• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Brookdale Senior Living, What’s Next?

    So, the big vote occurred last week, and shareholders of Brookdale Senior Living have spoken. We are sure that the recent increases in occupancy convinced some shareholders to stick with management and its “plan.” But the nominees from activist shareholder Ortelius Advisors were not off-the-wall candidates. It was an excellent group, and despite... Read More »
  • Optalis Healthcare Acquires Michigan Portfolio

    Blueprint was engaged by Michael F. Flanagan, the duly appointed receiver of Spartan Holdco, LLC, et al. and approved by the Oakland County Circuit Court to run a marketing process sourcing qualified overbids for the auction sale of the SKLD (Skilled Living and Development) portfolio. Dubbed Project Spartan, the portfolio comprises eleven skilled... Read More »
  • National REIT Divests to Cougar Capital Management

    Haven Senior Investments facilitated a transaction between a national REIT and a real estate development firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The seller, Summit Healthcare REIT, divested a seniors housing community in Littleton, New Hampshire, The Village at Riverglen. Built in 2002, The Village at Riverglen features 60 beds across 50 independent... Read More »
  • CFG’s H1 Financing Volume

    Capital Funding Group’s bridge-to-HUD and HUD teams financed more than $930 million across 50 transactions in the first half of 2025. These financings included 14 HUD loans, 21 bridge loans and 15 accounts receivable loans for clients across the country. Managing Director of Real Estate Craig Casagrande originated a few transactions throughout... Read More »
  • Stabilized Class-A IL Community Secures Refinancing

    Greystone arranged a $43.5 million debt placement to refinance a seniors housing community in Oregon. The 142-unit property is a recently built and stabilized Class-A independent living community. The community had strong trailing cash flows, on a shorter trailing period, but an upward trend. The financing was sourced by David Young.  The... Read More »
Housing & Healthcare Finance Announces HUD Activity

Housing & Healthcare Finance Announces HUD Activity

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) closed over $83 million in HUD loans during the month of February. The firm kicked off its activity with a $24 million loan for a large 280-bed skilled nursing facility in New Jersey. That was followed by two more HUD loans totaling $46 million closed for SNFs in Maryland and Illinois. Finally, HHC Finance took out previous HUD debt for a long-term customer in Connecticut with a new $13 million loan closed through the (a)7 program. Each loan came with interest rates in the low-2s and terms ranging from 30 to 35 years.  HHC Finance rounded out its February activity with over $115 million of loan modifications closed for clients in Missouri,... Read More »
PGIM Refinances Virginia Seniors Housing Community

PGIM Refinances Virginia Seniors Housing Community

PGIM Real Estate’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Group refinanced a 57-unit seniors housing community in Lynchburg, Virginia with a new HUD loan, providing the owner with substantial annual loan payment savings. That makes for a happy client. Family-owned and operated Runk & Pratt was the borrower, closing its second transaction with PGIM in the last 10 months.   The community was built in the 1980s and boasted 95% occupancy. It previously had a HUD mortgage holding an interest rate of 4.25%. However, Christopher Fenton and Catherine Eby arranged a new $13.2 million loan that both extended the borrower’s loan maturity and lowered the interest rate to 3.03%. That results in annual debt... Read More »
Texas-Based Operator Acquires Dallas-Area SNF

Texas-Based Operator Acquires Dallas-Area SNF

Jeff Rhodes, Bill Janis and Mario Wilson of Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged acquisition financing for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in the Dallas metro area. This was the only operation for the current Texas-based operator, which is acquiring the facility from the out-of-state landlord.   Newly built in 2014, the facility maintained above average occupancy at the time of the sale. Helping its operations was its location in an affluent suburb near a handful of major hospitals. It also consistently achieves strong clinical ratings.  The Helios team arranged a $12.53 million bridge loan from a regional lender to help cover the $13.06 million, or $108,800 per... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Closes Loan With Congressional Bank

Carnegie Capital Closes Loan With Congressional Bank

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital secured a bank refinance for a Pennsylvania seniors housing community. Congressional Bank provided the $16.5 million loan, which came with a three-year term and 30 months of interest only. This was the second financing Mr. Stettin has closed for the sponsor, a major national healthcare development fund. A top-tier national operator managed the building, which opened within the last several years with 65 assisted living and 30 memory care units. The loan refinanced the property during its continued lease-up, which was extended due to the pandemic. This capped a busy month for Carnegie Capital during which it announced its new joint venture with Evans Senior... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending February 26, 2021

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending February 26, 2021

February wrapped up, and senior care M&A was quite light. But check out our recent senior care M&A deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Focus Healthcare Partners LLCThe Mansions PortfolioN/A Elysian Senior HomesOlive Branch Estates$5.5 million Texas-based operatorSkilled nursing facility in TX$13.1 million Levante Living Trust3 senior living communities$28.0 million... Read More »
Brookdale Selling Home Health & Hospice Business

Brookdale Selling Home Health & Hospice Business

While not a surprise, since rumors had been floating around for a while, Brookdale Senior Living announced with its fourth quarter earnings that it has agreed to sell an 80% interest in its home health and hospice business (including its outpatient therapy business) to HCA Healthcare, the hospital giant. The sales price is $400 million, implying a $500 million valuation for 100% interest. This comes to about 1.36x revenues for the trailing four quarters ended December 30, 2020, and perhaps 18x to 20x 2021 normalized EBITDA. Last year, we wrote that it would be a home run if they could get any price north of $400 million, so maybe this is a grand slam since they got that... Read More »
Alta Senior Living Targets Middle Market

Alta Senior Living Targets Middle Market

As it grows throughout the 2020s, the senior living industry will have to provide more “middle market” options to seniors. With that in mind, senior living veteran Douglas Brawn has launched a new operating company called Alta Senior Living. Mr. Brawn comes from Welbrook Senior Living where he was a Principal.   Based in both Santa Monica, California and West Palm Beach, Florida, the vertically integrated real estate investment firm is primed to grow through value-add acquisitions and ground-up development. They plan to operate as well and will benefit from an assembled team with tenured experience in senior living M&A, development, asset management,... Read More »
KeyBank Closes Two Financings

KeyBank Closes Two Financings

KeyBank Real Estate Capital closed a couple of transactions for seniors housing and care clients this week, starting with a HUD refinance of two skilled nursing facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada. Built in 1998 and renovated in 2013, Silver Hills comprises 150 operating beds in 80 units and provides physical, speech and occupational therapy. Silver Ridge was built in 1999 with 147 operating beds in 78 units and provides both in-house and outpatient therapy services, including respiratory therapy. Both are owned by Capital Senior Ventures and operated by Covenant Care. KeyBank’s John Randolph, Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera originated and structured a $30.8 million HUD refinance, with a... Read More »
Lument Arranges Freddie Mac Refinance

Lument Arranges Freddie Mac Refinance

Lument’s seniors housing and healthcare team closed a Freddie Mac refinance of a seniors housing community in Papillon, Nebraska. Set on the 44-acre Hillcrest Country Estates senior care campus, which provides the full continuum of care, the community in question features 102 independent living and 60 assisted living/memory care units. It is owned by Hillcrest Health Systems, a provider of senior care, home health care and telemedicine at its seven locations across Nebraska.  Lument’s Quintin Harris, Doug Harper and Casey Moore arranged a non-recourse $41.5 million loan from Freddie Mac, with a 10-year term and 30-year amortization. The transaction replaced existing... Read More »
Senior Care Leading Indicators

Senior Care Leading Indicators

There has not been a lot of good news, but given some leading indicators, the next development boom may be a bit further out than we had expected four months ago. Our focus for the past 12 months has been on the coronavirus pandemic and what it has done to seniors housing and care occupancy rates. We are also on record as stating that getting back to pre-pandemic census levels may take up to four years, partly because we expect development to ramp up again when developers eye the post-2025 demographics. But something else has been happening that may keep some builders away. First, the 10-year treasury rate has more than doubled in the past seven months. Yes, 1.36% is still attractive, but... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Announces Georgia Portfolio Sale

Walker & Dunlop Announces Georgia Portfolio Sale

The Walker & Dunlop Investment Sales team including Joshua Jandris, Mark Myers, Brett Gardner and Jordyn Berger has closed the sale of an independent living portfolio in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area. Not only that, but Russ Dey of Walker & Dunlop secured acquisition financing through Freddie Mac on three of the properties.   More details on the transaction will be revealed next week, but what we know is that the portfolio comprises four newly built, “A” quality communities, with a combined 559 units. Dubbed “The Mansions Portfolio,” the communities were previously owned by a consortium of local and out-of-state developers. Focus Healthcare Partners was the buyer. Stay tuned next... Read More »