• 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 »
Pennsylvania Provider Finances for the Future

Pennsylvania Provider Finances for the Future

HJ Sims met Phoebe Ministries’ capital needs with a taxable financing provided by Citizens Bank. A not-for-profit senior care provider with locations in seven Pennsylvania counties, Phoebe Ministries recently purchased a 38-acre property in Emmaus (near Allentown) to convert the existing office building there into seniors housing. That came to a cost of $12 million. Phoebe Ministries also planned about $4.5 million of capital improvements at its Berks location. To cover those combined costs, plus about $1.5 million in funded interest and financing costs, HJ Sims arranged $18 million in interim financing which will be repaid with permanent financing in 12 to 24 months. Read More »
Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

No stranger to big senior living projects, Big Rock Partners (BRP) announced it will be building its second senior living community in Palm Beach County, Florida, at an estimated cost of $150 million, or over $530,000 per unit. BRP kicked it off with the $9 million acquisition of a 15-acre site in Delray Beach, where it will build 185 independent living, 50 assisted living and 44 memory care units. LCS will operate the community upon completion in 2021. Trez Forman Capital financed the land acquisition, and Al Rex of Walker & Dunlop is the project’s financing advisor. Last year, BRP opened a 320-unit community in Lake Worth at a cost of $106 million, which means the company’s total... Read More »
IDB Bank Assists In Renovation Refi

IDB Bank Assists In Renovation Refi

An assisted living community in West Palm Beach, Florida is getting renovated and repositioned thanks to financing provided by Israel Discount Bank of New York (IDB Bank). Lisa Silvers structured the $11.0 million loan to also include a future advance of $2 million upon completion of the renovation and subsequent stabilization. With the financing, the borrower, Florida-based Gold Standard of Care, plans to consolidate a number of units into larger floorplans (with higher rents, of course). Of the total loan amount, about $2.0 million will be for renovations and the remainder will pay off the previous loan on the property. The five-year loan has an interest-only period, and the LIBOR-based... Read More »
Active Adult Community Gets Freddie Mac Financing

Active Adult Community Gets Freddie Mac Financing

A high-end active adult community located in an affluent Denver, Colorado suburb successfully refinanced with the help of Leon McBroom of HFF. Working through Freddie Mac’s CME Program, Mr. McBroom secured $21.4 million in 10-year fixed-rate financing, which will be serviced by HFF. The property was developed in 2014 by McBroom Company and managed by The Avenues Company. It features 70 units and 20 cottages (combining for 98% occupancy), along with a host of luxury amenities like an outdoor kitchen, fitness center with a yoga space and a billiard lounge. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Jason Dopoulos of Lancaster Pollard secured construction financing through HUD on behalf of Sunshine Retirement Living to expand its presence in southern California. Already with two senior living communities in the San Diego area, the Oregon-based Sunshine, along with Welbrook Senior Living, is working on building its first in the Los Angeles MSA. The Fountain Valley community will feature 106 assisted living and 39 memory care units when it opens in 2020. Situated about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles, it is also ideally located next to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, which certainly adds to the property’s appeal. With its low interest rate, the $36 million HUD loan should help... Read More »
What’s In A Bridge Loan?

What’s In A Bridge Loan?

On December 6, 2018, we hosted the webinar “Bridge Loans: The Hottest Lending Product for Seniors Housing & Care.” In the wide-ranging 90-minute discussion, our panelists touched on some of the key details anyone interested in obtaining bridge financing should know. Here they are, exclusively for The SeniorCare Investor subscribers: Read More »
The Battle For The Post-Acute Patient

The Battle For The Post-Acute Patient

LTACs did not look too good in a recent OIG report, but SNFs fared better. Last month we hosted a timely webinar on who was going to win the battle for the post-acute patient, when and how. The “when” is still a subject of debate, but the “who” and “how” much less so. The who is definitely leaning towards skilled nursing facilities. But part of the problem is the name, which is just one reason why providers are changing their names to transitional care, post-acute care, rehab care…anything to get the reference to “nursing home” out of the equation. How many 35-year old’s would go to a nursing home for their post-op rehab? Not many. Transitional care? No problem. The “how” is a no-brainer:... Read More »
Brookdale Activist Saga Goes On

Brookdale Activist Saga Goes On

Here we go again. Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC is stirring up the pot with shareholders yet again after meeting with several members of Brookdale Senior Living’s board in what appears to be a very friendly meeting. Everyone would like Brookdale’s share price to be much higher than it is, and Land and Buildings is still pursuing the concept of spinning out the owned real estate assets into a new REIT using the RIDEA structure. But in a new twist, they want the best properties spun out into this REIT. They claim that it would produce $1.00 per share of cash flow (adjusted funds from operations), and that the market multiple on that would be in the mid to high teens,... Read More »
A Sign To Come?

A Sign To Come?

Here’s something we may be hearing more of next year. Increased competition, lowered census and staffing issues prompted one owner of an assisted living/personal care community in Southwest Pennsylvania to retire early from the business. Built in 1965 and renovated in 1997, the 58-unit community had a history of strong profits and high occupancy until 2015 when the aforementioned trifecta of issues hit the business. Working on behalf of the seller, Joe and Jim Knapp of Marcus & Millichap’s Knapp Group and Robert Villeneuve of M&M’s Washington, D.C. office found a buyer with experience in value-add projects in western Pennsylvania. They paid $3.6 million, or $62,000 per unit, in... Read More »
BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

As joint venture partners TH Real Estate (an affiliate of Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA) and LCS continue their acquisition activity, BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group got in on the action and arranged acquisition financing for two of the deals. First, the firm acted as sole lender for a $14.4 million term facility for a CCRC in Palm City, Florida with 225 independent living units, 20 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. They again acted as sold lender for another $12.3 million term facility arranged for a CCRC in Essex, Connecticut with 189 independent living units (including 13 cottages) and 45 skilled nursing beds. Read More »