• National Lending Group Divests in Wisconsin

    Justin Knapp, Nick Stahler and Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap recently closed the receivership sale of an 86-bed skilled nursing facility in Wisconsin. The Knapp-Stahler Group represented the seller, a national lending group that also provided financing for the deal.  The borrower/buyer was a local operator with ties to an East... Read More »
  • CFG Secures Bridge-to-HUD Loan for Ohio Skilled Nursing Facility

    Capital Funding Group secured financing for a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The bridge-to-HUD loan totals $13.5 million and supports the refinancing of this 120-bed SNF. Tim Eberhardt and Ava Julio of CFG originated the transaction.  This financing follows CFG’s closing of two HUD loans on... Read More »
  • CBRE Secures Financing For Class-A Seniors Housing Community

    CBRE secured financing for a Class-A seniors housing community in North Dakota on behalf of a joint venture borrower. Built in 2017, New Perspective West Fargo is in Fargo, one mile from Sanford Medical Center, North Dakota’s newest and largest medical center. The community features 128 independent living, assisted living and memory care units... Read More »
  • PCP Purchases Ohio Assisted Living Community

    Phorcys Capital Partners LLC, the investment advisor to Phorcys Senior Housing Recovery Fund LP (SHRF), announced it acquired a seniors housing community in Wickliffe, Ohio, through a trustee-directed short sale for $13.0 million, or $81,000 per unit. This is PCP’s second investment in SHRF, and it will continue to focus on the winding down of... Read More »
  • Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »
HCP Continues To Lighten Its Brookdale Load

HCP Continues To Lighten Its Brookdale Load

The ramifications of Brookdale Senior Living’s latest blow-up have spread beyond just its precipitous drop in share price. Major Brookdale landlord, HCP, Inc., just announced it was reducing its cash NOI and interest income concentration in Brookdale from 27.0% to 15.7%, on a pro-forma basis. The restructuring included the sale of six Brookdale properties for $275 million and the purchase of Brookdale’s 10% interest in two joint ventures for $99 million. In addition, HCP will terminate management agreements with Brookdale on 36 seniors housing operating properties (SHOP) and leases on 32 triple-net communities, with Brookdale waiving all termination fees associated with the management... Read More »

Seniors Housing And The Flu

This past flu season has been blamed for many of the current seniors housing occupancy problems, but it has been bad for three years. When looking at the decline in seniors housing occupancy over the first two quarters of this year, much was made of the unusually severe flu season. While we are sure some companies and individual communities were hit particularly hard by this past winter’s flu, Barclays came out with an industry report which included a very interesting graph. It depicted the percentage of visits for influenza-like illnesses reported by the U.S. Outpatient influenza-like illness Surveillance Network. Yeah, I had never heard of that one either. Anyway, it did show that there... Read More »