• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Finances Large SNF Portfolio Acquisition

MONTICELLOAM Finances Large SNF Portfolio Acquisition

MONTICELLOAM, LLC (Monticello) made a splash at the start of 2021, announcing that it provided $368.0 million of first lien debt and $99.0 million of mezzanine financing to support the $507.0 million acquisition of a skilled nursing portfolio in the Southeast. Not a bad way to start the year.  Two other skilled nursing facilities received acquisition financing courtesy of Monticello, which provided $20.0 million in first lien debt. Also included in the financing was one unencumbered skilled nursing facility. Located in Kansas and Ohio, the three properties total 251 beds and average nearly fifty years in age.   An experienced owner/operator with a current... Read More »
Three More HUD Deals From PGIM Real Estate

Three More HUD Deals From PGIM Real Estate

PGIM Real Estate announced $36.7 million in HUD financings in the last six weeks of the year. Christopher Fenton and Catherine Eby first originated a $3.9 million loan for a 49-unit assisted living community in Ohio that was built in 1988 and renovated in 1994. Next, Mr. Fenton and Mrs. Eby were joined by Corley Audorff and Josh Williams to secure an $18.2 million loan for a six-year-old assisted living community in Minnesota.  Finally, Mr. Audorff and Mr. Williams arranged a $14.7 million interest rate reduction loan for a 126-unit skilled nursing/assisted living facility in Colorado, which was built in 2012. These three refinances saved PGIM’s clients a combined $426,000 in... Read More »
HHC Finance Closes Three HUD Deals And Large Acquisition Financing

HHC Finance Closes Three HUD Deals And Large Acquisition Financing

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) arranged a trio of HUD loans this month, including a $14.5 million loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in New York, a $14 million loan for a 170-bed SNF in Tennessee and a $6.5 million loan for another 120-bed SNF in New York. Each loan closed with a rate in the lower 2s and refinanced more expensive conventional debt.  Turning to HHC Finance’s Capital Advisory Group, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, the team had an active end to the year with $550 million in deals arranged in December alone. Most notably, Messrs. Haas and Gamss helped arrange acquisition financing for a skilled nursing portfolio in the... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Reports Strong End To Year

Cushman & Wakefield Reports Strong End To Year

Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets ended 2020 with a couple of sales (and a handful of both acquisition and construction financings too). First, on behalf of Healthcare Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTIA), the team sold a 120-bed SNF in the Tampa, Florida market, representing the first of three Florida divestments totaling $118 million for HTIA.  Cushman & Wakefield followed that up with a land sale in Cherry Creek, Colorado, an affluent submarket of Denver, for the development of a 137-unit independent/assisted living community. Titan Development sold the fully entitled site to a joint venture between Ryan Companies, Cadence... Read More »
Live Oak Bank’s Construction Lending Spree

Live Oak Bank’s Construction Lending Spree

There’s no doubt that construction lending has slowed, and the loans that do close are much more conservative and now almost always require some sort of recourse. Nevertheless, Live Oak Bank closed three construction financings in December alone, capping off a successful year for the bank’s senior care lending platform.  First was an $8.5 million loan for a to-be-built senior living community in Reidsville, North Carolina. ALG Senior had controlled a Certificate of Need to operate assisted living in the county for many years and eventually purchased a 12.5-acre site. The community will feature 58 units and 75 beds of both independent living and assisted living, and... Read More »
Monarch Advisors Finances New Oregon Senior Living Project

Monarch Advisors Finances New Oregon Senior Living Project

Just before the end of the year, Alec Blanc of Monarch Advisors closed a construction loan for a to-be-built assisted living community in Redmond, Oregon. Developed by nearby Bend, Oregon-based Juniper Canyon Living, the project will feature 108 units of all private pay. It will be operated under the Oregon Specific Needs program, which provides assisted living care to seniors with mental illness. The project is already underway and will be completed in phases, the first by the middle of this year and continuing through to the middle of 2022. Juniper Canyon Living has a number of similar projects in the works over the next few years.  Monarch sourced the senior debt,... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Finances Large SNF Portfolio Acquisition

CBRE Refinances Eugene, Oregon Community

CBRE closed out 2020 with a cash-out refinance of a 217-unit senior living community in Eugene, Oregon, with Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root working on the deal. A joint venture between The Springs Living and Harrison Street was the borrower, having developed the property in 2017 with construction financing also secured by CBRE. The property experienced strong lease-up and stabilized within 13 months of opening. It is currently 96% occupied across the 110 independent living units (including 31 cottages), 75 assisted living units and 32 memory care units. Not too bad for a pandemic.  The five-year, non-recourse loan was provided by a national bank and came... Read More »
Harborview Handles Three Financings And A Sale

Harborview Handles Three Financings And A Sale

The team at Harborview Capital Partners closed several transactions for senior care facilities before the end of the year. First, David Nussbaum and Eli Kutner advised on the sale and arranged acquisition/construction financing for a hotel in Fishkill, New York to be converted to a 200-bed assisted living community. The $10.7 million loan came with a three-year, interest-only term and five-year perm option with a rate of LIBOR+325.  Next, Mr. Nussbaum originated a $23.9 million loan to refinance a 193-bed assisted living community in Brooklyn, New York. The non-recourse loan came with a 30-year amortization and 10-year term.  Finally, Ephraim Kutner and Jonathan Kutner... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler’s impressive run of activity continued with a couple of financings closed in the normally quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The larger transaction saw $136.77 million of public bonds and bank capital closed for People of Faith, Inc., d/b/a Royal Oaks Life Care Community. Originally established in Sun City, Arizona in 1981, the CCRC consists of 258 independent living apartments, 102 IL garden homes, 59 assisted living units, 56 memory care units, and a 60-bed high acuity assisted living care center, which replaced the former skilled nursing facility on the 50-acre campus.   Ownership has a 20-year master plan to expand the property... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Two SNF Deals

Blueprint Announces Two SNF Deals

Two Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors teams helped a couple of institutional owners divest or find new tenants for their senior care assets. Michael Segal and Gideon Orion first represented a REIT in the re-leasing of its 143-bed skilled nursing facility in San Antonio, Texas. Built in 1967 about 15 minutes north of downtown, the facility maintained a four-star rating from CMS, the highest in the area. Despite three regional hospitals within 10 miles of the facility and its enrollment in the state’s QIPP managed Medicaid program, the SNF struggled with census.   Part of a larger portfolio owned by the REIT and operated under a master lease structure with the... Read More »
The Prestige Group Handles Distressed Sale

The Prestige Group Handles Distressed Sale

Jim Baranello of The Prestige Group handled the sale of a distressed personal care/memory care community in Larksville, Pennsylvania, in the Scranton/Wilkes Barre MSA. Built around 2000 and acquired by the current mom & pop seller soon after, the community has 52 beds. It had experienced low census in the 60% range for several years, and the operating environment was obviously made only more difficult in 2020.   The sales process started earlier this year, but the final purchase price (which remains undisclosed) stayed approximately the same. A private buyer with other properties in the region stepped in to acquire the community and has plans to improve census and invest in renovations... Read More »