


Greystone & VIUM Capital Top HUD Rankings
The HUD LEAN rankings for HUD’s fiscal year 2024 ended September 30 are out, and the program saw 220 loans close, totaling nearly $3.2 billion for a nearly 10% increase over FY2023’s total volume. Closings only accelerated in the second half of HUD’s fiscal year, and the next 12 months could see another increase in activity. Topping the charts, both in terms of deals and dollar volume, was Greystone, with 52 deals and $708.3 million of volume. Greystone led the way in FY2023, too, with 39 deals and nearly $700 million of volume, and in FY2022 with 35 deals. VIUM Capital ranked in the second spot in both categories, with 34 deals and $344.8 million of volume. This is a return to the second... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: 2024 Already Surpasses 500 Deals
The optimism in the seniors housing and care industry was palpable at the NIC Fall Conference in Washington, D.C. last week, partially because of interest rates falling for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, but also partially because of the record-setting M&A streak we have been on for most of the year, so far. We are three quarters into 2024, and we have already virtually reached 2023’s annual deal total of 511 deals, at 508 deals according to LevinPro LTC. If you include the deals made public on October 1, we have surpassed that total, with an entire quarter to go. And if the anecdotal stories of BOVs, new listings and closing pipelines are true, we are going to shatter... Read More »
Brookdale Reports Highest Occupancy Since March 2021
While we would hope that seniors housing companies are reporting their highest occupancy levels since the bottom of the COVID market in March 2021, Brookdale Senior Living did it in pretty good fashion. Brookdale finally topped 80% in month-end occupancy for August, reaching 80.4%, or a 50 basis-point increase over July. It also represented a 110-basis point increase from a year ago. Weighted average occupancy reached 78.9% in August, a 30-basis point sequential increase and a 130-basis point increase year over year. We would expect solid census increases in the traditionally strong third quarter, so this was not a surprise. But they will have to maintain these improvements through the... Read More »