• 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 »
Bloom Exits South Carolina’s Seniors Housing Market

Bloom Exits South Carolina’s Seniors Housing Market

Kandu Capital, LLC, and its operating company, Bloom Senior Living, collectively known as Bloom, sold its final seniors housing community in South Carolina. The company is seeking realignment as it exits the state after a decade-long presence in the region. The 129-unit independent living and memory care community, which is in Bluffton, sold for $13.5 million on an initial investment of approximately $3 million. Occupancy was around 63% at the time of acquisition, but performance improved between LOI and closing, with monthly revenues increasing from between $250,000 and $260,000 to over $300,000 (or over $3.6 million annualized). NOI also trended up, from roughly breakeven to around... Read More »
Improving Ohio SNF Sees Strong Price

Improving Ohio SNF Sees Strong Price

Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage secured a strong price for a skilled nursing facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in 1965, the facility was originally licensed for 199 beds, but the decision was made to strategically reduce the beds to 167 to save on provider tax and improve the Medicaid rate.  The facility struggled for many years. It was purchased by a Chicago-based investor in 2014 that has subsequently gone bankrupt. The lender took the property back in 2018 due to poor operational management and financial performance, and it ran the facility through receivership, employing a number of managers between 2018 and 2023. The most recent operator was finally able to... Read More »
Stacked Stone Ventures Makes Major SNF Acquisition

Stacked Stone Ventures Makes Major SNF Acquisition

Stacked Stone Ventures, a real estate investment firm founded by Kent Eikanas, has made a major acquisition in the skilled nursing sector, acquiring nine skilled nursing facilities for approximately $33 million, or $66,000 per bed, at a 13% cap rate. Stacked Stone bought the portfolio in a joint venture with Praxis Capital from a large institutional skilled nursing owner.  Located in Iowa, the nine facilities feature a combined 500 beds, with some assisted living units. They were around 80% occupied and operated at a healthy margin. Accura HealthCare will continue to operate the portfolio under a NNN lease. The transaction was financed with Oxford Finance. Read More »
Tremper Capital Group Announces Two Refinances

Tremper Capital Group Announces Two Refinances

Tremper Capital Group announced a couple of refinances at the end of the second quarter for seniors housing clients. The first was arranged on behalf of Kisco Senior Living for its 333-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Built in 2004, the campus was acquired by Kisco as part of a larger CCRC deal in 2013, and since then it expanded with a 54-unit independent living building in 2018. It was well occupied, around 94%, and operated at a healthy margin. The campus was also looking to add more rental contracts for its units, which should help improve its profitability.  TCG arranged a $45 million loan from BMO to refinance the property, growing the relationship between... Read More »
CBRE Arranges Fannie Mae Refinance

CBRE Arranges Fannie Mae Refinance

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a Fannie Mae loan assumption of a portfolio of seniors housing communities on behalf of an institutional client, taking out an original CBRE-originated loan in the process. The portfolio features five assets that feature 435 independent living and assisted living units and are spread across Oregon and Washington. Through CBRE’s Fannie Mae DUS Lending Platform, Aron Will and Adam Mincberg facilitated the $64.6 million assumption of a loan that CBRE originated in 2017. Read More »
CIBC Finances Boston-Area SNF

CIBC Finances Boston-Area SNF

CIBC Bank USA closed a new $13 million commercial mortgage term loan for a 120+ bed skilled nursing facility near Boston, Massachusetts. The facility is owned and operated by a high-quality, national skilled nursing operator. With an effective age of 20 years, the skilled nursing facility currently posts strong operating results with occupancy averaging 89% and EBITDAR margins of 20%. The financing was handled by Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel with CIBC Bank USA. Read More »
Berkadia Secures Large Portfolio Refinance

Berkadia Secures Large Portfolio Refinance

Berkadia closed $627.2 million in agency financing for Project Raven. Project Raven is a 35-asset seniors housing portfolio with 4,395 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The portfolio spans 15 states. Austin Sacco, Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld handled the financing on behalf of an institutional borrower. The transaction was a roughly five-month process and refinanced existing debt. It represents one of the largest seniors housing refinances in recent years. Read More »
What Does Brookdale’s Proxy Fight Cost?

What Does Brookdale’s Proxy Fight Cost?

It seems that hardly a day goes by without yet another SEC filing by Brookdale Senior Living detailing why its slate of Board candidates is far better for shareholders than the slate submitted by activist investor Ortelius Advisors. But how much are they spending on this? It would be nice to know, and we are sure shareholders would rather have the money spent on operations or debt repayment. It has now come down to two Board seats, and Brookdale’s management has been touting both Lee Wielansky and Victoria Freed’s qualifications. Here’s the problem we have. Wielansky has been on the Brookdale Board since 2015, where shareholders witnessed one of the largest losses in shareholder value ever... Read More »
Do We Hear $30 Per Hour as the New Minimum Wage?

Do We Hear $30 Per Hour as the New Minimum Wage?

We know we have the People’s Republic of California, and after New York’s Democratic Party primary, we may have the People’s Republic of New York City by November. The surprise winner of the primary was 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani. He is a self-professed Socialist, and more. In addition to free bussing, freezes on apartment rents, higher taxes on the wealthy (already one of the highest taxed regions in the country) and government run grocery stores, he wants to implement a $30 an hour minimum wage for New York City. We suspect he has no idea what the impact would be on employers. We suspect he does not care. But it could be different in the seniors housing industry. You may remember our... Read More »
BMO and TCG Refinance Florida CCRC

BMO and TCG Refinance Florida CCRC

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group acted as sole lender on a real estate term loan refinancing for La Posada, a Class-A, 333-unit CCRC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Originally opened in 2004 and later renovated, the campus offers independent living (245 units), assisted living (30 units), memory care (18 units) and skilled nursing (40 beds) on an irreplaceable site in Palm Beach Gardens. Occupancy was strong at 93%, and the community was fully stabilized. La Posada is owned and managed by affiliates of Kisco Senior Living, based in Carlsbad, California. In order to refinance existing debt and recapitalize some of the addition/renovation capital, Kisco received $45 million in... Read More »
The Lenders Roundtable: A Capital Markets Update

The Lenders Roundtable: A Capital Markets Update

On Thursday, June 26th, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett sat down with a group of expert panelists to dive into the evolving financing process of M&A deals. Panelists included Dave Boitano, EVP & CIO of LTC Properties, Cary Tremper, President & CEO of Tremper Capital Group, and Patrick Gilbreath, Sr. Relationship Manager & Vice President of KeyBank. Frank Cassidy, who oversees HUD’s Office of Housing and the FHA, also dialed in as a special guest to discuss HUD’s launch of its “Express Lane.” Watch the LTC Properties-sponsored webinar here. Read More »