• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Grandbridge’s San Diego Team Announces Tucson CCRC Closing

Grandbridge’s San Diego Team Announces Tucson CCRC Closing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s new San Diego-based seniors housing investment sales team including David Rothschild and Mary Christian closed the sale of a Tucson, Arizona CCRC. The not-for-profit community originally opened with 40 skilled nursing beds in 1963 to provide care to the local Jewish community.   It received numerous additions over the years, most recently in 2015, and now includes 74 skilled nursing beds, 12 independent living units, 80 assisted living units and 10 memory care units on over six acres. This was the not-for-profit’s only senior living community, so both census and operating margin likely could be improved under ownership with some... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Two Seniors Housing Sales

Grandbridge Arranges Two Seniors Housing Sales

Not long after making the move from Cushman & Wakefield to Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, the Tampa-based team of Allen McMurtry, Dave Kliewer and Jay Jordan announced a couple of seniors housing sales. First, they were tapped by the owner of an independent living/assisted living community near Springfield, Massachusetts to run a bankruptcy sale process.   Built in the 1990s with 187 units of independent living and assisted living, including 129 cottages, the community was around 65% occupied. With a stalking horse bid of $9.0 million, the virtual live auction in late September 2020 resulted in more than 100 rounds of live bidding, with a final sale... Read More »
Grandbridge Gains Investment Sales Team

Grandbridge Gains Investment Sales Team

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital is making a big jump into seniors housing investment sales with the addition of three veterans highly experienced in the space. Cushman & Wakefield’s Tampa, Florida team, led by Allen McMurtry, David Kliewer and Jay Jordan, made the move to Grandbridge’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, which is headed by Richard Thomas in Atlanta, Georgia.   They will bring experience representing sellers of seniors housing communities across the country, spanning over 190 properties in 35 states. Recently, the former C&W team arranged the $105 million sale of The Clare in downtown Chicago in December 2019, cementing its status... Read More »
Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale

Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale

Earlier this year, we learned of the sale of an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Pensacola, Florida. Now, it has been revealed that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged the acquisition financing for the deal.  Previously owned by CNL Healthcare Properties II, the property was sold alongside a 92-unit AL/MC community in Tampa to Waypoint Residential for a combined $48.85 million, or about $270,000 per unit, at a roughly 5.5% cap rate. These were the last two properties owned by CNL II, whose shareholders had approved the company’s plan for dissolution in September 2019. Both communities were... Read More »
Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Grandbridge Goes Green, Again

Utilizing Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards financing product, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged a $25.5 million acquisition loan to fund the purchase of a 93-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia. Focus Healthcare Partners’ dedicated senior housing fund was the borrower and will retain The Arbor Company as the community’s operator. This type of transaction seems to have become a recent specialty of Grandbridge’s, as the firm so far in 2018 has closed nearly $300 million in financings through Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards program, across 13 properties, which is the most among Fannie Mae DUS lenders... Read More »