• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... 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 »