• 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 »
Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

Capital Funding Group has financed over $440 million from January through June of this year. This financing includes 18 healthcare bridge loans, five multifamily bridge loans and eight HUD loans. Notable transactions included a $65 million bridge loan for the refinancing of a nine-property seniors housing portfolio in Ohio, a $43 million HUD financing package for three skilled nursing facilities in Washington and Idaho, and a $36.2 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of five SNFs in North Carolina. Additionally, CFG secured a $23.6 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of a SNF in Delaware, a $20 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of  SNF in Maryland,... Read More »
Creative Solutions Secures Financing

Creative Solutions Secures Financing

Oxford Finance announced the closing of a $47 million senior credit facility to Creative Solutions in Healthcare, Inc., a family-owned, Fort Worth, Texas-based company with more than 170 long-term care communities throughout Texas. Funds drawn at closing were used to finance the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities in Texas, totaling 228 beds. Additionally, the credit facility includes a substantial delayed draw commitment, providing Creative Solutions with the flexibility to finance future acquisitions. Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia Refinances Class-A Community in Maryland

Berkadia’s Steve Muth and Austin Sacco arranged the refinance of a 135-unit seniors housing community in Kensington, Maryland. Modena Reserve at Kensington was opened in December 2021 in an affluent area with 62 independent living, 47 assisted living and 26 memory care units. The high-end, resort-style community also includes fine dining, a bistro and lounge, an art studio, full-service salon and spa, a theater, full-service bar, fitness centers, and an outdoor courtyard including walking paths, fire pits, and more. Solera Senior Living operates the community, which helped the community reach stabilized occupancy within two years of opening. The owners, including Solera, McCaffery and a... Read More »
NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market

National Health Investors appears set to get off the M&A sidelines, “sidelines” being relative for the REIT which has engaged in a fraction of new investments compared with pre-pandemic years. So far in 2024, NHI has closed on $56.6 million of investments with an average initial yield of 8.4%, split between both existing and new relationships. In addition, NHI signed LOIs on another $155.4 million, also with an average yield of 8.4% and is evaluating around $270 million of potential investments, excluding portfolio transactions and mostly within seniors housing (which is where the opportunities mostly lie for value-add transactions). The signed LOIs include primarily sale/leaseback... Read More »
CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativeCap Closes LifeCo Loan

CreativCap closed a lifeco refinance for an existing, Class-A assisted living/memory care community in Northbrook, Illinois. Consisting of two buildings, the community opened in 2014 with 188 units. It leased up well and underwent a $16 million expansion and renovation in June 2019 that added a separate 44-unit memory care building and converted the MC units in the main building to AL. Management has remained in place since opening, and the community is currently achieving high rents and occupancy is in the upper 80s. The owner/borrower is a fund that invests exclusively in seniors housing on behalf of institutional investors, working with the community’s operator.  Working on behalf... Read More »
Capital Funding Group Reports Strong H1

CIBC Secures Refinancing for North Carolina SNF portfolio

CIBC Bank USA and a Greystone Monticello affiliate, along with other co-lenders, recently provided 980Investments, owned by Simcha Hyman and Naftali Zanziper, with $137.0 million in total financing. The credit facilities were used to refinance a North Carolina portfolio of skilled nursing facilities that comprise 1,135 beds. CIBC additionally provided a $6.5 million revolving line of credit to support the ongoing operations of the third-party tenant.  Financing was handled on behalf of Greystone by Karina Davydov and Danny Sweeney, and on behalf of CIBC by Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel. Read More »