• 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 »
CBRE Finances Harrison Street/Anthology Joint Venture

CBRE Finances Harrison Street/Anthology Joint Venture

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root have arranged construction financing on behalf of a joint venture between Anthology Senior Living and Harrison Street.  The five-year floating rate loan with 42 months of interest only was provided through a regional bank for Anthology Boynton Beach, a 130-unit senior living community in Boynton Beach, Florida. It comprises 98 assisted living units and 32 memory care units on 5.3 acres within a larger planned development named Main Street at Boynton. The to-be-built community will be operated by Anthology Senior Living, a seniors housing-focused subsidiary of CA Ventures.  Amenities will include a fitness center, spa,... Read More »
High-End Medicaid Assisted Living

High-End Medicaid Assisted Living

More than 25 years ago, when private-pay assisted living burst on the scene, there was a large percentage of nursing home residents that had no other choice in their local communities, but had the financial resources to pay out-of-pocket. Many of them turned to assisted living. For those on Medicaid, the choices were slim.  We have long advocated that states could save money with their Medicaid-funded residents if Medicaid covered more assisted living for those who truly can’t afford any private pay living arrangement, especially those needing any kind of nursing care. The fear, of course, was that the Medicaid pie would expand as opposed to merely shifting where the money... Read More »
Marcus & Millichap Arranges Refinancing for Arizona Portfolio

Marcus & Millichap Arranges Refinancing for Arizona Portfolio

Marcus & Millichap pulled double duty for a Tucson, Arizona-area owner for several of its assisted living communities, arranging a refinance for their existing AL/memory care portfolio in the area and acquisition financing for two others. Representing a limited liability company and seniors housing operator, Volt Migrino and Alex Snyder of Marcus & Millichap worked on deal, which resulted in total consideration of $4.61 million, for a loan-to-value of 125%. Part of the proceeds will help fund working capital needs at the properties. Both acquired communities feature 30 beds.   Read More »
Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Link Senior Development and MedCore Partners announced the development of Ativo of Sundance, a 202-unit senior living community inside Sundance Active Adult master planned community in Buckeye, Arizona. The 1,100-home community is managed by Associate Asset Management (AAM) and boasts an 18-hole public golf course, community center and more than 20 different clubs from which homeowners can become members. It is also located in Buckeye, the fastest growing small city in the United States.  The new senior living campus will offer 103 independent living, 75 assisted living and 24 memory care units immediately adjacent to the Sundance Adult Village... Read More »
Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

Saudi Investment Team Adds to Florida Portfolio

Real estate giant Madison Marquette has teamed up with Saudi Arabia-based Arbah Capital to build a $37 million senior living community in Punta Gorda Isles, Florida.  This high-quality, 135-unit community has 116,000 square feet, making the total price per square foot $319. It is scheduled for completion in early 2023 and will be operated by Meridian Senior Living. Banesco USA provided the debt for the project.  Tampa-based Diaz Fritz Group is the project’s general contractor and St. Louis-based CASCO+R|5 is the architect. This is the second enterprise for the Madison Marquette-Arbah Capital duo. They previously joined together to build a 117,000-square foot, 144-unit... Read More »
JLL Represents BIG in Seniors Housing Sale

JLL Represents BIG in Seniors Housing Sale

Earlier this week, we covered private equity firm Bridge Investment Group’s (BIG) sale of its 79-unit senior living community in Savannah, Georgia to a 1031 investor. But some additional details came out that we can reveal now. The JLL Capital Markets investment advisory team including Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper and Michael Sivewright, represented BIG in the deal.  Located on Wilmington Island, an affluent suburb located about 10 miles southeast of downtown Savannah, the 1998-era community features 28 independent living, 39 assisted living and 12 memory care units. It offers restaurant-style full-service dining, a full-service salon, community library, and... Read More »
Greystone Provides Loan for AL Community in Alaska

Greystone Provides Loan for AL Community in Alaska

Greystone is back again, with Vice President Stella Plotkin providing a $22.5 million bridge loan to refinance Aspen Creek Senior Living in Anchorage, Alaska.  This 96-unit assisted living community was completed in 2019, with 21 of the units designated for memory care residents. The loan pays off existing debt that funded the property’s initial construction, allowing the borrower to complete current renovation projects, including on the secured memory care wing. Greystone’s interest-only, floating-rate bridge loan has a 24-month term with two six-month extension options, with the goal of transitioning to permanent HUD-insured financing. The transaction was completed on behalf... Read More »
Tutera Adds to Kansas Portfolio

Tutera Adds to Kansas Portfolio

After operating it for a couple of years, Tutera Senior Living took over ownership of a skilled nursing facility in receivership in Derby, Kansas. Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale on behalf of the receiver.   This small facility, which features 45 beds, was built in 1976. A few years ago, Virginia-based alternative asset manager Mooring Financial purchased the distressed HUD debt on the property. This was their only senior care asset and decided to exit the facility. Operations had declined during the pandemic, and the facility was losing money at the time of the sale with an occupancy of around 80%.   During that time, the facility had an initial... Read More »
Link/MedCore Join to Develop Arizona Active Adult Community

Homebuilder Toll Brothers Announces Another Active Adult Development

Long-time luxury home developer Toll Brothers has joined a slew of other builders to break into the active adult market. It most recently announced the anticipated opening of Regency at Waterside in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, which includes 496 high-end single-family homes, carriage-style townhomes and a community clubhouse for seniors. Prices range from mid-$500,000s to upper $700,000s. Across its 227 acres of landscaping and four “collections”, buyers can choose between 23 different one- and two-story story home designs. The 10,700-square foot clubhouse contains an outdoor and indoor pool, a pavilion, fire pit, fitness center, putting green and walking trails throughout the... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Provides Loan for SNF Refinancing

Cambridge Realty Provides Loan for SNF Refinancing

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has provided a $14.1 million HUD loan to refinance Alden Estates of Barrington, a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in Barrington, Illinois. The fully-amortized, 40-year loan was provided for the owner, an Illinois limited liability company.  Short-term rehabilitation, transitional care, and post-acute services are all available at Alden Estates of Barrington. It offers four exclusive medical programs: OrthopedicPro™, CardioPro™ PulmonaryPro™, and NeuroStrokePro™. It was built in 1986.  Read More »
KeyBank Provides Financing for Three Seniors Housing Communities

KeyBank Provides Financing for Three Seniors Housing Communities

National Church Residences (NCR), the nation’s largest not-for-profit seniors housing provider, has received $21.5 million through KeyBank’s David Lacki to renovate and rehabilitate three affordable senior apartment communities in Florida, Ohio, and Texas. Through NCR’s Home for Life plan, each property has an on-site social worker and offers programs and activities, light housekeeping, grocery shopping, and laundry for residents.   Fair Havens Village is an 80-unit property in Sebring, Florida, consisting of 79 studios and one-bedroom units. It also includes a manager unit in three of the buildings. The project will receive a $4.5 million permanent loan from... Read More »