• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
Developer/Investor Recapitalizes its First Seniors Deal

Developer/Investor Recapitalizes its First Seniors Deal

A former office-to-senior-care conversion project in New Jersey just received a recapitalization and revolver, courtesy of Metropolitan Bank and G Capital. Grant Goodman of G Capital arranged the loan on behalf of an experienced developer/investor with a 30+ year track record and a diversified investment portfolio. The borrower has deep expertise in the hospital sector, but this was its first senior care deal. It had partnered with a veteran SNF operator to convert the asset into a modern senior care facility inspired by the Green House model, investing significant equity in the project. Featuring both skilled nursing and assisted living services, it re-opened in March 2020. That was... Read More »
HUD Provides Construction Financing for Seniors Housing Development

HUD Provides Construction Financing for Seniors Housing Development

CBRE National Senior Housing originated construction debt from HUD for a seniors housing development in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The project, Rancho Cucamonga Memory Care, is being built by a joint venture between Flatiron Development Group, Spring Capital Group and Anthem Memory Care. Upon completion, it will feature 64 units (72 beds) in a single-story, H-shaped building design. Resident units will make up the north and south wings, while the central portion will house the main entrance, commercial kitchen, laundry facilities, administrative offices, and communal living and dining spaces. CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt & Structured Finance Team, led by Aron Will,... Read More »
Affordable Seniors Project Secures Construction Financing 

Affordable Seniors Project Secures Construction Financing 

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment provided a $13 million construction loan to finance the construction of Hawthorne Heights, an 86-unit affordable seniors housing project in Gainesville, Florida. KeyBank Commercial Mortgage Group (CMG) also arranged a $6.53 million Freddie Mac permanent loan for the project. Hawthorne Heights will serve seniors aged 62 and up with five apartment homes specifically set aside for individuals with special needs. The five-story building will be constructed on a 2.9-acre site. The development will set aside three apartments for households earning 22% of the area median income, nine apartments for households earning 40% or below the AMI and 74... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Bonds for Indiana Not-For-Profit

Ziegler Closes Bonds for Indiana Not-For-Profit

Ziegler closed Greenwood Village South’s $27.85 million Series 2025A bonds, $7.4 million Series C-1 (TEMPSSM-50) bonds, and $10.6 million Series C-2 (TEMPSSM-85) bonds issued through the Indiana Finance Authority for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The transaction also includes $25 million of Series 2025B Bank Direct Placement bonds, which closed with the Series 2025A, C1, and C-2 bonds (together totaling $70.85 million and collectively referred to as the Series 2025 bonds). Westminster Village Greenwood, Inc., doing business as Greenwood Village South (GVS), is an Indiana not-for-profit that owns/operates a Type-B CCRC in Greenwood, Indiana, just south of Indianapolis. The community... Read More »
Berkadia Arranges Bridge Loan

Berkadia Arranges Bridge Loan

Steven Muth, Austin Sacco and Garrett Sacco of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare recently utilized Berkadia’s bridge lending program to secure $10 million in bridge financing for a repeat client Pacific Northwest sponsor.  The loan proceeds were used to retire existing debt on a 60-unit memory care community in Sequim, Washington, while also returning equity to the sponsor. At underwriting, the community was 87% occupied with a LTV of 57.5%. The 24-month, interest-only bridge loan was structured to meet HUD’s debt seasoning requirements, with Berkadia anticipating permanent HUD financing for the facility in early 2027. Read More »
South Carolina IL/AL Community Gets New Owner

South Carolina IL/AL Community Gets New Owner

Following its involvement in the sale of Church Hill Village in Newtown, Connecticut, to National Development and Benchmark Senior Living (plus Harrison Street’s sale of a Long Island portfolio), Newmark handled another transaction featuring another high-end asset. Developed by Bayshore Retirement Living in 2019, The Bayshore on Hilton Head Island comprises 126 independent living and assisted living units in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. It also expanded in 2023 with 26 additional IL villas.  Occupancy has consistently been strong, and we imagine the operating margin was quite healthy, too. Life Care Services was the in-place operator. The ultimate buyer was not disclosed, but... Read More »