• 60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care’s PR Problem

    Recently, we have seen stories circulating about the connection between REIT ownership and the way skilled nursing facilities provide care, stemming from a study written by the nonprofit journalism outlet KFF Health News. We’ve seen this before, headlines like “real estate investors profit while patients suffer,” usually with graphic cases of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sets Pricing Record in New York State

    Blueprint advised a repeat private equity client in a record-setting sale of two standalone memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry submarkets in New York State. Combining for 104 units, these assets were purpose-built in the late 1990s and were stabilized at the time of the deal. Not only that, they were generating cash flow in excess... Read More »
  • CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

    CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April,... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

    VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a... Read More »
  • Lument Secures HUD Express Lane Transaction

    Lument closed a refinance through HUD’s Express Lane for a 120-unit seniors housing community in Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 2017, Pemberly Place Senior Living features 132 licensed beds and offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It also has an on-site medical clinic to offer a range of other healthcare services. The... Read More »
Monarch Advisors Secures Bank Refinance For Illinois Property

Monarch Advisors Secures Bank Refinance For Illinois Property

Alec Blanc of Monarch Advisors announced the successful closing of a bank refinance for a 99-unit assisted living/memory care community in central Illinois. April closings have been few and far between, so, well done Mr. Blanc.   Built in three phases from 2001 to 2009 and then renovated in 2017, the community was acquired about a year ago by a St. Louis-based real estate investment group and its operating partner, Compass Senior Living. The community is still stabilized but has seen improvements to both census and profitability in the last year.   To refinance the acquisition debt and return capital to the investors, Monarch Advisors secured $6.4 million in senior debt from a regional... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Announces Two SBA Loan Closings

Live Oak Bank Announces Two SBA Loan Closings

SBA lender Live Oak Bank has been hard at work recently arranging coronavirus relief loans through the Paycheck Protection Program, but the bank also announced a couple of SBA loans that closed earlier this year. First, Live Oak secured acquisition financing for a partnership to buy a 37-unit assisted living community in the town of Shohola, Pennsylvania (in the northeastern part of the state near the New York border). Previously owned and operated by a local individual, the stabilized community was built in 1990 on a 16-acre site. It is the first property directly owned by the acquirer. To fund the deal and limit the equity requirement of the borrowers, Live Oak provided a $5.2 million... Read More »
Berkadia Shows Variety With Latest Four Financings

Berkadia Shows Variety With Latest Four Financings

Berkadia recently closed four separate financings for a total of 10 properties, with a range of purposes from refinances to acquisition financing to a construction loan. First, Ed Williams secured a $5.5 million Fannie Mae refinance for a 51-unit assisted living/memory care community in Georgia. Built in two phases, the latter of which completed in 2008, the community was historically occupied above 90%. Its Southeast-based owner obtained 10-year term, two years of interest only and was able to take advantage of the Streamlined Early Rate Lock option to refinance its existing HUD debt and capture trapped equity in the property. With those funds, they will be able to pursue other... Read More »
Kentucky Community Receives Fannie Mae Refinance

Kentucky Community Receives Fannie Mae Refinance

MidCap Financial, through its correspondent relationship with Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital was able to close a Fannie Mae refinance of a 167-unit senior living community in Lexington, Kentucky. The deal closed in mid-March before huge swaths of the country had been shut down but still a difficult time to get transactions across the finish line.  At the end of 2018, the borrower, Atlas Senior Living, had acquired the community as part of a purchase option from DMK Development. Before that, Atlas had leased and operated the $26 million development, which was nearly stabilized at the time of the sale. Opened in August 2017, it features 114 independent living, 38 assisted living... Read More »
Welltower Is Going Transparent

Welltower Is Going Transparent

First, we have to applaud Welltower for being very transparent with regard to what is happening with its customers, specifically its seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) customers. This is very important, not only for REIT investors, but for the entire seniors housing community to better understand how this COVID-19 pandemic is impacting business, but also the general economic deterioration.  Last month, Welltower disclosed that its SHOP portfolio, which includes 612 properties with more than 73,000 units, had seen 20-basis point declines in occupancy every two weeks in March, that costs were rising and that tours and move-ins were starting to decline. This... Read More »
Some Providers Succeeding Despite COVID-19

Some Providers Succeeding Despite COVID-19

All we hear about is how COVID-19 is spreading through skilled nursing facilities and some seniors housing communities. Bad news sells, pure and simple. We certainly know that, and there has been plenty of bad news the past few years, and weeks. Have you ever seen the headline, “65 residents at assisted living community drank and danced at a Mardi Gras party”?  Really, never? It has happened. But it is not all doom and gloom out there.  Last week we spoke with a mid-sized California operator of assisted living communities in the state, and so far, they have been spared much of the COVID pain. Of the approximately dozen or so assisted living communities they operate, just four... Read More »
Dwight Capital Refinances New Jersey SNF

Dwight Capital Refinances New Jersey SNF

Dwight Capital arranged a HUD refinance for a skilled nursing facility in Union City, New Jersey (New York City MSA). Built in 2008 right at the New Jersey end of the Lincoln Tunnel, the 127-bed facility provides a variety of services including on-site diagnostic x-rays, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech/language pathology and podiatry services, among others. Its owner obtained a $12.4 million HUD loan with a 35-year term and amortization. The lower fixed interest rate also provided the borrower with substantial annual debt service savings. Adam Offman of Dwight Capital originated the transaction.  Read More »
Ziegler Closes SNF Portfolio Sale

Ziegler Closes SNF Portfolio Sale

Don Husi, Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden of Ziegler represented a not-for-profit owner of three skilled nursing facilities in Delaware in a sale that closed earlier this month. The sales price was $67.0 million, or just over $141,600 per bed/unit. That represents one of the highest prices in the state. The seller was Emerald Shelter Group, a Nashville, Tennessee-based owner of seniors housing, healthcare properties and affordable housing assets in the Midwest and Southeast.   Two of the nursing facilities are located in northern Delaware, in Newark and Wilmington, while the third property is located further south in Lewes. The portfolio includes 430 skilled... Read More »
PGIM Closes HUD Refinance for Maryland SNF Portfolio

PGIM Closes HUD Refinance for Maryland SNF Portfolio

PGIM Real Estate successfully closed a scattered site refinance through HUD of a portfolio of assisted living communities in Maryland. Operated by Rose Hill Management, the three communities total 64 units, with one property in Annapolis featuring two 16-unit buildings (plus memory care services) and the communities in Pasadena and Odenton each featuring just one 16-unit building. Occupancy was around 90% across the 1990s-vintage portfolio.   To consolidate the debt across the three sites, Chris Fenton of PGIM led the way on securing a single $5.5 million HUD loan with a 35-year term.  Read More »
People’s United Bank Hard at Work

People’s United Bank Hard at Work

The team at People’s United Bank has been very busy in the last month closing acquisition financings, arranging credit lines for hospital clients and processing PPP loans for its customers. In addition to adjusting to new working environments, this meant a lot of late nights and weekend work for the People’s teams.  First, the Healthcare Finance team closed two small loans to support Pinnacle Group’s acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities in Maine, with Claudia Gordon serving as relationship manager on the transaction. The acquisition included a 64-bed facility in North Berwick and an 86-bed facility in Sanford, joining Pinnacle’s 114-bed senior care facility in Canton, Maine... Read More »