• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • SLIB Shoots Out of the Gates in 2026

    On the heels of a prolific 2025, Senior Living Investment Brokerage is starting 2026 strong with a slew of closings across the country. The largest was a portfolio featuring three seniors housing communities in Alaska (two) and Idaho. Totaling 243 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, the communities were built in the... Read More »
Bain Capital and Capitol Seniors Housing Refinance Near Manhattan

Bain Capital and Capitol Seniors Housing Refinance Near Manhattan

JLL Capital Markets announced that it arranged a $48 million refinancing for two Class-A seniors housing communities in New York and New Jersey. JLL’s Seniors Housing Debt Advisory team worked on behalf of the borrower, Bain Capital Real Estate and Capitol Seniors Housing, to place the three-year, floating-rate loan with a large regional bank. The Chelsea at New City was built in 2021 and consists of 80 assisted living, memory care and respite care units. On-site amenities include restaurant-inspired meals, beauty/barber salon, sports lounge, health and wellness programs, daily activities calendar, computer lab, movie theater, transportation services and more. The... Read More »
Private Investor and Operator Close Refinance

Private Investor and Operator Close Refinance

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a refinancing for Meadowbrook on behalf of a joint venture between Harrison Street Asset Management and Dial Senior Living. Aron Will and Tim Root arranged the financing, originating a four-year floating-rate loan. Situated near downtown Kansas City in Prairie Village, Kansas, Meadowbrook consists of four stories with a total of 222 units, including independent living, assisted living and memory care.  Harrison Street has closed 332 communities totaling more than 43,000 units since 2005. Seniors housing operator Dial Senior Living manages 24 communities across Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. The... Read More »
Benchmark Senior Living and National Development Expand Partnership

Benchmark Senior Living and National Development Expand Partnership

A national developer/investor engaged Blueprint to sell a high performing, Class-A community owned in their legacy debt fund vehicle. The asset sits in White River Junction, Vermont, and was developed in 2019 by local citizens Brooke Ciradelli and Byron Hathorn. They partnered with LCS to operate the building, The Village at White River Junction, which offers 80 assisted living and memory care units.  In the community’s earlier days of operation, Columbia Pacific Advisors had provided a $29 million refinancing loan to the project to address cash-flow and lease-up problems. The developers failed to pay their debt, resulting in foreclosure and a transition of... Read More »
National Bank Provides Acquisition Term Financing

National Bank Provides Acquisition Term Financing

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group acted as sole lender on an acquisition term financing for Belmont Village Aliso Viejo, a trophy 156-unit assisted living/memory care community in Aliso Viejo, California. The community is owned by Harrison Street Asset Management and Belmont Village Senior Living. Belmont Senior Living operates the community, and developed it. It originally opened its doors in 2019. Aron Will and John Sweeny of CBRE handled the sale. Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged the four-year, floating-rate acquisition loan with a full term of interest only. Read More »
Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk. Even with some variable-rate debt, the overall blended rate has not changed much, with yearly interest expense staying roughly the same. This is beneficial for balance sheet stability, even if it didn’t actually reduce total debt or annual net interest expense, and some refinancing risk just got pushed to 2027. A smart move for near-term... Read More »

Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior secured credit facility structured on behalf of a private owner of 18 SNFs with 1,794 total beds in West Virginia. The facility included $491.5 million in bank financing led by Ally Corporate Finance’s Healthcare Capital team and $104 million in subordinate debt provided by CareTrust REIT, an existing institutional capital partner of Ikaria’s. It... Read More »