• 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 »
NORC Releases New Study On COVID Mortality

NORC Releases New Study On COVID Mortality

Just after we had wrapped up one of our lead stories in the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor on the nursing home comeback and some COVID myths, NORC at the University of Chicago released its analysis about mortality rates in five states across the senior care spectrum. With funding from NIC, they looked at five states – Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania – and 3,817 seniors housing properties in 113 counties in those states.   Perhaps the key finding, at least for the independent living and CCRC providers (and their residents) was that 67% of the IL communities never experienced a COVID-related death. Better yet, the COVID mortality rate... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells CCRC in Erie

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells CCRC in Erie

Toby Siefert and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a Type C CCRC in Erie, Pennsylvania, working on behalf of the local not-for-profit seller. The original building was constructed in 1929, but the campus has undergone numerous additions and renovations over the years, most recently in 2010. It now has 139 skilled nursing beds and 58 residential/personal care beds in 29 units. Even though there are no independent living units, the CCRC designation is particular to Pennsylvania licensing.   Currently, 100 of the skilled beds are used for skilled nursing (and they are dually certified), while 39 beds are in a separate building dedicated to... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Profitable SNF in Indiana

Evans Senior Investments Sells Profitable SNF in Indiana

The transactions keep on coming from Evans Senior Investments, which followed up on its value-add deal in Pennsylvania with a skilled nursing sale in Indiana. This facility was built in three phases in 1964, 1978 and 1998, and now features 204 licensed beds, although 180 are currently functional. The owner/operator has other skilled nursing facilities but primarily on the West Coast. This was its only Indiana facility, the closest facility in its portfolio being 122 miles away. So, it was slated for sale.  At the time of marketing, the facility was 60% occupied and profitable, generating $2.2 million of NOI at a 22.1% margin. Helping that strong margin (despite the low census) was the $1.9... Read More »
Oxford Finance Secures Senior Credit Facility

Oxford Finance Secures Senior Credit Facility

Oxford Finance closed a $24 million senior credit facility with Lantern Group, an owner/operator of both skilled nursing and assisted living facilities headquartered in northeast Ohio. The funds were used to acquire three assisted living/memory care communities in Ohio, in the towns of Chagrin, Madison and Saybrook.   Totaling 219 units, they had been operated by Lantern since their original construction. Lantern will continue to operate them, no surprise there. The buyout had been in the works for some time, but Oxford helped navigate some hiccups along the way that come with getting deals done these days.  Read More »
What A Feeling!

What A Feeling!

One big benefit of the country opening up is in-person conferences. It does feel good. Last week, I attended my first conference, in person, since March of 2020. And boy did it feel great! Shaking hands again, hugging people I haven’t seen in person in 15 months, or more, was like a celebration for everyone there. All because we were vaccinated. Thank you, Senior Living 100. I was invited to moderate a panel on, what else, the M&A market. Two weeks earlier, I was a panelist at their sister conference, The LTC 100, but I was virtual, as was one other panelist in my session, and it just was not the same. My two takeaways were that people are pretty optimistic about the comeback for... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Value-Add Property in Pennsylvania

Evans Senior Investments Sells Value-Add Property in Pennsylvania

The team at Evans Senior Investments represented an independent owner/operator in the sale of its value-add senior care campus in Rochester, Pennsylvania. Numbering 122 skilled nursing beds and 22 operational personal care units (out of a total of 62), the property sold for $9.2 million, or $63,900 per functional bed/unit.   Originally built in 1965, the campus received a $2.5 million renovation from 2015 to 2019, leaving it with a modern physical plant and all rooms being either private or semiprivate. However, it was not profitable at the time of marketing, with occupancy averaging 69% and the community generating an NOI loss of over $1.0 million on $10.45 million of revenues. High... Read More »
CBRE Finances Active Adult Development in Chicagoland

CBRE Finances Active Adult Development in Chicagoland

A new active adult development that is set to break ground just received financing courtesy of CBRE and a national bank. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Matthew Kuronen of CBRE Senior Housing partnered with CBRE Chicago’s Debt and Structured Finance’s John Parret and Peter Marino to arrange the $43 million construction loan.   The to-be-built community is located in Chicagoland and will feature around 190 units. It is considered to be “A” quality, which we imagine are easier projects for lenders to get behind right now, especially with an active developer in the space. A national bank provided the loan, which comes with a five-year term, 42 months of interest only and a floating... Read More »
People’s United Bank Refinances Two New England Communities

People’s United Bank Refinances Two New England Communities

Bridgeport, Connecticut-based People’s United Bank announced a couple of refinances for seniors housing clients in New England, working with participating banks on both deals. First, up the coast in Mystic, Connecticut, Masonicare of Chester Village is a 179-unit seniors housing campus with independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It opened in 2016. Masonicare received $45 million of debt, with People’s United Bank as the lead holding $30 million and Washington Trust participating with a $15 million hold. There is a seven-year term and 30-year amortization on the debt, which was came in under 67.5% loan-to-value. The transaction replaces mortgages previously held by... Read More »
M&A in May Falls Flat

M&A in May Falls Flat

Despite the positive occupancy news coming out of seemingly every earnings announcement in May, buyers held back this month, announcing just 26 transactions. To be fair, that total beat’s February’s 25 publicly announced transactions (albeit being a 28-day month), and tied January. But it was off of March’s 29-deal tally and April, when a “whopping” 32 deals were announced.   We know that plenty of both buyers and sellers are waiting for a three- to six-month period of sustained occupancy and NOI growth before either risking the purchase or getting the desired price. But with a surge of deals closed at the end of April, we also thought a certain barrier had been broken and... Read More »
Newmark Announces Closing in Kansas

Newmark Announces Closing in Kansas

The Newmark team has been quite active lately, and an early May closing recently rose to the surface. The deal included an 89-unit seniors housing community in Wichita, Kansas. Built in 1997 with 22 independent living, 51 assisted living and 16 memory care units, the community was around 80% occupied, and there was land available for expansion. It also brought in nearly $500,000 of NOI.   The purchase price was not disclosed, but the buyer was a Kansas-based regional operator. The seller was also not known. We learned of some other closings from the Newmark team, which we will detail in the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor.  Read More »
Watermark & Hines Partner On Mid-Rise Development in Houston

Watermark & Hines Partner On Mid-Rise Development in Houston

Watermark Retirement Communities and Hines have partnered to develop a large, seven-story seniors housing community in Houston’s Greater Heights neighborhood. The community will include 222 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, with rents starting between $3,500 and $5,500 per month for IL. There will also be a host of amenities, two whole floors of dedicated amenity space, in fact. The community will also be the tallest building in the neighborhood and will have views of the downtown skyline.   This is Watermark’s fifth Élan property, which is the operator’s upscale brand. Other partners on the project include Munoz + Albin Architecture and Planning (the design... Read More »