• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... Read More »
Ohio AL/MC Community Secures Refinance

Ohio AL/MC Community Secures Refinance

Ziegler served as the lead financial advisor in the placement of a $10.35 million loan to refinance existing indebtedness for an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Toledo, Ohio. Patrick Lee, Managing Director in Ziegler’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice, advised and negotiated the transaction for the borrower, a private owner. John Gast, Michael McGinnis and Jake Chivini also supported the transaction.  The loan was placed with Stride Bank with terms designed to support the objectives of the sponsor, borrower and residents. The financing also highlighted Stride’s ongoing relationship with Ziegler, while establishing a new relationship with the sponsor... Read More »
CIBC Springs Ahead with Deal Flow

CIBC Springs Ahead with Deal Flow

CIBC has been hard at work this Spring, successfully closing several acquisition financings for senior care clients across the country. The largest was a $51.5 million term loan that supported the purchase of four skilled nursing facilities in Illinois totaling 586 beds. Historical performance trended positively over the last two years across the portfolio, and going forward, occupancy is expected to be in the high-70% range, with continued improvement in operating margins. The borrower received the term loan plus a $2.5 million capital expenditure non-revolving line of credit and an $8 million working capital revolving line of credit. Dan Forrer handled the transaction for CIBC Bank USA.... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Two Bond Transactions

Ziegler Closes Two Bond Transactions

Ziegler announced the closing of two separate bond transactions. First, it closed Mennonite Village’s $86.22 million Series 2026AB bonds through the Hospital Facility Authority of the City of Albany, Oregon. Mennonite Home of Albany, Inc., doing business as Mennonite Village, is an Oregon-based not-for-profit owner/operator in Oregon. It operates a CCRC that is situated on a 275-acre campus in Albany, in the Willamette Valley. The campus began as a 24-unit nursing home in 1947, and today consists of 299 independent living cottages, 18 independent living apartments in a building known as Ashwood Court II, 42 skilled nursing beds in Mennonite Home, 96 assisted living apartments in Quail Run,... Read More »
Not-for-Profit to Expand Its California CCRC

Not-for-Profit to Expand Its California CCRC

Ziegler announced the closing of Odd Fellows Home of California’s $101.7 million Series 2026AB bonds through the California Statewide Communities Development Authority. This financing marks Ziegler’s first with Odd Fellows Home of California.  Odd Fellows Home of California, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation, owns/operates two senior living communities that provide residential living, assisted living and skilled nursing. One community is in Saratoga, California, doing business as Saratoga Retirement Community (SRC), and the other community is in Napa, California, doing business as The Meadows of Napa Valley (The Meadows).  The borrower has been operating its... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Refinance for Full-Continuum Community

Joint Venture Secures Refinance for Full-Continuum Community

CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced Harvard Square by Cogir, a full-continuum seniors housing community in Colorado owned by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group and operated by Cogir Senior Living. Built in 1982 and significantly renovated several times over the last 10 years, the community has 41 independent living, 144 assisted living and 40 memory care units on a 6.5-acre site. It is set about eight miles southeast of downtown Denver. Aron Will and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the financing through a national debt fund, originating a three-year, floating-rate loan. The transaction represents the third successful financing of the... Read More »
Class-A AL/MC Communities Trade on Long Island

Class-A AL/MC Communities Trade on Long Island

BWE Investment Sales’ Seniors Housing Team announced its involvement in the sale of Village Green Senior Living and Village Walk Senior Living, both in high barrier-to-entry locations on Long Island. BWE represented the seller, The D&F Development Group, in the disposition of the Class-A assets, which had the goal of building, leasing up and selling the communities. The buyer was a joint venture between Atria Senior Living, Fundamental Advisors and Scribner Capital.  Built in 2020, Village Green is in Levittown and offers 57 units of assisted living and 46 units of memory care across three levels. Village Walk is in Patchogue and was completed in 2018. It totals 146 beds,... Read More »