• Healthpeak Properties Jumps Back into Seniors Housing

    Ever since Healthpeak Properties essentially exited the seniors housing market in 2021, we had wondered when they would come back. We even thought they could have jumped back in just a year later when rumors were circulating that Brookdale Senior Living was in talks about a potential sale.  The M&A opportunity in seniors housing, and the... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Washington State Bankruptcy Deal

    Fresh off a phenomenal 2025 (we’ll see where they ended up in the Broker Rankings next month), Blueprint announced a few end-of-year closings this week. First, Michael Segal, Dan Mahoney, Amy Sitzman and Daniel Waldhorn ran a bankruptcy sale for the real estate of three skilled nursing facilities in Washington State. They were engaged by the... Read More »
  • Another Record Year for VIUM

    VIUM Capital keeps raising the bar in transaction volume, announcing another record-setting year in 2025, closing 96 transactions totaling over $2 billion in par value, representing the largest total of financings closed in the firm’s nearly six-year history. Most of that volume came from bridge loans originated by VIUM through its joint venture... Read More »
  • Ventas Divests to Joint Venture

    Berkadia announced that it handled the sale of a California seniors housing community, and refinanced a separate Montana community. Atria Park of San Mateo, a 135-unit assisted living and memory care community in San Mateo, California, sold to an institutionally capitalized partnership. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders of... Read More »
  • Behavioral Buyer Gets Vacant VA Asset

    Some brokers have been taking advantage of behavioral health providers’ desire to grow in order to sell vacant seniors housing assets, and getting higher prices for their clients as a result. Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage arranged the sale of Mayfair House, a 53-unit assisted living community in Portsmouth,... Read More »
Greystone Centers In On New York Refinances

Greystone Centers In On New York Refinances

Working on behalf of skilled nursing operator Centers Health Care, Fred Levine of Greystone arranged over $100 million in HUD financing to refinance a couple of their New York SNFs. Located on opposite sides of the state, these facilities were each acquired a few years ago from not-for-profit owners. Built in 1974, the 475-bed facility in the Bronx was formerly owned by the Daughters of Jacob Nursing Home Company. After operating the facility since 2013 and significantly improving performance, Centers acquired it in 2016. Now that the facility is fully stabilized with a 96% occupancy rate, Greystone provided a $71.78 million loan, or $151,000 per bed, with a 35-year term, to both refinance... Read More »
A Popular deal

A Popular deal

Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc., closed a three-for-one financing for a Staten Island skilled nursing facility. The 372-bed facility includes a fully occupied 72-bed neuro-behavioral unit that is one of two in downstate New York. The operator, Centers Healthcare, acquired the then-300-bed facility in 2012 for $34 million, or $113,333 per bed, from St. Vincent Medical Center when the hospital was going through financial difficulties. Centers plans to add another 72 beds to its neuro-behavioral unit, for which Popular secured a $9 million leasehold improvement line of credit. In addition, the bank provided a $32 million mortgage to replace the facility’s existing... Read More »