• 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 Sells Five Communities in the Great Lakes Area

CBRE Sells Five Communities in the Great Lakes Area

Lisa Widmier of CBRE Senior Housing has sold a portfolio of five assisted living/memory care communities in the Great Lakes region. Appropriately called the “Great Lakes Portfolio,” these communities consist of 514 units in Michigan (with three locations) and Ohio (two locations). Occupancy fell below 50%, and not surprisingly, the portfolio was not making any money at the time of the sale.  Lone Star Funds and alternative investment manager Hudson Advisors acquired the portfolio from an unnamed seller. The purchase price was not revealed, we have heard it may have exceeded $115 million, or more than $225,000 per unit. Considering how far occupancy needs to come to improve both margin and... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances AL Community in Hawaii

Berkadia Refinances AL Community in Hawaii

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare has refinanced a 123-unit assisted living community in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, for $16.58 million. Berkadia’s Jay Healy secured the financing on behalf of the owner, who acquired the facility in August 2017 after previously managing the building on behalf of the seller.  The 35-year loan paid off an $11.7 million bridge loan that Berkadia had arranged to fund the acquisition and subsequent $4.5 million renovations, which was finished in early 2020. The borrower also used funds from the loan to pay off the remaining unsecured seller financing as well as some outstanding partnership debt. Occupancy was substantially below its potential at the time... Read More »

60 Seconds With Steve Monroe: Capital Senior Living Butting Heads

Transcript A few weeks ago, we wrote about the proposed recapitalization of Capital Senior Living. This will give effective control to the investor, Conversant Capital, and result in a lot of dilution to existing shareholders. The investment is also very expensive. We thought that Cap Senior may have had no other choice: either this or face a major liquidity crunch, and possibly bankruptcy. One investor, Ortelius Advisors, with just under a 10% interest, thinks differently, and blasted management in writing. They think there are other ways to recap the company, and that other like-minded shareholders would be willing to help out financially as well. This may all be true, but where were... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Wisconsin CCRC Deal

Ziegler Closes Wisconsin CCRC Deal

Dan Revie, Don Husi, and Tedd Van Gorden from Ziegler represented Bridge Investment Group in the sale of its entrance-fee CCRC in Mequon, Wisconsin. LCS was the previous operator and will hand over management to the new owner, Iowa-based not-for-profit Lifespace Communities. No purchase price was disclosed, but Ziegler helped arrange acquisition financing for the deal. Built in 2003, the community has 159 independent living units, 36 assisted living units, 16 memory care units and 46 skilled nursing beds on a 52-acre campus. It will join six other Lifespace communities in the Midwest. Read More »
The Healthcare SPAC Market

The Healthcare SPAC Market

For the past two years, the healthcare M&A market has seen a surge of deals involving SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies created solely as a vehicle for emerging companies to go public. These deals, called a de-SPAC transaction, seem to be surfacing once a week in the healthcare market, a trend not unique to this industry either. Here’s how they start: a sponsor company or investor, sometimes a private equity firm or investment firm, creates a public shell company and then raises funds and capital, called a private investment in public equity, or PIPE, under the idea that it will use those funds to find a target private company. Investors can buy into the PIPE at a low... Read More »
Immanuel Purchases Two Lifespace Communities in the Midwest

Immanuel Purchases Two Lifespace Communities in the Midwest

Immanuel Communities, a not-for-profit owner of senior living communities, is extending its reach in the Midwest market with its recent purchase of two communities in Iowa and Nebraska from another not-for-profit, Lifespace Communities. The communities include Deerfield in Des Moines, Iowa, and Grand Lodge at the Preserve in Lincoln, Nebraska. Deerfield consists of 156 independent living units, 46 assisted living units and 30 skilled nursing beds, while Grand Lodge has 109 IL and 10 AL units. Immanuel is an arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Two Pennsylvania Seniors Housing Communities

HJ Sims Refinances Two Pennsylvania Seniors Housing Communities

HJ Sims closed a two-part refinance for Asbury Communities Inc.’s two seniors housing properties in Pennsylvania. The Erie location, Bethany Village, has two campuses with 400 independent living units, 100 assisted living units and a 69-bed skilled nursing center. The Mechanicsburg property, Springhill, features 158 independent living units, 35 personal care units and an 80-bed SNF. The loans refinance bonds from 2012 and include a $20.4 million bank loan and tax-exempt, fixed-rate bonds totaling $27.2 million. Altogether, that is $47.6 million of debt arranged for Asbury. That follows a $23.34 million financing package that HJ Sims closed for a small CCRC in New Orleans, Louisiana.... Read More »
Blueprint Facilitates Sale of New IL Community in Ohio

Blueprint Facilitates Sale of New IL Community in Ohio

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors helped sell a brand-new seniors housing community, closing the deal upon Certificate of Occupancy. Michael Segal, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly, plus Alex Florea of Capital Markets, handled the transaction. Developed adjacent to the POLARIS Commerce Center in Columbus, Ohio’s largest mixed-use development, the community is purpose-built as a four-story, 136-unit independent living community. Plus, the top floor was built to assisted living licensing specifications, leaving the option for the future. Graziano Construction and Development Company, Inc. developed the community in collaboration with Sweetbay Senior Living.  Simultaneously with the... Read More »
Ventas Sees Census Growth

Ventas Sees Census Growth

When looking at the second quarter results for Ventas, it almost appears that there are a few different story lines. Take the 321 U.S. same-community SHOP portfolio. Occupancy decreased 530 basis points in the second quarter to 72.1% from the second quarter of 2020. Not great but in line with the rest of the industry.   But then its Sunrise Senior Living portfolio’s spot occupancy has increased by 627 basis points from the low point in mid-March to the end of July. Although it was not a straight-line increase, an average of 156 basis points a month is great. Heck, increasing at that level every quarter would be good. Its Atria Senior Living portfolio... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells Ocala-Area Portfolio

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells Ocala-Area Portfolio

Bradley Clousing and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of three assisted living/memory care communities in the Ocala, Florida area. These communities combine for a total of 144 units and 198 beds. The Belleview and 24th Road locations provide memory care services across 41 units and 42 units, respectively, while the Deerwood community has 61 assisted living units. They were operating well, and the in-place operator, which was clearly going a good job, emerged as the buyer in a fee-simple transaction. They beat out multiple offers from both regional and national buyers in the process.    Read More »
Ziegler Represents CJE SeniorLife in SNF Sale

Ziegler Represents CJE SeniorLife in SNF Sale

Cascade Capital and Legacy Healthcare are acquiring a large skilled nursing facility in Skokie, Illinois, with Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden representing the seller, CJE SeniorLife, in the transaction. Opened in 1981, the seven-story building has all private rooms, with 216 dually certified and 24 set aside for just Medicare patients. CJE Senior Living, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Cascade/Legacy signed a letter of intent in February 2021 and closed the deal at the end of July. The purchase price was not disclosed.  Read More »