• REIT Acquires Two Class-A Assets

    The team at Newmark handled the sale of two Class-A seniors housing assets in Arkansas and Texas. The Rogers community in Northwest Arkansas was built in 2023 with 221 total units, comprising 26 cottages, 109 independent living units, 56 assisted living units and 30 memory care units. The Burleson, Texas, community also opened in 2023 and... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Inaugural North Dakota Deal

    Ryan Kelly, Steve Thomes, Connor Doherty and Kory Buzin of Blueprint arranged the sale of a 75-bed skilled nursing facility in central North Dakota. At the time of marketing, the facility was generating positive cash flow despite operating at only 50% occupancy, highlighting a compelling opportunity for an incoming operator to drive census growth... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Refinancing

    Grace Hill Capital served as exclusive financial advisor and placement agent on a refinance for a seniors housing community in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. A regional operator/borrower received the $10.33 million five-year loan with a fixed rate and one year of interest only. It was structured as a delayed draw term facility at 70%... Read More »
  • Walker & Dunlop Arranges Construction Funding

    Walker & Dunlop, Inc. arranged $40.52 million in debt and equity for the construction of The Highlands, a 137-unit affordable development for seniors in Hyattsville, Maryland. PJ McDevitt, managing director of W&D Affordable Debt, arranged the debt, and Macy Kisilinsky, senior managing director of W&D Affordable Equity, arranged the... Read More »
  • Class-A Communities Secure Bridge Financing

    BWE arranged a $52 million bridge loan for a portfolio of Class-A independent living, assisted living and memory care communities located across the Atlanta, Georgia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan areas. Ryan Stoll, National Director of Seniors Housing and Care at BWE, and Taylor Mokris, Senior Vice President of Seniors Housing and... 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 »