• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »

Seniors Housing Weekly Update – Legal Wrangling With CCRCs

May 26, 2015. 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe. One CCRC lost a legal battle with regard to its dining room policies. Other ramifications?… Legal Wrangling With CCRCs The American Seniors Housing Association recently issued a legal brief on a fair housing settlement involving a CCRC. The Justice Department had filed a complaint against a CCRC that had restricted use of the main residential dining room to the residents of the independent living units. This restriction also applied to spouses of an IL resident who were in the skilled nursing unit. Having personally spent a lot of time in a CCRC, I know that many residents don’t like to be reminded of what the future will be like for them,... Read More »

High cost memory care development in Florida

It’s not often you see a new senior living development cost over $400,000 per unit to build. Nevertheless, Cypress Cove Health Park Florida, a not-for-profit CCRC built in 1999 with currently more than 550 residents on 48 acres in Fort Myers, Florida, is adding 44 memory care units for a cost of approximately $18.5 million, or about $420,500 per unit (in a state that averages $213,000 per unit to build new assisted living/memory care or standalone memory care communities, according to our data). The new two-story building, scheduled to open in 2016, will feature four households each with 11 private apartments that each average about 250 square feet. There will be a significant amount of... Read More »

Rental CCRC coming to Raleigh, North Carolina

Site work is underway on what will be Raleigh’s first licensed, rental CCRC. The Cardinal at North Hills will be breaking ground soon. Once complete, the new community will offer month-to-month rental units—unlike most CCRCs, which require an entrance-fee contract. The Cardinal will have 165 independent living residences, plus 60 on-site private apartments licensed for assisted living, memory care, and nursing care. Residents will have direct access from their buildings to a secure, underground parking garage and to the 35,000 square foot clubhouse, which will have appropriate spaces for social, spiritual, and vocational activities, as well as multiple dining venues: the main dining room... Read More »

Erickson Living’s third CCRC in New Jersey—underway and selling well

Construction is underway on Lantern Hill, Erickson Living’s new, 540,000-square-foot CCRC on 21 acres in New Providence, New Jersey—about 20 miles west of New York City. This will be Erickson’s 18th senior living community and its third in northern/central New Jersey. Upon completion, Lantern Hill will have five interconnected buildings that comprise 275 independent living apartments (one- and two-bedroom units) and 85 continuing care residences that offer assisted living, memory care, long-term care, and short-term rehabilitation. Residents will enjoy a fitness facility with an indoor swimming pool, along with a wide range of services and amenities, such as restaurants, housekeeping, and... Read More »

Buckner planning its eighth CCRC in Texas

Buckner International announced its newest senior housing development, a high-rise CCRC in Dallas to be called Ventana by Buckner. The $118 million project will be built on nearly three acres of land in the North Park neighborhood of Dallas and feature twin 12-story towers with a total of 314 apartments: 182 independent living, 36 assisted living, 24 memory care, 48 skilled nursing, and 24 short-term rehabilitation. The project will also have three dining areas, a wellness center, pool, chapel, theater, business center, day spa, roof terraces, gardens, and indoor parking. D2 Architecture, also in Dallas, designed the community, which is expected to take four years to complete. Buckner... Read More »