• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Record M&A Year, Again

    You may start to get tired of hearing us talk about all the records being set, but we will never tire of it. As of November 11, we have passed last year’s record of total acquisitions in the seniors housing and care sector, now standing at over 720 deals, according to LevinPro LTC. And we thought last year was an amazing year! The good news is... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Acquires in North Carolina

    A skilled nursing facility with 130 beds recently sold in North Carolina. It was 53% occupied and not stabilized at the time of sale. According to LevinPro LTC, the purchase price was one of the highest per-bed prices we have seen in the state, at $21 million, or $161,500 per bed. The seller, a North Carolina-based owner/developer that had owned... Read More »
  • Tennessee Community Trades in Receivership Sale

    Blueprint recently announced a few closings involving a prominent lender and special services seller. The first was in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was handled by Kyle Hallion, Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes. Buzin and Thomes facilitated the second deal, selling Knollwood Point in Mobile, Alabama. The pair also sold The Pointe at Kirby Gate in... Read More »
  • Northeast-Based Owner/Operator Expands in Georgia

    Daniel Geraghty, Bradley Clousing and Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged in the sale of a skilled nursing facility with 100 beds in College Park, Georgia. At the time of sale, the facility was operating at a loss. The seller was a national owner of long-term care and seniors housing assets across the country, and... Read More »
  • Provident Bank Funds Portfolio Refinance and Recapitalization

    Tom Cassidy of Provident Bank’s Healthcare Lending team provided funding to a regional owner/operator in the Southeast. The new client, a family business, secured a $29.84 million portfolio refinance and recapitalization of four stabilized seniors housing communities in Florida. The well-performing portfolio totals more than 250 units across a... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Nets Fannie Mae Financing for Oregon Assisted Living Community

Lancaster Pollard Nets Fannie Mae Financing for Oregon Assisted Living Community

When BPM Senior Living Company decided to permanently finance its assisted living/memory care community in Milwaukie, Oregon, Lancaster Pollard had the solution. Matt Lindsay and Doug Harper of Lancaster Pollard successfully arranged a $5.3 million loan from Fannie Mae, going from engagement to closing in under 60 days. Making that timeframe even more impressive is that a planned change in management from third-party to in-house occurred during the underwriting process. BPM was also able to extract significant equity from the transaction, which comes 12 years after its original purchase of the community. Built in 1979 as a 79-unit independent living community, BPM purchased the community... Read More »
KeyBank and Capital Health Group Team For Success

KeyBank and Capital Health Group Team For Success

KeyBank Real Estate Capital pulled doubly duty for its client, Capital Health Group (CHG), in arranging an acquisition loan to fund the company’s purchase of three senior living communities in southeastern Pennsylvania, and then turning around to refinance the loan through multiple Fannie Mae financings. This is not the first we have heard of CHG’s most recent acquisition. Announced in January, the sale of the Keystone Villa Portfolio was arranged by Toby Siefert, Brad Clousing and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The three properties, located between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, were developed by the selling entity, a group of local operators in Pennsylvania looking to... Read More »

Berkadia Serves Up Agency Financings

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare team, led by Chris Honn, has been working at a furious pace since the end of last year, closing $288 million in financings in the past two months. First up on the agency side, Berkadia arranged a $36.7 million Freddie Mac loan, with a 10-year fixed-rate term, for a recently stabilized 131-unit independent living community in Birmingham, Michigan. Through Fannie Mae, the team also closed a $98 million, seven-year loan (with a fixed rate) on behalf of the owners of a 605-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Florida who were looking to cash out their equity. For a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities, and 222 beds, in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, Berkadia... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard’s Transaction Triple

Lancaster Pollard’s Transaction Triple

The team at Lancaster Pollard posted a trifecta of Fannie Mae/HUD transactions across the middle of the country. The largest of the three, an $11 million Fannie Mae loan with a 10-year fixed-rate term, was arranged for an assisted living/memory care community in Omaha, Nebraska. The community had existing Fannie Mae debt, at a higher interest rate, but was in need of repairs and renovations. Quintin Harris arranged the transaction, which provided $3 million in new money for the renovation project. Then Kyle Hemminger closed a Fannie Mae loan for a three-year old, 48-bed memory care community in the Houston area that is owned by a Texas-based operator. That was the second Fannie Mae closing... Read More »
Senior care campus gets HUD and Fannie Mae financing

Senior care campus gets HUD and Fannie Mae financing

One size didn’t fit all at a senior care campus in Boise, Idaho when it decided to refinance its existing debt through two lending agencies: HUD and Fannie Mae. The property, which comprised a skilled nursing facility and an independent/assisted living community, had a single existing mortgage, but required two different lenders to fund two separate loans. So Walker & Dunlop secured a 10-year $20.8 million Fannie Mae loan for the seniors housing community, which was built in 1992 with 142 independent living and 51 assisted living units. Then, for the skilled nursing facility, Walker & Dunlop arranged a $9 million HUD mortgage with a 35-year term. Built in 1986, the facility... Read More »