• Healthcare REIT Divests SNF to In-Place Operating Partner

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage returned to West Des Moines, Iowa, to sell a skilled nursing facility that it had previously sold in 2019. A healthcare REIT was the buyer back then and is now selling the facility to its in-place regional operating partner. Built in 2004, Arbor Springs features 56 beds on an attractive four-acre campus about 10... Read More »
  • Near-Stabilized AL/MC Community Lands Refinance

    Carnegie Capital closed a bridge refinance for a 50-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Houston, Texas MSA. Four years ago, the property was bought by a California-based operator with a growing footprint in Texas. Performance was approximately two to three months from stabilization, but with the acquisition loan maturity looming, a... Read More »
  • Record-Setting HUD Express Lane Application to Commitment

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided a $6.15 million loan to refinance Avalon Memory Care Keller, a 50-bed stand-alone memory care community in Keller, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth MSA). The fully amortized, 35-year HUD loan was provided for the owner, a Texas limited liability company, that wished to recast bank debt into a long-term non-recourse... Read More »
  • Large Healthcare Owner Receives Financing

    An owner of more than 80 healthcare properties spanning nine states secured bridge and working capital financing for its skilled nursing portfolio in Washington. The financing includes a $40 million bridge loan and a $6 million working capital line of credit, with a 36-month initial term. MONTICELLOAM provided the funding. Read More »
  • Out-of-State Owner Divests to Investor

    A couple of assisted living and memory care communities in Eastern Tennessee recently traded hands. The two properties comprise more than 100 units. A Chicago-based investor aligned with the seller’s long-term vision for the communities acquired the assets, and partnered with a regional operator that was looking to grow their presence in the... Read More »
The Secret Sauce To Success

The Secret Sauce To Success

Empowering your Executive Directors may be the way to go. I finally found out the secret sauce for success in the senior care market, at least for The Ensign Group. It is called empowerment. Simplistically, the home office does not interfere with the operations at each local community. Other than property, casualty and health insurance, the executive directors are pretty much free to do what they want with expenses. But, they have to succeed. Here’s the deal. A young ED is given full P&L responsibility, with certain benchmarks, of course. He or she is then part of a local team of a few other EDs, and they meet regularly and compare notes on costs and revenues. They can even decide on... Read More »
CBRE Sells (and Finances) Tucson Senior Living Community

CBRE Sells (and Finances) Tucson Senior Living Community

Over five years on from its acquisition of a 217-unit independent/assisted living community in Tucson, Arizona, MBK Senior Living is exiting the asset with the help of Matthew Whitlock of CBRE. Originally built in 1991, the property underwent a series of multimillion-dollar renovations that included the conversion of 78 units to assisted living and the renovation of the community’s clubhouse. It now features three two-story garden-style independent and assisted living buildings and three single-story buildings that house 19 casitas surrounding a greenhouse and putting green. When MBK bought the property from The Dermot Company in 2012 for $31.9 million, or $143,000 per unit, it was 90%... Read More »
The Portopiccolo Group Picks Up Virginia SNF

The Portopiccolo Group Picks Up Virginia SNF

Contemporary Healthcare Capital worked with skilled nursing owner The Portopiccolo Group to secure mezzanine financing for its latest SNF acquisition. The targeted facility is located in Roanoke, Virginia and features 130 beds, including a 24-bed accredited ventilator unit. To fund its purchase, Portopiccolo obtained a senior loan from United Community Bank (that included a participation sold to Millennium Bank) and a $2.0 million mezzanine loan from Contemporary Healthcare Capital. About $1 million in loan proceeds will also be used for future renovations and upgrades made to the facility. Read More »
X-Caliber’s Excellent First Year in Bridge Lending

X-Caliber’s Excellent First Year in Bridge Lending

After only being in operation since March, X-Caliber Capital’s bridge lending group had an impressive 2018, closing $250 million in healthcare and seniors housing financings. Those transactions included everything from acquisition financings and recapitalizations to value-add and cash-out refinances. Plus, the firm will look to bring all of these loans to HUD for a permanent take-out. X-Caliber also closed out 2018 strong with three transactions in the last 45 days, including a $32 million acquisition loan for a Connecticut skilled nursing portfolio. We’ll see what’s in store for 2019. Read More »
CareTrust REIT Continues Growth Strategy with Covenant Care

CareTrust REIT Continues Growth Strategy with Covenant Care

While many REITs have been net sellers in the last couple of years, especially in the skilled nursing market, CareTrust REIT has been quite the opposite, growing its portfolio to nearly 200 healthcare properties by the start of 2019. In its latest deal, the REIT announced a large sale/leaseback acquisition in the state of California. Involving four skilled nursing facilities and 503 beds, this portfolio has been owned and operated by Covenant Care. CareTrust already had a relationship with Covenant, having previously acquired two other skilled nursing and assisted living assets from a private landlord in 2016 and leased them back to the California-based operator under three separate... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company is keeping busy, having announced two transactions for senior care assets in the Midwest. First, Brad Competty, Casey Moore and Doug Harper closed a $42 million Fannie Mae loan with a 12-year term and fixed interest rate for a CCRC client. Mr. Competty and Brendan Healy followed that up with a HUD refinance for two senior care properties in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by Riverview Health, the properties getting refinanced include a 176-bed skilled nursing facility and a 196-bed SNF. Riverview was also reimbursed for prior capital expenditures and replacement reserves. Finally, Lancaster Pollard arranged a bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a 125-bed... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta

Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta

The Walker & Dunlop team of Kevin Giusti, Michael Davis and Jeff Ringwald ran the agency gamut this month, closing one Freddie Mac, one Fannie Mae and one HUD loan, all totaling $42.6 million. W&D started with a $13.5 million refinance closed through Freddie Mac for a brand-new, 52-unit memory care community in Springfield, Oregon. The borrower, Onelife Investments was able to recapitalize 100% of its equity and obtained a 15-year loan with a fixed rate. Next, another recently-built senior living community refinanced with Fannie Mae, thanks to the Walker & Dunlop team. Operated by Avista Senior Living, the 108-unit assisted living community opened in 2017 within a larger active... Read More »
IPA Sells “A” Property in California

IPA Sells “A” Property in California

High-quality “A” level assisted living communities may have taken a back seat to the “B” properties in the 2018 M&A market, according to new statistics in our soon-to-be-published Seniors Housing Acquisition and Investment Report, but the team at IPA Seniors Housing (a division of Marcus & Millichap) sold one in a Sacramento, California suburb. Opened in September 2015, it was previously owned by a family company based in the Northwest. Its 85 assisted living and 32 memory care units were occupied in the mid-90s, and the community produces strong cash flow. An owner/operator with a strong presence on the West Coast that was looking to add high-end assets to its portfolio ended up... Read More »
Capital One Finances Caddis Construction Project

Capital One Finances Caddis Construction Project

A large senior living community being developed by Caddis in partnership with operator Solvere Senior Living is going up in Venice, Florida thanks in part to a construction loan provided by Capital One. Totaling $35.7 million, the loan will finance the 181-unit project, which will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services upon completion in Summer 2020. Although managed by Solvere, the three-story community will operate under Caddis’ “Heartis” brand. It boasts water views, and will feature large common areas, a beauty/barber shop and game rooms, among other amenities. Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield’s Strong Start to February

Cushman & Wakefield’s Strong Start to February

Cushman & Wakefield’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team has been closing a lot of business in the shortest month of the year, negotiating the sale of a couple of portfolio transactions on opposite sides of the country. First, out West, the team of Rick Swartz and Jay Wagner advised Focus Healthcare Partners in their sale of two seniors housing communities in Portland, Oregon. Including a 127-unit independent living community built in 2006 and a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2007, these communities both recently received significant capital improvements. The AL community interestingly was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company went into... Read More »