• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • 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... Read More »
  • 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,... Read More »
Washington D.C. Area Community Secures Construction Financing

Washington D.C. Area Community Secures Construction Financing

BWE arranged financing for The Reserve at Falls Church, a 215-unit senior living community in the West Falls mixed-use neighborhood. Ryan Stoll and Taylor Mokris facilitated the construction financing for this project, which is being financed by a syndication of commercial banks including Live Oak Bank and Huntington Bank. The loan features a five-year initial term with 48 months of interest-only payments. The Reserve will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care across 15 stories. It’s being developed by NexCore Group and its seniors housing operator, Experience Senior Living. NexCore partnered with an affiliate of Nuveen Real Estate to capitalize the project. This marks... Read More »
Seniors Housing Portfolio Secures Refinancing

Seniors Housing Portfolio Secures Refinancing

Greystone arranged a $33.7 million debt placement to refinance a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Pacific Northwest. David Young handled the transaction, working with banks, credit unions and unlevered, A/B tranched, and back-levered debt funds. The transaction is on behalf of a regional owner of affordable-focused seniors housing communities.  The portfolio comprises four properties across two states. Each community also has a Medicaid contract to serve assisted living and memory care residents. The financing was provided by a debt fund meeting the borrower’s expectations on proceeds.  Read More »
Kentucky and Tennessee SNFs Secure Financing

Kentucky and Tennessee SNFs Secure Financing

MONTICELLOAM announced the closing of a $22 million senior secured working capital facility, complementing the firm’s recent $400 million bridge financing for 29 Southeastern skilled nursing facilities. The working capital facility has a three-year initial term and will cover the day-to-day operating expenses of over 2,900 skilled nursing beds across Kentucky and Tennessee. The transaction was closed on behalf of a returning client. This $22 million transaction contributed to a record year for the firm in 2024, with the highest volume of asset-based loan originations in the firm’s history. Read More »
Sonida Acquires in Ohio

Sonida Acquires in Ohio

Cushman & Wakefield facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in 2022, Airy Hills at North Bend Crossing features 50 assisted living and 32 memory care units. However, the community was never opened due to foreclosure on the construction borrower. In 2019, Northmarq secured $18.2 million of construction debt from a regional bank, with a three-year, interest-only loan. In addition, the project received $5.5 million of PACE equity and another $5.3 million of equity to round out the capital stack. It did not help that the community sits adjacent to the 121-unit Wellington at North Bend Crossing Community that was developed by the same entity. Sonida... Read More »
Brookdale Secures Giant Fannie Mae Financing

Brookdale Secures Giant Fannie Mae Financing

JLL Capital Markets secured a $344.2 million agency lending for the Brookdale Senior Living Portfolio, comprising 47 senior living communities across 14 states with 5,102 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The properties range from 42 to over 300 units.  JLL represented the borrower, Brookdale Senior Living, to originate the seven-year, fixed-rate loan under its Master Credit Facility Agreement with Fannie Mae. Proceeds were used to repay $312.5 million of variable rate debt due September 2027. The loan will be serviced by JLL Real Estate Capital, LLC.  JLL’s Capital Market’s Debt Advisory team representing the borrower was led by Managing Director Allison... 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 »