• Greystone Closes Large CLO

    Greystone closed a large collateralized loan obligation (CLO) composed solely of healthcare assets. Greystone CRE Notes 2025-HC4, LLC is a $451.6 million commercial real estate CLO backed exclusively by bridge loans provided by Greystone. The transaction marks the firm’s eighth overall CRE CLO and the industry’s fourth-ever CRE CLO composed... Read More »
  • Fortress Investment Group Divests Arizona Asset

    JLL Capital Markets has closed the sale of Inspira Arrowhead, a 165-unit seniors housing community in Glendale, Arizona. The community was under the ownership of Fortress Investment Group funds for just 18 months, but in that time occupancy rose from 89% to 94% and NOI improved by 35%. Fortress bought the asset in April 2024 in a joint venture... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Makes Another Acquisition

    Stacked Stone Ventures, a real estate investment firm founded by Kent Eikanas, followed up on its October acquisition in Oklahoma with the purchase of two assisted living/memory care communities in Illinois, near the St. Louis MSA. Similar to the Oklahoma deal, Stacked Stone has made Illinois acquisition in a joint venture with the private equity... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Large SNF Deal in Pennsylvania

    Not-for-profit to for-profit are not easy, and it took a two-year process for Blueprint to successfully close the sale of a 250-bed skilled nursing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The property appears to be Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation, one of three skilled nursing facilities owned by Dublin, Ohio-American Health Foundation... Read More »
  • JDI Realty Buys Alpharetta Asset

    A partnership recently acquired Chapters Living of Alpharetta, a 79-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia (Atlanta, MSA). Built in 2013, the high-quality community was previously known as Addington Place of Alpharetta. JDI Realty, in partnership with Purity Strategies and Chapters Senior Living, bought the community... Read More »
Capital Funding Group’s Comprehensive Closing in Ohio

Capital Funding Group’s Comprehensive Closing in Ohio

Capital Funding Group (CFG) pulled out all the stops for its latest transaction. It involved Vantage Point Capital’s acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in Ohio, which Crown Healthcare Group leased concurrently on an arm’s length basis. CFG’s Tim Eberhardt and Erik Howard originated the real estate acquisition financing, which comprised a term loan, with both an A-piece and a B-piece, and a mezzanine loan, which represents about 88% of the transaction costs. CFG participated in the A-piece but funded 100% of both the B-piece and the mezzanine loan. Meanwhile, for the operator, Jeffrey Stein of CFG closed a multimillion dollar working capital line of credit that includes a... Read More »
KeyBank Tops HUD Rankings

KeyBank Tops HUD Rankings

There’s a new king of the HUD 232 Lean program. KeyBank Real Estate Capital unseated long-time leader Lancaster Pollard (which had topped the list since 2010 in terms of dollar volume) after closing $812.7 million in loans in FY2018, a record for single-year volume in the program and up 144% from the firm’s FY2017 volume. In that time, KeyBank also closed the largest single-asset HUD loan in history when it secured a $127 million loan for a 499-bed skilled nursing facility in New York City. Lancaster Pollard still reported an impressive $610.4 million in loan closings (good enough for second place), while Capital Funding took third place with $466.0 million. Not resting on those impressive... Read More »
CFG Rolls Into Spring

CFG Rolls Into Spring

Capital Funding Group hit the spring running, closing eight deals worth just under $109 million. Six of the financings were HUD and the remaining two were bridge-to-Hud loans. Craig Casagrande closed two HUD financings in New Jersey. The first was a $16.3 million HUD loan for a 176-bed skilled nursing and assisted living facility, and the second was a $21.3 million HUD loan for a 152-bed skilled nursing facility. He also closed an $8.4 million bridge-to-HUD loan for a 164-bed skilled nursing and assisted living facility in Ohio.   Next up was Patrick McGovern, who also had a hat-trick. He closed a $12.9 million HUD loan in Michigan for two skilled nursing facilities with 178 beds,... Read More »
KeyBank Tops HUD Rankings

Capital Funding Group’s Transaction Trifecta

Certainly ending the year on a strong note, Craig Casagrande of Capital Funding Group originated three transactions, totaling over $47 million. The largest of the loans, at $31.243 million, refinanced a bridge loan on a New York skilled nursing facility. CFG had closed the bridge loan at the end of 2016 to help the borrower recapitalize equity on what was an underleveraged facility, and simultaneously applied with HUD for a refinance, closing the transaction this October. Staying in New York, and with HUD, Mr. Casagrande originated a $9.843 million refinance for another skilled nursing facility in the state. And finally, CFG closed a bridge-to-HUD loan for a Pennsylvania SNF, totaling $6... Read More »

Erik Howard’s Transaction Trio

Baltimore-based Capital Funding Group recently closed three HUD transactions totaling nearly $25 million for a repeat borrower. Erik Howard, Managing Director of Real Estate Finance, facilitated the loans, which included a $9.06 million mortgage for a Colorado skilled nursing facility, a $9.96 million loan for a Washington facility and $5.75 in financing for another Washington SNF. All three loans refinanced existing term loans from conventional lenders, and Mr. Howard executed a no-lockout, five-year prepayment penalty structure that gave the borrower, a national operator of SNFs and assisted living communities, greater flexibility in the medium term. Read More »