• Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... Read More »
  • Senior Care Campus Components Sell to Separate Buyers

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated two separate transactions involving the assisted living and skilled nursing components of a senior care campus in Mansfield, Ohio. The seller, a local not-for-profit, faced significant operational and financial challenges, prompting an urgent need for a transition. Senwell was engaged to identify... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures Funds

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced that the firm, along with firm affiliates, funded $48.10 million in combined bridge and working capital funding for a three-facility skilled nursing portfolio in North Carolina. The transaction included a $45.6 million bridge financing and a $2.5 million working capital line of credit. The borrower, a returning client,... Read More »
  • Autumn Lake Healthcare Acquires Maryland SNFs

    First Citizens Bank’s Healthcare Finance business provided $338 million in financing to affiliates of Autumn Lake Healthcare for the acquisition of 12 Maryland skilled nursing facilities with over 1,500 beds. Based in Howell, New Jersey, Autumn Lake Healthcare’s portfolio includes 66 skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 8,200 beds... Read More »
  • Central Florida Portfolio Secures Financing

    Grace Hill Capital, a seniors housing capital advisory firm founded by Adam Shealy, closed a refinance and recapitalization of a four-community independent living, assisted living and memory care portfolio in Central Florida. The portfolio comprises five buildings totaling 257 units, operated by a regional provider with a proven record of... Read More »

Grandbridge hits the Town…Village

It was recently announced that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital closed $125 million in financing to assist in the acquisition of four Town Village-brand independent living communities in four states. A joint venture between Chicago Pacific Founders and Grand Park Capital Management (owned by former Brookdale Senior Living executives John Rijos and Bill Doniger, respectively) was the buyer. According to some media outlets, the properties sold for $180 million, or approximately $220,000 per unit. Grandbridge provided $25 million in supplemental loans and also closed $100 million in assumption loans for existing Fannie Mae debt that Grandbridge had previously originated. Read More »
Acquiring in the Acela Corridor

Acquiring in the Acela Corridor

As we are about to travel from the New York City area to Washington, D.C. for the upcoming NIC Fall Conference, we must take note of two teams that did that trek probably a number of times recently. Grandbridge Real Estate Capital provided through its proprietary lending platform, BB&T Real Estate Funding, a $43.5 million non-recourse acquisition/bridge loan for a joint venture between Blue Vista Capital Management and Meridian Senior Living. Owned by Holladay Corp., a D.C.-based real estate developer/owner, the targets included an 88-unit assisted living/independent living/respite care community built in 1976 in Yorktown Heights, New York and a 131-unit (147 units post-renovation)... Read More »
Senior living hits the slopes

Senior living hits the slopes

Three years after opening on a piece of land that was a former ski slope in North Andover, Massachusetts, a 133-unit senior living community is refinancing its debt with the help of Richard Thomas of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital. Built by Shelter Development at a cost of approximately $20 million, the community is operated by Brightview Senior Living and features 65 independent living units, 41 supportive living units and 27 memory care units. It is located on 33 acres, of which 25 have remained open space and the original ski slopes have been preserved. Mr. Thomas originated a $30.25 million floating-rate first mortgage loan through Fannie Mae’s DUS Structured Adjustable Rate Mortgage... Read More »