• 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 »
Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler’s impressive run of activity continued with a couple of financings closed in the normally quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The larger transaction saw $136.77 million of public bonds and bank capital closed for People of Faith, Inc., d/b/a Royal Oaks Life Care Community. Originally established in Sun City, Arizona in 1981, the CCRC consists of 258 independent living apartments, 102 IL garden homes, 59 assisted living units, 56 memory care units, and a 60-bed high acuity assisted living care center, which replaced the former skilled nursing facility on the 50-acre campus.   Ownership has a 20-year master plan to expand the property... Read More »
Ohio Obligated Group Secures Bond Financing

Ohio Obligated Group Secures Bond Financing

The Methodist Retirement Center of Central Ohio, a not-for-profit, faith-based corporation doing business as The Wesley Communities, recently refinanced its three senior living communities in the Columbus, Ohio area with a bond financing arranged by Ziegler. This was Ziegler’s first underwriting with The Wesley Communities. The portfolio comprises 668 units of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. However, the obligated group excluded the assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units at one campus and the AL and MC units at another (260 units altogether) that were financed by HUD. So, the obligated group actually consists of 408 units... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Closes Fairfield County Construction Loan

Carnegie Capital Closes Fairfield County Construction Loan

An assisted living/memory care community that broke ground in Fairfield County, Connecticut this Spring (quite a time for that) just received bank financing arranged by JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital. The five-year construction loan totaled $24.5 million, or nearly $190,000 per unit, and came with a low-4% interest rate. At 65% loan-to-value, that puts the construction cost at nearly $37.7 million, or about $290,000 per unit. For Fairfield County, that is about right.   Mr. Stettin sourced and structured the loan with a national healthcare-focused bank and a participating regional bank. A major national healthcare developer was the borrower and built the community to include... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Lument Secures HUD Refinance For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Lument recently helped Advantage Living Centers refinance its 67-bed senior care facility in Armada, Michigan. Set on a 33-acre campus, the 55-year-old facility provides skilled nursing, rehabilitation and memory care, and is the preferred provider for both Henry Ford and McLaren Macomb hospitals. It is one of 11 facilities that Advantage Living Centers owns and operates in the state.   Brad Competty of Lument’s Columbus, Ohio office and Adam Walter of the Overland Park, Kansas office led the $10.8 million HUD refinance, which took out existing bank debt that Advantage Living Centers used to acquire the property in... Read More »
MonticelloAM Closes Acquisition Financing

MonticelloAM Closes Acquisition Financing

To support the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities, MONTICELLOAM, LLC (Monticello) announced that it provided $20.0 million in first lien debt financing. Also included in the financing was one unencumbered skilled nursing facility. The three properties total 251 beds and are located in Kansas and Ohio. They average nearly fifty years in age.  An experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of nearly 1,200 licensed beds was the borrower, having worked with Monticello before, including securing financing for the acquisition of a number of facilities in 2020. Relationships have been key to getting acquisition debt this year, and it seems to be paying off for these two... Read More »
Lument Hires David Boitano

Lument Hires David Boitano

David Boitano, formerly of Ventas, has made the move to Lument, where he’ll be a managing director and responsible for delivering an array of debt and structured products to the firm’s seniors housing and healthcare clients. Mr. Boitano will be based in the Tacoma, Washington office and part of Lument’s western region seniors housing and healthcare production team, which is co-led by Casey Moore and Doug Harper.  With 25 years of experience in seniors housing financing, Mr. Boitano was previously a senior vice president at Ventas, where he completed over $15 billion in healthcare real estate transactions. Before that, he was CFO and then senior vice president of finance and acquisitions... Read More »