• ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
  • Optimism across the Board in BBG’s Investor Survey Results

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee, Senior Managing Director – Seniors Housing & Healthcare National Practice Leader of BBG Real Estate Services, to discuss the biggest takeaways of BBG’s fifth Annual Investor Survey. Read More »
  • Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

    Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Detroit-Area Deal

    Berkadia closed the sale of Oakleigh of Macomb, an 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Macomb, Michigan (Detroit MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 55 assisted living and 30 memory care units. It was 91% occupied, so given its vintage and performance, we imagine it attracted significant investor interest. Berkadia represented the... Read More »
  • Developer Divests MC Communities to Kalesta Healthcare

    G Capital helped facilitate the sale of two memory care communities in Silicon Valley in an off-market transaction. Calson Management, a developer/operator based in Vacaville, California, had acquired Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park and Crescent Oaks Memory Care in Sunnyvale several years ago as value-add opportunities. The firm... Read More »
Monticello Announces Refinancing of Arkansas SNF Portfolio

Monticello Announces Refinancing of Arkansas SNF Portfolio

MONTICELLOAM, LLC and its affiliates (Monticello) announced a big refinance for an experienced client in Arkansas. The $70 million, five-year loan is secured by a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and 953 total beds. That represents the bulk of the borrower’s holdings in the state, which numbers approximately 1,200 beds. The seven facilities average over 30 years in age.  This transaction comes a month after Monticello and Greystone announced they intend to form a joint venture to become a one-stop-shop provider of capital finance products and services for the senior housing and healthcare industry. The products offered will include first mortgage floating rate bridge loans,... Read More »
Greystone Announces New Deputy Chief Credit Officer

Greystone Announces New Deputy Chief Credit Officer

Greystone announced it has hired Sampada D’silva as its new Deputy Chief Credit Officer. Based in Chicago, Ms. D’Silva will help Greystone fulfill the increasing demand for its industry-leading loan services in healthcare, including skilled nursing and assisted living assets. We suppose that is a good sign that lenders are back in business, in earnest.  Ms. D’silva has over two decades of experience in healthcare and senior care investment and lending. She previously worked for Cambridge Realty Capital Companies as a Senior Managing Director, with experience in planning and finalizing a number of financing options, including HUD and conventional loans.  Ms. D’silva... Read More »
Greystone Handles HUD Refinance of Wisconsin SNF Portfolio

Greystone Handles HUD Refinance of Wisconsin SNF Portfolio

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a total of $34.96 million in HUD loans for a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities spread across southeastern Wisconsin. Totaling 558 beds, the facilities are located in Antigo, Burlington, Manitowoc and Kenosha.   The in-state borrower, Champion Care, purchased them in 2017 and will continue with ongoing property improvements. So, to refinance existing debt and help support those improvements, they obtained 30-year debt with a low fixed interest rate from HUD.   Read More »
Greystone Refinances Long Island SNF

Greystone Refinances Long Island SNF

Greystone’s HUD streak continues in the Northeast, following up on its refinance of a Yonkers, New York skilled nursing facility with a financing closed for a large skilled nursing facility on Long Island. Featuring 214 beds, the facility was originally built in 1972 on Long Island’s North Shore. It provides care for high-acuity, medically complex patients, with services ranging from cardiac care and post-surgery orthopedic rehab to physical and occupational therapy.   Fred Levine arranged a $17.3 million HUD loan through the agency’s Section 223(a)(7) program, thereby lowering the borrower’s interest rate and extending their amortization period. The borrower was also able to raise... Read More »
Greystone Secures Another HUD Refinance

Greystone Secures Another HUD Refinance

Last week, Greystone announced two HUD refinances for senior care clients and followed up with a third, this time to refinance a 174-unit Section 8 senior apartment community in Pomona, California. Shana Daby of Greystone handled the transaction on behalf of AMCAL, a developer of multifamily properties in California, Texas and Washington. The $29.9 million loan comes with a fixed interest rate and 35-year term and amortization.   Loan proceeds in hand, AMCAL will be able to make capital improvements and set up a debt service reserve. They will also take some equity out. AMCAL originally built the community in 2002 with six mid-rise buildings, with elevators, offering both one- and... Read More »