• CIBC Completes Several Financings

    CIBC Bank USA announced a handful of senior care financings across multiple states. First, the company closed a $17.5 million cash-out refinancing for a regional operator’s portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with 235 total beds in northeast and southeast Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. The facilities have an effective age of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Adding HUD Lending Platform

    Fresh off another record-setting year for investment sales activity, Blueprint announced a major expansion of its capital markets services to now include FHA/HUD lending and servicing capabilities. The firm is acquiring the existing FHA/HUD lending platform of MidCap Financial Services, and hiring Tony Marino, formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital... Read More »
  • More New Capital Enters Seniors Housing

    A fully-integrated real estate firm that is well known in the student housing world announced its foray into the seniors housing industry. Landmark Properties focuses on the development, construction, acquisition, investment management, and operation of high-quality residential communities, but the company’s intent is to invest in ground-up... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Recent Financing Activity

    In the past 30 days, Berkadia’s Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro have closed $111.5 million across four financings for four separate sponsors, encompassing eleven properties in six states. The activity included three bridge financings totaling $69.6 million from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet and a $41.9 million HUD refinance. The first... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President as of March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
Brookdale Expands Dialysis Services at Four Texas CCRCs

Brookdale Expands Dialysis Services at Four Texas CCRCs

Brookdale Senior Living announced that the company would be partnering with Dialyze Direct to provide on-site dialysis at four of its CCRC campuses in Texas. Two of the locations began offering the service earlier this year, but one campus in Houston will open a Dialyze Direct suite with eight chairs this week, and the other property in Austin will start the service soon. This is just one of several expansions of on-site dialysis into senior care facilities that we have seen recently. Azria Health, which just bought a portfolio of 15 skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest from Senior Housing Properties Trust, also recently partnered with Concerto Renal Services to offer dialysis to its... Read More »
Senior Housing Properties Trust Divests More Five Star SNFs

Senior Housing Properties Trust Divests More Five Star SNFs

Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) continued its Five Star Senior Living (FVE) portfolio restructuring with the sale of 15 skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest. Mike Segal, Ben Firestone and Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the transaction for SNH, which made a strategic decision to sell the entire portfolio in one deal to one buyer. The sale was part of SNH’s previously announced disposition plan to sell up to $900 million of assets in connection with the FVE restructuring. The portfolio consists of 10 facilities in Nebraska, four in Iowa and one in Kansas, and sold for a combined $8 million. According to FVE’s 2018 Annual Report, the Nebraska... Read More »