• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »

CFG Announced H1:22 Transaction Volume

Capital Funding Group announced its transaction totals for the first half of the year, which surpassed $1.8 billion in financing volume. The deals included 55 bridge loans and 13 HUD loans for the firm’s skilled nursing, assisted living and multifamily clients across the country. Over $1 billion of this financing was attributed to its senior care clients. Highlights of the half-year include a $316.9 million bridge loan to refinance a large skilled nursing portfolio and  $197.5 million acquisition bridge loan for a 24-facility portfolio in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.  Next was a $135 million bridge loan arranged for the refinancing and dividend recapitalization of a... Read More »

Invesque Divests Two New York Communities

Invesque Inc. divested a number of non-core assets in the seniors housing and medical office building sectors, including its interest in two active adult communities in Wheatfield, New York (Buffalo MSA). Originally acquired in 2018 as part of Invesque’s acquisition of Care Investment Trust, the communities were operated by Calamar (which is based in Wheatfield) under a joint venture structure. They were both built in the late-2000s.  The purchase price comes to approximately $29.3 million, or $145,000 per unit, with a cap rate of 5.7% based on trailing NOI. Invesque received net cash proceeds of $10 million at closing, which it plans to use to de-lever and simplify its balance... Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Investors Need Some Straight Talk

I know we live in a litigious country, and public companies have their teams of lawyers and PR consultants to protect them, telling them to disclose a minimum amount of information. But don’t you think it is time for some straight talk? I do. We are coming out of the pandemic distress, slowly for some and not as slow for others. Butwith census growth not what it was in the second and third quarters of 2021, let’s admit that this will be a long slog. We need both large census increases combined with margin increases. We will not get both as long as labor costs keep rising and inflation levels remain at 40-year records. And it is doubtful we will get back to the census levels of 2014-2015... Read More »

Queen Creek Community Refinances with Fannie Mae

A joint venture between American Care Concepts and private investors refinanced its Queen Creek, Arizona community with the help of JLL Capital Markets. The firm arranged a $10.5 million refinancing for the newly constructed Countryside Living, a 40-unit assisted living and memory care community located just outside of Phoenix. Brad Miner, Alanna Ellis, Martin Mbeteni and Zach Brantley of JLL worked on behalf of the borrower to originate the 10-year, fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan. Also, the loan will be serviced by JLL Real Estate Capital, LLC, a Fannie Mae DUS lender. Read More »

Lument Refinances Great Lakes Portfolio

Lument closed an $87 million HUD refinance of nine skilled nursing facilities with a total of 691 beds located in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Managing Director Brad Competty led the transaction for Lument. The operator, Atrium Centers Inc., is a provider of short-term post-acute rehabilitation and long-term nursing care across its 29 facilities in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin with over 2,000 total beds. The nine refinanced properties had remained stabilized throughout the pandemic and were thus ready for the HUD refinance. Lument was able to obtain low, fixed interest rates on all nine loans before rates significantly rose. Read More »

JLL Refinances Seattle-Area Community

JLL Capital Markets worked on behalf of the borrower, Mirror Lake Village LLC, to secure a $29.5 million refinancing for Mirror Lake Village, a 114-unit, 138-bed senior living community in Federal Way, Washington. The community comprises 30 assisted living units, 66 memory care units and 18 independent living cottages. The combination of balance sheet financing from a regional bank together with retroactive C-Pace provided for full leverage on the reset budget and blended all in rate of 5.21% including 10 years of interest only and 45% of the financing as fixed rate non-recourse. Alanna Ellis of JLL Capital Markets handled the transaction. Read More »

Blueprint Hits a Double in Indiana

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has successfully completed its second Indiana-based transaction in July alone. The deal involved a late 1990s-built assisted living community located in South Bend that saw its operations decline during the pandemic. Its national owner/operator wished to focus on other assets and slotted the struggling community for sale. The winning bidder was a new relationship between a well-capitalized private owner and a new operator seeking to establish a market presence with its first deal. They plan to reposition the asset as an affordable option in the South Bend MSA by utilizing the Indiana Assisted Living Waiver Program. Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly, Amy... Read More »

Ziegler Finances Virginia CCRC Expansion

Ziegler has successfully closed financing for Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury, (SVWC) a large CCRC in Winchester, Virginia. The financing consists of $71 million Series 2022A and 2022B bonds, for the Virginia-based not-for-profit. Founded in 1982, SVWC serves nearly 400 residents on its 87-acre campus with 218 independent living units (164 apartments and 54 cottages), 48 assisted living units, 12 memory care units and 51 skilled nursing beds.Plans for an independent living expansion project are in place, which will include 48 new units. To fund the expansion, SVWC issued two tranches of draw down bank loans that were purchased by Atlantic Union Bank and Pinnacle Financial Partners... Read More »

Upstate New York Community Seeks HUD Take-Out

One year on from acquiring an assisted living/memory care community in Wellsville, New York, ownership is refinancing its acquisition debt with intent of going to HUD within the next year. Built in 1989 with 89 units and 137 beds, this community was the only licensed seniors housing community in Alleghany County. Occupancy was around 80% before COVID-19 struck the community and caused census to fall to 70%. The seller, a private individual looking to retire and divest his last asset, engaged Senior Living Investment Brokerage to sell the property but was not able to move any new admissions in until March 2021 because of the state-mandated admission freeze. COVID caused trailing-12-month... Read More »

Scribner Capital Works on Two Southeast Transactions

Scribner Capital and William James Group (WJG) have joint ventured to acquire two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. Scribner provided co-sponsor equity and leveraged its network of high-net-worth investors to provide the limited partner equity. WJG provided co-sponsor equity as well and will operate the communities on behalf of the venture. 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... Read More »

SLIB Closes Land Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage has closed the land sale of an 8.9-acre parcel entitled for 98 seniors housing units, in Woodburn, Oregon. The land sold for $1.7 million, just south of Portland. The buyer was an Oregon-based development group. Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Read More »