• Standalone Memory Care Community Sells in San Antonio

    Soon after selling a standalone memory care community in Katy, Texas, Blueprint sold another one in San Antonio, Texas, that was built in 2013. The Landing at Stone Oak was originally marketed in late 2023, but the process came to a halt when ownership chose to continue improving operations rather than transact. The operational turnaround was not... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Full AL/MC Community

    A local private investment group divested its stabilized seniors housing community, Village at Oakwood Assisted Living. Originally built in 2010 with use of multiple layers of tax credits, the building comprises 90 assisted living and memory care units. The high-quality physical plant sits in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was 100% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Expands Its Portfolio

    Foundry Commercial and Fortress Investment Group acquired two seniors housing communities in Central Florida with a combined 180 assisted living and 72 memory care units (a total of 260 beds). This is the joint venture’s second transaction, marking the third and fourth communities added to the joint portfolio. The undisclosed seller was... Read More »
  • California SNF Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments helped the owner of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility find a new operator. The new management company, which has a strong regional footprint, will pay $3.75 million in annual rent to the investor owner, Don Gormly. Built in 2016, the 120-bed facility is Anberry Transitional Care in Merced, California. Its occupancy was... Read More »
  • CCRC Secures Funding for Expansion

    Ziegler announced the closing of Friendship Village of Kalamazoo’s $103.585 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2, and B-3 bonds issued through the Economic Development Corporation of the City of Kalamazoo. Lifecare, Inc., doing business as Friendship Village Kalamazoo, is on approximately 72 acres within Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 364-unit CCRC comprises... Read More »
Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Utilizing Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards financing product, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged a $25.5 million acquisition loan to fund the purchase of a 93-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia. Focus Healthcare Partners’ dedicated senior housing fund was the borrower and will retain The Arbor Company as the community’s operator. This type of transaction seems to have become a recent specialty of Grandbridge’s, as the firm so far in 2018 has closed nearly $300 million in financings through Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards program, across 13 properties, which is the most among Fannie Mae DUS lenders... Read More »
CBRE Closes Five Financings

CBRE Closes Five Financings

Aron Will of CBRE showed off his strength and variety this month, closing five transactions so far in May. First was a $10.2 million Freddie Mac loan arranged on behalf of Chicago Pacific Founders to acquire a 100-unit independent living/assisted living community in Easley, South Carolina. The loan came with a seven-year floating-rate term and 42 months of interest only. Mr. Will also arranged acquisition financing for a global investment manager for its purchase of two assisted living/memory care communities in Cincinnati, Ohio and Salt Lake City, Utah. Both were originally developed by CA Ventures in partnership with another institutional equity partner and Senior Lifestyle Corporation.... Read More »
Capital One Bridges to Agency Financing

Capital One Bridges to Agency Financing

Capital One pulled double duty for its client, Healthcare Trust (HTI), arranging more than $145 million in total financing. First, back in December, the firm served as administrative agent and sole lender for an $82 million senior secured credit facility, which provided bridge-to-agency financing for a 23-property seniors housing portfolio located in six states (primarily Michigan and Iowa) in just five weeks. Fast forward to this month, when Capital One added seven of those properties to HTI’s existing Fannie Mae credit facility. The transaction increased the total facility by $64.2 million, to $216.6 million. Read More »
Generations Senior Living Gets Green to Go Green

Generations Senior Living Gets Green to Go Green

Walker & Dunlop successfully structured an $82.077 million loan under Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards loan program, the first for a seniors housing property in the program’s history. Jeff Ringwald and Bill Jackson led the Walker & Dunlop team to structure a 10-year loan with two years of interest only and a 30-year amortization schedule to enable the repeat W&D borrower, Generations Senior Living, to refinance a previous construction loan and obtain cash-out for the financing of an adjacent newly developed memory care community when stabilized. Also, by utilizing the Green Rewards program, the 394-unit community in National City, California (San Diego MSA) received a lower interest... Read More »
Berkadia Closes In On $2 Billion Year

Berkadia Closes In On $2 Billion Year

Heidi Brunet and Chris Fenton of Berkadia wrapped up their holiday season with a couple of financings for assisted living providers, bringing Berkadia Commercial Mortgage’s 2017 total to nearly $2 billion in loan production. First up, Ms. Brunet arranged a $25.6 million Fannie Mae loan, with a 10-year term and fixed interest rate, for a new borrower. The loan financed a portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities all built in the early 2000s and totaling 288 units. Second, Chris Fenton worked on behalf of a joint venture (which included a New England-based operator) to finance their acquisition of a 54-unit assisted living/memory care community in New Hampshire. The $25.2... Read More »