• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »
California Community Secures Refinancing

California Community Secures Refinancing

CBRE secured a Fannie Mae refinance for a seniors housing community in San Leandro, California, on behalf of the borrower, Carlton Senior Living. Built in 1997, the community features 147 units of assisted living and memory care in a high-barrier-to-entry market in the Bay Area. It was 95% occupied at the time of closing, and since owning the community, Carlton has renovated it over the years to keep it competitive in the local market.  In order to reconstitute its original joint venture ownership into a closely held Tenant-in-Common (TIC) ownership structure, Carlton refinanced the property with a cash-neutral, $22.9 million loan through CBRE’s Fannie Mae DUS Lending Platform. The... Read More »
980Investments Finances Partnership Buyout

980Investments Finances Partnership Buyout

Capital Funding Group announced the closing of a major bridge loan for a skilled nursing client to finance the partnership buyout of a large skilled nursing portfolio in Florida. CFG’s Andrew Jones and Ava Julio originated the loan on behalf of 980Investments, a nationally recognized real estate investment company and the landlord of the 13 skilled nursing facilities in question.  CFG closed a $207.1 million bridge-to-HUD loan and also provided $15 million in accounts receivable financing to support the working capital needs of the portfolio. There are a total of 1,423 beds across the facilities. CFG closed both deals on October 21, 2024, and a subsidiary of CFG Bank, Capital Finance, LLC... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Handles HUD Deals

Walker & Dunlop Handles HUD Deals

The team at Walker & Dunlop (W&D) recently closed four HUD transactions for senior care facilities located across the country. Largest (and perhaps most notable) among them was a $35.9 million refinance of a 166-unit behavioral assisted living community in Arizona. The community houses assisted living residents with a secondarily behavioral diagnosis, and this was a unique project for HUD’s LEAN program given the behavioral component and unique payor type, but the program executed on the transaction. To account for the added risk, W&D underwrote the transaction at a lower LTV than traditional senior housing projects. The refinance paid off bank debt and partnership debt. Next,... Read More »
A First for Freddie Mac

A First for Freddie Mac

We saw a first for Freddie Mac, which closed its inaugural senior preferred equity loan for a seniors housing asset in Georgia. Newmark’s Healthcare & Alternative Real Estate Assets group secured the $109 million, 10-year senior loan from Freddie Mac, which featured five years of interest only, and arranged a $31 million preferred equity investment from Kayne Anderson Real Estate Debt.  Freddie Mac would likely only do this for a top-of-the-line community, which is what Corso Atlanta is. Built in 2021, the community features 82 independent living, 75 assisted living and 26 memory care units across a nine-acre campus. Galerie Living developed the community to mimic Parisian... Read More »
California Community Secures Refinancing

Helios Secures Credit Facility for CA Properties

EVA Care Group, a national healthcare conglomerate based in Los Angeles, secured a new credit facility to refinance existing debt, fund capital improvements and take out cash on a couple of senior care properties in southern California. Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged the facility on behalf of EVA. The properties in question include a 99-bed skilled nursing facility and a 66-bed assisted living community. The SNF was built in the 1970s and was underperforming, with occupancy in the mid-60s. Built in 1994, the assisted living community was also occupied around 60% and needed renovations to enhance its appeal in the market. There was a maturing seller note on the AL property, while the... Read More »
CFG Closes Four Transactions

CFG Closes Four Transactions

Capital Funding Group announced the closing of four transactions totaling more than $76 million in September. The financing supported 16 skilled nursing facilities and was executed on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers. First, CFG closed a $24.35 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of two SNFs with 246 beds in North Carolina. Next, it secured a $13.68 million HUD loan for the refinancing of  SNF with 138 beds in California. Then, CFG closed a $20.64 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of nine SNFs comprising 471 beds in Iowa. The transaction refinanced an existing loan, which CFG closed in September 2020, providing additional capital to leverage the... Read More »