• 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 »

Lancaster Pollard Making News

Lancaster Pollard is certainly keeping busy this month. First, Lancaster Pollard Finance Co., led by Doug Korey, provided a $5.4 million balance sheet loan to fund Benicia Senior Living’s acquisition of a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in Eugene, Oregon. Second, Chris Blanda of LP structured a $5.4 million HUD LEAN loan with a 25-year term for nonprofit Baptist Homes to expand the Medicare skilled nursing offering at its CCRC in Louisville, Kentucky. Third, for Real Properties Health Facilities Corp.’s $29.5 million refinance of its 12 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities with 1,000 available beds in four states, Lancaster Pollard served as placement agent, with... Read More »

RED Capital funds SNF acquisition

Investment360, a boutique healthcare investment group, plans to improve census and quality mix at a 440-bed skilled nursing facility it acquired, with the help of a $36.5 million bridge-to-HUD loan from RED Capital Partners. The facility has historically struggled, and Investment360 hopes that by bringing in Excelerate Healthcare to operate the facility as part of a long-term lease agreement, it can reposition the facility to meet a higher acuity population and become a market leader in the Syracuse, New York area. The loan came from RED’s balance sheet lending program at a very competitive spread. Read More »

HJ Sims executes $22.5 million refinance

A CCRC in Annapolis, Maryland with a securitized $17 million mortgage that did not allow a prepayment (current balance was down to $15 million) secured a bank refinance with the help of HJ Sims. The CCRC already had a history with HJ Sims, having received a $48 million construction loan and $8.4 million of development capital from them in 2001 and the $17 million mortgage in 2005. Because this mortgage was due on January 1, 2016, the CCRC had to defease the existing mortgage by escrowing all future principal and interest payments, thereby creating negative arbitrage. Plus, the CCRC had been servicing an outstanding subordinate loan from the original developers ($300,000 of which was... Read More »

Cain Bros. arranges two HUD loans

Cain Brothers Funding, the mortgage banking affiliate of Cain Brothers, arranged $31.5 million in HUD financing for two clients in California and New York. The first was a $13.67 million HUD mortgage loan for Eskaton Senior Living Communities to refinance a 105-bed non-profit assisted living community in Northern California. The proceeds of the loan retired existing bank debt and an interest rate swap, to replace it with a 35-year fully amortizing term and a fixed interest rate of 3.07%. The second loan was a $17.8 million HUD mortgage for Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens to refinance existing commercial bank and tax-exempt bond indebtedness on a 200-bed skilled nursing facility... Read More »

Arbor Commercial Funding adds Fannie Mae program

Already having been one of the Top 10 Fannie Mae DUS Multifamily lenders by volume for some time (with over $1.6 billion in transactions in 2014) and the Top Fannie Mae Small Loan Lender in 2014, Arbor Commercial Funding, a subsidiary of Arbor Commercial Mortgage, was just approved as a Fannie Mae Seniors Housing DUS Lender. Under the new program, which will be headed by COO, John Caulfield, Arbor will look to provide non-recourse financing from Fannie Mae for independent living, assisted living and memory care communities. With the program in its infancy, there have been no transactions yet, but the pipeline is building. Since fully developing their Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance... Read More »

Capital Funding Group funds two SNF acquisitions

Capital Funding Group recently completed two bridge-to-HUD loans for the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities. The first, an $18.29 million loan arranged by Craig Casagrande, financed the acquisition of two SNFs in Pennsylvania, totaling 256 beds. If this sounds familiar, you would be right, as the transaction, between buyer, Vita Healthcare Group and seller, a regional senior living operator, was featured in the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor. The two facilities, a 173-bed SNF (90% occupied) built in 1978 and a facility with 45 skilled nursing beds (75% occupied) and 38 personal care beds (85% occupied) built in 1968, with the skilled nursing beds added in 1996, were the... Read More »