• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Problem with CMS Interpretive Guidelines

    Just a day after we highlighted the potential downsides of overregulation of assisted living from the federal level, a case of regulatory overreach involving a nursing home just headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District in hopes of overturning a $1.8 million civil monetary penalty. Without getting into the minutiae too much, the... Read More »
  • Kayne Anderson Fund Tops Target

    The familiar refrain continues, with more capital continuing to flow into the seniors housing industry, property prices should keep rising. Kayne Anderson Real Estate, the real estate private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., has closed the largest opportunistic equity fund in its history, at more than 70% above its initial... Read More »
  • Well-Performing Full-Continuum Community Sells

    Blueprint announced its role in the sale of Morningstar at Golden Ridge, a seniors housing community in Peoria, Arizona (Phoenix MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 38 independent living, 65 assisted living and 35 memory care units. It is nearly fully occupied. The community is one of the newest and most well-appointed assets within a... Read More »
  • Kaplan Development Divests to Cedarwood Group

    Cedarwood Group closed its acquisition of Saranac Village at Will Rogers, a 75-unit independent living community in Saranac Lake, New York. The seller was Kaplan Development Group, which took over Will Rogers after the first year of it being open as a senior living community. The community was originally built in 1928 as a Tudor-style... Read More »
  • Omega Welcomes New CEO and CFO

    Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.’s President, Matthew Gourmand will become the REIT’s Chief Executive Officer in conjunction with the planned retirement of Taylor Pickett, effective October 1, 2026. Pickett will also step down from the Board of Directors upon his retirement, and the Board of Directors intends to appoint Gourmand to the Board,... 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 »