• 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 »
Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured Fannie Mae financing for a portfolio of five seniors housing communities in several states operated by Enlivant. The long-term, non-recourse debt was secured by Charlie Shoop at an attractive interest rate. Plus, KeyBank’s Tim Sylvain, Paul Di Vito and Patrick Gilbreath originated and structured a balance sheet financing that extended the revolving lines of credit to other seniors housing properties operated by Enlivant.  Read More »
HealthPeak Sells 10 Aegis Living Communities

HealthPeak Sells 10 Aegis Living Communities

HealthPeak Properties continues its exit from the seniors housing business, both its sale/leaseback portfolio as well as its RIDEA assets. In a large transaction, HealthPeak has sold 10 assisted living and memory care communities to its tenant, Aegis Living, which partnered with Blue Moon Capital Partners in the deal. The purchase price for the real estate (to HealthPeak) was $350 million, but the total price for the entire transaction was closer to $440 million, or about $626,700 per unit. Not too bad during a pandemic.   The 10 properties are located in California (6), Washington (3) and Nevada (1). Average occupancy in the third quarter... Read More »
Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a HUD refinance for a skilled nursing facility in Cortlandt, New York. Built in 1984 and featuring 127 beds in 96 units, the facility offers both short- and long-term rehabilitation, along with physician services and complex medical care. Offered therapies include occupational, physical, cardiac, speech, post-surgical orthopedic care, stroke recovery, hip repair/joint replacement recovery, amputee recovery and training, off-site dialysis, bariatric rehabilitation, wound care, and IV antibiotic therapy. The $22.217 million loan came with a low, fixed interest rate and a 35-year term.  Matt Miller of Greystone followed that up... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Charges Into Chambersburg

Lancaster Pollard Charges Into Chambersburg

Lancaster Pollard, a division of ORIX Real Estate Capital, recently refinanced a senior living community in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Providence Place Senior Living, a family-owned operator that is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, owns the 17-acre campus, which features a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Monthly rates start at $3,082 for independent living, $4,122 for assisted living and $4,411 for memory care. It is located three miles from the Chambersburg Hospital.  Miles Kingston, Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard secured an $11.5 million loan through its Fannie Mae Seniors Housing program. The loan came with a long term and... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes Hawaii SNF Refinance

Lancaster Pollard Closes Hawaii SNF Refinance

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company followed up its HUD refinance of an assisted living/memory care community in Minnesota for a deal in a much more hospitable year-round climate. Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard headed to Honolulu, Hawaii (lucky guys) to arrange permanent financing for a senior living community located on the slopes of Punchbowl Crater, an extinct volcanic cone in downtown Honolulu.   Owned by MW Group, Ltd., the community was built in 2003 and renovated in 2017. It currently consists of 68 independent living, 20 assisted living and 20 memory care units, and is one of six seniors housing and care properties in Hawaii operated by The Plaza Assisted... Read More »