• West Coast and Northeast Skilled Nursing Facilities Sell

    Walker & Dunlop’s Gideon Orion has announced several recent skilled nursing sales on the West Coast and the Northeast. First, he teamed up with Tony Cassie to sell a 69-bed skilled nursing facility in Bellevue, Washington, on behalf of a family office seller. The facility could use some operational improvements. An undisclosed buyer paid... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Community Out of Receivership  

    Fortress Investment Group acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Palm Coast, Florida, in a court-approved sale process. Built in 2018 just a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, the community features 130 units on an 11.4-acre site. There are 86 assisted living units and 22 memory care units, along with 22 “enhanced” assisted living... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Deals Close Across Several Markets

    Coming off of a successful 2025 with 32 separate transaction closings totaling more than $900 million in volume, the Walker & Dunlop investment sales team is off to a strong start in 2026 with a number of seniors housing and healthcare real estate transactions closed in the first quarter, so far. The deals spanned several markets, and the... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Divests Two SNFs to Journey

    Selectis Health is selling two skilled nursing facilities in Georgia to the skilled nursing operator Journey. The deal included the 101-bed Glen Eagle Healthcare in Abbeville and the 100-bed Rehab and Eastman Healthcare and Rehab in Eastman. Journey-affiliated entities will purchase the pair for $15.7 million, or $78,100 per bed, subject to... Read More »
  • Sonida Closes CNL Acquisition, Reports Q4 Results

    On the same day as fourth quarter and year-end 2025 financial results were announced, Sonida Senior Living closed on its previously announced acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties (CNL). The transaction value was approximately $1.8 billion and included a combination of cash (32%) and stock (68%). Because Sonida’s share price had risen above... Read More »

Greystone Closes $204 million in Q4

As 2016 was winding down, Greystone’s seniors housing lending group was heating up, closing $204 million in financings. In the last quarter of the year, Greystone demonstrated its financial range, including Fannie Mae, HUD, bridge, mezzanine and national bank loan transactions for acquisitions, refinancings and the new construction of nearly 1,700 seniors housing and multifamily units. In the fourth quarter, the lending team, led by Scott Kavel, Neal Raburn and Cary Tremper, arranged $138 million in Fannie Mae financing, including a $48.5 million refinance for an entrance fee CCRC in the Tampa MSA. Greystone also closed $55 million in financing for three Oakmont seniors housing properties... Read More »

Riverside Refinance

Three years after buying a 207-unit independent living community in Riverside, California, Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) is refinancing it, at a much higher value. The private investment firm bought Olive Grove (now Welbrook Arlington) in August 2013 for $16.25 million, or $76,651 per unit. Back then, the property consisted of two independent living buildings that were built in 1980 and 1984. Occupancy was only in the high-60% range, with average IL monthly rates of about $1,600. CSH clearly saw potential in the property, and invested between $5.5 and $6.0 million to convert one building to assisted living and memory care and add a separate dining room to that building (to be serviced by... Read More »

A RED refinance

RED Capital Group worked with Kensington Senior Living to refinance its 75-unit assisted living/memory care in the high-barrier to entry market of Los Angeles County. The community opened in 2014 and leased up not long after that. RED originally arranged a balance sheet construction loan, which was paid off with the current $29 million Fannie Mae refinance. Read More »

Wait, there’s more

After announcing its seventh fiscal year in a row when it led all other HUD LEAN lenders in terms of total loan amount, Lancaster Pollard showed it was not a one-trick pony, closing two Fannie Mae refinances for clients in California. First, Jason Dopoulos arranged a $19 million loan for a 115-bed assisted living/memory care community in Oregon. The transaction refinanced an existing $10.5 million HUD loan as well as $8.2 million of previously incurred capital expenditures. And second, Grant Goodman closed a $14.5 million Fannie Mae loan for a 110-bed assisted living community in northern California, which refunded $9.6 million in existing debt and $4 million of incurred capex. Doug Harper... Read More »
SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

Despite an apparent tightening in the seniors housing financing world (a topic which we will discuss in detail in our webinar at 1PM on October 27), borrowers may soon have a new name to choose from. SunTrust Bank announced it intends to acquire substantially all assets of the operating subsidiaries of Pillar Financial, LLC, along with its multi-family, affordable housing, healthcare property, senior housing, and manufactured housing lending platforms. Pillar’s HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac licenses also enticed SunTrust, which would be able to offer agency lending options to its clients. In return, Pillar would gain access to a number of expanded products including bridge loans, equity... Read More »