• Live Oak and Berkadia Team Up on Bridge Loan

    Live Oak Bank recently closed a $34.3 million bridge loan in partnership with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for a two-property portfolio owned and operated by BrightSpace Senior Living. The communities are located in the Nashville, Tennessee, and Boise, Idaho MSAs. The loan was structured in an A/B arrangement, with Berkadia funding the... Read More »
  • California Memory Care Communities Receive HUD Loans

    Lument closed two HUD loans totaling $20.7 million to refinance two memory care communities in northern California. Doug Harper, managing director at Lument, co-originated the loan with Grant Goodman of G Capital. The two communities are Crescent Oaks Memory Care, which features 22 units and 36 beds in Sunnyvale, and Silver Oaks Memory Care,... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Two Seniors Housing Transactions

    Berkadia closed the sale of two separate assets in Florida and Georgia. First, Berkadia was engaged by a national owner/operator in the sale of a CCRC in South Florida. The property appears to be Abbey Delray, a 505-unit community originally built in 1979 in Delray Beach that features 327 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 30... Read More »
  • Fortress Buys Large Seniors Housing Campus

    Fortress Investment Group just purchased one of the largest rental seniors housing communities in the country, adding The Village at Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida, to its portfolio. Regionally anchored by the University of Florida and the innovative UF Health network, and located directly across from SantaFe College, the 100+ acre campus... Read More »
  • Interview with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services to talk about the findings from BBG’s annual investor survey. DeBee shares his thoughts on what was surprising about the results and highlights the points he agrees with. You can view the survey results here. Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Here We Go Again

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Here We Go Again

Investigate, investigate, investigate. Regulate, regulate, regulate. Why not assist? Why not help? Why not try to understand? Liz, Ron and Kirsten, of U.S. Senate fame, have asked the GAO to investigate the assisted living industry and to see if federal oversight is needed. Really? Are we going down this road again? How did that work out for the nursing home industry? As we know, the assisted living sector is predominantly private pay, unlike nursing homes, but the senators are using information from state Medicaid agencies to back up their claims. I suppose I could see them investigating any assisted living community that is receiving Medicaid funds to make sure the money is wisely spent,... Read More »
New Buyer Enters Seniors Housing

New Buyer Enters Seniors Housing

A privately held REIT focused primarily on private pay seniors housing communities throughout the U.S. engaged Blueprint in the sale of its seniors housing community in Bloomfield, Michigan. Michael Segal, Brooks Blackmon, Daniel Waldhorn and Lauren Nagle handled the transaction. Built in 2001 with significant renovations starting in 2015, the community features 81 independent living units and offers assisted living care services as well as respite stays. It appears to be Comfort Cove Premier Senior Living.  Showcasing operational upside through occupancy improvement and rental rate growth, Blueprint’s process resulted in an attractive offer from a local home health care provider,... Read More »
Bull Realty Handles Georgia AL/MC Transaction

Bull Realty Handles Georgia AL/MC Transaction

Ernie Anaya of Bull Realty handled the sale of a seniors housing community in Cartersville, Georgia. Built in 2021 on 8.83 acres, Tiger Lily Estates is an assisted living and memory care community that features 48 units across five buildings with 38,339 total square feet. The community additionally offers adult day care, licensed for 23 guests.  The asset was vacant at the time of sale, and its zoning supports institutional uses including behavioral and substance abuse treatment facilities. Included in the sale are architectural work plans for Phase II to increase the size of the facility for an additional 31,940 square foot building with 49 units on 3.66 acres. The buyer and purchase... Read More »
Elevation Financial Group Acquires in Texas

Elevation Financial Group Acquires in Texas

Elevation Financial Group announced the acquisition by Elevation Real Property Fund VIII of Reunion Court of Kingwood in Houston, Texas. The asset was acquired for $7.25 million, or $38,000 per unit. Built in 2000, Reunion Court of Kingwood comprises 120 independent living, 42 assisted living and 28 memory care units. Elevation will repurpose the independent living building into senior apartments and the community will be rebranded as King’s Preserve at Kingwood.  The capital expenditure plan includes a new secured access and camera system, repairs to HVAC systems, sidewalk and parking lot improvements and fresh paint. The previous owner, a large private equity group, infused a... Read More »
IRA Capital Secures Financing

IRA Capital Secures Financing

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group announced that it closed on a $58 million term loan with IRA Capital related to a 252-unit seniors housing community in Lynnwood, Washington. The property consists of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Living Care Lifestyle manages the asset. According to LevinPro LTC, IRA and an institutional partner (with substantial dry powder) acquired Quail Park of Lynnwood in June 2024 from a joint venture. The joint venture seller included CA Senior Living, Goldman Sachs and Life Care Lifestyles. At the time, the buyer noted that it intended on investing additional capital to update common areas and amenities. JLL Capital Markets... Read More »
Senior Living Operator Secures Financing

Senior Living Operator Secures Financing

SLR Healthcare ABL provided an $8 million asset-based revolving credit facility to a Midwest based senior living operator. The operator manages more than 30 skilled nursing facilities across multiple states. Proceeds of the credit facility were used to refinance existing debt and provide additional liquidity for operations. The transaction was referred to SLRHC by an existing client. Read More »
Tremper Capital Group Secures Competitive Bank Loan

Tremper Capital Group Secures Competitive Bank Loan

One of the takeaways from the NIC Spring Conference earlier this month was that more lenders seemed willing to jump back into the market, possibly offering more competitive terms to get deals, as well. Tremper Capital Group has seen that first hand with one of its latest financings.  The borrower was Focus Healthcare Partners, looking to finance its acquisition of Cedarhurst of Woodland Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Originally built in 2016 as an active adult community by Avenida Partners and Carlyle Group, Woodland Hills features 140 independent living units and has been rebranded as The Cedars at Woodland Hills, with 12 Oaks brought in to manage it. Occupancy was in the low-90s, and it... Read More »
Elevation Financial Group Acquires in Texas

Family-Owned Company Acquires in Texas

Matthew Alley and Brad Goodsell of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by a local partnership in its divestment of its only seniors housing asset. The buyer was a local family-owned company that intends to take advantage of the strong cash flow of the building. The community, which is in Plano, Texas, was acquired for $3.7 million, or $142,000 per unit. Built in 2016, Bader House Memory Care sits on 2.9 acres with 12,323 square feet and features 26 memory care units with room for expansion. The community was 92% occupied at the time of the sale. It was making $1.86 million in revenues and $397,000 of EBITDAR, and sold for a cap rate of 10.7%. Read More »
Senior Living Operator Secures Financing

California Investor Secures Three Separate Financings

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare announced the closure of $26 million in bridge-to-HUD loans across three transactions for an El Segundo, California-based sponsor. Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro closed the loans on behalf of the repeat client. Berkadia anticipates closing all three subsequent HUD refinancings in the second half of 2025. The first transaction involved a $6 million bridge-to-HUD loan to facilitate the acquisition of a 48-bed memory care community in Jackson County, Oregon, for a joint venture between the sponsor and a Medford, Oregon-based operator that has managed the community since 2022. Constructed in 2016, the community had a 90% occupancy rate at closing with... Read More »
CFG’s Recent Financing Activity

CFG’s Recent Financing Activity

Capital Funding Group announced it financed over $41 million across three transactions from mid-February to early March. The transactions supported four skilled nursing facilities and an assisted living and memory care community spread throughout the country and were executed on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers. First, in February, CFG secured a $27 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the refinancing of three SNFs in South Carolina and Missouri that comprise 397 beds. CFG refinanced and upsized the debt on a portfolio, allowing the borrower to recoup operational losses resulting from a re-tenanting process. Next, in February, CFG secured an $8 million bridge-to-HUD loan, which included... Read More »

New Fund Enters Seniors Housing Space

Franklin Templeton and its specialist investment manager, Clarion Partners, announced Clarion Partners Real Estate Income Fund’s entry into the seniors housing sector through a debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creek, a seniors housing community with 116 independent living and assisted living units in Boulder, Colorado. CPREX is a closed-end tender offer fund that provides individual investors with access to institutional-quality private real estate through stable, well-leased, cash flow-producing properties across the U.S. Read More »