• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »
  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »
  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »
  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Wisconsin Seniors Housing Community

Berkadia Refinances Wisconsin Seniors Housing Community

Berkadia took out bank debt on a seniors housing community in Appleton, Wisconsin with a new Freddie Mac financing. Chris Cain arranged the transaction on behalf of the community’s Oregon-based owner/operator, Touchmark.  In operation for around 40 years, the community provides independent living, assisted living and memory care services, which were added in a recent $25 million, 48-unit expansion project that also saw renovations made to the existing building. The bank loan that helped bank roll that project has now been replaced with a $32.3 million Freddie Mac loan, with a 10-year term and five years of interest only at 70% loan-to-value. Touchmark was also able... Read More »
Greystone Finances AL/MC Community Through Freddie Mac

Greystone Finances AL/MC Community Through Freddie Mac

Greystone’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team recently provided a $27 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance an assisted living/memory care community in the southwestern United States. Featuring 69 units, it is owned by Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I and operated by an experienced seniors housing provider. The loan came with a 10-year term.  Read More »
Northmarq Refinances Washington State Seniors Housing

Northmarq Refinances Washington State Seniors Housing

Northmarq’s Stuart Oswald, senior vice president and managing director of the firm’s Seattle office, arranged a $35 million refinance of a 136-unit senior living community in Tacoma, Washington. Built in phases from the 1980s to the 1990s, the community provides independent living, assisted living and memory care services in a combination of 61 studios, 33 one-bedroom units, five two-bedroom units and 37 units dedicated to memory care. A family has owned and operated it since opening, with the third generation now in charge, and operations have been consistently strong, even during the pandemic. Occupancy was in the 90% range.  Northmarq originally refinanced the property... Read More »
PGIM Closes Freddie Mac Financing For Colorado Community

PGIM Closes Freddie Mac Financing For Colorado Community

A Denver-area senior living community refinanced with a Freddie Mac loan arranged by PGIM Real Estate. Spectrum Retirement Communities developed the community in 2009 and has been operating it ever since. It currently features 130 independent living, 60 assisted living and 18 memory care units. Amenities include a beauty sale, bistro, fitness center, lounges and a movie theater.   To take out a previous PGIM loan, Trace Wilson, who led the transaction on PGIM’s behalf, secured a $60 million loan with a 10-year term, five years of interest only and a 30-year amortization period. There was also a floating rate.  Read More »
CBRE Refinances Stabilizing Seniors Housing Portfolio

CBRE Refinances Stabilizing Seniors Housing Portfolio

CBRE refinanced a portfolio of three seniors housing communities owned by a joint venture between LCS and Nuveen Real Estate, an affiliate of the investment management arm of TIAA. These communities feature a combination of assisted living and memory care, with 328 units in total.   Developed by a not-for-profit in 2017 and 2018, they were acquired by the joint venture in 2018 as part of a seven-property portfolio that included four other stabilized communities around the Louisville and Indianapolis MSAs totaling 360 units of assisted living and memory care. The deal represented one of the first large-scale investments in the joint venture’s $300 million capital raise, which CBRE... Read More »