• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:18 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »

  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:17 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »

  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:13 pm | Acquisitions

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »

  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    by | Feb 5, 2026 12:12 pm | Uncategorized

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »

  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    by | Feb 3, 2026 3:47 pm | Acquisitions

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... Read More »
Trust In Arbor Realty Trust

Trust In Arbor Realty Trust

by | Feb 21, 2018 7:00 am | Acquisitions, Financings

It was revealed that Arbor Realty Trust funded the recent acquisition of a 440-bed skilled nursing facility in Syracuse, New York. Alexander Kaushansky of Arbor worked on behalf of the borrower, VestraCare, to arrange a $41.6 million bridge loan, with Evan Goldenberg of EBEX Holdings and Ari Dobkin of Meridian Capital Group also assisting in the financing. The facility had a history of operational challenges, but since being acquired in 2015 by a partnership between a New-Jersey based skilled nursing operator and an Illinois lawyer, occupancy had improved from 64% to 89% in just a year. Now, VestraCare, which is controlled by Long Island-based Edward Farbenblum, is taking over at a cost of... Read More »

Arbor enters the seniors housing bridge lending game

by | Jun 17, 2015 8:50 am | Financings

With decades of experience in providing bridge loans for multifamily and commercial properties, Arbor Commercial Mortgage recently closed on its first bridge loan in the seniors housing industry, from its Arbor Realty Trust’s bridge loan product line. Jeff Ringwald of Arbor originated the $5.55 million bridge acquisition loan, which featured a three-year term and a floating rate spread 500 to 600 basis points over LIBOR, for Fields Senior Living to purchase an 88-unit independent living community in Medford, Oregon. The community was built in 1984 by Holiday Retirement Corporation and was owned and operated by the original financier for the project. Occupancy had dropped from near... Read More »