• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... 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 »