• 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 »

Greystone’s Freddie Mac First

In a first for the seniors housing industry, Greystone closed Freddie Mac’s first-ever lease-up loan for a client in Northern California. More common in the multifamily market, the lease-up program is for experienced clients to lock-in low interest rates earlier in the process for refinancing newly-built properties. Now, for a just-built 66-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Jose, the team of Scott Kavel, Neal Raburn and Cary Tremper of Greystone provided a $27.5 million Freddie Mac loan, with an 11-year term, 30-year amortization and a fixed interest rate. The loan takes out the original construction loan just three months after the community opened. We suspect lease-up was... Read More »

Berkadia Serves Up Agency Financings

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare team, led by Chris Honn, has been working at a furious pace since the end of last year, closing $288 million in financings in the past two months. First up on the agency side, Berkadia arranged a $36.7 million Freddie Mac loan, with a 10-year fixed-rate term, for a recently stabilized 131-unit independent living community in Birmingham, Michigan. Through Fannie Mae, the team also closed a $98 million, seven-year loan (with a fixed rate) on behalf of the owners of a 605-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Florida who were looking to cash out their equity. For a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities, and 222 beds, in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, Berkadia... Read More »
SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

Despite an apparent tightening in the seniors housing financing world (a topic which we will discuss in detail in our webinar at 1PM on October 27), borrowers may soon have a new name to choose from. SunTrust Bank announced it intends to acquire substantially all assets of the operating subsidiaries of Pillar Financial, LLC, along with its multi-family, affordable housing, healthcare property, senior housing, and manufactured housing lending platforms. Pillar’s HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac licenses also enticed SunTrust, which would be able to offer agency lending options to its clients. In return, Pillar would gain access to a number of expanded products including bridge loans, equity... Read More »
Green Court buys Arbour Square

Green Court buys Arbour Square

A fund sponsored by Green Courte Partners bought Arbour Square of Harleysville, a 276-unit independent living community located about 35 miles north of downtown Philadelphia. The first phase of the property was built in the affluent, high barrier-to-entry market in 2006 (with 151 units), while the remaining 125 units were added in 2014. The newest units were already coming out of lease-up by the time acquisition financing was originated for Green Courte. Through Freddie Mac’s seller servicer direct lending program, Aron Will of CBRE secured a $39.9 million fixed-rate loan with a 10-year term and 72 months of interest-only payments. Heritage Senior Living stayed on to operate the... Read More »
Freddie and the Queen

Freddie and the Queen

HFF recently announced the closing of a sale that we reported on in the January issue of The SeniorCare Investor (but didn’t have full details). The acquired 93-unit assisted living/memory care community is located in the Upper Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, and sold for $36.25 million, or $390,200 per unit, to Washington D.C.-based Capitol Seniors Housing. The community was originally built in 1908 and 1927, but was purchased by the seller in 2007 for $17.2 million, and underwent an extensive $6 million renovation that also included converting two floors from assisted living to memory care. Milestone Retirement Communities managed the property, which was 96% occupied. In... Read More »