• 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 »
People’s United Bank Closes Several Financings

People’s United Bank Closes Several Financings

People’s United Bank announced several closed loans for clients in the Northeast. First, to finance the development of a brand-new, 60-unit/80-bed assisted living and memory care community in Manalapan, New Jersey, the bank provided a $14.3 million construction loan, which comes out to $233,300 per unit of debt. HJ Sims led the solicitation process. The loan comes with a five-year commitment, 30-year amortization and 30 months of interest-only payments for both the construction and lease-up periods.   The borrower was MRC Manalapan, a newly formed not-for-profit special purpose entity formed to build and operate the community. It is controlled by two principals, including LV Development,... Read More »
CBRE Secures Bridge Financing For Orange County Community

CBRE Secures Bridge Financing For Orange County Community

Bridge lending may be in a period of relative inactivity not seen for some time, but CBRE got creative working with a multifamily bridge lending program to refinance a brand-new senior living community in Orange County, California. The luxury community in Laguna Niguel features 176 independent living/ assisted living flex units and 22 units for memory care on an irreplaceable 11.6-acre site.   It was built in 2018 and consists of numerous amenities, including a 15,000-square foot rooftop with a lounge, sunroom, open-air art studio and putting green. Atria Senior Living operates the community under its “Signature” brand on behalf of the joint venture owners Fremont Realty Capital and... Read More »
Cain Brothers Finances North Carolina CCRC Expansion

Cain Brothers Finances North Carolina CCRC Expansion

A CCRC in Greensboro, North Carolina is about to embark on a massive expansion with the backing of a bond financing underwritten by Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets. Founded over 100 years ago as the first Masonic retirement community, the not-for-profit WhiteStone, which is owned by The Masonic and Eastern Star Home of North Carolina, is set on a 43-acre campus. It has been managed by Life Care Services since 2006.   LCS Development is handling the expansion, which will feature 67 additional independent living units, a 36-unit assisted living/memory care building and an extensive renovation of the existing 20-year-old skilled nursing facility which will convert many... Read More »
People’s United Bank Closes Two More Financings

People’s United Bank Closes Two More Financings

Continuing the series of closings from People’s United Bank that we first covered last week, the bank then closed a $9 million construction loan to cover renovations at a newly merged senior living community in Connecticut. An existing customer of People’s United Bank for many years, Pierce Memorial Baptist Home is a rental CCRC in Brooklyn, Connecticut that features independent living, assisted living, short-term rehab and long-term care services. It recently merged with Connecticut Baptist Homes (CBH) but will continue to maintain a separate state license and cost reports, as per the state.   A plan to renovate and convert an empty SNF wing to a 10-unit AL/memory care building, as well... Read More »
Truist Refinances Colorado CCRC

Truist Refinances Colorado CCRC

Truist closed its first CCRC deal in the state of Colorado, acting as sole lender of a $50 million refinance of a property in Boulder, near Denver. Set in a residential part of Boulder, the not-for-profit CCRC was founded by the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church on 20 acres of land. It opened in 1960 with 100 apartments and has grown to care for more than 350 seniors. A 98-unit independent living expansion was also completed in 2019, along with several capital improvement projects, all totaling about $90 million.  Truist arranged a $50 million refinance for the community, which will provide significant cash flow savings, liquidity and flexibility to ownership.... Read More »
Despite COVID-19, HUD Lean Records Strong 2020 Fiscal Year

Despite COVID-19, HUD Lean Records Strong 2020 Fiscal Year

This was not another ordinary fiscal year for HUD ended September 30, but the LEAN program still ended with nearly $4.4 billion in closings. That follows more than $3.7 billion in closings in the fiscal year 2019, which itself represented a slight increase over 2018’s volume. To reach such a high under the current circumstances, with in-person property inspections virtually impossible for months and HUD employees adjusting to working at home like so many of us, took great flexibility and a lot of hard work to get done.   Greystone was head and shoulders atop the list this fiscal year, both in terms of transactions closed and in dollar volume. The firm closed 75 loans totaling more than... Read More »