• 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 »

Grandbridge hits the Town…Village

It was recently announced that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital closed $125 million in financing to assist in the acquisition of four Town Village-brand independent living communities in four states. A joint venture between Chicago Pacific Founders and Grand Park Capital Management (owned by former Brookdale Senior Living executives John Rijos and Bill Doniger, respectively) was the buyer. According to some media outlets, the properties sold for $180 million, or approximately $220,000 per unit. Grandbridge provided $25 million in supplemental loans and also closed $100 million in assumption loans for existing Fannie Mae debt that Grandbridge had previously originated. Read More »

San Diego Solution

Aron Will of CBRE closed his latest transactions for two separate borrowers in the San Diego area. First, Mr. Will and Kevin Randles arranged a fixed rate Fannie Mae loan to refinance an 84-unit independent living community in San Diego. The owner/operator, Ray Stone Inc., had managed the community since 2005. Then, The Grant Companies refinanced the recently stabilized 102-unit independent/assisted living Phase II of its Ridge at Lantern Crest campus. Mr. Will worked with Bill Chiles and Scott Peterson on this transaction. CBRE also refinanced Phase I with a Freddie Mac loan back in 2014. Read More »
Iron Will

Iron Will

We can’t go long without seeing another Aron Will (of CBRE) transaction, or two. The first of his latest deal duo took place in California when a joint venture between Auctus Capital Partners and Och-Ziff Capital Management acquired a 54-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Francisco. Located on an irreplaceable site, the building was originally built it 1923 as a hospital but was purchased by a Mom & Pop in the 1990s who then converted it to senior care. It has some underutilized “dead space” that the JV will convert to add significantly more assisted living and memory care units. Plus, Auctus and Och-Ziff will make some cosmetic improvements to help drive operations,... Read More »
Iron Will

Capital One strikes twice

Showing off its wide array of services, Capital One announced two transactions this week across two health care sectors. First, in seniors housing, Allison Holland originated and provided a 12-year $11 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance a 72-unit assisted living community in Homosassa, Florida (about 60 miles north of Tampa). The community was built in 2009 and features a choice of studio, one- or two-bedroom units. Ms. Holland arranged the 12-year term for the borrower to take advantage of the current low interest rates. Then, in home health care, Capital One served as administrative agent and lead bookrunner for a $65 million senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of... Read More »
Senior living hits the slopes

Senior living hits the slopes

Three years after opening on a piece of land that was a former ski slope in North Andover, Massachusetts, a 133-unit senior living community is refinancing its debt with the help of Richard Thomas of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital. Built by Shelter Development at a cost of approximately $20 million, the community is operated by Brightview Senior Living and features 65 independent living units, 41 supportive living units and 27 memory care units. It is located on 33 acres, of which 25 have remained open space and the original ski slopes have been preserved. Mr. Thomas originated a $30.25 million floating-rate first mortgage loan through Fannie Mae’s DUS Structured Adjustable Rate Mortgage... Read More »