• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Pardoll Closes Slew of Southeast Sales

Pardoll Closes Slew of Southeast Sales

Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap has spent the last few months crisscrossing the Southeast, closing a number of seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions along the way. Starting in Dickson, Tennessee (Nashville MSA), he represented a private individual in selling their 70-bed skilled nursing facility to another private individual buyer. Leased by Mission Health (an affiliate of the private equity firm Windward Health Partners) as part of a 10-facility lease that includes other SNFs in Tennessee and Georgia, the facility was originally built in 1974. It was well occupied at 90% and produced around $930,000 in annualized 2018 EBITDA. The current lease is $31,000 per month, which... Read More »
Contemporary Closes Mezzanine Loan for Cascade Acquisition

Contemporary Closes Mezzanine Loan for Cascade Acquisition

The team at Contemporary Healthcare Capital closed a $5 million mezzanine loan to the affiliates of Citadel Care Centers and Cascade Capital Group for their acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities in Florida. The portfolio totals 460 licensed beds and has locations in Fernandina Beach, Haines City, Orange County and North Port. Contemporary closed the loan in conjunction with a senior loan and accounts receivable line provided by SunTrust Bank. The purchase price came to just over $106,000 per bed, and Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap and Mark Myers (formerly with Marcus & Millichap) represented the seller. This announcement comes just a month after Cascade revealed that... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Acquires 16 Former Skyline SNFs

Cascade Capital Group Acquires 16 Former Skyline SNFs

The future is looking brighter for 16 South Dakota skilled nursing facilities formerly owned by Golden Living and operated by Skyline Healthcare, as Cascade Capital Group acquired the portfolio. The facilities had been operated by a receiver since last Spring, after Skyline infamously ran nearly empty on basic food and medical supplies for them. Houlihan Lokey Capital represented Golden Living in the transaction, which included more than 1,000 beds across the state from Rapid City to Sioux Falls. To fund the deal, Cascade secured financing through its long-standing lending partner, CIBC Bank USA. Cascade’s operating partner, Legacy Healthcare, will take over the operations; no easy task.... Read More »
Big Midwest Sale Gets Mezzanine Financing

Big Midwest Sale Gets Mezzanine Financing

Contemporary Healthcare Capital (CHC) announced that it provided mezzanine financing for Cascade Capital Group’s large portfolio acquisition of Upper Midwest senior care facilities from last month. The portfolio sale included five skilled nursing facilities and two assisted living communities in Minnesota and South Dakota. Their outgoing operator was on the verge of bankruptcy, adding complexity to the transaction that was handled by Rob Reis of Marcus & Millichap. The Minnesota facilities were leased to Monarch Healthcare Management and the South Dakota facilities to Eduro Healthcare. CIBC had provided the senior acquisition loan, but CHC followed that up with a $4.22 mezzanine... Read More »
Cascade Capital Continues to Grow

Cascade Capital Continues to Grow

Cascade Capital Group announced a few large transactions totaling 15 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities with more than 1,550 licensed beds for a combined purchase price of $130 million. In one of the transactions, Cascade purchased eight skilled nursing facilities in California that are being leased to The Ensign Group and The Providence Group, with the majority going to Ensign. Five have been transitioned and three more will be transitioned over the next few months. Sector Financial provided senior financing for the acquisition and Formation Lending Group provided the mezzanine debt. In the second transaction, Cascade acquired five skilled nursing facilities and two assisted... Read More »