• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Wyoming SNF in UPL Program Refinances

Wyoming SNF in UPL Program Refinances

KC Peterson of PM Advisors secured a HUD refinance of a 60-bed skilled nursing facility in Evanston, Wyoming. The refinance, which totaled just under $4 million, was completed through Bedford Lending, a direct HUD lender. Prior to entering the 232 program, the facility had completed necessary capital improvements including adding a large multiday generator.  PM Advisors refinanced the entirety of the existing loans and capital improvement debts. The project is the first and only UPL project in Wyoming, with North Big Horn Hospital District as the sublessee operator. HUD has previously approved this legal structure with Indiana, Utah and Texas (with its QIPP program) hospital operators on... Read More »
HUD Announces Loan Sale

HUD Announces Loan Sale

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced Healthcare Loan Sale 2026-1 (HLS 2026-1). On October 22, 2025, HUD will offer eight (8) Secretary-held, non-performing commercial mortgage loans for sale. The portfolio consists of Section 232 vacant healthcare loans with a combined unpaid principal balance of approximately $58 million. Each loan is secured by a first-lien mortgage on healthcare facilities located across Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Missouri and Minnesota. HUD reserves the right to add or remove loans from the sale at its discretion. For further details regarding the healthcare loans offered in the HLS 2026-1 auction, please visit... Read More »
Senior Care Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan

Senior Care Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan

Capital Funding Group closed a $121.5 million bridge loan. The deal supports the refinancing of twelve skilled nursing and assisted living properties, with ten in Texas and two in Maryland, featuring a total of 1,625 beds. Tim Eberhardt, Craig Casagrande and Catherine Mansel originated the transaction, which closed in September. This follows CFG’s announcement that highlighted the closing of six deals for over $86 million in financing on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers. The deals supported financing for two memory care communities, four skilled nursing facilities and one psychiatric hospital throughout Missouri, California, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. CFG closed the... Read More »
Bridge-to-HUD Loan Facilitates Grace Manor’s Financing Transition

Bridge-to-HUD Loan Facilitates Grace Manor’s Financing Transition

Sims Mortgage Funding (SMF) took out a bridge-to-HUD financing for Grace Manor at North Park at the end of August. The bridge component was a unitranche loan originally issued in February 2020 by Lakeland Bank and an affiliate of SMF’s parent company, HJ Sims, which the borrower used to purchase a 52-bed assisted living and memory care community in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. The new $9.63 million HUD-insured loan has a 35-year amortization and represents 78.3% of the asset’s value, underwritten at a 1.46x debt service coverage ratio. The loan, insured under the Section 232/223(f) program, covered 100% of the cost of refinancing, including capital reserves, repairs, deferred interest, HUD... Read More »
HUD Announces Loan Sale

Seniors Community Secures Freddie Mac Loan

BWE closed a $35.3 million permanent loan for a seniors housing community in Fairfield, Connecticut. Taylor Mokris, Senior Vice President of Seniors Housing and Care at BWE, and Ryan Stoll, National Director of Seniors Housing and Care, led the financing. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan was provided through Freddie Mac on behalf of the borrower, one of the top institutional owners of seniors housing in the country. A 2023 transaction in LevinPro LTC’s M&A database shows Ventas as the buyer, for a price of $26.5 million, or $267,700 per unit. The loan featured full-term interest only and an extremely competitive interest rate. By moving quickly through underwriting and locking the index at... Read More »
CFG’s Senior Care Financing Activity

CFG’s Senior Care Financing Activity

Capital Funding Group financed more than $86 million across six transactions from early to mid-August. The transactions supported two memory care communities, four skilled nursing facilities, and one psychiatric hospital in Missouri, California, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers, one of which is a returning client. First, CFG provided a $33.1 million senior loan for the refinancing of two memory care communities in Missouri and California, featuring 122 beds. Last year, CFG provided a mezzanine loan for the borrower to acquire the properties. Ken Assiran and Jake Walsh originated the deal. Next, the company provided a $10.9 million HUD loan for the... Read More »