• ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
  • Optimism across the Board in BBG’s Investor Survey Results

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee, Senior Managing Director – Seniors Housing & Healthcare National Practice Leader of BBG Real Estate Services, to discuss the biggest takeaways of BBG’s fifth Annual Investor Survey. Read More »
  • Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

    Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Detroit-Area Deal

    Berkadia closed the sale of Oakleigh of Macomb, an 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Macomb, Michigan (Detroit MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 55 assisted living and 30 memory care units. It was 91% occupied, so given its vintage and performance, we imagine it attracted significant investor interest. Berkadia represented the... Read More »
  • Developer Divests MC Communities to Kalesta Healthcare

    G Capital helped facilitate the sale of two memory care communities in Silicon Valley in an off-market transaction. Calson Management, a developer/operator based in Vacaville, California, had acquired Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park and Crescent Oaks Memory Care in Sunnyvale several years ago as value-add opportunities. The firm... Read More »
CBRE Originates Financing for Joint Venture

CBRE Originates Financing for Joint Venture

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the financing for Clearwater at The Heights on behalf of a joint venture between Cerberus, Hines and Clearwater Living. Aron Will, Vice Chairman of CBRE National Senior Housing, and Tim Root, Senior Vice President of CBRE National Senior Housing, originated a three-year, floating-rate bridge loan with full term of interest only through a regional bank. Opened in 2022, the 220-unit community is in Houston, Texas, with independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Amenities feature a fitness center, art studio, library, custom golf simulator, movie theater, outdoor pool, spa and salon services, and downtown skyline views. The community is... Read More »
CCRC Development Secures Construction Financing

CCRC Development Secures Construction Financing

Capital Funding Group closed a $179.8 million construction loan on behalf of Erickson Senior Living. The financing will support the first phase of construction for Emerson Lakes, a CCRC currently under development in the Lakewood Ranch community in Sarasota County, Florida. CFG closed the financing on September 22, 2025. Developed and managed by Erickson Senior Living, phase one of this project will include one community building and three residential buildings with 319 independent living units. Once all project phases are completed, Emerson Lakes will be an 87-acre campus featuring 1,015 IL units and 130 continuum care units. This financing is the second construction loan CFG has executed... Read More »
Ziegler Prices Bonds for Repeat Client

Ziegler Prices Bonds for Repeat Client

Ziegler announced the pricing of $41.71 million Series 2025A bonds for repeat client Maryfield, Inc. doing business as Pennybyrn. Pennybyrn is a North Carolina not-for-profit corporation incorporated in 1947 by the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, an order of the Roman Catholic Church. Now sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte (NC), Pennybyrn owns and operates a CCRC on 72 acres in High Point, North Carolina. Pennybyrn currently operates 222 independent living units (173 apartments and 49 cottages), 48 assisted living units (24 standard care and 24 memory support) and 125 skilled nursing beds (24 rehabilitation and 101 long-term care). Proceeds of the... Read More »
Private Lender Provides Debt

Private Lender Provides Debt

Kennedy Funding, a New Jersey-based direct, private lender, provided debt to fund the purchase of a seniors housing community in Inverness, Florida, about 75 miles north of Tampa. Crown Court sits on 0.7 acres and features 55 units of assisted living. It was in need of significant renovations, and the loan partially funds the improvements. The debt was closed quickly to allow the buyer to start on the project. VSEVA, a Florida LLC, bought the community for $3.725 million, or $74,500 per unit. Vera Healthcare will continue operating the community after taking over in December 2024. The property was renamed Vera Assisted Living – Inverness Downtown, and there are plans to expand with an... Read More »
Private Lender Provides Debt

Forbright Bank Announces Several Financings

Forbright Bank had a busy end to the summer, announcing a series of closings for a mix of seniors housing and skilled nursing properties across the country. The largest individual transaction was a $50 million term loan that refinanced the existing debt on three skilled nursing facilities in Florida. Forbright underwrote the bridge-to-HUD loan for a near-term HUD takeout to be facilitated by its HUD team. The bank also provided a $3 million revolver to support the facilities’ working capital needs. Forbright also partnered with HJ Sims to provide a $38 million bridge loan to fund the acquisitions of three skilled nursing facilities in Chicagoland.  Forbright financed a few other... Read More »
Joint Venture Receives Acquisition Financing

Joint Venture Receives Acquisition Financing

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group announced its role in providing acquisition financing to IRA Capital and Principal Asset Management for their purchase of an 89-unit seniors housing community in Gilbert, Arizona. American Care Concepts and Reichmann International Realty Advisors developed American Groves Senior Living in 2021 and have owned it since then. Each of the 89 units can transition between independent and assisted living in response to changing resident needs. Currently, occupancy is 100%, and we imagine the property operated at a healthy margin.  IRA Capital and Principal Asset Management announced that they paid $44.5 million, or $500,000 per unit, for the... Read More »