• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Benedictine Health System

HJ Sims Refinances Benedictine Health System

Benedictine Health System, a Minnesota-based not-for-profit organization affiliated with the Catholic church, recently obtained $132.4 million in financing arranged by HJ Sims. Historically, the organization and its affiliates were financed on a standalone basis, resulting in 36 separate series of outstanding debt for 19 different borrowers. Plus, the series were held by eight different banks or servicers with disparate terms, covenants and reporting requirements. As such, the board and executive leadership team wanted to restructure its capital framework, change its service mix and invest in improvements at existing campuses, and engaged HJ Sims in August 2020.   Sims built an initial... Read More »
Connecticut Community Gets Construction Financing

Connecticut Community Gets Construction Financing

Senior Living Development LLC secured a $16 million construction loan for KindCare at Bristol, a to-be-built, middle-market assisted living community in Bristol, Connecticut (Hartford MSA). The community, which will feature 117 beds of both assisted living and memory care, is situated on one acre in downtown Bristol.   It will be the first of Senior Living Development LLC’s KindCare assisted living brand, which caters to the middle market. Rates average 20% less than luxury AL options, and this specific project is also taking advantage of the tax benefits being in a Qualified Opportunity Zone. Construction is expected to start this October and finish in early 2023. The developer... Read More »
Lument Finds New Owner for Philly CCRC

Lument Finds New Owner for Philly CCRC

A CCRC outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, changed hands with the help of Laca Wong-Hammond and Dominic Porretta of Lument Securities. In addition to facilitating the confidential sale, the Lument team also handled the assumption of the property’s HUD mortgage.   Built in 1967 but renovated multiple times over the years, including a major refurbishment in 2014, Bryn Mawr Terrace is located about 10 miles from downtown Philly on the Main Line. It features 109 functional skilled nursing beds (with a license for 120 beds), 25 memory care units and eight personal care units. It had operated well historically, but the pandemic caused cash flow to fall, and there was no positive NOI by the... Read More »
HHC Finance Wraps Up HUD’s FY21

HHC Finance Wraps Up HUD’s FY21

Housing & Health Finance (HHC Finance) is finishing up HUD’s fiscal year 2021 with a few transactions. First, the firm closed a $13 million refinance of an existing HUD loan for a 200+ bed skilled nursing facility in Illinois. In the transaction, HHC Finance substantially lowered the interest rate.  HHC Finance also closed on a new $8 million HUD loan for a 90-bed skilled nursing facility in northern California. Lastly, the firm added to its tally of loan modifications for the year by lowering the interest rate on a $4 million loan for one of its clients.  Read More »
Missouri Seniors Housing Development Goes Ahead with Regions Bank Loan

Missouri Seniors Housing Development Goes Ahead with Regions Bank Loan

Shelburne Healthcare Development, an undisclosed REIT and a Missouri-based developer/operator are collaborating on a new seniors housing construction project, and the venture now has financing in hand from Regions Bank. Two of those three parties have worked with Regions in the past, helping ensure a smooth transaction process. Chris Honn and Jack Boulder originated the loan on behalf of the bank.  Located in Chesterfield, the community will feature 96 independent living, 37 assisted living and 17 memory care units. The $35.9 million construction loan, resulting in about $239,000 per unit of debt, comes with a five-year initial term, four years of interest only and a staged reduction in... Read More »
Berkadia Adds New Hire to Investment Sales Team

Berkadia Adds New Hire to Investment Sales Team

Berkadia has added Director Simona Wilson to the Seniors Housing & Healthcare team, serving on the investment sales platform led by Tim Cobb. Ms. Wilson has 19 years of industry experience, previously founding Crescent Capital LLC where she advised seniors housing capital providers and operators on investment and portfolio strategies. She also spent 15 years on the Healthpeak investment team, serving as Vice President of Strategy & Business Development and Vice President of Acquisitions & Valuations. Ms. Wilson graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Southern California, and spent two years at PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving to a career in healthcare... Read More »
Blueprint Teams Close Two Transactions

Blueprint Teams Close Two Transactions

M&A continues at a steady clip, and Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors obliged with a couple of recent closings. First was the sale of a skilled nursing facility located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Totaling 120 beds, the facility was built in the 1960s and thoroughly renovated in the 1990s. Historically, it did bring in stable cash flow, and it showed well for a facility last fully renovated more than 20 years ago. However, it did not fit into the regional Ohio-based owner’s operating model.   That’s where Blueprint came in, approaching a New York-based private equity group that has an existing presence in Ohio. They saw an opportunity to add value... Read More »
Berkadia Adds New Hire to Investment Sales Team

New York Times Hits SNFs, Again

The New York Times hit one of its favorite punching bags again with an article titled “Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes.” In it, the Times alleges that a loophole not requiring nursing homes to report antipsychotic prescriptions for three uncommon conditions, including schizophrenia, has led doctors associated with the facilities to false diagnose schizophrenia in patients with dementia. Since these patients require much more time and attention from an already overworked and underpaid staff, the Times reasons that SNFs would rather drug them than provide real dementia care. Some of the stats seemed damning. An analysis of Medicare data showed that schizophrenia... Read More »
New Proposal for Capital Senior Living

New Proposal for Capital Senior Living

As we get closer to the voting date for shareholders to approve of the recapitalization proposal of Capital Senior Living by Conversant Capital, with the full support of Cap Senior’s management and board, at long last an alternative plan has been put forward. We didn’t think that Ortelius Advisors had much of a leg to stand on in their proxy fight without any alternative for shareholders to consider. Now we have one, as loosey-goosey as it may be.  Ortelius has proposed a new equity rights offering, which they will backstop and subscribe to well beyond their current pro rata holdings of about 12.7%. They believe that raising up to $70 million of new... Read More »
Capital Funding Group Closes Loan For SNF Portfolio

Capital Funding Group Closes Loan For SNF Portfolio

Capital Funding Group’s standout year continues with another large term loan closed for a 29-asset skilled nursing portfolio. Located in Colorado, California and Wyoming, the properties include 28 skilled nursing facilities and one SNF with assisted living units as well, all totaling 3,410 beds. Capital Funding Group worked on behalf of the owner, a private real estate investment group, to close a $262.6 million term loan that refinanced the portfolio. In addition, CFG underwrote the transaction of operations from SavaSeniorCare to four new regional operators. Erik Howard and Director Tim Eberhardt originated the transaction.  This brings CFG’s bridge-to-HUD loan closings to $2.3 billion... Read More »
SLIB Facilitates SNF Closing in Florida

SLIB Facilitates SNF Closing in Florida

A few months after selling a an 87-unit assisted living community in Lakeland, Florida, Brad Clousing and Daniel Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage returned to the campus to represent the same buyer of the adjacent skilled nursing facility. The buildings are actually only separated by a set of fire-rated doors. The campus, which previously had two different real estate owners and two different operators, will now be owned by one company, Mainstay Senior Living.   The skilled nursing facility has 120 beds and was delicensed by the state in 2017. However, with the onset of the pandemic, the facility was allowed to reopen in early 2020 to accommodate... Read More »