• 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 »
Bridge To HUD With Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Bridge To HUD With Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Less than a year after receiving bridge financing, a 90-unit assisted living community in Billings, Montana is already refinancing through HUD, with Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group leading them along the way. Through BB&T Real Estate Funding, Grandbridge had originally provided the community a bridge loan at the end of 2016. Now, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis have originated a $19.93 million HUD loan, with a 35-year term and 35-year amortization schedule, to refinance the community. Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital Assists In Illinois SNF Sale

Cambridge Realty Capital Assists In Illinois SNF Sale

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies recently assisted a skilled nursing operator to exercise its purchase option on a 192-bed skilled nursing facility in Glenview, Illinois, with the help of a $20 million bridge loan, plus a $1.0 million asset-based loan to fund the deal. The borrower had taken over operations at the nearly 30-year old facility just nine months prior under a lease, so its own culture was still being implemented at the facility level. However, it decided to go through with the purchase option, utilizing its long-standing relationship with Cambridge to get the job done. Read More »
Harborview At It Again

Harborview At It Again

Harborview Capital Partners is back in the news, working on behalf of a Tennessee-based borrower to refinance its assisted living community in Putnam County, Tennessee. Avi Begun of Harborview originated a $6.34 million HUD loan, with a 35-year term, and took advantage of an early rate lock to generate savings for the community. Read More »
Harborview At It Again

HJ Sims & HUD Plus

With every seniors housing development project, it is always important to have a contingency plan. Having a trusted financing partner goes a long way, too. That is why when a joint venture led by Affinity Living Group ran into some unexpected problems during the lease-up stage of their portfolio of four newly developed assisted living/memory care communities in North Carolina, they turned to HJ Sims to arrange some additional capital. Built between August 2015 and January 2017, these communities combine for 120 assisted living and 152 memory care units, and were developed by the joint venture, with Affinity as the operator. The venture had contributed over $7 million of equity to the... Read More »

Ziegler Finances South Carolina CCRC Expansion

With its roots in antebellum South Carolina, a 178-unit CCRC in West Columbia is repositioning itself for the future with a planned expansion of its skilled nursing and assisted living services. The South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes has been in operation since 1975 and sits on a 43-acre site that includes a 107-year old mansion. It currently features 192 independent living units, 24 memory care units, 22 rehab beds and 40 skilled nursing beds, but the not-for-profit ownership wanted to construct a new health center that would house 48 skilled nursing beds (to replace the existing 40 beds) and 22 assisted living units. To fund the project, Ziegler closed a $39.33 million bond... Read More »
Housing & Healthcare Finance’s Flourishing Bridge Loan Program

Housing & Healthcare Finance’s Flourishing Bridge Loan Program

The Capital Advisory Group at Housing & Healthcare Finance, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamms, has been hard at work closing over $100 million in bridge loans and a $7 million A/R line of credit in the last couple of months. The largest of the transactions took place in Ohio, where the firm closed a $57 million loan for a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities and two assisted living communities totaling 854 beds. Four SNFs in Georgia with 560 beds received a couple of loans totaling $25.7 million. The firm also closed an $11 million loan for a 140-bed SNF in Pennsylvania, and three loans ranging from $3 million to $7 million for smaller facilities in Kentucky, Massachusetts and... Read More »