• ALP Owner/Operator Expands in Upstate New York

    Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of an assisted living program community in the Albany, New York MSA, on behalf of a private owner. Built in 1985, Danforth Adult Care Center is in Hoosick Falls and features 57 units with 80 beds, including 42 licensed as ALP. The community sits on 2.49 acres with 29,112 square... Read More »
  • Ikaria Capital Group Completes First HUD Transaction

    Since launching in February, Ikaria Capital Group, whose team brings more than 100 years of collective experience in financing, structuring, underwriting, servicing, and asset-managing bridge and FHA/HUD loans, has already completed its first HUD transaction. The $16.5 million closing was executed on behalf of a private investment firm.  The... Read More »
  • North Carolina Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM announced the initial funding of $152 million in total bridge and working capital financing for the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities with nearly 1,100 beds across North Carolina. The debt carries a 36-month initial term with two extension options. The sponsor, a returning healthcare client with operating experience in... Read More »
  • Regional Healthcare Operator Lands HUD Acquisition Financing

    Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged acquisition financing for a 124-bed skilled nursing facility with a strong quality mix in Pasadena, Texas, on behalf of a regional healthcare operator that had been leasing the property from a third-party landlord. The financing package was $12.9 million, or $104,000 per bed.  Leveraging the facility’s... Read More »
  • In Memoriam: Doug Korey

    We just heard the unfortunate news that our friend and colleague Doug Korey passed away last week. He had been battling cancer for a while but always put a brave face on his journey. We have known Doug since he got into the senior care industry more than 25 years ago. We served on panels with him and had many off-the-record conversations about... Read More »

Lument Leads Stonerise Healthcare’s Sale

Lument Securities announced that it recently advised Stonerise Healthcare on its sale to a New York-based real estate investment firm and an operating partner, CommuniCare Health Services. Stonerise’s network of care included 17 owned and operated skilled nursing facilities throughout West Virginia totaling 1,955 beds, a therapy company, seven home health and hospice agencies, an institutional special needs plan and a SNF development project.  Lument had a decade-long HUD financing relationship with Stonerise (which was led by Thomas Gale), and Laca Wong-Hammond and Dominic Porretta led the transaction as its exclusive financial advisor. The skilled nursing portfolio and therapy company... Read More »

Jonathan Rose Co. Buys Seniors Housing Complex

Jonathan Rose Co. and Jamboree Housing have acquired Belage Manor, a 180-unit affordable senior housing complex in Anaheim, California for the purchase price of $41 million, or $227,000 per unit. This marks the 12th deal to close under the Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund V. California-based nonprofit Jamboree Housing along with the fund will invest $9 million in renovations to make significant improvements to the complex. Capital One Healthcare provided a $28 million Fannie Mae first mortgage loan as part of the GSE’s Enhanced Resident Services program.  Read More »

Omni Smart Living Refinances Two Communities Through JLL

JLL Capital Markets arranged short-term financing for two newly built communities totaling 328 units in North Olmsted and North Royalton, Ohio. The two high-quality communities comprise independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The borrower is real estate investment group Omni Smart Living, for which JLL secured a three-year, floating-rate loan through a national debt fund. The first property is the 160-unit Vitalia North Olmsted, and the other is the 168-unit Vitalia North Royalton, both located roughly 10 to 15 minutes outside of downtown Cleveland. Joel Mendes and Billy Lichtenstein of JLL Capital Markets represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »

BMO Harris Bank Closes Big Refinance for Phoenix CCRC

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed on a whopping $145 million term facility with two participating banks to recapitalize Sagewood, an entrance-fee CCRC in Phoenix, Arizona. Westminster Capital and LCS own the property, with LCS serving as operator since its opening in 2010. The community has been expanded over the years, most recently with a $100 million, 101-unit independent living project in 2021, and now features 417 IL units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. The existing IL units were fully occupied prior to the project, and 96% of the new units were pre-sold by the end of 2018.  At that time, LCS and... Read More »

ESI Handles New Jersey SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a struggling skilled nursing facility in Clark Township, New Jersey. Built in 1995 with more than 130 beds, the facility saw pre-pandemic occupancy levels of 85% plummet to 56% by the time of sale. The seller is a regional owner/operator, which sought to exit this facility given the distance from its existing portfolio. Evans Senior Investments, which closed another SNF sale for the regional owner/operator in July in Volusia County, Florida, found an East Coast-based owner/operator within 25 days of starting the marketing process to purchase this asset, adding to its established portfolio. According to LevinPro LTC, Evans Seniors Investments... Read More »

Investor Group Acquires Georgia Communities

A group of individual investors acquired two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the communities sold for a cap rate in the mid-8s, slightly higher than the sector’s average in the last few years. Daniel Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Built in 2007, Sunny Grove Assisted Living in Barnesville features 34 units and was around 97% occupied. River Place Assisted Living in Forsyth was built more recently in 2017 and features 35 units with 93% occupancy. There is an expansion opportunity at the Barnesville location, which... Read More »