• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »
Texas SNF Secures Financing

Texas SNF Secures Financing

Berkadia arranged financing for a 104-bed skilled nursing facility in Eagles Pass, Texas. A Fort Worth, Texas-based owner/operator had successfully operated the property since 2019 and financed its purchase of the leased fee interest of the property with the loan. Berkadia’s Jay Healy closed a $13 million bridge-to-HUD loan with an 18-month, interest-only term that covered 100% of the purchase price. It is anticipated that Berkadia will close the subsequent HUD refinance in the first half of 2025. Read More »
Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing

Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing

A CCRC in Southern Pines, North Carolina, near the world-famous Pinehurst Golf Course, is embarking on an independent living expansion project with the help of bond financing arranged by Ziegler. Currently comprising 150 IL units, 42 assisted living units and 32 skilled nursing beds, Penick Village will add 44 IL units (with underbuilding parking), a new 5,000 square-foot wellness center and renovations to the healthcare center. Since beginning pre-sales in June 2024, the expansion has successfully pre-sold 39 of the 44 (88.6%) new units with a 10% deposit. Two tranches of bonds will finance the project, totaling $73.295 million. The Series A long-term bonds totaled $54.87 million and came... Read More »
Four SNFs Receive Refinancing

Four SNFs Receive Refinancing

MONTICELLOAM closed $87.0 million in total bridge and working capital financing for a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities totaling 450 beds in Florida. The $80 million bridge loan carries a two-year term, with two six-month extensions, and will be used to refinance the existing debt on the four assets. The $7.0 million working capital revolver will be used to manage day-to-day operational expenses across the portfolio.  Proceeds from the $80,000,000 bridge loan were used to refinance the existing debt on four skilled nursing facilities. The loan carries a 24-month term with two six-month extensions for the borrower. Read More »
California Community Secures Refinancing

California Community Secures Refinancing

CBRE secured a Fannie Mae refinance for a seniors housing community in San Leandro, California, on behalf of the borrower, Carlton Senior Living. Built in 1997, the community features 147 units of assisted living and memory care in a high-barrier-to-entry market in the Bay Area. It was 95% occupied at the time of closing, and since owning the community, Carlton has renovated it over the years to keep it competitive in the local market.  In order to reconstitute its original joint venture ownership into a closely held Tenant-in-Common (TIC) ownership structure, Carlton refinanced the property with a cash-neutral, $22.9 million loan through CBRE’s Fannie Mae DUS Lending Platform. The... Read More »
980Investments Finances Partnership Buyout

980Investments Finances Partnership Buyout

Capital Funding Group announced the closing of a major bridge loan for a skilled nursing client to finance the partnership buyout of a large skilled nursing portfolio in Florida. CFG’s Andrew Jones and Ava Julio originated the loan on behalf of 980Investments, a nationally recognized real estate investment company and the landlord of the 13 skilled nursing facilities in question.  CFG closed a $207.1 million bridge-to-HUD loan and also provided $15 million in accounts receivable financing to support the working capital needs of the portfolio. There are a total of 1,423 beds across the facilities. CFG closed both deals on October 21, 2024, and a subsidiary of CFG Bank, Capital Finance, LLC... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Handles HUD Deals

Walker & Dunlop Handles HUD Deals

The team at Walker & Dunlop (W&D) recently closed four HUD transactions for senior care facilities located across the country. Largest (and perhaps most notable) among them was a $35.9 million refinance of a 166-unit behavioral assisted living community in Arizona. The community houses assisted living residents with a secondarily behavioral diagnosis, and this was a unique project for HUD’s LEAN program given the behavioral component and unique payor type, but the program executed on the transaction. To account for the added risk, W&D underwrote the transaction at a lower LTV than traditional senior housing projects. The refinance paid off bank debt and partnership debt. Next,... Read More »