• 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 »
Developers Secure LIHTC Equity for Indiana Project

Developers Secure LIHTC Equity for Indiana Project

Brown Capital Group, Leo Brown Group and Rogers Development Group are teaming up on a new seniors housing development in Indiana. The trio will open Reserve on Park Place, a 187-unit affordable senior apartment building in Fort Wayne, in April 2025. The three-story community will have 15 studio, 136 one-bedroom and 36 two-bedroom units for residents earning 40%, 60% and 80% of the area median income (AMI).  To help finance the project, Merchants Capital provided $17.4 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) equity financing for the construction. Read More »
Construction Coming to a Close for NY Development

Construction Coming to a Close for NY Development

FilBen Group, an owner/developer, and its equity partner RSF Partners are nearing completion of their $54 million seniors housing development in Montebello, New York, in the Lower Hudson Valley. The four-story Braemar at Montebello will be complete in 2024 and feature 133 total units. Of those, there are 66 studio, 14 one-bedroom and 53 two-bedroom units (semi-private “friendship” units each with approximately 600 square feet) across 133,675 total square feet. There will also be shared public spaces on the main, second and third levels.  The community is adjacent to the Montebello Commercial Center, which offers retail, entertainment, dining and medical services. Good Samaritan... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Lands Long Island Loan

Live Oak Bank Lands Long Island Loan

Live Oak Bank closed a $27.2 million refinance for an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Woodbury, New York (Long Island). The community is stabilized and operated by Benchmark Senior Living. Benchmark Senior Living and its joint venture partner, Iron Point Partners, LLC, developed the community in fall 2019. Chad Borst, the Senior Loan Officer at Live Oak Bank, arranged the loan. Read More »
Cambridge Secures HUD Refinancing Loan

Cambridge Secures HUD Refinancing Loan

Cambridge Realty Capital provided a $2.1 million HUD loan to refinance Wells Point Lodge, a 60-bed seniors housing community in the northern Austin suburb of Pflugerville, Texas. Anthony Marino of Cambridge originated the 35-year loan through HUD’s 232/223(f) program. The borrower was an undisclosed, Texas-based limited liability company. Cambridge also utilized the early rate lock program, which allowed the owner to avoid the recent run-up in interest rates. Read More »
CFG Handles Another HUD Refinance

CFG Handles Another HUD Refinance

Capital Funding Group closed a $7.2 million HUD loan to refinance a 162-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky. CFG had executed the original bridge loan, which allowed the nationally recognized borrower to acquire the facility’s real estate. Since that acquisition, the facility has stabilized and the time came for a permanent HUD takeout. The refinancing closed on November 8, 2023. Capital Funding Group Director of Long-Term Care Patrick McGovern originated the transaction for the company. The financing followed CFG’s recent closing of a $10.9 million HUD loan which supported the refinancing of a 112-bed skilled nursing facility in Arizona. Read More »
Developers Secure LIHTC Equity for Indiana Project

BWE Secures Three RAD for PRAC Loans

BWE secured $15.25 million in permanent loans to finance two affordable seniors housing communities and one affordable multifamily community. Jon Killough and Tony Love of BWE originated the loans for Sweetwater Point, La Vista de Lopez and AHEPA 310.  Killough and Love used HUD’s RAD for PRAC initiative, a new tool designed to preserve existing Section 202 housing as well as create new Section 8 housing across the country. Traditionally, Section 202 PRAC rental assistance could only be used for operating expenses, not debt servicing. The RAD for PRAC process allows borrowers to convert PRAC subsidies to project-based Section 8 contracts, which boosts the rental subsidy to a level... Read More »