• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »
JLL Refinances Construction Debt on Minnesota Community

JLL Refinances Construction Debt on Minnesota Community

JLL Capital Markets arranged financing for Elk River Senior Living, a community built in 2018 comprising 108 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care in Elk River, Minnesota. The refinancing, facilitated through HUD, amounts to $18.7 million, or $173,000 per unit. Jeff Lepley and Alex Sheaffer worked to secure the financing. This financing consolidated five different debt obligations that were associated with the construction of the project.  Hearth Development built the community and was the borrower. Marquis Senior Communities operates it. Read More »
Georgia IL/AL Community Changes Hands and Receives Financing

Georgia IL/AL Community Changes Hands and Receives Financing

CBRE Capital Markets completed the sale and financing of an independent living and assisted living community in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. The community, Arbor Terrace Peachtree City, comprises 146 units in Peachtree City and includes a host of amenities.  The buyer was GEM Realty Capital, a Chicago-based real estate investment company with over $6 billion in assets under management. John Sweeny, Aron Will and Garrett Sacco represented the seller. Will and Michael Cregan also arranged an acquisition loan via CBRE’s Freddie Mac Optigo lending platform. Read More »
United Methodist Retirement Homes Secures Funding

United Methodist Retirement Homes Secures Funding

Ziegler announced the pricing of a bond series closed for The United Methodist Retirement Homes, totaling $67.18 million in Series 2024A and 2024B bonds. The United Methodist Retirement Homes is a North Carolina not-for-profit that owns and operates three CCRCs in the Tarheel State. The three communities consist of a total of 690 independent living units, 28 memory care units, 112 assisted living units and 194 skilled nursing units, which ranks UMRH as the third largest not-for-profit senior living operator in North Carolina. Since 2000, UMRH has been managed by Life Care Services, the third largest operator of senior living communities in the nation. UMRH, with the assistance of LCS... Read More »
JLL Secures Acquisition Financing for Two AL/MC Communities

JLL Secures Acquisition Financing for Two AL/MC Communities

JLL Capital Markets arranged acquisition financing for two assisted living and memory care communities in Iowa on behalf of affiliates of Jaybird Senior Living. Both communities were managed by Jaybird prior to the acquisition. The communities, Vintage Hills of Indianola and Country Meadow Place, total 118 units combined. Vintage Hills comprises 62 units in Indianola, Iowa, and Country Meadow Place is in Mason City, Iowa, with 56 units.  Jeff Lepley and Alex Sheaffer of JLL handled the transaction, securing two loans totaling $17.87 million, or $151,000 per unit, representing around 81% of the total purchase price, putting the purchase price above $22.0 million, or $186,000 per... Read More »
United Methodist Retirement Homes Secures Funding

Monarch Advisors Secures Construction Debt

Monarch Advisors is on a roll. After recently sourcing acquisition debt for a skilled nursing facility in Topeka, Kansas, Alec Blanc has arranged construction financing for the development of a new 105-unit/124-bed senior care property with independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing in Muskegon, Michigan. The sponsor, based in Louisville, Kentucky, engaged Monarch to source debt totaling $21.6 million, or about 67% of the cost of the project.  Blanc secured a construction/mini-perm loan commitment from a national mortgage bank’s loan participation program with a four-year term and one 12-month extension option. Payments will be interest only at SOFR+3.25% for the... Read More »
CFG Finances Over $1.7 Billion in 2023

CFG Finances Over $1.7 Billion in 2023

Capital Funding Group announced the company executed or arranged more than $1.7 billion in financing across 50 deals in 2023. These financings included 24 healthcare bridge-to-HUD loans, five multifamily bridge loans and 11 HUD loans. Financing of the multifamily bridge-to-HUD loans totaled approximately $49.7 million of the company’s annual financing. In that timespan, CFG closed numerous refinances, including: $7.2 million HUD loan for a 75-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio. $15.5 million HUD loan for a 118-bed skilled nursing facility in Arizona. $43.4 million HUD loan for a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in California. $13.8 million mezzanine loan for 12 long-term care facilities... Read More »