• Greystone Closes Large CLO

    Greystone closed a large collateralized loan obligation (CLO) composed solely of healthcare assets. Greystone CRE Notes 2025-HC4, LLC is a $451.6 million commercial real estate CLO backed exclusively by bridge loans provided by Greystone. The transaction marks the firm’s eighth overall CRE CLO and the industry’s fourth-ever CRE CLO composed... Read More »
  • Fortress Investment Group Divests Arizona Asset

    JLL Capital Markets has closed the sale of Inspira Arrowhead, a 165-unit seniors housing community in Glendale, Arizona. The community was under the ownership of Fortress Investment Group funds for just 18 months, but in that time occupancy rose from 89% to 94% and NOI improved by 35%. Fortress bought the asset in April 2024 in a joint venture... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Makes Another Acquisition

    Stacked Stone Ventures, a real estate investment firm founded by Kent Eikanas, followed up on its October acquisition in Oklahoma with the purchase of two assisted living/memory care communities in Illinois, near the St. Louis MSA. Similar to the Oklahoma deal, Stacked Stone has made Illinois acquisition in a joint venture with the private equity... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Large SNF Deal in Pennsylvania

    Not-for-profit to for-profit are not easy, and it took a two-year process for Blueprint to successfully close the sale of a 250-bed skilled nursing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The property appears to be Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation, one of three skilled nursing facilities owned by Dublin, Ohio-American Health Foundation... Read More »
  • JDI Realty Buys Alpharetta Asset

    A partnership recently acquired Chapters Living of Alpharetta, a 79-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia (Atlanta, MSA). Built in 2013, the high-quality community was previously known as Addington Place of Alpharetta. JDI Realty, in partnership with Purity Strategies and Chapters Senior Living, bought the community... 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 »