• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
NHI Expands Relationship with Senior Living Communities

NHI Expands Relationship with Senior Living Communities

Senior Living Communities (SLC) secured financing from National Health Investors to purchase and renovate a 248-unit CCRC in Columbia, South Carolina, bringing the REIT’s relationship with SLC to 11 properties with either a long-term lease or a mortgage loan. The $35 million, or $141,100 per unit, purchase price was funded by a draw on NHI’s revolving credit facility with a $32.7 million loan. It came with a five-year term and two one-year extension options at an interest rate of 7.25%. Originally built in 2000 and continuously expanded through 2014, the entrance fee community has 76 independent living homes, 60 IL units, 40 assisted living units, eight memory care units and a 64-bed... Read More »
High Quality SNF Refinances with Cambridge Realty Capital Companies

High Quality SNF Refinances with Cambridge Realty Capital Companies

A skilled nursing facility with an array of post-acute services just refinanced through HUD with the help of Cambridge Realty Capital Companies. Located in Madison, New Jersey, the 102-bed facility is situated across the street from Drew University and about three miles from Morristown Memorial Hospital. It provides IV therapy, tracheostomy care, wound care, stroke care, orthopedic and trauma rehab, pain management and physical therapy in a combination of private and semi-private rooms. There is also concierge service, restaurant-style dining and an on-site beauty/barber shop, plus other amenities. Those bells and whistles don’t directly improve care quality, but they certainly help in... Read More »
Affordable Housing Secures HUD Financing from HJ Sims

Affordable Housing Secures HUD Financing from HJ Sims

Much of the investor attention in seniors housing is paid towards the higher-end, luxury communities. Those properties are able to charge much higher rents and usually operate at higher margins. But a huge swath of the senior population cannot come close to afford living in those communities, making the demand for middle- and low-income units very strong in some markets. With that, HJ Sims arranged a cash-out refinance for a 125-unit affordable seniors housing community in Middletown, Pennsylvania (Harrisburg MSA) to help its owner both distribute equity to its partners and invest in major upgrades to the community. Originally built in the 1980s, it operates under a Section 8 HAP Contract... Read More »
Creativcap Shows Off Its Variety

Creativcap Shows Off Its Variety

Shortly after its founding earlier this year by Greystone-alum Scott Kavel, Creativcap showed off some impressive variety in its three latest transactions, helping close a life company loan, a mezzanine loan and bridge financing. First, Creativcap was the exclusive correspondent for a $6 million mezzanine loan that is funding the construction of an 87-unit assisted living/memory care community in Roseville, California. GG Finance, an entity affiliated with Creativcap, provided the loan. Then, to Elgin, Illinois, where the owner of a three-year old AL/MC community refinanced an existing bridge loan from a bank with a new $20 million, fixed-rate loan provided by a life insurance company.... Read More »
Florida CCRC Secures Bond Debt

Florida CCRC Secures Bond Debt

A not-for-profit CCRC in Lakeland, Florida is now able to further its mission and strategic plans thanks to $32.8 million in bond financing placed by Ziegler. Approximately $18 million of the community’s outstanding Series 2008 bonds had become callable, and the property also wanted to finance about $17.4 million in future capital expenditures. So, working with the not-for-profit client for the first time, Ziegler stepped in to secure a low interest rate and reduce their annual debt service. This community was originally built in 1986 and currently operates 337 independent living, 49 assisted living and 72 skilled nursing units on its campus. All of its health care units, which maintain a... Read More »
Big Bronx SNF Gets Big HUD Financing

Big Bronx SNF Gets Big HUD Financing

A large skilled nursing facility in the Bronx just received one of the largest HUD loans ever on a single building in the agency’s history, totaling $104 million. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage arranged the refinance, with Mark Zafrin and Mark Frimmel of Michelman & Robinson, LLP representing the borrower, 3155 Grace Avenue Trust (a Delaware Statutory Trust) in the transaction. The transaction was also HUD’s first with a DST borrower under the Section 232 program. Totaling 524 beds, this skilled nursing facility, which occupies an entire city block in the Bronx, was completely renovated by its not-for-profit owner in 2006 and then purchased by a private investor group in 2013. In that... Read More »