• LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... Read More »
  • Portland IL/AL Community Finds New Purpose in Multi-Family

    Calaroga Terrace has traded hands, from a national owner/operator to a regional developer. The community sits is north of the Oregon Convention Center, in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built in 1968 and renovated in 2016, the 15-story high rise is situated on just under one acre and features 181 independent living and 84 assisted living units. The... Read More »
  • New England SNFs Struggling to Breakeven Sell

    Blueprint represented a private equity investor in its divestment of a 302-bed skilled nursing portfolio in New England. The facilities had challenged occupancies, however, they generated approximately $27 million in revenue. Inflated operating costs took its toll on EBITDAR, with the asset struggling to breakeven. Dubbed Project Red Coats, the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Secures Refinance

    Berkadia announced the refinancing of a nine-property assisted living portfolio spanning Ohio and Pennsylvania. Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco, Austin Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld arranged the $114.37 million financing through Bloomfield Capital Partners, LLC on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture with an experienced owner and New Perspective Senior... Read More »
  • Lument Rolls Out Seniors Housing Investment Sales Platform

    Alex Florea and Kevin Lukehart have joined the Lument team as managing director and director, respectively. This expands Lument’s real estate investment sales platform into seniors housing. Florea will lead the team, working closely with John Sebree, head of real estate investment sales, and Aaron Becker, head of seniors housing and healthcare... Read More »

Walker and Dunlop back at it

Not resting on its laurels following the recent $1.27 billion Freddie Mac financing it closed, Walker & Dunlop announced another financing, this time structuring a $68.2 million construction loan for a 318-unit senior living community to be built in Palm Beach County, Florida. The loan featured a floating rate of about 300 basis points over LIBOR and covered about 70% of the over-$100 million (about $314,500 per unit) development. Ventas will provide equity capital and will be the principal owner of the community in partnership with the developer, Big Rock Partners. Designed by Gensler and to be constructed by Moss & Associates, the 425,000-square foot community will feature 186... Read More »
Reading the Holiday tea leaves

Reading the Holiday tea leaves

As most of you have read recently, Walker & Dunlop closed its largest loan ever (almost double the size of its $670 million financing that the company closed earlier in 2015) in the form of a $1.27 billion seven-year adjustable-rate Freddie Mac loan secured by 78 Holiday Retirement independent living properties. The financing, led by Russell Dey and Laura Beaton of W&D, comes out to approximately $144,400 per unit, which if you assume a 75% loan-to-value, is almost identical ($192,500 per unit) to the average price per unit Holiday properties have sold for in the last few years ($193,800 per unit, according to our records). Since 2013 Holiday has sold, in nine transactions, 231... Read More »

Freddie Mac comes to Silicon Valley

On behalf of Kisco Senior Living, Jessica Wolters of JLL Capital Markets led the way in originating a $32.5 million refinance, with a 10-year fixed-rate term, provided by Freddie Mac’s Capital Markets Execution program. The community being refinanced, a 133-unit independent/assisted living community in Los Altos, California, was built in 1973 but was bought for $16 million, or $106,700 per unit (when it had 150 units), and renovated in 1998 by TransAmerica Senior Living (which was itself bought by Kisco in 2001). Considering today’s $244,400 per unit refinance, it’s clear that Kisco has significantly increased the value of the property. Read More »

Greystone closes over $210 million

Greystone has been relatively quiet in the press over the last few months, but the lender was of course hard at work. Across 11 transactions (all previously unannounced since August 2015), the lender closed over $210 million in seniors housing lending transactions. The financings were for properties located across the country, ranging in size and services offered, from age-restricted housing to memory care. The loan amounts were as small as a $2 million bank loan to finance a land acquisition for seniors housing in Waldwick, New Jersey, to as large as a $46 million Freddie Mac refinance on a 209-unit independent living/assisted living/memory care community in Anaheim, California. There... Read More »

Memory care refinance

A recently built 43-unit memory care community in Vancouver, Washington refinanced with an $11.87 million Freddie Mac loan, which came out to $276,100 per unit. Developed and managed by Koelsch Senior Communities, the property is the third in Vancouver, ninth in the state of Washington and 23rd community overall in seven states for Koelsch, which was founded in 1958. Cathy Voreyer of Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital handled the transaction. Read More »