• Omega Invests in Saber Healthcare Joint Venture

    Omega Healthcare Investors released its third quarter earnings and made some news when it disclosed the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in a joint venture with Saber Healthcare. The JV will own and lease 64 skilled nursing facilities that were previously wholly owned by affiliates of Saber, which will retain a 51% equity interest in the JV... Read More »
  • Health Systems as Sellers in Three Transactions

    Cain Brothers advised on a trio of senior care transactions involving health systems as sellers, which could be a growing trend, particularly among any resource-constrained systems. Conversely, other systems may see the need to own skilled nursing beds in the future in order to control the transfer of their post-acute patients to SNFs and free up... Read More »
  • Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the sale of 26 skilled nursing beds from a facility in Ohio and coordinated the repurposing of the real estate for future behavioral health services. The owners made the decision to close the facility after determining that the small size of the building prevented it from achieving the operational... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profits Secure Bond Financings

    Ziegler announced the successful pricing of $34.0 million Series 2025 bonds for The Chapel Hill Residential Retirement Center, Inc. d/b/a Carol Woods. Carol Woods is a North Carolina not-for-profit organization incorporated in July 1972 by a group of local citizens to develop, own and operate a CCRC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Currently,... Read More »
  • Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Portfolio of Florida Memory Care Communities

Berkadia Refinances Portfolio of Florida Memory Care Communities

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group refinanced a portfolio of six small memory care communities in central Florida. When we say small, we mean it, as each property featured six units. Occupancy was a combined 99% at the time of underwriting and has consistently been fully occupied with a waiting list.   Berkadia processed the transaction on behalf of the California-based sponsor as a scattered site loan through HUD. The $5.16 million loan represented a 60% loan-to-value ratio and came with a 34-year term. It retired a short-term bridge loan that was arranged in June 2020 to retire several small individual property loans. Ownership was also able to extract... Read More »
Fairstead Acquires Naples Senior Community

Fairstead Acquires Naples Senior Community

Fully-integrated real estate firm Fairstead secured several sources of financing to fund its purchase of a 250-unit affordable senior apartment community in Naples, Florida. Chicago-based developer Full Circle Communities sold the 45-year-old community for $59.5 million, or $238,000 per unit.   Currently, there are a variety of supportive services including health and wellness programs, on-site meals, van transportation to doctor’s appointments, pharmacy visits, education programs and other activities. Fairstead is also planning a $25 million renovation of the property, which will include improvements made to common areas and every residential unit, with a... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Wisconsin Seniors Housing Community

Berkadia Refinances Wisconsin Seniors Housing Community

Berkadia took out bank debt on a seniors housing community in Appleton, Wisconsin with a new Freddie Mac financing. Chris Cain arranged the transaction on behalf of the community’s Oregon-based owner/operator, Touchmark.  In operation for around 40 years, the community provides independent living, assisted living and memory care services, which were added in a recent $25 million, 48-unit expansion project that also saw renovations made to the existing building. The bank loan that helped bank roll that project has now been replaced with a $32.3 million Freddie Mac loan, with a 10-year term and five years of interest only at 70% loan-to-value. Touchmark was also able... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Sells Ohio Senior Living Property

Capital Senior Living Sells Ohio Senior Living Property

Capital Senior Living Corporation continues to prune its portfolio and try to stabilize its capital structure by selling, but still managing, its 230-unit senior living community in Canton, Ohio. Featuring 92 independent living units, 102 assisted living units and 36 memory care units, the community sold for $18 million, or $78,300 per unit, providing $6.4 million in net cash proceeds to the company after retiring the debt. Current financial performance is not known, but CSU had owned and operated the property since 1991, so it must have been difficult to leave. So, the company was retained by the new owner to manage the community for a 5% fee, which is expected to contribute around... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Mississippi Skilled Nursing/Alzheimer’s Facility

Berkadia Refinances Mississippi Skilled Nursing/Alzheimer’s Facility

Berkadia headed to Byram, Mississippi to refinance a senior care facility. Featuring 88 beds, the facility was built in 2000 with 88 skilled nursing beds, comprised of 44 private and 22 semi-private units. There is also a 20-bed secure Alzheimer’s unit in the facility and a new 4,000-square foot therapy gym and spa.  WCR, LLC, controlled by the Rotolo family, owns the property and has worked with Berkadia three previous times to finance the property for over a decade. They recently completed an addition/renovation that was approved by HUD and consisted of almost 15,000 square feet, using their own funds to pay for it. Now, ownership has secured a $9.75 million HUD refinance from Berkadia’s... Read More »