• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
Greystone’s Bridge to HUD

Greystone’s Bridge to HUD

Greystone’s Fred Levine successfully refinanced two skilled nursing facilities in Jackson, Tennessee. Greystone had actually provided the bridge loans used to fund the facilities’ acquisition in 2016 by a private Tennessee-based individual. The buyer had been leasing the facilities but exercised their right of first refusal to snap up the properties. The 160-bed facility sold in 2016 for $14.6 million, while the 64-bed facility was $4.6 million. Two years later, the owner refinanced the properties with $20.9 million in fixed-rate HUD financing, with a 30-year term and amortization period. Read More »
Greystone’s Part-II Portfolio Deal

Greystone’s Part-II Portfolio Deal

Greystone made news at NIC when it announced it sold a five-property senior living portfolio to Hong Kong-based Chevalier International Holdings Ltd. Previously owned by a publicly-traded REIT, the portfolio consists of 570 total units in New Mexico and Washington state that were built or renovated between 1989 and 2003. It was part of a larger portfolio, which saw four other properties sold in July in Nebraska (1) and Oregon (3), also to Chevalier. In both transactions, The Avamere Family of Companies was brought in to lease the properties, which may include one more property expected to sell next month. Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone represented the REIT seller in... Read More »
Greystone Closes Two Bridge Financings For SNF Clients

Greystone Closes Two Bridge Financings For SNF Clients

Fred Levine of Greystone announced his latest two bridge financings that closed in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for three total skilled nursing facilities. Two of those facilities are located in Youngstown, Ohio and have undergone significant renovations in recent years. They offer subacute care, skilled nursing, pulmonary care, wound care, orthopedic rehab and outpatient therapy programs, among others. In addition, one facility has a dialysis unit, while the other offers diabetic management and a Parkinson’s program for both residents and non-residents. They received $15 million in bridge financing. Then, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. Levine arranged a $19.5... Read More »
SentosaCare Refinances in Staten Island

SentosaCare Refinances in Staten Island

Following up on a bridge loan it closed a couple of years ago, Greystone successfully refinanced a 238-bed skilled nursing facility in Staten Island, New York. Owned by SentosaCare, the facility has a five-star rating from CMS and offers services that include long-term care, physical therapy, occupational and speech therapy, and neuro and orthopedic rehabilitation. Two years prior, Greystone had arranged a bridge loan for the facility, which it will take out with a $20.66 million, 35-year HUD loan. Fred Levine originated the transaction. Read More »

Greystone Hat-Trick in New York

Fred Levine of Greystone closed three HUD financings on the same day for an acquisition of three New York skilled nursing facilities. The $75 million loan, which comes to $133,690 per bed, financed three nursing facilities with 561 beds. They included Brookside Multicare in Smithtown (353 beds), White Plains Center for Nursing and Rehab in White Plains (88 beds), and Little Neck Nursing Center in Queens (120 beds). The Smithtown facility includes a pediatric unit and ventilator beds. Read More »