


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 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
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 »