• PACS Gets Trading Period Extension

    PACS Group is trying to right the ship as it works to restate its prior financial statements amid an investigation into its Medicare billing practices, and return to providing regular quarterly earnings statements. The New York Stock Exchange Listing Operations Committee did agree to provide PACS with an additional trading period through November... Read More »
  • Outcome Healthcare Acquires Pennsylvania SNF

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of Mahoning Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 142-bed skilled nursing facility in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The seller, an independent owner, faced increasing financial and operational pressures in today’s skilled nursing environment. The selected buyer was a regional operator with a... Read More »
  • Full Continuum Community Obtains Refinancing

    CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced The Pointe at Meridian, a 100-unit seniors housing community in Meridian, Idaho. Built in 2022, The Pointe at Meridian was built in 2022 and consists of 60 independent living units, including 14 townhome units, 30 assisted living units and 10 memory care units. Grace Management took over management of the... Read More »
  • Arizona Seniors Housing Development Secures Construction Financing

    Fifty Stones Capital Group closed a $39.3 million construction loan for a seniors housing community in Chandler, Arizona. The proposed development comprises 147 units with 150 beds. The opportunity came to Fifty Stones Capital Group through a local broker.  The sponsor, an experienced local developer with a focus on multifamily and senior... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Sends Default Notice to NHC

    National Health Investors is addressing violations under its longstanding lease agreement with one of its largest tenants, National HealthCare Corporation. In July, NHI notified NHC/OP, L.P., an affiliate of National HealthCare Corporation and the tenant of 32 of NHI’s skilled nursing/senior care facilities and three independent living... Read More »
It Takes a Village to Find Construction Funding

It Takes a Village to Find Construction Funding

Construction financing is still not easy to find these days, although it is better than one year ago, so it takes a lot of patience and persistence for the developers, advisors and ultimate lenders to get the job done. One project in Dublin, California (Bay Area), called The Whitford is now set to get off the ground with an $80 million financing package provided by Live Oak Bank and Nuveen Green Capital, with Tremper Capital Group facilitating the transaction.  The borrower, a joint venture between Harbert Senior Housing Fund II and Harbert South Bay Partners, was looking for non-recourse financing to build a 140-unit, Class-A assisted living/memory care community, which limited the... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Ziegler announced the closing of Masonicare’s Series 2024 Taxable Loan totaling $17 million for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The loan closed December 16, 2024. Masonicare finalized an affiliation with United Methodist Homes (of Connecticut), which owns/operates five communities in Connecticut and owns The Long Hill Company, which has current operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Oregon. Together, UMH and Long Hill care for approximately 2,000 residents. The combined organization will feature over 4,000 owned and managed units, which would make it one of the largest not-for-profit senior living providers in the Northeast region.  Masonicare entered into a purchase and sale agreement... Read More »
Berkadia’s Recent Transaction Activity

Berkadia’s Recent Transaction Activity

Berkadia announced the financing of four seniors housing communities totaling $29.9 million in Mississippi, Florida and Indiana, with all the deals closing since November. Berkadia also announced the sale of two seniors housing communities.  In November, Steve Muth and Andrew Lanzaro leveraged HUD’s 232/223(f) program to close two loans totaling $8.9 million for a first time HUD borrower. The loan proceeds retired maturing bank debt on two Mississippi communities: a 40-unit assisted living community and a 47-unit assisted living and memory care community. At underwriting, one community was fully occupied, while the other had an occupancy rate of 86%. Both properties are located in... Read More »
Florida Trio Trades to AEW

Florida Trio Trades to AEW

A seniors housing portfolio that includes Watercrest Buena Vista, Watercrest Spanish Springs and Watercrest Winter Park in Florida sold to AEW Capital Management. The three communities total 416 units in The Villages and Winter Park. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team represented the seller, Titan Development, in the transaction, which saw AEW retain the current operator, Watercrest Senior Living, as the third-party operator. JLL is also handling the acquisition financing on two of the assets for the buyer, which will close in January 2025. Completed in 2018, Watercrest Buena Vista offers 224 units in a three-story, Class-A building, including 118 independent living, 74 assisted... Read More »
It Takes a Village to Find Construction Funding

Joint Venture Secures Construction Financing

Live Oak Bank announced a couple of construction loans closed on behalf of seniors housing borrowers. First, in December, Live Oak Bank provided a $40 million senior loan in partnership with a $39.6 million CPACE loan provided by Nuveen Green Capital for a joint venture between Harbert Senior Housing Fund II and Harbert South Bay Partners. The loan provides financing for the ground-up construction of a 140-unit Class A assisted living and memory care community in California and features a five-year term with 42 months of interest-only payments.  We also learned that Live Oak Bank led, jointly arranged with Huntington National Bank, and closed a construction loan for a joint venture... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Northland Networks Arranges Two Acquisition Loans

Northland Networks, a member of the First National of Nebraska family, ended 2024 on a high note, closing two acquisition financings for skilled nursing clients in the last several months. One was for a 59-bed skilled nursing facility in rural southern Kentucky that was built in the late-1970s by the same family that is now selling it. The facility could improve its operations, and that will be the task of a Northeast-based real estate investment firm to turn around with an operating partner. Seth Kahn of Northland arranged an acquisition loan with a bank, structuring it with a five-year term, one year of interest only, an attractive interest rate and at 80% loan-to-value. ... Read More »