• 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 »
HHC Finance Closes Three HUD Deals And Large Acquisition Financing

HHC Finance Closes Three HUD Deals And Large Acquisition Financing

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) arranged a trio of HUD loans this month, including a $14.5 million loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in New York, a $14 million loan for a 170-bed SNF in Tennessee and a $6.5 million loan for another 120-bed SNF in New York. Each loan closed with a rate in the lower 2s and refinanced more expensive conventional debt.  Turning to HHC Finance’s Capital Advisory Group, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, the team had an active end to the year with $550 million in deals arranged in December alone. Most notably, Messrs. Haas and Gamss helped arrange acquisition financing for a skilled nursing portfolio in the... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Reports Strong End To Year

Cushman & Wakefield Reports Strong End To Year

Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets ended 2020 with a couple of sales (and a handful of both acquisition and construction financings too). First, on behalf of Healthcare Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTIA), the team sold a 120-bed SNF in the Tampa, Florida market, representing the first of three Florida divestments totaling $118 million for HTIA.  Cushman & Wakefield followed that up with a land sale in Cherry Creek, Colorado, an affluent submarket of Denver, for the development of a 137-unit independent/assisted living community. Titan Development sold the fully entitled site to a joint venture between Ryan Companies, Cadence... Read More »
Live Oak Bank’s Construction Lending Spree

Live Oak Bank’s Construction Lending Spree

There’s no doubt that construction lending has slowed, and the loans that do close are much more conservative and now almost always require some sort of recourse. Nevertheless, Live Oak Bank closed three construction financings in December alone, capping off a successful year for the bank’s senior care lending platform.  First was an $8.5 million loan for a to-be-built senior living community in Reidsville, North Carolina. ALG Senior had controlled a Certificate of Need to operate assisted living in the county for many years and eventually purchased a 12.5-acre site. The community will feature 58 units and 75 beds of both independent living and assisted living, and... Read More »
Monarch Advisors Finances New Oregon Senior Living Project

Monarch Advisors Finances New Oregon Senior Living Project

Just before the end of the year, Alec Blanc of Monarch Advisors closed a construction loan for a to-be-built assisted living community in Redmond, Oregon. Developed by nearby Bend, Oregon-based Juniper Canyon Living, the project will feature 108 units of all private pay. It will be operated under the Oregon Specific Needs program, which provides assisted living care to seniors with mental illness. The project is already underway and will be completed in phases, the first by the middle of this year and continuing through to the middle of 2022. Juniper Canyon Living has a number of similar projects in the works over the next few years.  Monarch sourced the senior debt,... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Eugene, Oregon Community

CBRE Refinances Eugene, Oregon Community

CBRE closed out 2020 with a cash-out refinance of a 217-unit senior living community in Eugene, Oregon, with Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root working on the deal. A joint venture between The Springs Living and Harrison Street was the borrower, having developed the property in 2017 with construction financing also secured by CBRE. The property experienced strong lease-up and stabilized within 13 months of opening. It is currently 96% occupied across the 110 independent living units (including 31 cottages), 75 assisted living units and 32 memory care units. Not too bad for a pandemic.  The five-year, non-recourse loan was provided by a national bank and came... Read More »
Harborview Handles Three Financings And A Sale

Harborview Handles Three Financings And A Sale

The team at Harborview Capital Partners closed several transactions for senior care facilities before the end of the year. First, David Nussbaum and Eli Kutner advised on the sale and arranged acquisition/construction financing for a hotel in Fishkill, New York to be converted to a 200-bed assisted living community. The $10.7 million loan came with a three-year, interest-only term and five-year perm option with a rate of LIBOR+325.  Next, Mr. Nussbaum originated a $23.9 million loan to refinance a 193-bed assisted living community in Brooklyn, New York. The non-recourse loan came with a 30-year amortization and 10-year term.  Finally, Ephraim Kutner and Jonathan Kutner... Read More »