• 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 »
Financing Secured for a Not-For-Profit Affordable Seniors Housing Community

Financing Secured for a Not-For-Profit Affordable Seniors Housing Community

Rockabill, a leading development partner and consultant to not-for-profit owners of affordable, support, and transitional housing, and the national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company BWE, announced a refinancing of an affordable seniors housing community in Yonkers, New York. Monastery Manor comprises 147 one-bedroom units that are reserved for persons 62 years and older who earn no more than 50% of area median income. Residents contribute no more than 30% of their adjusted annual income toward rent.  Financing for the project included a $16.9 million Fannie Mae loan and an extension of the property’s existing PILOT agreement with the Yonkers Industrial Development... Read More »
CFG Arranges Refinancing for an Arizona SNF

CFG Arranges Refinancing for an Arizona SNF

Capital Funding Group announced the closing of a $10.9 million HUD loan on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The loan supported the refinancing of an existing bridge loan, executed by CFG, into a HUD loan. The refinancing was secured by a 112-bed skilled nursing facility in Arizona. Tommy Dillon of CFG originated the transaction.  This financing follows the company’s recent announcement of $22.4 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities in Georgia secured by 338 beds. Read More »
NY Active Adult Community Changes Hands

NY Active Adult Community Changes Hands

CBRE Capital Markets announced the sale and financing of an active adult community in Deer Park, New York. Jeff Dunne and Eric Apfel of the New York Metro Institutional Sales team, along with Aron Will, John Sweeny and Scott Bray of the CBRE Senior Housing team, handled this transaction. CBRE represented the seller, a joint venture between B2K Development, a Long Island-based real estate development group, and Harrison Street, one of the leading investment management firms that has a focus on alternative real assets. The team also procured the buyer, Fairfield Knolls at Deer Park Owner LLC, a real estate investment group based in Melville, NY. There was significant interest in the... Read More »
Meridian Closes $200 Million in Transaction Volume

Meridian Closes $200 Million in Transaction Volume

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, had an impressive October, closing $200 million in transaction volume. The team recently sold seven skilled nursing facilities totaling 844 beds in Massachusetts for $58.8 million, or $70,000 per bed, and arranged $45 million in financing from a commercial bank for the acquisition and the refinance of an eighth skilled nursing facility in Illinois comprising 53 beds. They also sold a 242-bed skilled nursing facility in Colorado for $28.4 million, or $117,400 per bed.   Rounding out their recent activity, the team arranged $28 million from a finance company to refinance two... Read More »
Not-For-Profit CCRC Receives Financing

Not-For-Profit CCRC Receives Financing

Ziegler successfully closed a bond financing for Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury, a Virginia not-for-profit organization that owns and operates a CCRC in Winchester. Set on 87 acres, the 40-year-old campus provides housing, health care, and other services to nearly 400 residents across 217 independent living units (164 apartments and 53 cottages), 48 assisted living units, 12 memory care units and 51 skilled nursing beds. The organization is currently completing an independent living expansion project, the first phase of which was financed by Ziegler in 2022 and will include 48 new IL villa apartments. The second phase of the project that is being financed with the new Series 2023... Read More »
KeyBank Finances New Construction in Cleveland

KeyBank Finances New Construction in Cleveland

A new affordable senior apartment community is being built in Cleveland, Ohio, thanks to $11.3 million in 9% tax credit equity provided by KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI). Garrett Square Apartments will include 49 units of affordable seniors housing in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland. The financing package comprised a $9 million construction loan and a $2.3 million permanent loan. Additional permanent financing sources include secondary soft loans totaling $1.7 million provided through the City of Cleveland’s American Rescue Plan Act, $900,000 from City Home, and $450,00 from the County ERA fund. The site is currently occupied with a parking lot and... Read More »