• 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 »
Seniors Housing Construction and Take-Out Financing: Slowing Down or Just Getting Started?

Seniors Housing Construction and Take-Out Financing: Slowing Down or Just Getting Started?

On January 18, 2018, we hosted a webinar titled “Seniors Housing Construction and Take-Out Financing: Slowing Down or Just Getting Started?” Our editor, Steve Monroe, moderated a 90-minute discussion among panelists Chris Fenton of Berkadia, Rich Malloy of BBVA Compass and Cary Tremper of Greystone, covering a range of topics from the current pace of seniors housing construction today to best practices in the current construction lending environment, and from take-out financing to their thoughts on the 2018 market, and beyond. But we also wanted to hear from our audience and posed three questions:   Have you seen new development slowing down? Yes      35% No       65%   Have you... Read More »
Greystone Refinances Upstate New York Skilled Nursing Facility

Greystone Refinances Upstate New York Skilled Nursing Facility

A 112-bed skilled nursing facility in Niskayuna, New York (near Schenectady) will have the funds to upgrade its services and amenities thanks to a $27.05 million HUD refinance arranged by Fred Levine of Greystone. Current amenities already include an on-site salon, private dining space and a newly renovated dining area, and the facility provides sub-acute rehab, ventilator therapy, respiratory care, traumatic brain injury treatment and pediatric rehab and respite services. However, Sentosa Care, the owner, has plans to invest significant capital in upgrading the facility’s existing spaces and amenities, in addition to building a new ventilator unit and upgrading the pediatric unit. The... Read More »
Greystone Closes HUD Refinance For Large New York SNF

Greystone Closes HUD Refinance For Large New York SNF

After working to close a $16.5 million HUD refinance for a 216-bed skilled nursing facility in Dunkirk, New York (Buffalo MSA) last month, Greystone’s Fred Levine closed another HUD loan for another large New York SNF. Located in Suffern, on the border with New Jersey, the facility consists of 203 beds and is the largest subacute care facility in Rockland County. Situated on six acres, it offers orthopedic rehab, cardiopulmonary rehab, wound care, concierge services and veterans programs, all under the management of CareRite Centers. To help fund renovations, and provide meaningful debt service savings, Mr. Levine arranged a $23.52 million HUD loan, with a fully amortizing 33-year... Read More »
Greystone Gets It Done

Greystone Gets It Done

Aspens Senior Living partnered with Greystone to obtain construction financing for two of its latest seniors housing projects located in North Carolina and Arizona. First, to the Tar Heel state, where Aspens and joint venture partner Pennybacker Capital are currently building a 182-unit independent living community in Raleigh. A regional bank provided a $24.2 million loan to fund the construction. Then, in Gilbert, Arizona, Aspens, Pennybacker Capital and McFarlin Group are developing a 204-unit independent living community, with the help of a $25.8 million loan provided by a publicly traded bank and also arranged by Greystone. Greystone also snuck in a $16.5 million HUD loan arranged by... Read More »
Griffin-American and Greystone

Griffin-American and Greystone

A month ago, we learned of a couple of large divestments by New Senior Investment Group, in a move to bring its share price up to where management believes it should be, by increasing the share of its independent living portfolio, decreasing its Holiday Retirement exposure, and reducing its concentration in the three states of Florida, Texas and California. We have also just learned that Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Greystone represented SNR in the transaction. Spread out across Central Florida, the portfolio consists of nine properties and were all formerly operated by Holiday Retirement. However, operations have dropped off since Holiday stopped having live-in managers at its... Read More »