• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »
CBRE Refinances California Community

CBRE Refinances California Community

A Bay Area senior living community recently refinanced with the help of the A-team at CBRE that included Andrew Behrens, Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg. The borrower was a joint venture between northern California owner/operator Carlton Senior Living plus Piedmont Properties Group, a large multifamily/senior living investor. They bought the 153-unit independent living community in 2007 for approximately $17.65 million, or $115,400 per unit. Located in Concord, California, the property was originally built in 1991 less than two miles from the top-ranked adult specialty care hospital in the country, John Muir Medical Center. At the time of the acquisition, its debt (which included... Read More »
Greystone Refinances on the Jersey Shore

Greystone Refinances on the Jersey Shore

It was a team effort from Greystone to successfully close a Fannie Mae refinance of an assisted living community on the New Jersey Shore. Working on behalf of the borrower, Sage Healthcare Partners, Greystone’s DJ Elefant originated the $24 million loan, with Neal Raburn providing support in structuring, underwriting and closing the transaction. The 10-year loan (with a 20-year amortization and two years of interest only) replaces the original bridge loan provided by Greystone to enable Sage Healthcare Partners to acquire the property in 2017. Originally built in 1949 and renovated in 1997, the six-story community also had one floor converted to memory care in 2010. Back then, it was owned... Read More »
PGIM Refinances Kentucky Communities Through Fannie Mae

PGIM Refinances Kentucky Communities Through Fannie Mae

Christopher Fenton of PGIM Real Estate Finance originated the refinances of two Morning Pointe assisted living/memory care communities in Kentucky. This transaction comes just two years after both communities were built, so the market research clearly worked since occupancy has already cleared 90% at the two locations. There was a 60-unit AL/MC community in Danville, Kentucky located near a regional medical center and a 44-unit memory care community in Russell, also located near a top Kentucky hospital. So, location clearly helped too. Working with Fannie Mae, PGIM provided a $7.5 million loan for the Danville property ($125,000 per unit) and a $7.8 million loan for the Russell community... Read More »
Lending in Leominster

Lending in Leominster

KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged a first mortgage through Fannie Mae on behalf of a Sunrise Senior Living property in Leominster, Massachusetts. Originally built in 1996 with 48 assisted living units, the property added 23 memory care units in 1999 and converted 10 existing AL units into nine MC units in 2013. In that most recent project, the owner also added a common room and dining room to the community. Now, to refinance existing debt, Carolyn Nazdin of KeyBank arranged a non-recourse $12.2 million loan, with a 10-year interest-only term. Read More »
KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

Private REITs may have taken a significant step back from their heady M&A days around 2014 and 2015, but one private REIT has been pursuing a growth strategy lately. Founded last February by George Chapman (former CEO of Health Care REIT, now Welltower), ReNew REIT (or ReNew Investors) now has 61 seniors housing communities and 5,645 units in 11 states in its portfolio thanks to several large portfolio acquisitions, including a 16-property purchase in Michigan and a RIDEA agreement with Southeast-based operator Phoenix Senior Living. So far in 2019, the company has closed four more acquisitions, adding eight additional communities and 813 units in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia to... Read More »