• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Naples Senior Living Community Secures Refinancing

Naples Senior Living Community Secures Refinancing

BWE arranged a $76 million refinance on behalf of a joint venture between Harbert Management Company and Senior Resource Group for The Carlisle Naples, a Class-A senior living community in Naples, Florida. Ryan Stoll and Taylor Mokris facilitated the financing. Built in 1998, The Carlisle features 257 independent living and 93 assisted living units on more than 18 acres and is operated by SRG. After acquiring the community in September 2021 for $101.5 million, or $290,000 per unit, when it was just 68% occupied, the joint venture completed an extensive capital improvement plan during the pandemic, driving both occupancy and rates post-renovation. The community is in a prime Naples location... Read More »
Montgomery Intermediary Group Closes First Loan

Montgomery Intermediary Group Closes First Loan

A few months after Montgomery Intermediary Group announced it was adding a healthcare real estate debt placement vertical alongside its investment sales platform, Jeremy Warren (the man hired to develop the new vertical) closed the group’s first loan. He successfully sourced and closed a refinance for a portfolio of three assisted living communities in Kansas. Built more than 20 years ago, the communities each feature between 20 and 30 units with a mostly Medicaid waiver census. Occupancy was nearly full at three of the locations, with very strong operating margins. The portfolio also benefited from a recent Medicaid waiver rate increase. There were three other similar communities that... Read More »
Montgomery Intermediary Group Closes First Loan

VIUM’s Recent Financings

As part of its record-breaking 2024, VIUM Capital closed three HUD 232/223f refinancing transactions totaling approximately $70 million for Texas-based Priority Management Group. The HUD loans paid off existing bridge debt and owner’s notes from acquisitions that occurred three years ago. Priority Management Group is a senior living owner/operator in Texas and Louisiana, and is a long-time client. The transaction was led by Scott Blount of VIUM.  Additionally, in November, VIUM closed a $21 million bridge loan ($17 million initial and a $4 million earnout) for a 134-bed SNF in North Carolina. The recapitalization was used to pay off existing debt and a shareholder note, and to provide... Read More »
VIUM Capital’s Record 2024

VIUM Capital’s Record 2024

VIUM Capital recorded its highest revenue producing year in the firm’s young history, closing 56 transactions totaling nearly $900 million in par in 2024. The financings varied from bridge to permanent debt (both taxable and tax-exempt) and funded 82 separate properties in more than a dozen states across the country. Of the financings, 37 were HUD/GNMA loans through HUD’s 232/223(f) program, totaling over $450 million of par. VIUM finished the 2024 fiscal year as the #2 ranked HUD healthcare lender in the country in both total volume and number of transactions closed.  The year also witnessed VIUM’s HUD/GNMA servicing book surpassing $1 billion, securing multiple HUD Corporate Credit... Read More »
CIBC’s Recent Activity

CIBC’s Recent Activity

CIBC Bank USA provided a $16 million acquisition financing term loan and a $2 million working capital revolving line or credit for a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Vermont. Historical performance trended positively over the last year, as the facilities improved census and operating leverage. Fritz Kieckhefer and Kyle Doran handled the transaction for CIBC. Additionally, Kieckhefer and Doran of CIBC provided an Illinois owner/operator with a $5.2 million term to finance the owner’s recent acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities in central Illinois. The tenant had taken over operations in the middle of 2024 from a small local operator, and has since improved performance... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Refinancing

Joint Venture Secures Refinancing

CBRE National Senior Housing closed a HUD 232/223(f) refinance for Cordia at Grand Traverse Commons on behalf of a joint venture between Cordia Senior Living and Cypress Partners. CBRE had previously arranged financing for the community in 2017 and 2021. Cordia at Grand Traverse Commons is a 110-unit independent living and assisted living community in Traverse City, Michigan. The community has a Home for the Aged license exemption, therefore, it is unlicensed and all of the beds/units are considered board and care. It will continue to be operated by Cordia.  The community is within the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, one of the largest historic preservation and adaptive reuse... Read More »