• 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 »

CBRE helps refinance successful community

A 100-unit independent living community well located in Carmichael, California with a strong occupancy history was recently refinanced with the help of CBRE. Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing and Kevin Randles of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance office arranged a $12 million fixed-rate loan from Fannie Mae. CBRE Multifamily Capital originated the loan on behalf of the borrower, Ray Stone, Inc., which operates five other communities with over 800 units in California and has operated the Carmichael community since its opening in 2003. Occupancy has ranged from 95% to 99% in the last few years, with rents starting at $1,500 a month and going up to about $4,000 a month. The refinance... Read More »

Freddie Mac welcomes newest lender

Arbor Commercial Mortgage is fast diversifying its seniors housing lending platform. In June, the company closed its first bridge loan. In July, Fannie Mae approved Arbor as a Seniors Housing DUS Lender. And now in August, it was appointed as Freddie Mac’s latest Seniors Housing Lender, one of just 15 others in the country. Arbor kicked off this new relationship by providing a $12.1 million loan to refinance a 98-unit assisted living community in Mesquite, Texas. Built in 1999 and renovated in 2013, the community had an average occupancy rate of 96.5%. Jeff Ringwald, SVP of Seniors Housing & Healthcare for Arbor, closed the loan which featured a 10-year term and 30-year amortization... Read More »

Arbor Commercial Funding adds Fannie Mae program

Already having been one of the Top 10 Fannie Mae DUS Multifamily lenders by volume for some time (with over $1.6 billion in transactions in 2014) and the Top Fannie Mae Small Loan Lender in 2014, Arbor Commercial Funding, a subsidiary of Arbor Commercial Mortgage, was just approved as a Fannie Mae Seniors Housing DUS Lender. Under the new program, which will be headed by COO, John Caulfield, Arbor will look to provide non-recourse financing from Fannie Mae for independent living, assisted living and memory care communities. With the program in its infancy, there have been no transactions yet, but the pipeline is building. Since fully developing their Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance... Read More »

KeyBank provides $635 million Fannie Mae credit facility

KeyBank provoked some conversation at the recent NIC Conference after announcing that it would provide a $635.6 million Fannie Mae credit facility to subsidiaries of Senior Housing Realty Trust, a Maryland-based REIT owned by an affiliate of Senior Resource Group and its institutional partners. The facility came with a 10-year term (with 10 years of interest only) and a fixed rate, plus the option for releases, additions, substitutions and the capacity to expand with additional fixed or floating debt. KeyBank will also be able to provide flexible financing solutions ranging from balance sheet to permanent mortgage loans. The 12 properties that are being refinanced with this facility are... Read More »

NHI/Bickford continuing to grow

As many of you may know, National Health Investors and Bickford Senior Living are in the middle of their joint venture to build 36 assisted living/memory care communities in eight states. The joint venture is mostly funded with borrowings on NHI’s unsecured bank credit facility, but KeyBank National Association recently announced that it secured $78 million in Fannie Mae financing for 13 of the joint venture’s properties, consisting of interest-only payments at 3.79% and a 10-year maturity. The proceeds of the loan will go towards reducing borrowings on NHI’s credit facility. Read More »