• 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 »
Dwight Capital Finances SNF Portfolio Deal

Dwight Capital Finances SNF Portfolio Deal

Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust, financed a $142 million bridge acquisition loan for a portfolio of 10 skilled nursing facilities in prime Southeast urban markets in Georgia (Atlanta), Tennessee (Memphis), Alabama (Mobile) and Louisiana (Shreveport). The properties include Bell Minor Home, Cambridge Post Acute Care Center, Nurse Care of Buckhead, Riverside Health Care Center, Rockdale Healthcare Center, Westminster Commons, Millington Healthcare Center, Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center, Kensington Health and Rehabilitation, and Highland Place Rehabilitation and Nursing. Altogether, the facilities total 1,371 beds. Adam Offman handled this transaction... Read More »
Dwight Capital Finances SNF Portfolio Deal

National SNF Portfolio Secures Refinancing

IDB Bank served as the administrative agent on a $201.5 million bridge-to-HUD loan to refinance existing debt for a national portfolio of 21 skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia and Texas. The facilities comprise 2,500 beds, have decent occupancy and are performing well. Facility ages varied, and there were multiple operators across the portfolio. As administrative agent, IDB will hold $100 million of the debt, and the syndicated deal involved two additional banks. The term length is three years, with no extension options. The goal is to take it to HUD within the next three years. Michael Palermo, John Bertolozzi and Thierry Decembre handled the... Read More »
New Perspective Accelerates Growth Mode

New Perspective Accelerates Growth Mode

New Perspective Senior Living, a fast-growing senior living company with 40 communities across eight states, secured more than $200 million in bridge debt, preferred equity and common equity with its partners, BMO Commercial Real Estate, Fengate and Boldt, to facilitate the acquisition and financing of six seniors housing communities with over 800 combined units. The joint venture has established a programmatic relationship to pursue $500 million in future acquisitions and developments. One of the seniors housing communities is situated in West Fargo, North Dakota. Four others are in Wisconsin, encompassing the areas of Sun Prairie, Brown Deer, Franklin and Waukesha. The sixth community is... Read More »
Helios Handles (and Helps Finance) Alabama Deal

Helios Handles (and Helps Finance) Alabama Deal

Helios Healthcare Advisors was engaged by a Mississippi-based regional owner/operator in its sale of an assisted living and memory care community in Alabama. The seller, Veritas InCare, was divesting to exit the industry. The selected buyer was a local owner/operator. Andrew Wittenauer, Mario Santiago and Bill Janis of Helios handled the transaction. Despite the community’s strong performance, dislocation in the debt markets and low liquidity impacted the buyer’s ability to utilize its existing lending relationships to fund the purchase. So, Helios structured a financing package with a regional lender that recapitalized the buyer’s existing community to unlock equity, while simultaneously... Read More »
Investment Firm Acquires in Minnesota

Investment Firm Acquires in Minnesota

JLL Capital Markets arranged the sale and financing, secured through Freddie Mac, for a Section 8, affordable seniors housing community in Stillwater, Minnesota. Rivertown Commons features 96 units across seven stories with 55,800 total square feet. JLL worked on behalf of the seller, Dominium Management, and procured the buyer, a mission-first investment firm that specializes in affordable and workforce housing. The buyer intends to invest additional capital to refresh the units and common areas in addition to extending the existing affordability restrictions. The JLL Investment Sales and Advisory team was led by Managing Director Josh Talberg and Senior Managing Director Doug Childers.... Read More »
Lument Closes Bridge Loan to Finance Three Senior Living Assets

Lument Closes Bridge Loan to Finance Three Senior Living Assets

Lument announced the closing of a $9 million bridge loan, which was funded directly from Lument’s balance sheet, to finance The Cottages Assisted Living and Memory Care, a portfolio of three properties in the Boise area: Alpine Meadows, The Cottages of Boise and The Cottages of Lochsa Falls. Rob McAdams handled the transaction. The transaction is structured as a single loan secured by the three assets and includes financing the acquisition of Alpine Meadows, a 34-bed assisted living community in Meridian, and refinancing existing debt of the Boise and Lochsa locations, both 32-unit assisted living and memory care communities in Garden City and Meridian, respectively. The loan terms include... Read More »