• CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Gets Early Start on 2026 SHOP Acquisitions

    LTC Properties started the year off with a large SHOP acquisition in Atlanta, Georgia. The portfolio comprises three seniors housing communities with nearly 400 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The assets were built between 2014 and 2018, and were stabilized at the time of sale at 92% occupancy. LTC Properties will... Read More »
  • 1019 Senior Living Enters Another State

    1019 Senior Living entered a new state through its fifth seniors housing acquisition. The Indiana-based owner/operator purchased Arden Courts at Kenwood, rebranded as Belle’s Place of Kenwood, which was previously operated by Evergreen Senior Living. Built in 2002 with a new roof added in 2016, the asset sits in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Kenwood... Read More »
Ziegler Refinances Westchester Campus

Ziegler Refinances Westchester Campus

Ziegler closed a new taxable loan on behalf of Wartburg, a senior care provider in Westchester County, New York. Wartburg’s 103-unit assisted living community in Mt. Vernon had an outstanding 2015 series of Public Fixed Rate Bonds that it wished to advance refund. The sponsor also wished to raise additional new money without materially altering its annual debt service requirements.  So, after analyzing various capital alternatives, Ziegler arranged an $8.4 million taxable loan that will defease the outstanding bonds via a funded escrow account, fund new money to be used for various capital expenditures, and pay for costs of issuance associated with the financing. The Ziegler... Read More »
AL Conversion Project in Plano Gets Funding

AL Conversion Project in Plano Gets Funding

A former hotel is being converted to an assisted living community in Plano, Texas, thanks to financing secured by Eastern Union. Totaling 137 units in six stories, the 40-year-old building most recently operated as a Deluxe Inn and previously as a Comfort Inn. It was also renovated in 2005 and has been owned and operated by Maheshbhai Patel since 2022.  Patel secured the financing for the project, which will result in a 140-unit assisted living/memory care community known as Parkdale Senior Living. Completion is expected in mid-2026. An undisclosed lender provided two loans totaling $20.4 million. The first loan consists of a $15.8 million construction loan, featuring 15 months of... Read More »
BWE Refinances Philly-Area Asset

BWE Refinances Philly-Area Asset

BWE announced a new refinance just before Thanksgiving, closed on behalf of a joint venture between Renew REIT and Heritage Senior Living. The property in question is Keystone Villa at Douglassville, a 247-unit community in the Philadelphia MSA with independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The community opened in 2011 with 125 AL and MC units before a 122-unit IL portion was added in 2015. Occupancy was 92% at the time of closing, and the community operated well.  It received a $57.8 million loan from a national commercial bank, which was a new relationship for the borrower. The non-recourse loan also featured a competitive floating rate, prepayment flexibility... Read More »
North Carolina Community Receives Refinance

North Carolina Community Receives Refinance

Berkadia secured a large Freddie Mac refinance for a seniors housing community in Greensboro, North Carolina. The borrower, California-based KISCO Senior Living, acquired Abbotswood at Irving Park in 1996 (according to LevinPro LTC) when it was a 10-year-old, 149-unit independent living community. KISCO was known as Kisco Retirement Communities at the time, and now it owns and operates 20 senior living communities in six states, including six communities in North Carolina.. Over the years, it has grown to now include 173 units and a full spectrum of senior living options, including IL cottages, IL apartments, assisted living and memory care units. The 1996 purchase price was approximately... Read More »
AL/MC Community Secures Refinancing

AL/MC Community Secures Refinancing

MONTICELLOAM, LLC, a specialized multifamily and seniors housing bridge lending platform, closed $18 million in bridge financing for a seniors housing community in Wisconsin. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov on behalf of a repeat client. The bridge loan helped refinance the outstanding debt on an assisted living/memory care community with more than 100 units. The refinance also positions the property for a future HUD financing. Read More »
North Carolina Community Receives Refinance

Stride Bank’s Recent Activity

We learned of a number of recent financings provided by Stride Bank for senior care facilities across the country. First, the bank refinanced multiple assets in New Mexico and West Texas. The relationship with this particular borrower began in June 2023 (through Clint Miller of Ziegler) when it was looking to execute a bridge-to-HUD strategy and its prior, larger regional bank was unwilling to entertain. The portfolio features a mix of HUD-qualified and non-HUD-qualified assets, and the borrower needed an institution that allowed a multi-step process to release the HUD-qualified assets slowly.  The senior credit facility will fully retire once the HUD-qualified assets are refinanced,... Read More »