Love and Supportive
A brand new supportive living facility is set to go up on a 2.5-acre lot in an urban neighborhood around six miles from downtown Chicago. All 120 studio and one-bedroom units will be backed by Illinois’s Supportive Living Program, which is an apartment-style alternative to skilled nursing care for low-income seniors and those with disabilities under Medicaid. The project is estimated to cost approximately $27 million, or $225,000 per unit. MR Properties, which was formed in 2000 as a joint venture between two experienced Chicago developers, Phil Mappa and Colin Regan, is developing the facility, after having previously built a 335-unit community and a 224-unit community, both for... Read More »The Ensign Group funds its future
Already one of the more prolific buyers in the healthcare M&A market with 23 transactions in 2015 across the Long-Term Care, Home Health Care and “Other Services” sectors, The Ensign Group is positioning itself for another big year in M&A and increased its revolving credit facility by $100 million to an aggregate $250 million. The facility is supported by a lending consortium arranged by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and as much as $105 million of it has been drawn as of February 1, 2016. This new expansion also reduced the LIBOR-based interest rate by 50 basis points and extended the termination date for the revolving commitment to February 5,... Read More »Refinancing with a TIF
When a 57-unit senior living community in Princeton, Minnesota looked to refinance their debt through HUD, but had an existing TIF (Tax Increment Financing) bank loan, which can be incompatible with HUD financing, the borrowers turned to Lancaster Pollard for a solution. The LP team, led by Quintin Harris, communicated to HUD that paying off the TIF loan, which was collateralized and serviced by the TIF development agreement, would benefit the senior living community because the cash flow received from the City of Princeton due the TIF Agreement would flow directly to the borrower. That cash flow could then be included in the project value. So Mr. Harris secured a $6 million loan, with a... Read More »Back to HUD
Just weeks after closing HUD’s largest ever SNF loan (an $80.7 million loan to refinance the existing conventional bank debt at a 520-bed skilled nursing facility in Manhattan, New York), Housing & Healthcare Finance was at it again, closing on a portfolio of 5 HUD loans totaling $68.5 million in January. The loans, which featured 30-year terms and fixed rates in the mid-3% range, were used to finance the acquisition of 5 skilled nursing facilities in New Jersey with a total of 703 beds in 345 units. Read More »Keeping the pace
Aron Will of CBRE had yet another prolific month (after an already busy 2015), closing four transactions. Included in his totals were two acquisition financings (for the MorningStar Senior Living Colorado portfolio and Capitol Seniors Housing’s Seattle-area acquisition) already detailed in previous weeks. Mr. Will also recently arranged a $32.3 million 10-year Fannie Mae loan, with a fixed interest rate and 54 months of interest-only. The borrower, Westmont Living, will use the funds to refinance its 138-unit independent/assisted living community in Chico, California. Already with a 94% occupancy rate at the community, Westmont may look to convert a number of units to memory care in order... Read More »Schedule a demo
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