• 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 Closes Bridge Loan

Dwight Capital Closes Bridge Loan

Dwight Capital closed a $29.5 million bridge loan for a portfolio of five skilled nursing and assisted living properties in Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin: Eden Vista of Stow, Evansville Manor, Edenbrook Fond du Lac, Edenbrook of Rochester and Edenbrook of Edina. Together, the facilities consist of 441 beds across 25 acres.  The purpose of the loan was to refinance three of the facilities and acquire the other two. Dwight has financed over 20 properties for this repeat client. Managing Director of Healthcare Finance Adam Offman originated this transaction. Read More »
Helios Arranges Bridge Loan

Helios Arranges Bridge Loan

A Texas-based seniors housing operator initiated the first phase of a portfolio recapitalization with a bridge loan closed by Helios Healthcare Advisors. The borrower owns 12 assets, but this transaction refinanced two assisted living/memory care communities in the San Antonio area. They consist of 80 beds in 76 units. With the existing debt maturing and one location working towards stabilization, Helios ran a competitive process that led to multiple term sheets and ended with structuring an 18-month, interest-only bridge loan with limited recourse. Coupling the two assets allowed the borrower to shift leverage from an over-levered asset that needed more time to reach stabilization, to one... Read More »
Phorcys Capital Partners Grows Georgia Holdings

Phorcys Capital Partners Grows Georgia Holdings

Ziegler served as exclusive financial advisor to raise $20.5 million in financing on behalf of Phorcys Capital Partners to acquire The Glen at Lake Oconee Village, a senior housing community in Greensboro, Georgia. PCP was previously the supermajority creditor on the municipal bonds issued to finance the construction of the project. The company purchased the community for $26.45 million, or $232,000 per unit. The community was built in 2017 with 28 independent living, 68 assisted living and 18 memory care units. It is situated on Lake Oconee, between Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia. The facility will continue to be operated by SRI Management.  The community was in receivership, but... Read More »
Grandbridge Secures Large Agency Refinance

Grandbridge Secures Large Agency Refinance

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Diversified Healthcare Finance Group arranged $426.8 million in agency financing for a large seniors housing portfolio owned by a publicly traded, healthcare REIT. In its latest earnings report, Ventas also disclosed that it entered into a $427 million 10-year mortgage loan, which (after Ventas completes its contemplated purchase of a 7.5% tranche of the original principal balance of the loan) will result in a $395 million net mortgage loan at an all-in expected weighted average cash rate of 5.5%.  The portfolio was secured by 19 seniors housing properties located across 10 states and was financed by an agency lender. The... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Provides Memory Care Refinancing

Walker & Dunlop Provides Memory Care Refinancing

Kevin Giusti and Daniel Barone of Walker & Dunlop arranged a $15.2 million loan for the refinancing of a memory care community in Beaverton, Oregon. The community was Waterhouse Ridge Memory Care, which comprises 68 memory care beds in 52 units and over 36,000 square feet. The community specializes in caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients and is currently 88% occupied.  Loan proceeds were utilized to refinance existing debt and provide cash to the borrower, Onelift Senior Living, which developed, owns and operates the community. After two years, the loan will be refinanced under the HUD’s 232 Program. Read More »
Meridian Ends Summer with $465 Million in Volume

Meridian Ends Summer with $465 Million in Volume

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, closed $465 million in transaction volume in August to round out the summer of 2023. The largest deal saw the team arrange acquisition financing from a REIT and finance company for 28 facilities comprising 2,629 skilled nursing beds and 88 assisted living units in Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota.  They also closed several additional acquisition loans, including $30 million in financing from a commercial bank for five facilities consisting of 470 skilled nursing beds and 92 assisted living units in Indiana; $6.2 million in financing from a commercial... Read More »