• WesBanco Launches New Healthcare Vertical

    WesBanco Bank recently launched its dedicated healthcare vertical, under the leadership of Suzanne Myers as EVP-Commercial Healthcare Director, and is already off to the races with a handful of senior care transactions closed. The strategic initiative will provide financing across the continuum of care, including seniors housing, skilled nursing,... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Acquires Class-A California Community

    JLL Capital Markets completed the sale of Loma Clara, an 89-licensed-bed, Class-A seniors housing community in Morgan Hill, California. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Steadfast Senior Living, and procured the buyer, LTC Properties. The REIT acquired the community within its SHOP segment... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests Texas Standalone MC Community to Family-Owned Company

    Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced another Lone Star State deal, selling a 20-unit memory care community in Sugar Land, Texas. Built in 1998, the community was the only seniors housing asset of a not-for-profit organization, which decided to divest. It was 80% occupied but losing around $30,000 a year on $1.26 million... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Purchases Vacant Community for Reopening

    Blueprint was engaged to market a 100-unit vacant assisted living community located 10 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio, that had been taken offline following operational challenges. The community sustained profitability during prior operations. Blueprint generated four competitive offers from sophisticated owner/operators with proven capabilities... Read More »
  • Frank Cassidy Officially Nominated as FHA Commissioner

    Frank Cassidy, most recently a Walker & Dunlop senior managing director of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Finance where he originated loans for multifamily, nursing home and seniors housing properties, has been officially nominated by President Trump as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the HUD. He... Read More »
California Senior Care Facility Secures HUD Financing

California Senior Care Facility Secures HUD Financing

Forbright Bank closed a $44.2 million HUD loan for a skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care facility in California. The financing, provided under the HUD 232/223(f) program, will support a 318-bed facility in the San Jose area. The loan was closed in partnership with Forbright Bank’s Healthcare Lending team, which provided bridge financing for the acquisition of the facility in 2022. The loan refinanced existing Forbright Bank bridge and partnership debt, reimbursed the borrower for recent capital expenditures, funded critical repairs and covered all transaction costs associated with the HUD loan. The 35-year fully amortizing term loan will provide the borrower with long-term... Read More »
California Senior Care Facility Secures HUD Financing

CFG’s H2 2024 Activity

With 2024 in the books, Capital Funding Group announced the company executed or arranged more than $1.3 billion in bridge and HUD loans across 68 deals throughout the year. These financings included 41 healthcare bridge loans and other lending products, 12 multifamily bridge loans and 15 HUD loans for CFG’s clients throughout the nation. Several CFG senior living transactions closed in H2 of 2024. First was the closing of a $207.1 million bridge-to-HUD term loan to support the partnership buyout of a portfolio of thirteen skilled nursing facilities featuring 1,423 beds in Florida. Next was an $185.0 million construction loan to support the first phase of construction of a 501-unit... Read More »
Class-A Community Secures Financing

Class-A Community Secures Financing

Walker & Dunlop arranged $25.9 million in permanent financing for Rivertown Ridge, a seniors housing community in the Grand Rapids, Michigan MSA. Built in 2019, Rivertown comprises 152 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. It is a Class-A community that sits on a larger, 120-acre master-planned community. Mary Stuart Hurst and Russell Dey of W&D partnered with Inner Circle Holdings to structure the 10-year, fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan with three years of interest-only payments to Redstone Group Management Inc. Read More »
Georgia Community Secures Refinancing

Georgia Community Secures Refinancing

EBSC Lending provided $23.7 million to refinance a 201-unit seniors housing community in Union City, Georgia. The financing includes a three-year, fixed-rate loan with extension options that replaces the existing construction loan. The community, completed in phases between 2016 and 2017, offers independent living, assisted living and memory care. Unit options include studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom layouts. Read More »
Carnegie Capital Announces Q4 SNF Closings

Carnegie Capital Announces Q4 SNF Closings

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital announced his fourth quarter financing activity, which included acquisition loans closed for four skilled nursing facilities in Texas. Two facilities were located in the northern part of the state, and the other two were near the Mexican border. They combined for 430 beds. Vintages varied, but the older facilities had recently received capex. The existing operator purchased the facilities from three different sellers for an average purchase price of $80,000 per bed. In the previous year, that operator had created significant value at the facilities relative to their long term lease rate. Each acquisition was funded separately through a combination of bridge... Read More »
Walton Street Affiliate Acquires in Texas

Walton Street Affiliate Acquires in Texas

Berkadia completed the sale and financing of a Class-A seniors housing community in Austin, Texas. The independent living, assisted living and memory care community was built in 2016 and expanded in 2019. The community’s occupancy rate exceeded 95% at the time of sale with robust cash flows.  Dave Fasano, Ross Sanders, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers represented the seller, Artemis Real Estate Partners. The property was acquired by an affiliate of Walton Street Capital LLC and will continue to be managed by Texas-based Civitas Senior Living.  Austin Sacco, Steve Muth and Garrett Sacco secured acquisition financing through a national bank. The financing, which featured an attractive... Read More »