• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »
VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

HUD’s fiscal year 2026 hit the halfway point on March 31, and so far VIUM Capital is leading the way in closed 232 loans and by total loan volume with 41 transactions and $598.0 million in volume, respectively. That represents 22% of the program’s closed loans in the first half of the fiscal year and 19% of the total volume. And 32 of VIUM’s HUD closings, or 78%, took out VIUM bridge debt. In second place was Greystone with 23 closed loans and $445 million of volume. Dwight Capital closed 17 loans, good for third place, and $304 million in volume, for fourth place. KeyBank and Capital Funding Group tied with 16 closed loans each and closed $344 million and $232 million in volume,... Read More »
Ikaria and G Capital Close Scattered Site HUD Deal

Ikaria and G Capital Close Scattered Site HUD Deal

Ikaria Capital Group and G Capital recently teamed up on a $30 million seven-asset portfolio HUD refinancing for Bethany Homes, a regional owner/operator based in Northern California. The portfolio included five six-bed Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) homes (built in 1949, 1954, 1958, 1958 and 1979), a 20-unit assisted living community called Livermore Valley Senior Living (built in 1963), and a 29-unit assisted living community built in 2021 called Bethany Homes Assisted Living. The assets are scattered across the Bay Area towns of Concord, Lafayette and Livermore. Occupancies have held steady around 90% for many years. This was a long-term project over the course of... Read More »
Berkadia Is Off to the Races

Berkadia Is Off to the Races

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare platform had an active first quarter of lending, originating more than $508 million in financing volume. The mortgage banking platform closed 32 transactions, including $128 million in Berkadia Bridge fundings across 15 deals. The seniors housing investment sales platform closed an additional 40 seniors housing and healthcare transactions.  In one notable transaction, Berkadia completed the sale and financing of The Pillars at Lakeville, a Class-A community with 100 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in Minnesota. More on the deal can be seen here on LevinPro LTC. Berkadia also completed the sale and financing of The... Read More »
Senior Care Owner Secures Additional Financing

Senior Care Owner Secures Additional Financing

MONTICELLOAM provided $144 million in combined bridge and working capital financing to a six-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Washington. The transaction includes a $140 million bridge financing and a $4 million working capital line of credit, with a 36-month initial term. The sponsor is a returning healthcare client with a regional West Coast footprint that includes more than fifteen facilities. The bridge loan was used for the acquisition of the six skilled nursing facilities, which comprise over 720 licensed beds. A week earlier, MONTICELLOAM closed an investment for $46 million with the same sponsor (read more on that here on LevinPro). Read More »

CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April, totaling $628 million, and the investments carry a blended stabilized yield of 8.8%. They were funded using a combination of proceeds received from settled equity forward contracts and a draw from CareTrust’s revolving credit facility. In one of the transactions, CareTrust acquired a 15-asset skilled nursing portfolio that comprises 1,700 beds in... Read More »

VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a bridge-to-HUD strategy. Each loan was structured with a 35-year term, providing long-term stability and improved debt service following the initial acquisition phase. VIUM also closed a $16.3 million HUD loan on a recently developed assisted living/memory care community in Michigan that has already achieved stabilization. The loan refinanced an earlier VIUM... Read More »