• Interview with Arnie Whitman and Meredith Oppenheim on VITALS

    The SeniorCare Investor’s Ben Swett recently sat down with Meredith Oppenheim and Arnie Whitman to discuss their new framework for seniors housing operators to improve the quality of life for their residents, but also to position the sector for greater success and wider appeal in the future. Watch the conversation here. Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Expands in Tampa MSA

    American House Senior Living Communities added Beach House Assisted Living & Memory Care in Wesley Chapel, Florida (Tampa MSA), to its operating portfolio and renamed the property American House Wesley Chapel. The community features 67 assisted living and 33 memory care units with studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, some with balconies... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Community Near Chicago Gets New Owner

    SVN Chicago Commercial sold McKenzie Falls, an affordable seniors housing community in Bolingbrook, Illinois, roughly 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The building was constructed in 2010 and spans 74,047 square feet across one story.  An undisclosed buyer acquired the 105-unit community for $6.7 million, or $63,800 per unit. Reid... Read More »
  • Healthpeak Properties Provides Janus Living Updates

    Healthpeak Properties’ recently formed seniors housing REIT, Janus Living, which will manage Healthpeak’s 34-community seniors housing portfolio, has filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the SEC relating to a proposed initial public offering of its shares of Class A-1 common stock, which the company intends to list on the NYSE under... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles Senior Care Campus Deal in Missouri

    A Maryland-based owner/operator looked to expand its Missouri senior care portfolio with the purchase of Kingdom Care Senior Living in the town of Fulton. Built in 1980, the campus includes four independent living units, 26 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. It currently holds a five-star rating at the SNF and is the only... Read More »
Greystone Finances AL/MC Community Through Freddie Mac

Greystone Finances AL/MC Community Through Freddie Mac

Greystone’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team recently provided a $27 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance an assisted living/memory care community in the southwestern United States. Featuring 69 units, it is owned by Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I and operated by an experienced seniors housing provider. The loan came with a 10-year term.  Read More »
Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a HUD refinance for a skilled nursing facility in Cortlandt, New York. Built in 1984 and featuring 127 beds in 96 units, the facility offers both short- and long-term rehabilitation, along with physician services and complex medical care. Offered therapies include occupational, physical, cardiac, speech, post-surgical orthopedic care, stroke recovery, hip repair/joint replacement recovery, amputee recovery and training, off-site dialysis, bariatric rehabilitation, wound care, and IV antibiotic therapy. The $22.217 million loan came with a low, fixed interest rate and a 35-year term.  Matt Miller of Greystone followed that up... Read More »
Greystone Arranges Trio of HUD Refinances

Greystone Arranges Trio of HUD Refinances

Greystone refinanced a trio of assisted living communities in New Hampshire with three HUD loans totaling $23.8 million. Located throughout the southern part of the state in Manchester, Bedford and Nashua, the communities are owned by The Courville Company and represent the company’s entire seniors housing portfolio (they also own a skilled nursing facility in Nashua). There are more than 150 assisted living units across the communities.   Lisa Fischman of Greystone originated the interest rate reduction transaction, which lowered the interest rates on the existing HUD loans while maintaining the existing maturity and loan amount.  Read More »
Greystone Arranges Trio of HUD Refinances

Bridge Loan Closed in Boonville, New York

Greystone has provided a $10.37 million bridge loan for the refinance of a skilled nursing facility in Boonville, New York, about 25 miles north of Utica. Opened in 1947 but expanded in 1958, 1964 and 1985, the facility features 120 beds and an outpatient occupational therapy program. It was renovated in 2008 and now consists of 54 semiprivate and 12 private units in one story. It is the only skilled nursing facility in a 15-mile radius.   The facility’s third-generation family owner/operator wished to refinance existing recourse senior debt and eventually obtain a permanent mortgage, so they worked with Greystone’s Fred Levine to secure a $10.37 million bridge loan. That came with a... Read More »
Despite COVID-19, HUD Lean Records Strong 2020 Fiscal Year

Despite COVID-19, HUD Lean Records Strong 2020 Fiscal Year

This was not another ordinary fiscal year for HUD ended September 30, but the LEAN program still ended with nearly $4.4 billion in closings. That follows more than $3.7 billion in closings in the fiscal year 2019, which itself represented a slight increase over 2018’s volume. To reach such a high under the current circumstances, with in-person property inspections virtually impossible for months and HUD employees adjusting to working at home like so many of us, took great flexibility and a lot of hard work to get done.   Greystone was head and shoulders atop the list this fiscal year, both in terms of transactions closed and in dollar volume. The firm closed 75 loans totaling more than... Read More »