• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »
  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »
  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »
  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Nebraska Senior Living Community

CBRE Refinances Nebraska Senior Living Community

Aron Will and Austin Sacco of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a Fannie Mae refinance of an Omaha, Nebraska senior living community. Owned by a joint venture between Hegg Companies, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based real estate investment firm, and Paradigm Senior Living, an operator with an extensive portfolio west of the Mississippi, the community features 91 units of assisted living and memory care. In addition to boasting large unit sizes and abundant amenities, it is also located less than five miles from the only full-service hospital in West Omaha, CHI Health Lakeside. To refinance the property, Messrs. Will and Sacco originated an $11.9 million loan, with a fixed interest... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company is keeping busy, having announced two transactions for senior care assets in the Midwest. First, Brad Competty, Casey Moore and Doug Harper closed a $42 million Fannie Mae loan with a 12-year term and fixed interest rate for a CCRC client. Mr. Competty and Brendan Healy followed that up with a HUD refinance for two senior care properties in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by Riverview Health, the properties getting refinanced include a 176-bed skilled nursing facility and a 196-bed SNF. Riverview was also reimbursed for prior capital expenditures and replacement reserves. Finally, Lancaster Pollard arranged a bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a 125-bed... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta

Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta

The Walker & Dunlop team of Kevin Giusti, Michael Davis and Jeff Ringwald ran the agency gamut this month, closing one Freddie Mac, one Fannie Mae and one HUD loan, all totaling $42.6 million. W&D started with a $13.5 million refinance closed through Freddie Mac for a brand-new, 52-unit memory care community in Springfield, Oregon. The borrower, Onelife Investments was able to recapitalize 100% of its equity and obtained a 15-year loan with a fixed rate. Next, another recently-built senior living community refinanced with Fannie Mae, thanks to the Walker & Dunlop team. Operated by Avista Senior Living, the 108-unit assisted living community opened in 2017 within a larger active... Read More »
The Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae 2018 Rankings Are In

The Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae 2018 Rankings Are In

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac came out with their 2018 multifamily loan production rankings, showing more than $143 billion in volume was closed across the two agencies. Compared with last year, that resulted in a 3% decrease for Fannie Mae but a 7% increase for Freddie Mac. That’s a lot of capital injected into multifamily assets. Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital placed first for the Fannie Mae list with $8.1 billion in closings, followed by Walker & Dunlop ($6.9 billion) and Berkadia Commercial Mortgage ($6.6 billion). On the Freddie Mac rankings, CBRE came out on top with $13.7 billion in loans closed, with Berkadia ($9.9 billion) and HFF ($7.2 billion) taking second and third.... Read More »
Berkadia’s Big End-of-Year Closing

Berkadia’s Big End-of-Year Closing

Berkadia headed out of 2018 with a bang, closing a credit facility that totaled more than $200 million. Secured by 19 senior living communities owned by Capital Senior Living Corporation, the facility came with both fixed and variable interest rates, a 10-year term and 30-year amortization schedule financed through Fannie Mae. Approximately $150.8 million of the debt had the fixed rate and over $50.2 million featured the variable rate. Berkadia’s Lisa Lautner originated the transaction, closing right before Christmas. Read More »