• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »
  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »
  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »
  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... 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 »