• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Brookdale Senior Living, What’s Next?

    So, the big vote occurred last week, and shareholders of Brookdale Senior Living have spoken. We are sure that the recent increases in occupancy convinced some shareholders to stick with management and its “plan.” But the nominees from activist shareholder Ortelius Advisors were not off-the-wall candidates. It was an excellent group, and despite... Read More »
  • Optalis Healthcare Acquires Michigan Portfolio

    Blueprint was engaged by Michael F. Flanagan, the duly appointed receiver of Spartan Holdco, LLC, et al. and approved by the Oakland County Circuit Court to run a marketing process sourcing qualified overbids for the auction sale of the SKLD (Skilled Living and Development) portfolio. Dubbed Project Spartan, the portfolio comprises eleven skilled... Read More »
  • National REIT Divests to Cougar Capital Management

    Haven Senior Investments facilitated a transaction between a national REIT and a real estate development firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The seller, Summit Healthcare REIT, divested a seniors housing community in Littleton, New Hampshire, The Village at Riverglen. Built in 2002, The Village at Riverglen features 60 beds across 50 independent... Read More »
  • CFG’s H1 Financing Volume

    Capital Funding Group’s bridge-to-HUD and HUD teams financed more than $930 million across 50 transactions in the first half of 2025. These financings included 14 HUD loans, 21 bridge loans and 15 accounts receivable loans for clients across the country. Managing Director of Real Estate Craig Casagrande originated a few transactions throughout... Read More »
  • Stabilized Class-A IL Community Secures Refinancing

    Greystone arranged a $43.5 million debt placement to refinance a seniors housing community in Oregon. The 142-unit property is a recently built and stabilized Class-A independent living community. The community had strong trailing cash flows, on a shorter trailing period, but an upward trend. The financing was sourced by David Young.  The... Read More »
Tennessee Class-A AL/MC Community Secures Financing

Tennessee Class-A AL/MC Community Secures Financing

BWE secured $11 million in C-PACE financing for a Class-A seniors housing community in Tennessee. Built in 2022, Cloverland Park is a 100-unit, three-story assisted living and memory care community in Brentwood. The funds will be used to pay down and extend the community’s senior loan. Charles Bissell arranged financing with GreenRock Capital for this transaction. Read More »
Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

Capital Funding Group has financed over $440 million from January through June of this year. This financing includes 18 healthcare bridge loans, five multifamily bridge loans and eight HUD loans. Notable transactions included a $65 million bridge loan for the refinancing of a nine-property seniors housing portfolio in Ohio, a $43 million HUD financing package for three skilled nursing facilities in Washington and Idaho, and a $36.2 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of five SNFs in North Carolina. Additionally, CFG secured a $23.6 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of a SNF in Delaware, a $20 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of  SNF in Maryland,... Read More »
Creative Solutions Secures Financing

Creative Solutions Secures Financing

Oxford Finance announced the closing of a $47 million senior credit facility to Creative Solutions in Healthcare, Inc., a family-owned, Fort Worth, Texas-based company with more than 170 long-term care communities throughout Texas. Funds drawn at closing were used to finance the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities in Texas, totaling 228 beds. Additionally, the credit facility includes a substantial delayed draw commitment, providing Creative Solutions with the flexibility to finance future acquisitions. Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia’s Steve Muth and Austin Sacco arranged the refinance of a 135-unit seniors housing community in Kensington, Maryland. Modena Reserve at Kensington was opened in December 2021 in an affluent area with 62 independent living, 47 assisted living and 26 memory care units. The high-end, resort-style community also includes fine dining, a bistro and lounge, an art studio, full-service salon and spa, a theater, full-service bar, fitness centers, and an outdoor courtyard including walking paths, fire pits, and more. Solera Senior Living operates the community, which helped the community reach stabilized occupancy within two years of opening. The owners, including Solera, McCaffery and a... Read More »
NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

National Health Investors appears set to get off the M&A sidelines, “sidelines” being relative for the REIT which has engaged in a fraction of new investments compared with pre-pandemic years. So far in 2024, NHI has closed on $56.6 million of investments with an average initial yield of 8.4%, split between both existing and new relationships. In addition, NHI signed LOIs on another $155.4 million, also with an average yield of 8.4% and is evaluating around $270 million of potential investments, excluding portfolio transactions and mostly within seniors housing (which is where the opportunities mostly lie for value-add transactions). The signed LOIs include primarily sale/leaseback... Read More »
CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativCap closed a lifeco refinance for an existing, Class-A assisted living/memory care community in Northbrook, Illinois. Consisting of two buildings, the community opened in 2014 with 188 units. It leased up well and underwent a $16 million expansion and renovation in June 2019 that added a separate 44-unit memory care building and converted the MC units in the main building to AL. Management has remained in place since opening, and the community is currently achieving high rents and occupancy is in the upper 80s. The owner/borrower is a fund that invests exclusively in seniors housing on behalf of institutional investors, working with the community’s operator.  Working on behalf... Read More »