• Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:50 pm | Acquisitions

    Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per... Read More »

  • Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:48 pm | Acquisitions

    Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living... Read More »

  • Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:47 pm | Acquisitions

    LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the... Read More »

  • MIG Announces Two Closings

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:46 pm | Acquisitions

    Montgomery Intermediary Group announced a couple of transactions at the end of October. First, Andrew Montgomery sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in southern Illinois in a value-add deal. Built in the 1960s and 1970s, the facility had a roughly 50% Medicaid census, with between 30% and 35% private pay and 5% to 10% Medicare. It was losing... Read More »

  • Senwell Facilitates Bed Transfer Deal

    by | Nov 4, 2025 3:44 pm | Acquisitions

    Brandon Bohland and Collin Hempfling of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the transfer of 80 adult care home bed licenses in Wake County, North Carolina. A national institutional assisted living owner/operator engaged the firm after the community suffered significant damage from a fire and ultimately closed.  There was a highly... Read More »
Berkadia Finds a Way in Federal Way

Berkadia Finds a Way in Federal Way

by | Jan 18, 2019 7:03 am | Acquisitions

Tim Cobb of Berkadia Senior Housing Investment Sales sold an assisted living/memory care community in Federal Way, Washington, working on behalf of the seller, Columbia Pacific Advisors. Built in 1997, the target comprises 87 units and 104 beds. It will be taken over by a joint venture involving Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Gencare PMB. The latter is a new partnership between Gencare Lifestyle (founded by co-founder of Merrill Gardens, Leon Grundstein) and Pacific Medical Buildings (a medical office building developer based in San Diego). PMB had an existing relationship with Harrison Street, which provided 90% of the equity for both the Federal Way acquisition and a new... Read More »
Berkadia Bags Four HUD Financings

Berkadia Bags Four HUD Financings

by | Jan 15, 2019 4:55 pm | Financings

Berkadia jumped out of the 2019 gates with four HUD closings totaling $40 million. Ed Williams secured the largest loan, $14 million in financing for a skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania. The loan proceeds were used to retire existing bank and related partner debt for the borrower. Next, Mr. Williams and Jay Healy headed to Michigan to arrange a $9.06 million loan on behalf of a SNF there. The Midwest-based owner/operator borrower purchased the 139-bed facility in May 2017 from a not-for-profit seller. Back then, Berkadia provided the bridge financing to fund 100% of the acquisition costs plus a significant renovation. The HUD refinance retires that Berkadia bridge loan. Mr. Williams... Read More »
Berkadia’s Big End-of-Year Closing

Berkadia’s Big End-of-Year Closing

by | Jan 4, 2019 7:00 am | Financings

Berkadia headed out of 2018 with a bang, closing a credit facility that totaled more than $200 million. Secured by 19 senior living communities owned by Capital Senior Living Corporation, the facility came with both fixed and variable interest rates, a 10-year term and 30-year amortization schedule financed through Fannie Mae. Approximately $150.8 million of the debt had the fixed rate and over $50.2 million featured the variable rate. Berkadia’s Lisa Lautner originated the transaction, closing right before Christmas. Read More »
Berkadia Closes First Freddie Mac Structured Pool Transaction For Seniors Housing

Berkadia Closes First Freddie Mac Structured Pool Transaction For Seniors Housing

by | Dec 19, 2018 7:00 am | Financings

Berkadia combined both fixed and variable rate debt in their latest transaction closed on behalf of Brookdale Senior Living. Using Freddie Mac’s new Structured Pool Transaction program, Heidi Brunet and Lisa Lautner secured 10-year, non-recourse financing with a 30-year amortization schedule split between a $213 million fixed-rate component and a $114 million variable-rate component. Some 28 properties and 2,200 units were refinanced with the loans, and through Freddie Mac’s Green Advantage program they will be able to make environmental upgrades. This is the first Structured Pool Transaction in the seniors housing industry, but with the interest rate risk diversification it provides, look... Read More »
Berkadia Bonanza

Berkadia Bonanza

by | Sep 28, 2018 7:03 am | Financings

Berkadia closed over $200 million in loans this month, in both its Proprietary Bridge Lending and Commercial Mortgage platforms. Beginning with its agency transactions, Berkadia’s Jay Healy secured HUD loans totaling over $36 million for two skilled nursing facilities clients. The larger loan, at $29.5 million, was arranged on behalf of a repeat client of Berkadia to retire bridge debt used to acquire three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado, Kansas and Nevada. Acquired in 2017, the facilities total 110 beds and average 94% occupancy. The smaller $6.7 million loan refinanced a 47-bed, 11-year old SNF in New Mexico owned and operated by two other repeat clients of Berkadia. Then, Rafael... Read More »