• Focus Healthcare Partners Acquires in Minnesota

    Focus Healthcare Partners acquired a seniors housing community that comprises 288 units in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Located 12 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis, the community, SilverCreek on Main, was built in three phases between 2015 and 2024 by Ryan Companies.  The original independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Harborside CCRC Sale Approved

    Focus Healthcare Partners’ purchase of a struggling CCRC on Long Island has gone through the ringer, but Chief Judge Alan S. Trust of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York just approved the sale under modified terms, which should close within the next two months. The property attracted some attention in late 2024 when New... Read More »
  • Imagine Senior Living Acquires in Texas

    An owner/operator of independent living, assisted living and memory care communities acquired a seniors housing community in Amarillo, Texas. Built in 2000, The Reserve at Amarillo features assisted living and memory care units. The buyer, Imagine Senior Living, has an established footprint with communities in Texas, Idaho, Oregon, Washington,... Read More »
  • Brookdale Senior Living: Slow and Steady

    Brookdale Senior Living released its fourth quarter and full-year earnings results this week, and all we can say is that the improvements, while welcomed, are slow and steady. Management has had a lot on its plate the past 18 months or so in a post-pandemic environment, but things like occupancy are moving up, but not as fast as for others. The... Read More »
  • Three Communities Trade Hands in Pacific Northwest

    Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group shot out of the gates in 2025, closing three separate transactions in the Pacific Northwest so far this year. The largest was for an 88-unit seniors housing community in central Washington which closed this week. Owned by a regional operator based in Washington, this community consists of 36... Read More »
Tennessee Class-A AL/MC Community Secures Financing

Tennessee Class-A AL/MC Community Secures Financing

BWE secured $11 million in C-PACE financing for a Class-A seniors housing community in Tennessee. Built in 2022, Cloverland Park is a 100-unit, three-story assisted living and memory care community in Brentwood. The funds will be used to pay down and extend the community’s senior loan. Charles Bissell arranged financing with GreenRock Capital for this transaction. Read More »
Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

Capital Funding Group has financed over $440 million from January through June of this year. This financing includes 18 healthcare bridge loans, five multifamily bridge loans and eight HUD loans. Notable transactions included a $65 million bridge loan for the refinancing of a nine-property seniors housing portfolio in Ohio, a $43 million HUD financing package for three skilled nursing facilities in Washington and Idaho, and a $36.2 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of five SNFs in North Carolina. Additionally, CFG secured a $23.6 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of a SNF in Delaware, a $20 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of  SNF in Maryland,... Read More »
Creative Solutions Secures Financing

Creative Solutions Secures Financing

Oxford Finance announced the closing of a $47 million senior credit facility to Creative Solutions in Healthcare, Inc., a family-owned, Fort Worth, Texas-based company with more than 170 long-term care communities throughout Texas. Funds drawn at closing were used to finance the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities in Texas, totaling 228 beds. Additionally, the credit facility includes a substantial delayed draw commitment, providing Creative Solutions with the flexibility to finance future acquisitions. Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia’s Steve Muth and Austin Sacco arranged the refinance of a 135-unit seniors housing community in Kensington, Maryland. Modena Reserve at Kensington was opened in December 2021 in an affluent area with 62 independent living, 47 assisted living and 26 memory care units. The high-end, resort-style community also includes fine dining, a bistro and lounge, an art studio, full-service salon and spa, a theater, full-service bar, fitness centers, and an outdoor courtyard including walking paths, fire pits, and more. Solera Senior Living operates the community, which helped the community reach stabilized occupancy within two years of opening. The owners, including Solera, McCaffery and a... Read More »
NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

National Health Investors appears set to get off the M&A sidelines, “sidelines” being relative for the REIT which has engaged in a fraction of new investments compared with pre-pandemic years. So far in 2024, NHI has closed on $56.6 million of investments with an average initial yield of 8.4%, split between both existing and new relationships. In addition, NHI signed LOIs on another $155.4 million, also with an average yield of 8.4% and is evaluating around $270 million of potential investments, excluding portfolio transactions and mostly within seniors housing (which is where the opportunities mostly lie for value-add transactions). The signed LOIs include primarily sale/leaseback... Read More »
CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativCap closed a lifeco refinance for an existing, Class-A assisted living/memory care community in Northbrook, Illinois. Consisting of two buildings, the community opened in 2014 with 188 units. It leased up well and underwent a $16 million expansion and renovation in June 2019 that added a separate 44-unit memory care building and converted the MC units in the main building to AL. Management has remained in place since opening, and the community is currently achieving high rents and occupancy is in the upper 80s. The owner/borrower is a fund that invests exclusively in seniors housing on behalf of institutional investors, working with the community’s operator.  Working on behalf... Read More »