior Living. Opened in March 2018, the purpose-built community has 64 units and operates under Watercrest’s “Market Street” brand. Watercrest worked with Lument to arrange the financing. This brings Watercrest’s portfolio to 13 communities in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia.  The second transaction saw Live Oak Bank provide a $28.5... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Portfolio of Florida Memory Care Communities

Berkadia Refinances Portfolio of Florida Memory Care Communities

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group refinanced a portfolio of six small memory care communities in central Florida. When we say small, we mean it, as each property featured six units. Occupancy was a combined 99% at the time of underwriting and has consistently been fully occupied with a waiting list.   Berkadia processed the transaction on behalf of the California-based sponsor as a scattered site loan through HUD. The $5.16 million loan represented a 60% loan-to-value ratio and came with a 34-year term. It retired a short-term bridge loan that was arranged in June 2020 to retire several small individual property loans. Ownership was also able to extract... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges HUD Financing for Seven SNFs

Walker & Dunlop Arranges HUD Financing for Seven SNFs

The Chicago-based Walker & Dunlop HUD Finance Team announced that it has structured a combined $126.65 million in financing for seven skilled nursing facilities located throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Joshua Rosen led the origination team on the deal. Four of the properties received financing from the LEAN program, while the three others went through the agency’s loan modification program. The loans included terms ranging from 30 to 34 years.   Three of the properties are located in Massachusetts (Brockton, Chelsea and Fall River), three in Illinois (Chicago, Niles and Northbrook) and one in Romeo, Michigan.  Read More »
Greystone Secures Bridge Financing for Missouri SNF

Greystone Secures Bridge Financing for Missouri SNF

The Greystone Seniors Housing Capital Markets team secured bridge financing to refinance a 147-bed skilled nursing facility in Missouri. Owned by RSF Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm focused primarily on the seniors housing sector, the facility was built around 10 years ago. There was previously a five-year term loan on the property, which is being taken out by a new $12 million loan with a two-year term.  Read More »