• 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 »

CFG Capital Markets Advises on Seniors Housing Sale

We typically see Capital Funding Group in the financing side of the business, boasting a steady stream of agency and bridge loan closings of late. But CFG Capital Markets, its investment banking and securities subsidiary, has just announced they represented the seller in its disposition of two seniors housing communities operated by Oxford Senior Living. Located in Derby, Kansas (Wichita MSA), the 48-unit stand-alone memory care community was built in two phases in 2011 and 2013. The McKinney, Texas community features 73 units of assisted living and memory care, and only just opened in January 2017 at a cost of $15 million, or $205,500 per unit. Understandably, it is still in lease-up, at... Read More »

Capital Funding’s Trio of Financings

Showing off its prowess at HUD refinances, Capital Funding Group closed three of them for clients in the Southeast. First, in Washington D.C., Patrick McGovern provided a $10.5 million HUD loan to a 183-bed skilled nursing facility. This transaction comes full circle for Mr. McGovern, who arranged the original bridge acquisition loan (being taken out by the current HUD refinance) in addition to a $2 million working capital line to finance operations. Then, Gary Sever of Capital Funding Group closed two other transactions, including a $2.57 million HUD loan for an assisted living community in North Carolina and an $18.9 million HUD refinance of an assisted living community in Crozet,... Read More »

CFG’s transaction trifecta

Capital Funding Group showed off its variety of services in its latest grouping of closings, totaling $25 million in financing. Gary Sever led the way in the largest transaction, closing a $17.6 million HUD construction loan for a to-be-built assisted living/memory care community in Cary, North Carolina. The building is expected to open in May 2017 with 40 AL and 40 MC units. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Stein originated a $5 million cash flow loan for a Texas skilled nursing operator. And finally, Chip Woelper arranged a $2.5 million working capital line of credit for a 141-bed skilled nursing/rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles. Well done to the CFG team. Read More »

Capital Funding Locks in Acquisition Financing

We know how long skilled nursing acquisitions can take in the state of New York. That didn’t stop Maximus Healthcare LLC from acquiring Briody’s Health Care, an 82-bed skilled nursing facility in Lockport, New York (just outside of Rochester). It was first announced back in May 2015 that Maximus intended to acquire the facility, which had been owned by the Briody family for three generations. But the family’s presence at the facility will still be felt, with the existing administrator, Ann Briody Petock, electing to stay on. To finance the acquisition, Craig Casagrande of Capital Funding Group originated a $6.683 million bridge loan. Maximus also has plans to modernize the facility’s... Read More »

Capital Funding’s closings

Capital Funding Group closed a couple of transactions recently for SNFs up and down the East Coast. Starting in New York, the lender provided a $19.1 million bridge-to-HUD loan for a borrower to acquire a 167-bed skilled nursing facility. The loan covered over 90% of the $20.87 million, or $125,000 per bed, purchase price. Craig Casagrande originated the transaction, which was funded through a combination of senior and mezzanine debt and included a turnaround component based on projected improvements to the facility’s performance. Plus, Chip Woelper originated a $3 million working capital loan for the borrower to finance operations. In a separate transaction, Capital Funding served as sole... Read More »