• 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 Provides Loan for AL Community in Alaska

Greystone Provides Loan for AL Community in Alaska

Greystone is back again, with Vice President Stella Plotkin providing a $22.5 million bridge loan to refinance Aspen Creek Senior Living in Anchorage, Alaska.  This 96-unit assisted living community was completed in 2019, with 21 of the units designated for memory care residents. The loan pays off existing debt that funded the property’s initial construction, allowing the borrower to complete current renovation projects, including on the secured memory care wing. Greystone’s interest-only, floating-rate bridge loan has a 24-month term with two six-month extension options, with the goal of transitioning to permanent HUD-insured financing. The transaction was completed on behalf... Read More »
Greystone Secures Bridge Loan For SNF Campus in Pennsylvania

Greystone Secures Bridge Loan For SNF Campus in Pennsylvania

Greystone Managing Director Fred Levine recently provided a $15.8 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a skilled nursing, memory care and personal care campus in Erie, Pennsylvania. The purchase of Saint Mary’s East, now known as Nightingale Nursing and Rehab Center, was handled by Toby Siefert and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage and made possible by a two-year floating rate, interest-only loan. Greystone plans to convert the debt to a permanent HUD loan. Six buildings house 139 skilled nursing beds (39 of which are reserved for memory care patients), 131 certified personal care beds, and 91 independent living units. The original St. Mary’s East building was... Read More »
Greystone Provides Financing for Three North Carolina SNFs

Greystone Provides Financing for Three North Carolina SNFs

Greystone is back at it again, this time providing $36.5 million in HUD financing for three skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina. The deal takes out acquisition bridge debt that Greystone had previously arranged on behalf of the borrower for these facilities, using the firm’s non-recourse bridge lending program. Fred Levine originated the transactions. Carver Living Center in Durham is a 232-bed facility which offers both long and short-term care, as well as a memory care unit. This facility received $17.16 million in financing that carries a fixed, low interest rate over a 30-year term. It was built in 1990. Willow Ridge Rehabilitation and Living Center, located in Rutherfordton... Read More »
Greystone Secures HUD Financing in San Diego County

Greystone Secures HUD Financing in San Diego County

If you own an old seniors housing community in a good market, now is the time to refinance and make the necessary improvements before the next wave of demand hits. Otherwise, you may be left in the back of the line for customers.  Perhaps this was the thinking of an owner in Escondido, California with a 105-bed assisted living and memory care community, that also offers short-term stays and was built more than 30 years ago. For skilled nursing, that is practically new, but for assisted living, it is becoming ancient.   The owner turned to Leor Dimant, Managing Director at Greystone, to help consolidate some debt on the property and obtain additional funds for renovations and... Read More »
PGIM Provides Financing For Harrison Street Acquisition

PGIM Provides Financing For Harrison Street Acquisition

The lending market came alive in the month of June, in tandem with the seniors housing acquisition spike. As such, PGIM Real Estate provided a $250.4 million fixed-rate, cross-defaulted and cross-collateralized loan to support Harrison Street’s acquisition of 12 of the 24 properties it bought for $1.2 billion. These 12 assisted living/memory care communities were owned by Gallaher Companies, with Oakmont Management Group as the operator. They total 1,118 units and are located in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ventura, Sacramento, Riverside, San Diego, Stockton, and Las Vegas metro areas. Greystone also placed financing for 16 of the 24 properties that were owned by both Gallaher and... Read More »