• Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
  • Omega Healthcare Investors Acquires Performing AL/MC Asset

    Omega Healthcare Investors announced that it acquired a seniors housing community in Alabama for $10.3 million, or $128,750 per unit. The community appears to be Proveer at Grande View, which has been rebranded as The Ridge at Grandeview. Blueprint was engaged by the seller in its divestment of this community.  Built in 1999, The Ridge at... Read More »
  • T7 Capital Hits the Ground Running

    Founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson in 2025, T7 Capital has hit the ground running, announcing more than $3 billion in closed transactions in their first year. And the team continued at that same pace into 2026, closing more than $200 million of transaction volume in January. T7 Capital, which advises clients on financing... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living Adds San Antonio Asset

    Ventas found a new operator for its Villa De San Antonio Senior Living community in San Antonio Texas, bringing on Stellar Senior Living, a Utah-based family-owned senior care owner/operator, to manage the community. The addition of this community, which was built in 2006 and features 219 independent living and assisted living units, expands... Read More »
  • Harrison Street Acquires Class-A Communities in Fairfield County

    A couple of new, high-end seniors housing communities in affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, traded with the help of Jay Wagner, Rick Swartz, Aaron Rosenzweig and Jim Dooley of JLL Capital Markets’ seniors housing investment sales and advisory team. They represented the sellers, Virtus Real Estate Capital and LCB Senior Living, although LCB... Read More »
Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund the addition and complete improvements to the existing building. The loan has a fixed rate, was non-recourse and was also interest-only. However, the interest rate was not disclosed. Read More »
SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio, which has more than 620 licensed beds. Read More »
Not-for-Profits Close Separate Bond Transactions

Not-for-Profits Close Separate Bond Transactions

Ziegler announced the closing of two financings in Pennsylvania and North Carolina on behalf of separate borrowers. First was Messiah Lifeways’ $82.32 million of Series 2026A bonds. Messiah Lifeways is a not-for-profit that owns Messiah Village, a Type C fee-for-service CCRC serving over 700 seniors on an 85-acre campus in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. There are currently 375 independent living units, 88 personal care units, 76 memory care units, 100 skilled nursing beds and 18 skilled nursing/memory support beds.  Construction on a second location is set to begin during the first quarter of 2026. Fernecrest will also sit on 85-acres, and is approximately six miles from Messiah... Read More »
Blue Moon/StepStone Finalize Large Recapitalization

Blue Moon/StepStone Finalize Large Recapitalization

Blue Moon Capital Partners completed a large recapitalization of five seniors housing communities that it developed over the years and were the last remaining assets within its fund, Blue Moon Senior Housing I. CBRE National Senior Housing acted as transaction advisor in the recap and arranged acquisition financing for the deal. StepStone Real Estate LP, the real estate arm of the global investment firm StepStone Group Inc. formed a joint venture with Blue Moon to take over ownership of the portfolio. Aron Will and John Sweeny, Co-Heads of CBRE National Senior Housing, acted as advisors on the transaction. Consisting of five Class-A seniors housing communities, the portfolio was... Read More »
Seniors Housing Communities Secure Refinances

Seniors Housing Communities Secure Refinances

Berkadia recently refinanced Allegro Parkland, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Parkland, Florida. A joint venture between Harrison Street Asset Management and Allegro Senior Living was the borrower. The community opened in March 2020 (perhaps not the best timing) and features 61 independent living, 88 assisted living and 26 memory care units.  Berkadia’s Managing Directors Austin Sacco and Steve Muth, plus newly minted Managing Director Garrett Sacco and AVP – Originations Alec Rosenfeld, secured a five-year loan with a 5.95% interest rate, a 30-year amortization schedule and a 65% loan-to-value ratio. The same Berkadia team, plus Ed Williams and... Read More »
CIBC Bank’s Recent Activity

CIBC Bank’s Recent Activity

CIBC Bank USA closed an impressive array of transactions in the last several months, totaling more than $800 million in credit facilities across the country. The largest transaction was an $85 million (with earn-outs) debt package for a senior care portfolio in the Northeast. The debt included a senior term loan and a mezzanine loan to refinance the portfolio and cover corporate needs. Adam Panos, Patrick Garden, Charlie Sheridan and Tom Sheeren worked on the deal for CIBC. Laura Habich and Sam Dendrinos originated a couple of large cash-out refinances for skilled nursing clients. A $27.3 million loan went to a stand-alone SNF, and a $70.7 million loan refinanced a portfolio of four... Read More »