• Janus Living Goes Public After Upsizing IPO

    by | Mar 20, 2026 4:09 pm | Uncategorized

    Janus Living, a Healthpeak Properties-formed REIT and now the only publicly traded U.S. REIT fully dedicated to seniors housing with its entire portfolio structured under RIDEA, has launched its initial public offering of Class A-1 common stock. The company is now listed on the NYSE under the ticker “JAN.” It plans to pay a quarterly dividend of... Read More »

  • Partnership Acquires Two Long Island Communities

    by | Mar 20, 2026 3:11 pm | Acquisitions

    Two Long Island assisted living communities were sold by their original developer/operator. Village Green Senior Living in Levittown (opened in 2020) and Village Walk Senior Living (opened in 2018) in Patchogue were acquired by a partnership between Fundamental Advisors, Scribner Capital and Atria Senior Living. They will be renamed Atria... Read More »

  • Artemis Real Estate Partners Purchases Class-A Community

    by | Mar 20, 2026 3:02 pm | Acquisitions

    The developer of a Class-A seniors housing community in the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA, has passed the torch to a new owner. Pillars of Lakeville, now known as The Crest at Lakeville, sits on 1.8 acres. Oppidan Investment Co., a company that developed multiple Pillars senior living properties in Minnesota, acquired the land from Crossroads... Read More »

  • Stand-Alone Memory Care Community Gets New Owner

    by | Mar 20, 2026 3:01 pm | Acquisitions

    1031 CF Properties, a leading DST investor, acquired a stand-alone memory care community in the Spokane, Washington MSA. Built in 2005 with expansions in 2007 and 2013, Generations Memory Care offers 48 private units with 28,472 square feet on 2.067 acres. The seller was an investment group based in northern California that purchased the asset in... Read More »

  • Not-for-Profit Closes First Public Bond Issue in 20+ Years

    by | Mar 20, 2026 3:00 pm | Financings

    Ziegler announced the closing of a $30.0 million tax-exempt fixed rate bond issue for Butterfield Trail Village, Inc. (BTV). The Series 2026 bonds were issued through The Fayetteville Public Facilities Board. BTV is a not-for-profit corporation founded by five local churches in 1981 to own and operate a continuing care retirement community on... Read More »

Berkadia originates $366 million financing

by | Sep 25, 2015 8:30 am | Financings

Working with both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Berkadia arranged two loans totaling $366.7 million for Brookdale Senior Living to refinance 39 of its seniors housing properties in two separate portfolios. The first portfolio, including 21 properties with 1,924 units and an average occupancy of 91%, is made up of 5.7% IL, 15.9% MC and 78.4% AL units. It was refinanced with a $226.4 million, 10-year loan through Fannie Mae arranged by Managing Directors Heidi Brunet and Christopher Fenton of Berkadia. The loan come to $117,700 per unit. The pair also closed a $140.3 million (or $117,900 per unit), seven-year loan through Freddie Mac for a portfolio of 18 properties, which consists of 1,190... Read More »

Greystone and Oakmont at it again

by | Aug 19, 2015 8:32 am | Financings

Greystone expanded its relationship yet again with Oakmont Senior Living. Having previously provided a $150 million Freddie Mac credit revolver (including an additional $23.5 million tranche provided last month) and an $18.8 million Freddie Mac loan for Oakmont’s Fresno, California property, Greystone continued its work by closing a $58.34 million Freddie Mac refinance for Oakmont’s 163-unit independent living community in Santa Rosa, California. The financing came to $358,000 per unit. This 10-year loan was funded through Freddie Mac’s Index Lock product, which enables the borrower to lock in the existing 10-year Treasury rate prior to commitment. Greystone was able to procure a fixed... Read More »

Freddie Mac welcomes newest lender

by | Aug 7, 2015 8:31 am | Financings

Arbor Commercial Mortgage is fast diversifying its seniors housing lending platform. In June, the company closed its first bridge loan. In July, Fannie Mae approved Arbor as a Seniors Housing DUS Lender. And now in August, it was appointed as Freddie Mac’s latest Seniors Housing Lender, one of just 15 others in the country. Arbor kicked off this new relationship by providing a $12.1 million loan to refinance a 98-unit assisted living community in Mesquite, Texas. Built in 1999 and renovated in 2013, the community had an average occupancy rate of 96.5%. Jeff Ringwald, SVP of Seniors Housing & Healthcare for Arbor, closed the loan which featured a 10-year term and 30-year amortization... Read More »

Oakmont Senior Living growing

by | Jul 22, 2015 8:30 am | Developments, Financings

Already with a $150 million Freddie Mac Revolving Credit Facility provided to them in December 2013 to support their robust development pipeline, Oakmont Senior Living obtained an additional $23.5 million tranche with the help of Greystone. The financing enabled Oakmont to take out its construction loan on its newly constructed 71-unit assisted living/memory care community (with 45 AL units and 26 MC units) in Carmichael, California. Just nine months out from the community’s opening, the property was already 96% occupied at closing, which is impressive considering the recent declines in overall AL occupancy. Oakmont received low floating rate, non-recourse debt with an interest-only... Read More »

CBRE arranges financing for 15-CCRC portfolio

by | Jun 17, 2015 8:51 am | Financings

Aron Will, Mitchell Kiffe and Matthew Whitlock of CBRE arranged $410 million in financing on behalf of NorthStar Healthcare Income and The Freshwater Group/Watermark Retirement Communities to purchase a portfolio of 15 rental and entrance fee CCRCs. The seller, Fountains Senior Living, a subsidiary of Arcapita, had previously hired Watermark as the day-to-day operator of the portfolio, which consists of six entrance-fee and nine rental CCRCs with 3,663 total units (with 2,330 independent living units, 945 assisted living units, 156 memory care units and 320 skilled nursing beds in 232 rooms). NorthStar will lease the entrance fee properties to affiliates of The Freshwater Group, pursuant... Read More »