• Kisco Senior Living Buys Beds in North Carolina

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage was engaged by a North Carolina-based skilled nursing owner to confidentially market and sell 75 adult care home beds in Wake County, North Carolina. The beds were affiliated with multiple skilled nursing facilities located across the county and were slated for sale because the owner was eliminating assisted... Read More »
  • Texas Capital Bank Provides Financing to Regional Operator

    A California-based regional senior care operator with more than 20 facilities across the western United States recently obtained a revolving credit facility, arranged by Grant Goodman of G Capital. Proceeds from the $30 million facility will be used to support working capital requirements and continue the owner’s strategic expansion as new... Read More »
  • Harbert Management Corporation Secures Financing for California Community

    Live Oak Bank provided a $25 million bridge-to-sale loan to finance a seniors housing community near Los Angeles, California. Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I LP, which is managed by Harbert Management Corporation, is the borrower. The financing features a three-year initial term, 36 months of interest-only payments and $2.8 million in potential... Read More »
  • Florida Portfolio Locks in Refinancing

    MONTICELLOAM announced the financing of a senior bridge loan and working capital facility for three skilled nursing facilities in southern Florida, totaling $108.75 million. The sponsorship group, a repeat client of MONTICELLOAM, intends to use the $105.5 million floating-rate senior bridge loan to refinance the existing debt on the portfolio.... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Brookdale Senior Living and SWAT

    Brookdale Senior Living announced it had recently formed SWAT teams to deal with its lowest-occupancy buildings to try to get them over the 80% hump, and there are a lot of them. Since then, the term SWAT team has been appearing more and more with other providers.  SWAT is a scary term, and stands for Special Weapons and Tactics, and in law... Read More »
Integral Senior Living & Discovery Senior Living Combine

Integral Senior Living & Discovery Senior Living Combine

Integral Senior Living Management and Discovery Senior Living, two of the largest seniors housing operators, are combining to form the fifth largest management company in the country. The merger is happening via an investment in ISL by funds advised by Lee Equity Partners and Coastwood Senior Housing Partners, two specialized investment firms that had previously recapitalized Discovery. The recapitalization of both companies should create synergies in systems and platforms between the sister companies, which will manage approximately 27,000 senior living units, combined, with a presence in 36 states nationwide. ISL President and CEO Collette Gray will keep her current title as ISL... Read More »
Midcap Financial Acquires Most of Sector Financial’s Healthcare ABL Portfolio

Midcap Financial Acquires Most of Sector Financial’s Healthcare ABL Portfolio

MidCap Financial, a leading commercial finance company focused on middle market transactions, completed an acquisition of a significant portion of Sector Financial’s managed Healthcare Asset Based Lending portfolio, totaling over $500 million in commitments and over $300 million in funded assets. Garrett Fletcher, Product Head of Asset Based Lending at MidCap Financial, had this to say: “We are pleased to expand our portfolio and forge meaningful new partnerships with borrowers in one of our core verticals, serving as a leading capital provider to the healthcare industry and the middle market overall.” Included in the $500 million in commitments were revolving credit facilities with... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Finances Massachusetts SNF Acquisition

Carnegie Capital Finances Massachusetts SNF Acquisition

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital financed the acquisition of a 130-bed skilled nursing facility in the Springfield area of Massachusetts with a $7 million first mortgage and a $2 million line of credit for a sponsor and the operator. Built in the late-1980s and renovated in 2005, the facility was around 82% occupied but was underperforming. This is the second opportunistic acquisition between the two entities, and the operator owns another facility nearby. The loan covered 70% of the $10 million, or $76,900 per bed, purchase price. It came with a fixed interest rate of 6.5% and a term of seven years, with two years of interest only. Read More »
Lument Arranges Acquisition Loan and Three Refinances

Lument Arranges Acquisition Loan and Three Refinances

Lument closed four bridge loans totaling more than $78 million to acquire and/or refinance four memory care communities totaling 311 units in Texas and Wisconsin. Managing Directors Doug Harper, Chris Mauger, and Casey Moore led the transaction for Lument. The deal’s sponsor was Silverado, a large and experienced owner/operator of dedicated memory care communities in California, Kansas, Nevada, Maryland, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Silverado had been managing Barton Springs, a 56-unit community in Austin, Texas, and was able to acquire the property with an $18.6 million loan (which includes the initial principal and an earn out). Lument also secured $21.1 million... Read More »
CBRE Refinances San Diego-Area IL Community

CBRE Refinances San Diego-Area IL Community

CBRE’s National Senior Housing team refinanced an independent living community in California. Built in 2021, The Plaza at Lantern Crest comprises 113 units and sits on 3.8 acres in Santee (San Diego MSA). The four-story community features a plethora of amenities including an indoor swimming pool, fitness center, physical therapy office, outdoor theater, a restaurant and 1950’s diner, a bowling alley, a full-service bar and a tea room. Aron Will, Bill Chiles, Matt Kuronen and Michael Cregan of CBRE arranged a $38.3 million, 10-year loan with five years of interest only through its Freddie Mac Optigo lending platform on behalf of the borrower, The Grant Companies. Founded in 1989, The Grant... Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT Sees Occupancy Increases

Sabra Health Care REIT Sees Occupancy Increases

Sabra Health Care REIT is still working through some portfolio issues, like every other REIT, and it will take until at least next year to wind through them. But from an occupancy perspective, at least with its largest segments, things are looking up. And the transition of 20 additional skilled nursing facilities to The Ensign Group is now complete, bringing the total operated by Ensign to 31 buildings representing 8.5% of annualized NOI. This is important because not only is Ensign one of the strongest SNF operators in the country, but its EBITDARM coverage with Sabra is 1.69x. Also not too shabby from a financial perspective is Avamere Family of Companies, which now leases 29 SNFs from... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield’s Chicago Transaction

Cushman & Wakefield’s Chicago Transaction

Cushman & Wakefield sold an independent living community in the state of Illinois. Partially occupying a 1939-built hospital, River Glen of St. Charles comprises 106 units of independent living, (including townhomes) assisted living and memory care in St. Charles (Chicago MSA). Selling the community was Salt Lake City, Utah-based Bridge Investment Group. River Glen was then purchased by Citrine Senior Communities in a joint venture with Jaybird Capital for a purchase price of $20 million, or $188,700 per unit. Jaybird Senior Living will manage the community. Historically, the community was fully-leased with its AL and MC units in a mansion-style building and multiple amenities such as... Read More »
Shuttered Connecticut SNF Sells

Shuttered Connecticut SNF Sells

A vacant skilled nursing facility sold in Wallingford, Connecticut, with the help of Michael Segal, Connor Doherty, Steve Thomes and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Built in 1984 and formerly operated by Genesis HealthCare, Quinnipiac Valley Center comprises a total of 180 beds and sits on 11 acres just north of New Haven. The facility was closed in March 2022 after a Department of Public Health investigation found “repeated and ongoing failure to correct serious and widespread health and safety issues.” Emerging as the buyer was a Florida-based developer with local ties to Wallingford. The transaction closed less than 50 days after the LOI... Read More »
Grandbridge Facilitates Florida Transactions

Grandbridge Facilitates Florida Transactions

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s seniors housing investment sales team announced it has sold three assisted living/memory care communities in the state of Florida. The three communities included Bradenton Oaks in Bradenton, Renaissance Retirement Center in Sanford and Bayside Terrace in Pinellas Park. Built in 1973 and 1988, Bradenton Oaks comprises 112 units just south of Tampa Bay. Built in 1894, Renaissance Retirement Center comprises 94 units just north of Orlando. Built in 1986, Bayside Terrace comprises 145 units north of St. Petersburg. All of the communities were operating at low occupancies and operational losses. A national REIT was the seller, after deeming the properties to be... Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT Sees Occupancy Increases

National Health Investors Continues To Acquire

As we keep saying, the recovery from the pandemic is going to be a long slog for many, but most investors, lenders and operators understand that and have been able to deal with it. Take National Health Investors, which would have liked to turn in a better fourth quarter, but nonetheless continued making acquisitions in February. First, NHI bought two memory care communities from Silverado Senior Living, a new customer, for $37.5 million, or $312,500 per unit. They both opened in 2022 and both are 60 units. One is located in Summerlin, Nevada, and the other in Frederick, Maryland. Silverado will lease them back from NHI for 20 years with a first-year lease rate of 7.5% plus 2% annual... Read More »