• 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 »
  • Interview with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services to talk about the findings from BBG’s annual investor survey. DeBee shares his thoughts on what was surprising about the results and highlights the points he agrees with. You can view the survey results here. Read More »

Affordable Housing Investment Brokerage Sell Three Affordable Communities in Vermont

Affordable Housing Investment Brokerage Inc. announced it has arranged the sale of a three-property affordable seniors housing portfolio in the greater Burlington area of Vermont. Built in 1999, Eagle Crest comprises 60 units and is located across the street from the second community, Falcon Manor. Built in 2001, Falcon Manor comprises 65 units and sits on 1.5 acres also just east of Burlington. The third community is Hawk’s Nest of St. Albans, which comprises 66 units and is located 30 miles north of Burlington. Occupancy was consistently high across the portfolio, with each building maintaining a wait list, with the longest wait list at Hawk’s Nest, which has 44 units on a HAP contract.... Read More »
Meridian Closes $250 Million in Two-Month Transaction Volume

Meridian Closes $250 Million in Two-Month Transaction Volume

Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team closed more than $250 million in transaction volume in the last two months, on top of a productive 2022 that saw the team close more than $6 billion in transactions. The latest deals were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson. Included in the haul was a $60 million loan from a commercial bank in addition to a $3.75 million A/R line to refinance two skilled nursing facilities totaling 366 beds in Virginia, a $51.5 million loan along with a $2.5 million A/R line from a commercial bank and mezzanine lender to refinance four skilled nursing facilities comprised of 482... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Pennsylvania Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments Pennsylvania Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments announced the sale of a skilled nursing and seniors housing portfolio in the state of Pennsylvania, representing an in-state owner/operator in their exit from the industry. The portfolio consisted of three properties comprising a total of 395 beds of skilled nursing and 32 units of seniors housing. The purchase price of the portfolio was $39 million, or $91,000 per bed. At the time of marketing, occupancy averaged around 64%, with total portfolio revenue of $27.2 million and an operating loss of -$1.5 million. The portfolio struggled with regulatory deficiencies and staffing shortages, which dropped occupancy to 57% during the transaction process. Evans secured a... Read More »

Cushman & Wakefield Refinances IL/AL Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield announced it has arranged a $51 million refinance of an independent living and assisted living portfolio on behalf of Kisco Senior Living. The three-property portfolio comprises 477 units and spans across the states of California, Texas and North Carolina. The communities within the portfolio are Cypress Court in Escondido, California, Villa de San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas, and Heritage Woods in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The new loan, which was provided by a national bank, is retiring existing debt. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Sam Dylag represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »
60 Seconds With Swett: Not-For-Profits Could Have a Tough 2023

60 Seconds With Swett: Not-For-Profits Could Have a Tough 2023

The pandemic adversely affected all senior care companies in the last three years, but not-for-profits seem to have been hit the hardest. First seeing their occupancies decline, they were then hit by inflation and soaring wages, which, when you generally have expense management issues in good times, is a devastating combination. The generosity to support several years of losses at these organizations is noble, but their boards can’t sustain those struggling businesses forever, especially when their mission could be better served in other capacities. We recently saw the debacle at the not-for-profit ProMedica where Welltower let the health system off the hook with its underwater leases for... Read More »
Charter Senior Living Will Operate High-End Miami Community

Charter Senior Living Will Operate High-End Miami Community

An upscale independent living community in the Westchester neighborhood of Miami, Florida, is set to open its doors in the new year, Miami-based commercial real estate owners and developers AJP Ventures and Mas Group, in addition to equity partner OCTA, completed construction of The Contemporary, which features one- and two-bedroom units on a six-acre campus. Charter Senior Living will operate it upon opening. Located on the same campus is MedSquare Place, a medical office building also in development by the two developers. Read More »