• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Brookdale Senior Living, What’s Next?

    So, the big vote occurred last week, and shareholders of Brookdale Senior Living have spoken. We are sure that the recent increases in occupancy convinced some shareholders to stick with management and its “plan.” But the nominees from activist shareholder Ortelius Advisors were not off-the-wall candidates. It was an excellent group, and despite... Read More »
  • Optalis Healthcare Acquires Michigan Portfolio

    Blueprint was engaged by Michael F. Flanagan, the duly appointed receiver of Spartan Holdco, LLC, et al. and approved by the Oakland County Circuit Court to run a marketing process sourcing qualified overbids for the auction sale of the SKLD (Skilled Living and Development) portfolio. Dubbed Project Spartan, the portfolio comprises eleven skilled... Read More »
  • National REIT Divests to Cougar Capital Management

    Haven Senior Investments facilitated a transaction between a national REIT and a real estate development firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The seller, Summit Healthcare REIT, divested a seniors housing community in Littleton, New Hampshire, The Village at Riverglen. Built in 2002, The Village at Riverglen features 60 beds across 50 independent... Read More »
  • CFG’s H1 Financing Volume

    Capital Funding Group’s bridge-to-HUD and HUD teams financed more than $930 million across 50 transactions in the first half of 2025. These financings included 14 HUD loans, 21 bridge loans and 15 accounts receivable loans for clients across the country. Managing Director of Real Estate Craig Casagrande originated a few transactions throughout... Read More »
  • Stabilized Class-A IL Community Secures Refinancing

    Greystone arranged a $43.5 million debt placement to refinance a seniors housing community in Oregon. The 142-unit property is a recently built and stabilized Class-A independent living community. The community had strong trailing cash flows, on a shorter trailing period, but an upward trend. The financing was sourced by David Young.  The... Read More »
CBRE Comes Full Circle

CBRE Comes Full Circle

CBRE was all over the sale of a seniors housing community in Conroe, Texas, facilitating its sale on behalf of the previous owner and arranging acquisition financing for the buyer, Chicago Pacific Founders. Originally built in 2016 by a joint venture between Paradigm Senior Living and Padua (a real estate development firm based in Houston), this community features 60 independent living, 60 assisted living and 20 memory care units, along with 17 detached IL cottages across an 11-acre campus. Its $30 million construction cost was financed by one of Lancaster Pollard’s first Propero™ loans, which totaled about $26.7 million. The JV contributed a portion of equity and also received a purchase... Read More »
Brookdale Gets Another Large Freddie Mac Financing

Brookdale Gets Another Large Freddie Mac Financing

Brookdale Senior Living continues to make moves that put the company on surer financial footing, having just refinanced existing debt with a $111.1 million Freddie Mac loan arranged by Monique Bimler of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Secured in two tranches of 14 cross-collateralized seniors housing properties in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington, the first mortgage was arranged as a 10-year split payment master note. There will be a five-year interest-only period split between 40% floating rate and 60% fixed rate payments, with a 30-year amortization schedule after that. This transaction follows a much larger $327... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Chico Expansion Project

CBRE Refinances Chico Expansion Project

After expanding its Chico, California senior living community a couple of years ago, Westmont Living refinanced the new development with a Freddie Mac loan arranged by Andrew Behrens, Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE. Set next to a lake within a master planned age-restricted community, the 80-unit assisted living expansion opened in 2017 to join the existing 138-unit senior living community that offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Since Westmont took over operations in early 2006, the property has experienced consistently strong occupancy above 90%. In 2016, CBRE had arranged a $32.3 million Fannie Mae loan, with a 10-year, fixed-rate term... Read More »
KeyBank Refinances Western New York Properties

KeyBank Refinances Western New York Properties

A couple of seniors housing communities in western New York received Freddie Mac financing courtesy of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Carolyn Nazdin of the firm’s Healthcare Group arranged two fixed-rate loans with 15-year terms and five-year interest-only periods. The first, at $45.8 million, was secured by a 162-unit community in Orchard Park. Built in 1992 and renovated in 2016, it consists of 114 assisted living, 32 independent living and 16 memory care units. The other $20.1 million loan went to a 96-unit assisted living/memory care community in Pittsford that was built 20 years ago. Both loans refinanced existing debt on the properties. Read More »
KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

KeyBank Funds ReNew Acquisitions

Private REITs may have taken a significant step back from their heady M&A days around 2014 and 2015, but one private REIT has been pursuing a growth strategy lately. Founded last February by George Chapman (former CEO of Health Care REIT, now Welltower), ReNew REIT (or ReNew Investors) now has 61 seniors housing communities and 5,645 units in 11 states in its portfolio thanks to several large portfolio acquisitions, including a 16-property purchase in Michigan and a RIDEA agreement with Southeast-based operator Phoenix Senior Living. So far in 2019, the company has closed four more acquisitions, adding eight additional communities and 813 units in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia to... Read More »