• 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 »
Three Separate Deals Close in Wisconsin

Three Separate Deals Close in Wisconsin

Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently closed three separate seniors housing transactions in Wisconsin. First, Richards facilitated the sale of a community in southern Wisconsin on behalf of a seller who had owned the community for more than 25 years and was moving towards retirement. The stand-alone memory care community is on the smaller side with occupancy typically hovering above 90%. It briefly dipped below 90% at closing but the buyer remained confident in a rebound, which has since occurred following the acquisition. Multiple operators placed bids, with the ultimate buyer being a newer owner/operator that was looking to expand its portfolio. The community, which traded at a... Read More »
Planned Florida Community Lands Bond Backing

Planned Florida Community Lands Bond Backing

JLL Securities and HJ Sims, in collaboration with JLL Capital Markets’ Seniors Housing team, arranged $134.26 million of senior series 2025A bonds for a seniors housing community that will be built in Orlando, Florida. The publicly offered, tax-exempt financing has a final maturity of 40 years. Greg Fawcett of JLL Securities, Aaron Rulnick, Kerry Lewandowski and Brady Johnson of HJ Sims, and Alanna Ellis and Timothy Hosmer of JLL Capital Markets’ Seniors Housing team originated the financing.  The borrower was Trinity Community Development Foundation, a not-for-profit entity formed by Trinity Broadcasting Network. This transaction marked the start-up senior living enterprise’s entrance... Read More »
New Construction Development Secures Financing

New Construction Development Secures Financing

National CORE is launching its first new construction development in Fort Myers, California. This community marks National CORE’s first venture into new construction outside California. This development, as well as a second proposed community, Hawthorne Heights in Gainesville, will nearly double the company’s footprint in Florida. Oak Park Senior Living will be an affordable seniors community with 144 units for seniors aged 62 or older that earn between 30% and 65% of the area median income. The community will offer 124 one-bedroom units and 20 two-bedroom units in one, four-story building.  KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment provided $16 million in low-income... Read More »

PACS Group, Inc. Leads South Carolina Skilled Nursing Operators

PACS Group, Inc. (NYSE: PACS) has established itself as one of the dominant players in South Carolina’s skilled nursing facility sector, according to the latest Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data analysis. The company currently operates 19 skilled nursing facilities in South Carolina. Portfolio Overview PACS Group’s nationwide footprint extends well beyond South Carolina, with a total of 181 skilled nursing facilities across nine states, according to the CMS ownership data. California represents the company’s largest market with 118 facilities, followed by South Carolina and Colorado with 19 facilities each [4]. The company maintains a smaller but... Read More »
SLIB’s Active Start to May 

SLIB’s Active Start to May 

Senior Living Investment Brokerage hit a rich vein of activity at the start of May, reporting several closings for seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. First, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Grants Pass, Oregon. Built in the 1960s, Oak Lane Retirement features 20 independent living, 44 assisted living and 16 memory care units.  The community was leased to the buyer, a regional owner/operator continuing to expand its presence in the state, about two years ago with an option to purchase, which was executed on April 30. The lease gave the buyer time to improve operations prior to closing and... Read More »
Final Asset Closes in SNF Portfolio Acquired by Ensign

Final Asset Closes in SNF Portfolio Acquired by Ensign

The Ensign Group acquired the real estate and operations of Marianwood Health and Rehabilitation, a 117-bed skilled nursing facility in Issaquah, Washington. The real estate was acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc., Ensign’s captive real estate company, and will be operated by an Ensign-affiliated tenant. The acquisition was effective May 1, 2025, and was part of the larger acquisition of seven other facilities from Providence Home and Community Care, which was announced in December. The other seven assets included in the portfolio (which have already closed) are in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. The Anchorage, Alaska, facilities include Providence... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Financing for Two Standalone-Memory Care Communities

Joint Venture Secures Financing for Two Standalone-Memory Care Communities

BWE, together with Blueprint Capital Markets, closed two loans totaling $17.82 million to provide financing for the acquisition of two Class-A memory care communities: Windsong at Southridge ($10.42 million) and Windsong at Eola Hills ($7.4 million). Lundat Kassa of BWE handled the financing, having been brought onto the deal by the team at Blueprint, led by Senior Managing Director, Kristen Ahrens. Both acquisition bridge loans, which have five-year terms, 72% loan-to-cost and no-prepayment penalties, are non-recourse with fixed and competitive rates. BWE will provide permanent financing for the properties through HUD, a process that has already begun for Windsong at Southridge, which... Read More »
Montgomery Intermediary Group Announces M&A and Financing Activity

Montgomery Intermediary Group Announces M&A and Financing Activity

Montgomery Intermediary Group continued its active 2025 with a financing and two recent M&A closings. First, Jeremy Warren worked on behalf of an owner/operator seeking to recapitalize a 210-unit assisted living community that was originally a purpose-built hotel. The goal was to generate cash for ownership and to finance cosmetic renovations to enhance the property’s appeal. The owner had previously approached a few lenders but was unsuccessful in securing favorable financing terms. That’s when they engaged MIG to lead a debt arrangement process. The effort resulted in multiple term sheets, with the most competitive offer coming from a regional credit union actively looking to... Read More »
Live Oak Closes Bridge-to-Sale Loan

Live Oak Closes Bridge-to-Sale Loan

In April 2025, Live Oak Bank closed a $25 million bridge loan for a Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I, LP-held seniors housing community. The loan provides a bridge-to-sale and features a three-year initial term, 36 months of interest-only payments and $2.8 million in potential future earnout proceeds. Loan proceeds were used to return capital to sponsor and refinance bank debt for a 97-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community near the Los Angeles, California MSA. Read More »
Final Asset Closes in SNF Portfolio Acquired by Ensign

Ventas Posts Decent Q1 Earnings

Ventas came out with its first quarter earnings at the end of April, and although the results were decent, it may not have been the best timing to follow the strong quarter posted by Welltower earlier this week, as Ventas’s stock price tumbled 6.4% seemingly because the REIT affirmed its full-year guidance rather than increased it. By contrast, Welltower raised guidance and its stock price jumped 3.5% on the news. Ventas provided commentary on guidance for 2025 normalized FFO per share, outlining that it benefited from NOI growth in the SHOP segment and from accretive seniors housing investment activity in 2024 and expected in 2025. But it was partially offset by the impact of higher net... Read More »
Welltower Acquires Large SNF Portfolio

Welltower Acquires Large SNF Portfolio

In its first quarter earnings release, Welltower revealed that it acquired a portfolio comprising 48 skilled nursing facilities for nearly $1 billion. The price consisted of $750.83 million of cash consideration and $240.01 million of common stock consideration, totaling $990.84 million. In connection with the closing, the acquired properties were leased to Aspire Healthcare under a long-term, triple-net master lease. The portfolio currently has enough cash flow to cover one year’s rent, and the facilities had an average occupancy in the mid-60% at the time of closing. The deal previously fell through, allowing Welltower to negotiate a significant price reduction “to the tune of a couple... Read More »