• Active Adult Community Secures Freddie Mac Refinance

    An active adult community in Hurst, Texas, paid off its existing bank debt with a Freddie Mac refinance arranged by Berkadia. Heritage Village Residences was built in 2014 with 120 units, including 10 cottages. It was part of multiple acquisitions over the years, first in 2020 when Edison Equity Management Corporation bought it for $23.3 million... Read More »
  • Upstate NY Seniors Housing Community Trades

    Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes of Blueprint facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in upstate New York that stakeholders were divesting to take advantage of positive performance trends and a strong M&A market. The Legacy at Cranberry Landing, a 95-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Rochester, was... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Investment Vehicle Acquires First Asset

    Focus Healthcare Partners acquired Bellingham at West Chester, a 274-unit seniors housing community in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The investment is Focus’ first for its newest investment vehicle, Focus Senior Housing Fund III. The property sits on an 11.8-acre site 20 miles west of downtown Philadelphia. It comprises 208 independent living, 50... Read More »
  • Management Transfer Includes Purchase Option

    A senior care campus in Waterloo, Illinois, secured a new operator thanks to Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap. Featuring 144 skilled nursing beds and 50 independent living units, Oak Hill – Senior Living and Rehabilitation Center was well occupied with a strong quality mix. It was owned by Monroe County, which wanted to retain the... Read More »
  • Bank Provides Refinance to Family Office

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim, provided a $29.0 million loan for the refinancing of an assisted living and skilled nursing facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. Gold Standard of Care Group, a Florida-based family office with a focus on healthcare and senior care and over $150 million in assets, was the borrower.  Totaling 70,272... Read More »
Grandbridge Finances Philly-Area Development

Grandbridge Finances Philly-Area Development

A brand-new senior living community is being built in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market with funding facilitated by Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group. Set to open in 2020, the project will feature 160 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care in the town of Limerick. It is being developed by Vantage Point Retirement Living, a growing operator in the Mid-Atlantic with 11 senior living and active adult communities already open in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Two more are set to open next year in Delaware and Pennsylvania (including this one being financed), with three more in the works. The construction/mini-perm loan totaled $34 million... Read More »
Grandbridge Arranges Active Adult Financing

Grandbridge Arranges Active Adult Financing

With Baby Boomers still too young to move into most seniors housing communities and labor costs growing, many companies see opportunity in the active adult market, which some view as a largely untapped market. We’ll have to see how “under the radar” these assets will stay in the next couple of years. Jumping into the market, Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group just facilitated construction financing for the development of a 318-unit age-restricted community in Plano, Texas operated by Life Style Management Inc. The transaction consisted of about $62.3 million in taxable and tax-exempt bonds under the 142(d) bond program administered by BB&T Capital Markets.... Read More »
Grandbridge Refinances Highgate Senior Living Portfolio

Grandbridge Refinances Highgate Senior Living Portfolio

Washington State-based senior living operator, Highgate Senior Living, refinanced two of its communities in the Pacific Northwest with the help of Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group. Richard Thomas originated the Freddie Mac loans, which included an $8.5 million first mortgage for an assisted living/memory care community in Bellingham, Washington (about 30 miles southeast of Vancouver, British Columbia) and a $5.225 million loan for an assisted living/memory care community in Great Falls, Montana. Each loan comes with a fixed rate, 10-year term and 30 years of amortization. Read More »
Blueprint Sells In Ohio and Florida

Blueprint Sells In Ohio and Florida

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has been anything but a wallflower this year in seniors housing and care deal making and continued their 2018 haul with two more transactions announced at the start of NIC. First, in Dayton, Ohio, Connor Doherty and Michael Segal sold an 87-bed skilled nursing facility that came with a lot of upside. Situated in a desirable, urban infill location adjacent to a local medical center, the facility maintained a five-star rating from CMS. Pretty good. But there were restrictive admissions criteria and a vacant floor that meant census was below market. Taking on the challenge (for an undisclosed price) will be a newly-formed, opportunistic... Read More »