• 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 »
Arkansas Community Secures Financing

Arkansas Community Secures Financing

IPA Capital Markets, a division of Marcus & Millichap, announced the $35.53 million financing of Meadowview of Fayetteville, a 117-unit senior living community in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The ground-up development will feature 60 independent living units and 47 assisted living units. Frank Montalto secured the financing with a local bank on behalf of a private developer. Terms of the construction loan include a five-year term and 70% loan-to-cost at SOFR + 3.10%.  Read More »
Berkadia’s Recent Activity

Berkadia’s Recent Activity

Berkadia has had a busy few months, filled with financing transactions and an investment sales closing. First, Jay Healy was engaged by three separate sponsors to finance four loans that total $66 million.  At the end of June, Healy closed a $20 million bridge-to-HUD loan to refinance a maturing construction loan for PruittHealth. The three-year loan, structured in partnership with a publicly traded REIT, is interest only and prepayable at any time. The property is a 90-bed skilled nursing facility in North Tampa, Florida. PruittHealth developed the community in 2022 and has operated it since. In July, Healy closed a $12.3 million bridge-to-HUD loan for a Fort Worth, Texas-based... Read More »
CFG Closes Construction Loan

CFG Closes Construction Loan

Capital Funding Group and Erickson Senior Living announced the closing of a $185 million construction loan to support the first phase of construction for The Grandview, a CCRC under development in Bethesda, Maryland. Phase I of this project, known as the West Village, will feature two 14-story buildings with a total of 501 independent living units. CFG closed the financing on August 16. The Grandview, once completed, will be a seven-building senior living campus where residents will benefit from an integrated health and wellness model, including a concierge-level primary care practice and access to a full continuum of care. Developed and managed by Erickson, the community will feature... Read More »
VIUM’s End-of-Summer Surge

VIUM’s End-of-Summer Surge

VIUM Capital is closing out its summer with a bang, announcing 15 transactions totaling more than $180 million in volume in July and August, alone. The majority of those closings were HUD 232/223f transactions that paid off bridge loans originally originated by VIUM over the last few years. In 2024 to date, VIUM has closed over $500 million of debt transactions, with more to come in the remaining months of the year. It is also worth noting that in less than five years since its launch, VIUM has now funded over 200 senior debt transactions in the seniors housing and healthcare real estate sector, totaling over 400 properties in more than 30 states. It is forecast to surpass $5 billion of... Read More »
PSJB Secures Bond Financing in Washington

PSJB Secures Bond Financing in Washington

Ziegler announced the closing of the Parkshore Juanita Bay (PSJB) $62.42 million Series 2024 bonds through the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Ziegler pressed the max yield below 6% despite an aggressive five-year par call feature. PSJB constructed The Gardens at Juanita Bay, an assisted living community in the Juanita Bay neighborhood on the shores of Lake Washington, in 1977. And in December 2018, PSJB affiliated with Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest dba Transforming Age. In 2021, management announced plans to develop and convert the existing The Gardens at Juanita Bay into a new 50-unit independent living community to be named Parkshore Juanita Bay.  The... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders & Grand Park Capital Secure Refinance

Chicago Pacific Founders & Grand Park Capital Secure Refinance

JLL Capital Markets secured $115 million in bridge financing for a seniors housing portfolio on behalf of Chicago Pacific Founders and Grand Park Capital. The refinance consists of a three-year, non-recourse loan, secured through Ally Bank to take out existing debt. The financing markets responded favorably to the strength of the ownership and asset-level performance, and the loan closed as proposed and on schedule.  The four-asset Town Village Portfolio is primarily comprised of independent living and totals 852 units across Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Michigan. Built between 2000 and 2002 and having undergone renovations by the sponsors since, the assets are strategically... Read More »