Cambridge Refinances Service-Rich SNF
Hymie Barber of Cambridge Realty Capital Companies arranged a HUD LEAN loan to refinance a 131-bed skilled nursing facility in West Orange, New Jersey. The fully amortized, 33-year loan was arranged for a New Jersey LLC and replaced existing debt. The facility offers a full suite of skilled care services, including orthopedic rehabilitation, a congestive heart failure program, wound care, TPN, IV Therapy, trauma rehabilitation, cardiac drip, stroke care and rehabilitation, tracheostomy care, post-surgical care, physical therapy, patient-controlled analgesic pump pain management, cardiac care congestive heart failure program and respite care, to name a few. There are also several unique... Read More »
Welltower Makes Major M&A Moves
Welltower made M&A waves in its latest earnings report, announcing a major disposition of its Benchmark Senior Living assets but countering that with several large acquisitions and development agreements. The company signaled that despite the Benchmark sale, it is not lowering its position in the senior living market, offsetting the 48 properties sold with a total of 46 acquired, not including the developments promised in a couple of massive pipeline agreements. The big news was the Benchmark sale, which consisted of all 48 assisted living properties and 4,137 total units located throughout New England, or 100% of the Welltower-owned portfolio. The transaction was structured as a... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team
Walker & Dunlop expanded its senior care investment sales business in a big way, bringing in Managing Directors Mark Myers and Josh Jandris and Vice Presidents Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice and Mike Surak of IPA Seniors Housing, a division of Marcus & Millichap. The Chicago-based team will build on W&D’s existing multifamily property sales platform by bringing a new focus on seniors housing and skilled nursing property sales, building on W&D’s existing multifamily platform. They will also work closely with Walker & Dunlop’s senior housing financing group, which originated over $900 million in debt financing in 2018. Prior to making this move, the IPA team had closed over... Read More »
CBRE Closes Two Bank Financings for Senior Living Clients
Aron Will of CBRE ended July with two bank financings for senior living clients in three states. First, in Texas, he was joined by Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg to refinance two 76-unit assisted living/memory care communities in Boerne (San Antonio MSA) and Round Rock (Austin MSA). Both properties were developed by a joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Franklin Development Properties in 2017, and have been managed by Franklin Development’s operating affiliate. To refinance the original construction debt, CBRE secured a three-year, floating-rate loan with 24 months of interest only from a national bank. Then, that CBRE trio was joined by Tim Root to refinance... Read More »
PE Group Gets Financing from BMO Harris Bank
BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance team supported a private equity group’s acquisition of a 132-unit seniors housing community in Bloomington, Indiana, by acting as sole lender of a $19.5 million senior secured term loan. Midwest operator Arrow Senior Living will be the new fee-based manager of the three-year old community, adding more dining services and enhanced social events in addition to the existing amenities like complementary chauffeured transportation, spacious courtyards and a fitness center, among others. Arrow manages each of its 13 communities in partnership with its parent company, Turnaround Solutions LLC, an affiliated seniors housing consulting company that... Read More »
TMC Financing Arranges SBA Loan
The long-time operator/lessee of a small six-bed assisted living community in La Jolla, California was able to secure SBA 504 financing to fund his purchase of the property for $1.5 million, or $250,000 per bed. After a 15% down payment, TMC Financing arranged about 35% of the total transaction cost with a $537,250 SBA loan, which came with a below-market interest rate fixed for 25 years. First Choice Bank provided the remaining financing. Read More »
Land and Buildings Strikes Again
Still trying to get two board nominees, Land and Buildings steps up its criticism and need for change. Well, well, well. Jonathan Litt of Land and Buildings is at it again, this time with a six-page letter to Brookdale Senior Living shareholders, eviscerating Brookdale’s management and board, past and present, for the company’s severe underperformance over the past 10 years. So, what else is new? Look, management and much of the board has changed and the only ones who can be blamed for the disastrous Emeritus acquisition are the old management, the former board and perhaps their advisors, who should have known better. Highlighted in his letter was the underperformance of Brookdale... Read More »
Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program
Debt is certainly plentiful these days in the seniors housing and care market, leading us to a record level of M&A and investment in the industry. But what about equity? That can still trip up investors looking to purchase or develop a seniors housing property, especially if they have to raise it among family and friends, or from their own personal funds. But alternative asset manager Locust Point Capital is announcing its own project equity financing program for the seniors housing industry. The program will provide owner/operators with between $1 million and $10 million of equity capital for the construction, substantial renovation and/or acquisition of independent living, assisted... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group On Track for Another Big Year
The seniors housing and healthcare team at Meridian Capital Group has already had quite the year, reaching $1.3 billion in closed transactions so far. That total is spread across 41 deals in 22 states. Well done to Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson. Some of the recent highlights include an $80 million acquisition financing and a $7.5 million AR line closed for five skilled nursing facilities totaling 740 beds in Pennsylvania. The acquisition loans didn’t stop there, with the team also arranging $38.5 million in financing for a borrower acquiring three SNFs and refinancing five additional facilities totaling 840 beds in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Then, in Massachusetts, the buyer of... Read More »
