• 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 »
JLL Refinances Construction Debt on Minnesota Community

JLL Refinances Construction Debt on Minnesota Community

JLL Capital Markets arranged financing for Elk River Senior Living, a community built in 2018 comprising 108 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care in Elk River, Minnesota. The refinancing, facilitated through HUD, amounts to $18.7 million, or $173,000 per unit. Jeff Lepley and Alex Sheaffer worked to secure the financing. This financing consolidated five different debt obligations that were associated with the construction of the project.  Hearth Development built the community and was the borrower. Marquis Senior Communities operates it. Read More »
Georgia IL/AL Community Changes Hands and Receives Financing

Georgia IL/AL Community Changes Hands and Receives Financing

CBRE Capital Markets completed the sale and financing of an independent living and assisted living community in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. The community, Arbor Terrace Peachtree City, comprises 146 units in Peachtree City and includes a host of amenities.  The buyer was GEM Realty Capital, a Chicago-based real estate investment company with over $6 billion in assets under management. John Sweeny, Aron Will and Garrett Sacco represented the seller. Will and Michael Cregan also arranged an acquisition loan via CBRE’s Freddie Mac Optigo lending platform. Read More »
United Methodist Retirement Homes Secures Funding

United Methodist Retirement Homes Secures Funding

Ziegler announced the pricing of a bond series closed for The United Methodist Retirement Homes, totaling $67.18 million in Series 2024A and 2024B bonds. The United Methodist Retirement Homes is a North Carolina not-for-profit that owns and operates three CCRCs in the Tarheel State. The three communities consist of a total of 690 independent living units, 28 memory care units, 112 assisted living units and 194 skilled nursing units, which ranks UMRH as the third largest not-for-profit senior living operator in North Carolina. Since 2000, UMRH has been managed by Life Care Services, the third largest operator of senior living communities in the nation. UMRH, with the assistance of LCS... Read More »
JLL Secures Acquisition Financing for Two AL/MC Communities

JLL Secures Acquisition Financing for Two AL/MC Communities

JLL Capital Markets arranged acquisition financing for two assisted living and memory care communities in Iowa on behalf of affiliates of Jaybird Senior Living. Both communities were managed by Jaybird prior to the acquisition. The communities, Vintage Hills of Indianola and Country Meadow Place, total 118 units combined. Vintage Hills comprises 62 units in Indianola, Iowa, and Country Meadow Place is in Mason City, Iowa, with 56 units.  Jeff Lepley and Alex Sheaffer of JLL handled the transaction, securing two loans totaling $17.87 million, or $151,000 per unit, representing around 81% of the total purchase price, putting the purchase price above $22.0 million, or $186,000 per... Read More »
United Methodist Retirement Homes Secures Funding

Monarch Advisors Secures Construction Debt

Monarch Advisors is on a roll. After recently sourcing acquisition debt for a skilled nursing facility in Topeka, Kansas, Alec Blanc has arranged construction financing for the development of a new 105-unit/124-bed senior care property with independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing in Muskegon, Michigan. The sponsor, based in Louisville, Kentucky, engaged Monarch to source debt totaling $21.6 million, or about 67% of the cost of the project.  Blanc secured a construction/mini-perm loan commitment from a national mortgage bank’s loan participation program with a four-year term and one 12-month extension option. Payments will be interest only at SOFR+3.25% for the... Read More »
CFG Finances Over $1.7 Billion in 2023

CFG Finances Over $1.7 Billion in 2023

Capital Funding Group announced the company executed or arranged more than $1.7 billion in financing across 50 deals in 2023. These financings included 24 healthcare bridge-to-HUD loans, five multifamily bridge loans and 11 HUD loans. Financing of the multifamily bridge-to-HUD loans totaled approximately $49.7 million of the company’s annual financing. In that timespan, CFG closed numerous refinances, including: $7.2 million HUD loan for a 75-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio. $15.5 million HUD loan for a 118-bed skilled nursing facility in Arizona. $43.4 million HUD loan for a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in California. $13.8 million mezzanine loan for 12 long-term care facilities... Read More »