Cambridge Realty Capital Completes Illinois HUD Refinance
After Cambridge Realty Capital Companies announced that it funded a $32.75 million acquisition loan through HUD for a 211-unit affordable seniors housing property in Baltimore, Maryland, the firm followed up by refinancing a 162-bed skilled nursing facility in Glenwood, Illinois, also going through HUD. The owner, an Illinois limited liability company, obtained an $11.6 million loan, with a fully amortizing 30-year term. Located about 30 minutes outside of Chicago, the facility features a short-term rehab unit for Medicare and private insurance patients, and dialysis services, in addition to providing long-term care. Read More »
Live Oak Bank Growing Its Senior Care Business
Still just less than a year after forming its senior care lending division (and hiring Adam Sherman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors as the new division’s industry expert), Live Oak Bank closed two more loans for seniors housing properties. First, working on behalf of a local owner/operator in Georgia, Live Oak provided a $5 million SBA 7a loan and a companion balance sheet loan to fund the construction of a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in the town of Cartersville. The loans came with floating rates and fully amortize over 25 years, with no balloon payments. For the developer, this isn’t their first rodeo in northwest Atlanta (a market we have heard has seen... Read More »
HHC Finance Sizzles This Summer
The Capital Advisory Group at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) has impressed so far this summer, closing $157 million across eight loans in the last two months. Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, who lead the group, went to Pennsylvania to close the largest transaction. Vita Healthcare Group was the borrower, after acquiring eight skilled nursing facilities and 1,050 total beds that were deemed to be non-core by the undisclosed seller, in a transaction handled by Ben Firestone, Christopher Hyldahl, Michael Segal and Gideon Orion of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. HHC Finance closed a $100.3 million bridge loan to fund the purchase. For another skilled nursing portfolio... Read More »
Capital One Refinances Massachusetts Skilled Nursing Portfolio
Just 18 months after they were purchased, three skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts refinanced through HUD, with the help of Joshua Rosen of Capital One. The 2016 transaction involved these three facilities in Chelsea (195 beds), Fall River (152 beds) and Brockton (169 beds). There was a fourth facility involved in the sale that is not being refinanced in this transaction. Two principals who are experienced owner/operators of SNFs mainly in the Midwest ended up as the buyers, financing that deal with bank debt. Now, through Capital One, they received three fixed-rate loans, each with a 35-year term, totaling $47.2 million through HUD to refinance the portfolio. Read More »
