• WesBanco Launches New Healthcare Vertical

    WesBanco Bank recently launched its dedicated healthcare vertical, under the leadership of Suzanne Myers as EVP-Commercial Healthcare Director, and is already off to the races with a handful of senior care transactions closed. The strategic initiative will provide financing across the continuum of care, including seniors housing, skilled nursing,... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Acquires Class-A California Community

    JLL Capital Markets completed the sale of Loma Clara, an 89-licensed-bed, Class-A seniors housing community in Morgan Hill, California. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Steadfast Senior Living, and procured the buyer, LTC Properties. The REIT acquired the community within its SHOP segment... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests Texas Standalone MC Community to Family-Owned Company

    Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced another Lone Star State deal, selling a 20-unit memory care community in Sugar Land, Texas. Built in 1998, the community was the only seniors housing asset of a not-for-profit organization, which decided to divest. It was 80% occupied but losing around $30,000 a year on $1.26 million... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Purchases Vacant Community for Reopening

    Blueprint was engaged to market a 100-unit vacant assisted living community located 10 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio, that had been taken offline following operational challenges. The community sustained profitability during prior operations. Blueprint generated four competitive offers from sophisticated owner/operators with proven capabilities... Read More »
  • Frank Cassidy Officially Nominated as FHA Commissioner

    Frank Cassidy, most recently a Walker & Dunlop senior managing director of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Finance where he originated loans for multifamily, nursing home and seniors housing properties, has been officially nominated by President Trump as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the HUD. He... Read More »
Griffin American Gains St. Louis-Area Senior Living Communities

Griffin American Gains St. Louis-Area Senior Living Communities

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc., is moving into the St. Louis MSA on a large scale, but on the other side of the Mississippi River. Featuring 221 units and five independent/assisted living properties in Columbia, Millstadt, Red Bud and Waterloo, Illinois, the portfolio is 100% private pay and will be operated by an affiliate of Compass Senior Living under a 15-year absolute net lease with two 10-year renewal options. Annual rent escalators are 5.5% after the first year and 2.5% thereafter. Compass now owns/operates 19 seniors housing communities in Arizona, California, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon and Wisconsin. Griffin-American, which is co-sponsored by American Healthcare... Read More »
Bank It, With KeyBank

Bank It, With KeyBank

John Randolph and Laura Conway of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Group closed a couple of transactions, both involving HUD refinances. Trilogy Health Services was the borrower in both of the transactions. It first refinanced its 132-bed healthcare campus in Noblesville, Indiana with a $9.6 million loan. The facility was built in 2010 and features 49 skilled nursing, 33 assisted living and 29 memory care units. Trilogy also received a $5.7 million loan to refinance its Lafayette, Indiana skilled nursing facility. With 71 beds, it was originally built in 1969 but recently renovated in 2010. Both loans (which have 35-year amortization schedules) will also fund some repairs at the... Read More »

Maplewood Grows Its Fairfield County Portfolio

A few weeks ago, we wrote of LCB Senior Living’s latest investments in the high-income Fairfield County, Connecticut, with developments going up in Stamford and Darien. We have wondered whether the demand is there for those projects, and others that have finished in recent years. We know that some of them are operating very well, with full occupancy at $10,000+ per month rents. But now Maplewood Senior Living, headquartered in nearby Westport and already established in the area with five communities in the county, just closed on a 27-acre site in Southport where it plans to build a 98-unit assisted living/memory care community. Construction is expected to begin this summer and will include... Read More »

Erik Howard’s Transaction Trio

Baltimore-based Capital Funding Group recently closed three HUD transactions totaling nearly $25 million for a repeat borrower. Erik Howard, Managing Director of Real Estate Finance, facilitated the loans, which included a $9.06 million mortgage for a Colorado skilled nursing facility, a $9.96 million loan for a Washington facility and $5.75 in financing for another Washington SNF. All three loans refinanced existing term loans from conventional lenders, and Mr. Howard executed a no-lockout, five-year prepayment penalty structure that gave the borrower, a national operator of SNFs and assisted living communities, greater flexibility in the medium term. Read More »
What Do The REITs Know?

What Do The REITs Know?

When the Big Three healthcare REITs (Ventas, HCP and Welltower) largely divested their skilled nursing portfolios in the past few years, it prompted questions about the industry’s health. The exodus was kicked off in August 2015 by Ventas, which spun out most its skilled nursing/post-acute care portfolio into a separate REIT, Care Capital Properties (which just this month agreed to merge with Sabra Health Care REIT). Then, effective November 1, 2016, HCP followed suit, in a spin-off of its troubled HCR ManorCare assets (over 320 properties) into Quality Care Properties. Finally, after over a year of denying any such move, Welltower sold a 75% stake in 28 Genesis Healthcare-operated... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard’s $50 Million Month

Lancaster Pollard showed off its financing prowess, closing a variety of transactions this month that totaled over $50 million. Bill Wilson first arranged a $9.5 million HUD loan on behalf of an Oklahoma City-based senior care operator to refinance one of its skilled nursing facilities and fund the recent construction of a therapy addition. Lancaster Pollard and the borrower have a strong relationship, working together on five transactions, totaling over $40 million, since 2014. Mr. Wilson, with assistance from Joe Munhall, also obtained a $17.4 million construction loan for a 120-unit senior living community (with independent living, assisted living and memory care) in Lincoln, Nebraska.... Read More »
HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

HJ Sims Hits It Out Of Overland Park

A CCRC in Overland Park, Kansas is planning a large expansion to its independent living services. Perhaps they read Marcus & Millichap’s National Seniors Housing Report, which reported average IL occupancy steady at 91.7% in 2016, and predicted it will rise 10 basis points in 2017. That is close to the census peak in 2008, when IL communities averaged 92% occupancy, before the Great Recession reared its ugly head. The Overland Park’s IL census is very strong too, at 98%, which prompted the 76-unit expansion effort. Built in 2000, the community already features 64 IL villas, 54 assisted living units, 52 skilled nursing units and 36 memory care units. Census was in fact strong all... Read More »
Real Estate vs. Business Value For Healthcare Properties

Real Estate vs. Business Value For Healthcare Properties

Acuity level can impact what is driving business value and real estate value in healthcare properties, something all lenders and investors should understand. The separating out of business value from real estate value in healthcare properties has always been a controversial issue. When lenders lend against the value of an LTAC or a skilled nursing facility, their security interest is really in the real estate, and not the business. But the real estate without that business, without that CON or license, can see its value drop quite suddenly. Should anyone care where the values lie if they are really looking at the full enterprise value? Absolutely. What happens if a facility is old, has... Read More »
Berkadia Gets Busy

Berkadia Gets Busy

The team at Berkadia has been busy lately, closing seven HUD, Fannie Mae and bridge loans for a number of clients across the country. Managing Director Heidi Brunet handled five of those for two separate borrowers. First, two years after it opened, an 87-unit assisted living/memory care community in South Carolina is refinancing its construction debt with an $18.5 million, 10-year, fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan. Lease-up has evidently gone well, as occupancy stands at 93%. The same borrower also received from Ms. Brunet a $5.3 million, 10-year, fixed-rate supplemental loan through Freddie Mac to fund an expansion project at a high-end Virginia CCRC. The property was originally built in 2011... Read More »
HHHunt Heads North

HHHunt Heads North

A Virginia real estate developer is making its second move north across the Potomac, though unlike the Army of Northern Virginia, it is stopping short of Pennsylvania. The company, HHHunt, already has 12 senior living communities in North Carolina, six in Virginia, and one in Severna Park, Maryland, which it opened in late-2015. Now, HHHunt has just broken ground on a development in nearby Crofton (located between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore), at a cost of $29.4 million, or $309,500 per unit. The property is situated on about 10 acres next to the Walden Country Club and will feature 95 assisted living and memory care units under the “Spring Arbor” brand. Other HHHunt developments (most... Read More »