• Brookdale Occupancy Stalls

    Brookdale Senior Living released its November occupancy results, and its census growth has stalled this Fall. In its consolidated portfolio, weighted average occupancy fell by 10 basis points from 82.6% in October to 82.5% in November, while month-end occupancy dropped more significantly from 83.7% to 83.4%. Same-community results were not... Read More »
  • Well-Performing Facility Sells for Strong Price

    A rare skilled nursing and behavioral health facility in Tucson, Arizona, sold for a strong price to a partnership between a regional healthcare equity investor and a national skilled nursing operator. Featuring more than 140 beds, the facility is licensed by the state for both medical and behavioral health services, being the only SNF in the... Read More »
  • AL Community with Attached SNF Trades

    An assisted living community with an attached, vacant 65-bed skilled nursing facility in Faribault, Minnesota, sold with the help of Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap. Built in 1998, Pleasant View Estates features 36 units and a 75% elderly waiver census. The community was well-occupied and operated at a strong margin. It was previously... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Funds Dallas Development

    Construction projects, although rare, can still get done these days. Tremper Capital Group successfully secured an $84 million non-recourse loan from a regional bank to fund a development in the Dallas, Texas MSA. The 164-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care project is being built by Harbert South Bay Partners in the... Read More »
  • UMRH Expands Two CCRCs in North Carolina

    Ziegler closed The United Methodist Retirement Homes’ (UMRH) $92.125 million Series 2025A, 2025B and 2025C bonds. UMRH is a North Carolina-based not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates three CCRCs in North Carolina: Croasdaile Village Retirement Community in Durham, Wesley Pines Retirement Community in Lumberton, and Cypress Glen... Read More »
Pennsylvania Provider Finances for the Future

Pennsylvania Provider Finances for the Future

HJ Sims met Phoebe Ministries’ capital needs with a taxable financing provided by Citizens Bank. A not-for-profit senior care provider with locations in seven Pennsylvania counties, Phoebe Ministries recently purchased a 38-acre property in Emmaus (near Allentown) to convert the existing office building there into seniors housing. That came to a cost of $12 million. Phoebe Ministries also planned about $4.5 million of capital improvements at its Berks location. To cover those combined costs, plus about $1.5 million in funded interest and financing costs, HJ Sims arranged $18 million in interim financing which will be repaid with permanent financing in 12 to 24 months. Read More »
HJ Sims Heads to Hudson

HJ Sims Heads to Hudson

Interest rates are on the rise, as Janet Yellen moves to end an era of unprecedented stimulative monetary police. With that shift likely coming, borrowers will look to take advantage of low interest rates now. That was clearly on the mind of the owners of a 150-acre not-for-profit CCRC in northeast Ohio, who worked with HJ Sims to arrange a $32 million debt modification. Opened in 1989 in the town of Hudson (Akron/Cleveland MSA), the community features 225 independent living units, 66 IL villas, 59 assisted living units and 75 skilled nursing beds, in addition to a host of amenities like three on-site restaurants, a pub, fitness/aquatic center, three stocked fishing lakes and a three-hole... Read More »