• Cap Rates Continue Compression in JLL’s Investor Survey

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard, Executive Managing Director of JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory, to discuss the results of JLL’s recently published 2026 Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey and Trends. They also covered some major topics heading into NIC in Nashville. Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Burning Questions for NIC Attendees

    This time next week, we’ll be heading out of Nashville from the Spring NIC conference likely buoyed by the overwhelmingly positive mood we’re expecting from most of our industry friends. It’s hard not to be optimistic when occupancy and margins are increasing to healthy levels nationally, and show no signs of stopping, when liquidity is... Read More »
  • Janus Living’s IPO Results

    Janus Living has completed its initial public offering, raising $878 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses payable by the company. The REIT sold 48.3 million shares of its Class A-1 common stock at $20 per share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ 6.3 million-share option. It made its New York... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Secures Slew of HUD and Bridge Financings

    VIUM Capital recently closed a series of healthcare and seniors housing real estate financings across multiple states, spanning both HUD-insured loans and bridge executions for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care assets. The largest loan was a $56.4 million HUD financing for a 325-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida. The facility... Read More »
  • Several Senior Care Finances Close

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group reported an active end of winter, closing a handful of debt transactions for clients in Illinois and Kentucky. First, he helped the owner of a 77-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky refinance existing acquisition debt following a successful operational turnaround. Since acquiring the facility... Read More »
AEW Capital Management Divests to Joint Venture

AEW Capital Management Divests to Joint Venture

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare handled the sale and financing of The Sheridan of Green Oaks, which Town Lane and Arcole acquired, marking the joint venture’s fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Built in 2016 by Senior Lifestyle Corporation, the Class-A community comprises 78 independent living, 64 assisted living and 56 memory care units in Lake Bluff, Illinois (Chicagoland). The joint venture will bring Solera Senior Living on to manage the newly acquired property. Dave Fasano, Ross Sanders, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare handled the sale on behalf of AEW Capital Management. Garrett... Read More »
Another Firm Commitment Secured through The Express Lane

Another Firm Commitment Secured through The Express Lane

NewPoint Real Estate Capital has received its second firm commitment through the HUD Express Lane program. Back in June, when the Express Lane was launched, NewPoint received the first firm commitment the program had issued. In that transaction, a 54-unit memory care community secured approval in less than a week from submission. In the more recent transaction, NewPoint received its second firm commitment within only seven business days. This time, a 130-bed skilled nursing facility in the Hartford, Connecticut MSA, secured the refinance. Since 2023, the owner has invested more than $2.5 million to fully modernize the facility, including upgrades to resident rooms, therapy and memory care... Read More »
RiverSpring Living Develops First NYC CCRC

RiverSpring Living Develops First NYC CCRC

Ziegler and HJ Sims, as co-managers, completed a $632.9 million tax-exempt bond financing for not-for-profit RiverSpring Health Living, Inc. Proceeds of the issue will be used to develop River’s Edge, a new CCRC set to comprise 260 independent living units on RiverSpring Living’s existing 32-acre campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, overlooking the Hudson River, the Palisades, the George Washington Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.  The project, the first phase of a planned two-phase development, will sit on land leased from the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, the skilled nursing component of the RiverSpring Living campus. At financing, the project had secured presales on... Read More »
Acquisition Financing Secured for Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Acquisition Financing Secured for Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Capital Funding Group closed a bridge financing for the acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities, featuring a total of 487 beds, across Colorado, Alabama and Arizona. The portfolio sold for $51.2 million, or $105,100 per bed, to an operator looking to expand its portfolio.  CFG intends to bring the loan to HUD for a permanent refinance. CFG Managing Director and Co-Head of Healthcare Business Development Andrew Jones and Senior Associate Ava Julio originated the transaction for the company. Read More »
NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

Ziegler closed River’s Edge, the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transaction to date, totaling more than $600 million. River’s Edge is the first CCRC project in New York City and will be located on the campus of its sponsor, not-for-profit RiverSpring Living, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. An affiliate of the sponsor, RS Services, will manage the community upon opening. RiverSpring Living enlisted Chicago-based Integrated Development II as its development consultant, and Ziegler as its senior manager. River’s Edge is the first not-for-profit project for Integrated Development II, which has a team with significant experience in the for-profit CCRC sector. The project, which is... Read More »
Assisted Living Portfolio Secures Refinance

Assisted Living Portfolio Secures Refinance

Berkadia announced the refinancing of a nine-property assisted living portfolio spanning Ohio and Pennsylvania. Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco, Austin Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld arranged the $114.37 million financing through Bloomfield Capital Partners, LLC on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture with an experienced owner and New Perspective Senior Living, LLC. The two-year, interest-only bridge loan closed in less than 30 days from signed application. Proceeds are being used to refinance maturing debt and position the portfolio for its next phase of the business plan.  Acquired by the joint venture in 2022, the 580-unit portfolio is in the Cleveland, Ohio MSA, and in multiple markets... Read More »