• 60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care’s PR Problem

    by | Apr 29, 2026 8:15 am | 60 Seconds

    Recently, we have seen stories circulating about the connection between REIT ownership and the way skilled nursing facilities provide care, stemming from a study written by the nonprofit journalism outlet KFF Health News. We’ve seen this before, headlines like “real estate investors profit while patients suffer,” usually with graphic cases of... Read More »

  • Blueprint Sets Pricing Record in New York State

    by | Apr 28, 2026 4:45 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint advised a repeat private equity client in a record-setting sale of two standalone memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry submarkets in New York State. Combining for 104 units, these assets were purpose-built in the late 1990s and were stabilized at the time of the deal. Not only that, they were generating cash flow in excess... Read More »

  • CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

    by | Apr 28, 2026 2:38 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April,... Read More »

  • VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

    by | Apr 28, 2026 2:37 pm | Financings

    VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a... Read More »

  • Lument Secures HUD Express Lane Transaction

    by | Apr 28, 2026 2:35 pm | Financings

    Lument closed a refinance through HUD’s Express Lane for a 120-unit seniors housing community in Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 2017, Pemberly Place Senior Living features 132 licensed beds and offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It also has an on-site medical clinic to offer a range of other healthcare services. The... Read More »
Pennsylvania Provider Finances for the Future

Pennsylvania Provider Finances for the Future

by | Dec 18, 2018 4:07 pm | Financings

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

by | Apr 12, 2017 7:02 am | Financings

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 »