• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »
Grandbridge Provides Permanent Refinancing

Grandbridge Provides Permanent Refinancing

Speaking of backyards, Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranged $35 million in Freddie Mac financing for a one-year old assisted living and memory care community in Norwalk, Connecticut. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan has a 30-year amortization. The community is located a mile from our main office. The property was developed by The Shelter Group and its affiliate, Brightview Senior Living, is the manager. We know it well because we had a tour when it opened and attended the first open house. It was built on a very tight piece of land, but they were able to take advantage of the topography for some unique outdoor areas. We assume it is at or close to stabilization otherwise Freddie Mac would... Read More »
Bridge To HUD With Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Bridge To HUD With Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Less than a year after receiving bridge financing, a 90-unit assisted living community in Billings, Montana is already refinancing through HUD, with Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group leading them along the way. Through BB&T Real Estate Funding, Grandbridge had originally provided the community a bridge loan at the end of 2016. Now, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis have originated a $19.93 million HUD loan, with a 35-year term and 35-year amortization schedule, to refinance the community. Read More »
Grandbridge Real Estate Capital Closes Kansas City Financing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital Closes Kansas City Financing

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group announced its latest closing, facilitating a $14.5 million first mortgage for a 163-unit seniors housing community in Kansas City, Missouri. An insurance company provided the loan, which came with a 20-year term and a fixed rate. Originally built in 2014, the community in question followed up on a successful lease-up by breaking ground in 2016 on an $18 million, 96-bed expansion of short-term rehab, long-term care and memory care services. It is owned by the McCrite family, which also owns senior living community in Topeka, Kansas. Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis, along with Joseph Platt out of Grandbridge’s... Read More »
Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Two Portland, Oregon-area seniors housing communities received financing from Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, headed by Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis. Starting in Portland proper, the team closed a $12 million non-recourse loan for a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community that at one point was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The original TIC investors then sold the community in late 2015 to Chicago-based Focus Healthcare Partners. Artegan began managing the 10-year old community, which was 85% occupied and earning over $630,000 in EBITDA at the time of the sale. Focus... Read More »

Build with Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

A brand-new seniors housing community is being built in Aiken, South Carolina (Augusta, Georgia MSA) with the help of a construction loan arranged by Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group. The 74-unit/80-bed to-be-built community is being developed by Principal Senior Living Group and will feature the “Benton House” brand name. Grandbridge originated a $10.66 million loan through BB&T Bank on behalf of the community. Read More »