• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
CFG Secures Financing in Six Transactions

CFG Secures Financing in Six Transactions

Capital Funding Group financed over $54 million across six transactions from late July through mid-August. The financings supported six skilled nursing facilities across the country and were executed on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers. First, CFG closed a $12.4 million HUD loan for the refinancing of a 99-bed SNF in California, which closed July 25. CFG provided the initial bridge financing for the real estate transaction, and the term loan is now being exited with permanent HUD financing.  Then, CFG secured a $4.5 million mezzanine loan to refinance a 120-bed SNF in Florida. On the same day, CFG closed a $14.8 million senior loan to take out existing acquisition debt for a... Read More »
Berkadia’s HUD Bonanza

Berkadia’s HUD Bonanza

Berkadia announced another tranche of closings with more than $92.7 million in financing for nine seniors housing communities in four states. Steve Muth and Ed Williams first helped finance the acquisition of a 78-unit assisted living community in Great Falls, Montana, with a $12.6 million loan provided to a Northwest-based owner/operator. The non-recourse loan featured a 12-month, interest-only term. The community had sustained a stable occupancy rate over the past year, and Berkadia plans to submit a HUD application shortly after the closing. The borrower had previously collaborated with Berkadia on a similar-sized deal in late 2023. Back to HUD, Williams also obtained a $16.4 million... Read More »
Senior Care Borrower Delays Agency Takeout

Senior Care Borrower Delays Agency Takeout

A Charleston, South Carolina-based owner/operator refinanced its seniors housing community in Morgantown, West Virginia, with the help of Live Oak Bank and Berkadia Commercial Mortgage. The bank closed a $39 million A/B uni-tranche loan, with Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group funding the subordinate debt.  The loan provides a bridge to agency debt and features a three-year term, 24 months of interest-only payments and no exit fee. Loan proceeds were used to retire existing bank debt along with partnership debt associated with the borrower’s 2021 purchase of the 175-unit, independent living, assisted living and memory care community. The community was stable... Read More »
Senior Care Borrower Delays Agency Takeout

Winterpast & Broadview Refinance in Georgia

CBRE arranged a refinancing of Vitality Living Frederica in Georgia on behalf of a joint venture between Winterpast Capital Partners and Broadview Real Estate Partners. Aron Will and Tim Root arranged the $14.8 million, three-year floating rate loan with 24 months of interest only through a regional bank. The community is between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida, on St. Simons Island, the largest barrier island in the Golden Isles. It features 60 assisted living and 24 memory care units. Vitality Living, WCP’s affiliated operating partner, will continue to manage the community. Read More »
Ziegler Closes Two Transactions

Ziegler Closes Two Transactions

Ziegler announced the closing of the Trinity Terrace $72.55 million Series 2024 bonds through the Tarrant County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corporation. The transaction was structured without a mortgage or real estate pledged as security to bondholders. The Cumberland Rest, Inc. d/b/a Trinity Terrace is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Texas in 1902 for the purpose of providing housing for aged and indigent Christian women. Trinity owns/operates a CCRC in Fort Worth, Texas, known as Trinity Terrace. The community, which sits on 5.457 acres, was originally opened in February 1983. It features 316 independent living apartments, 12 assisted... Read More »
Financing Obtained for SNF Portfolio Acquisition

Financing Obtained for SNF Portfolio Acquisition

First Citizens Bank announced that its Healthcare Finance business served as lead arranger of $115 million in financing for the acquisition of eight skilled nursing facilities in Illinois that comprise over 1,500 beds. The borrower is a Midwest-based healthcare real estate investment and management company that invests in a variety of post-acute facilities, with investments in over 24 states. Read More »