• Helios Healthcare Advisors Handles Refinancing

    Helios Healthcare Advisors structured and arranged a credit facility used to refinance and consolidate existing senior debt as well as to provide construction financing for a new development. The facility was secured by a portfolio of nine assisted living and memory care communities in Louisiana. A New Orleans-based regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • Live Oak and Berkadia Team Up on Bridge Loan

    Live Oak Bank recently closed a $34.3 million bridge loan in partnership with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for a two-property portfolio owned and operated by BrightSpace Senior Living. The communities are located in the Nashville, Tennessee, and Boise, Idaho MSAs. The loan was structured in an A/B arrangement, with Berkadia funding the... Read More »
  • California Memory Care Communities Receive HUD Loans

    Lument closed two HUD loans totaling $20.7 million to refinance two memory care communities in northern California. Doug Harper, managing director at Lument, co-originated the loan with Grant Goodman of G Capital. The two communities are Crescent Oaks Memory Care, which features 22 units and 36 beds in Sunnyvale, and Silver Oaks Memory Care,... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Two Seniors Housing Transactions

    Berkadia closed the sale of two separate assets in Florida and Georgia. First, Berkadia was engaged by a national owner/operator in the sale of a CCRC in South Florida. The property appears to be Abbey Delray, a 505-unit community originally built in 1979 in Delray Beach that features 327 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 30... Read More »
  • Fortress Buys Large Seniors Housing Campus

    Fortress Investment Group just purchased one of the largest rental seniors housing communities in the country, adding The Village at Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida, to its portfolio. Regionally anchored by the University of Florida and the innovative UF Health network, and located directly across from SantaFe College, the 100+ acre campus... Read More »

$200 million CCRC Development in the Works Near Cincinnati

Just outside of Cincinnati, in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, plans have been initiated to build a 262-unit entrance fee CCRC. In charge of the development is Greenbrier Development, a Dallas-based seniors housing consulting group and developer. They are partnering with Brandicorp and St. Elizabeth Healthcare, which intend on investing between $20 million and $25 million into the development. The first phase of the development is expected to cost upwards of $200 million, or $760,000 per unit. This will be Greenbrier’s first ground-up development in the region. The structure of the community will comprise 196 independent living units, 18 assisted living units, 24 memory support units and 24... Read More »

Helios Structures Partnership Buyout

Helios Healthcare Advisors has structured a partnership buyout of an Indiana-based assisted living and memory care provider. The company, which included Hendricks County Hospital as an owning partner, operated Golden LivingCenter – Woodbridge, a 67-unit assisted living/memory care community in Evansville, Indiana. Acquired by the partnership in 2012, the community underwent a complete renovation in 2015 and reopened as the first standalone memory care community in Evansville, before an expansion added traditional assisted living units as well.In 2019, Helios helped secure construction financing for that project. Post-expansion and renovation, Helios then worked to recapitalize the... Read More »

Meridian Announces Slew of Senior Care Transactions

So far in 2022, Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team has closed $2.2 billion in transaction volume, following a record year in 2021 where they closed nearly $5.6 billion. The latest transactions were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, along with Vice Presidents, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, and Rafi Sod, and Senior Associates, David Gottlieb, Jacob Scott, and Yuval Hananya, as well as Associate, Dylan O’Connor. Starting with the sales, the team sold  two skilled nursing facilities in New York totaling 515 beds for $129.3 million, or $251,000 per bed, and arranged a $129.5 million loan, which... Read More »
More Good Occupancy News

More Good Occupancy News

Brookdale Senior Living just reported that its May weighted average occupancy increased by 70 basis points from April, to 74.6%. Even better, month-end occupancy in May increased by 90 basis points in May compared with the end of April, hitting 76.2% at the end of May. That’s 460 basis points higher than the end of May in 2021. And, they had more than 2,000 move-ins in May.   This is all counter to the usual performance in the second quarter for the industry, so all is good. Except (always an except), Brookdale’s overall census is still quite low at 76.2%, and needs a lot more of these 90-basis point increases. The third quarter is historically the strongest of the year for... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Finances Boston-Area Acquisition

Carnegie Capital Finances Boston-Area Acquisition

A partnership between a regional New England operator and a private fund based in Atlanta acquired a 120-bed skilled nursing facility located about 40 miles from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Built in the 1980s, the facility was occupied in the 80s. Its new owners were able to consummate the deal with an acquisition loan arranged by JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital.  The financing included a $4 million bank loan and a $1.5 million working capital line of credit. Mr. Stettin arranged the bank loan to include an earn out upon achieving a 1.25x debt service coverage ratio, which represents 82% of the purchase price. It comes with a five-year term, fixed rate of 4.35% and two years of... Read More »
Eden Senior Care Acquires Cleveland Community

Eden Senior Care Acquires Cleveland Community

Skokie, Illinois-based Eden Senior Care added an undisclosed assisted living community located in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area to its portfolio, taking over operations from an East Coast based private equity firm. Eden Senior Care will hope to turn things around for the community, as occupancy was 47% and it was losing money on $2.1 million in revenue.   Built in 1999, the community features 90 units in seven cottages, with a combination of assisted living and memory care. It comprises roughly 50,000 square feet and is close proximity to a plethora of shops and restaurants. Recently, the community has also undergone multiple amenity renovations since the start of 2017. Evans Senior... Read More »