• 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 Finances Spokane CCRC Expansion

Ziegler Finances Spokane CCRC Expansion

Ziegler has been quite busy arranging bond financings for not-for-profit clients, and the team has done it again for two CCRCs in Spokane, Washington. The borrower, Rockwood Retirement Communities (affiliated with Spokane United Methodist Homes), owns and operates Rockwood South Hill and Rockwood at Whitworth, which have a combined 600 residents.   The Whitworth community is set to expand its assisted living and memory care offering, with Phase I including the demolition of a portion of The Manor building to be replaced by 48 new assisted living units and 24 new memory care units. Then, in Phase II, ownership will replace the rest of The Manor, the healthcare center, two duplexes and two... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Refinances Chicagoland Portfolio

Walker & Dunlop Refinances Chicagoland Portfolio

A portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities, all located in Illinois within 50 miles of Chicago, secured permanent financing courtesy of Walker & Dunlop. The properties include Aperion Care Plum Grove, a 69-bed SNF in Palatine, Pavilion of Waukegan, a 112-bed facility, Park View Rehab Center, another 112-bed facility in Chicago, and River View Rehab Center, which has 203 beds in Elgin.   They received a combined $38.4 million in financing from HUD, with terms that ranged from 30 to 34 years. All also featured low, fixed rates and a declining prepayment schedule. Joshua Rosen led the origination team for Walker & Dunlop.  Read More »
Cain Brothers Manages California Bond Issuance

Cain Brothers Manages California Bond Issuance

Cain Brothers served as the sole manager in the public issuance of $37.275 million of taxable, fixed-rate revenue bonds. Not-for-profit Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging, which programs all levels of senior care from short-term rehab to CCRCs to PACE and in-home care, was the recipient of the financing, which will advance refund the organization’s Series 2014A bonds. Those previous bonds were about two years from the call date, but they featured a higher interest rate, so a refinance in this low-rate environment made sense. The current bonds are insured by Cal-Mortgage.   This was actually the third refinance completed for the sponsor in the last eighteen months, giving them more funds... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Two Senior Care Communities

HJ Sims Refinances Two Senior Care Communities

HJ Sims closed a small loan for a seniors housing community in Kansas City, Missouri, and provided ownership with about $61,000 in annual debt service savings as a result. The 81-unit community caters to low-income seniors and was in need of some repairs. Also, real estate taxes had recently been imposed on the property, meaning that ownership had to buoy its finances (which was fixed by the Section 8 revenue) quickly in order to maintain a 1.05x debt service coverage that was required for not-for-profit borrowers.  So, HJ Sims arranged a $3.237 million loan through HUD, which extended the community’s debt maturity by 12 years. With the funds, ownership was also able to replace... Read More »
KeyBank Secures Financing For Idaho Property

KeyBank Secures Financing For Idaho Property

Thomas Development Co., a multifamily real estate developer based in Boise, Idaho, acquired a low-income senior apartment community in nearby Caldwell thanks to financing secured by Sarah Geis and Kevin Ruf of KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment.   The community is brand new and features 48 units comprised of 32 one-bedroom and 16 two-bedroom units. The two-story building also has a community room, exercise rooms, a library and management office. Forty-one of the apartments are restricted to residents earning 40% to 60% of the area median income, and the remaining seven units are market rate. Tomlinson Associates is the operator, and a manager will live on site. ... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Funds Working Capital For Pennsylvania Property

MONTICELLOAM Funds Working Capital For Pennsylvania Property

MONTICELLOAM, LLC and its affiliates (Monticello) secured a $1.25 million working capital loan for the operating company of a large skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania. The facility has 181 beds and is owned by an experienced owner/operator with nearly 3,600 licensed beds in its portfolio. It has grown its portfolio in the last several years thanks to acquisition financing provided by Monticello.  Read More »