• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »

Cambridge Realty Capital On a Roll

When it rains, it pours for Cambridge Realty Capital Companies, which announced a succession of three loan closings throughout the middle of the country. First up, the firm arranged $5.32 million in 24-year HUD financing for a Missouri LLC to refinance its 114-bed skilled nursing facility in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Then, down to Kansas City, Missouri, a 162-bed facility owned by a Missouri limited partnership also refinanced with a $4.02 million 25-year HUD loan. These closings come a month after Cambridge worked with Aron Will of CBRE to secure $30 million from a national bank to refinance a portfolio of four seniors housing communities in the El Paso, Texas area. Managed by 12 Oaks... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital’s crazy end to October

Cambridge Realty Capital’s crazy end to October

The team at Cambridge Realty Capital got to work this October, announcing eight transactions in the span of a few days. The largest of them featured a $26.92 million HUD loan closed for a 320-bed skilled nursing facility in Melville, New York. All but one of the remaining six transactions featured a HUD loan, ranging from $2.2 million to $18.3 million, for skilled nursing facilities, ranging in size from 78 to 170 beds. Cambridge also arranged a $3.0 million HUD loan for a 65-bed assisted living community in Boiling Springs, South Carolina. All told, nearly $80 million in financing was closed in the last few days of October. Well done to the Cambridge team. Read More »
Build with HUD

Build with HUD

The owner of a skilled nursing facility in Gibonsburg, Ohio is planning an addition to its 99-bed property, but also wanted to refinance its existing debt. So, they went to Cambridge Realty Capital Companies, which provided a $5.266 million HUD loan. That financing included both a six-month construction loan and a 34-1/2-year fully-amortizing permanent loan, with a blended interest rate. Read More »
Consistent Cambridge

Consistent Cambridge

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has specialized in the small- to mid-sized loan in the first half of 2016. The lender closed a total of $61.6 million in six HUD financings in the six-month period. In that time, the largest closing was a $13.5 million loan for a 121-bed assisted living community in Aurora, Illinois, and the smallest was a $7.6 million loan to refinance a Chicago skilled nursing facility. That consistency has led to more than $5.0 billion in closed transactions for the firm since the 1980s. Read More »
A couple more closings for Cambridge

A couple more closings for Cambridge

A month after refinancing two skilled nursing facilities in the Chicago area owned and operated by Alden Management Services, Cambridge Realty Capital Companies did it again, but for two other facilities. The first, a 217-bed facility in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, received a $9.155 million HUD loan with a 29-3/4-year term. A 207-bed facility in Bloomingdale, Illinois was the second, and received an $8.35 million HUD loan with the same 29-3/4-year term. Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. underwrote both transactions. Read More »