• 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 Does Deal Double

CBRE Does Deal Double

The CBRE National Senior Housing group flexed its muscles this week, closing two acquisition financings and an asset sale. First, Lisa Widmier represented HCP in its divestment of a 159-unit independent living/assisted living community in Beaumont, Texas, for an undisclosed price. Featuring a majority of independent living units, the community was built in 1996. Under management by Atria Senior Living, it was 93% occupied as of February. Chicago Pacific Founders stepped in as the buyer, through its affiliate CPF Living Communities, and hired Grace Management to operate. Then, in comes CBRE’s Aron Will, who secured a seven-year floating rate loan, with 24 months of interest only, through... Read More »
Berkadia Brings In Old Borrowers And New

Berkadia Brings In Old Borrowers And New

In addition to closing transactions for two repeat borrowers, Berkadia also worked with a new client to help them obtain financing. Rafael Nobo secured a $15 million Freddie Mac loan on behalf of this new client to refinance its seniors housing community in Mississippi. The loan was structured with a 10-year term and five years of interest only, hopefully kicking off a long-term relationship. Christopher Fenton then worked with a repeat borrower to refinance its 81-unit private pay assisted living community in Ohio. Mr. Fenton arranged a floating-rate $10.2 million Freddie Mac loan, with a seven-year term and two years of interest only. Finally, moving from Freddie Mac, Jay Healy arranged... Read More »
Hunt Mortgage Group Finances With Freddie Mac

Hunt Mortgage Group Finances With Freddie Mac

A 57-unit age-restricted senior apartment community recently refinanced with the help of Hunt Mortgage Group. Located in Boise, Idaho, the property was developed in 1973 and expanded in 2000. It sits on three acres and features four one- and two-story buildings, along with a clubhouse, but has no services that would be found in an independent living community. A multifamily owner/operator with over four decades of operating in the Boise area had acquired this property more than 12 years ago and leveraged that long-term ownership to utilize Freddie Mac’s Small Balance Loan program to obtain a $1.8 million loan with a 10-year, fixed rate term, 30-year amortization and a yield maintenance... Read More »
NorthMarq Capital Finances Washington Seniors Housing Community’s Past and Future

NorthMarq Capital Finances Washington Seniors Housing Community’s Past and Future

NorthMarq Capital continued its long-standing relationship with a 130-unit seniors housing community in Lynnwood, Washington, arranging Freddie Mac financing for the new owner. The community was developed by a joint venture between Living Care Lifestyles (the operator) and Morningside Development Group in late 2013 thanks to a $17.19 million four-year construction loan arranged by Stuart Oswald of NorthMarq. It included 85 independent/assisted living and 45 memory care units in a three-story building in the affluent Seattle suburb of Lynnwood. Lease-up went quickly, and in the middle of that process, ownership obtained a cash-out refinance totaling $32.5 million with a three-year term and... Read More »
All Hands On Deck For CBRE’s Latest Sale

All Hands On Deck For CBRE’s Latest Sale

CBRE had their hands full in a large Dallas-area CCRC sale, representing one of the selling entities and the buyer in the transaction, in addition to arranging a two-part acquisition financing totaling over $120 million. Totaling 1,104 rental units, which is separated out into 37% skilled nursing, 28% independent living, 24% assisted living and 11% memory care units, this portfolio was owned by Fortress Investment Group and Life Care Services, which held a lease-hold interest and operated (and will continue to operate) the communities. Properties ranged from 153 units to 267 units and were approximately 35 years old, all located in the Dallas MSA. Aspect Investment Partners, a global... Read More »