• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... Read More »
Maryland Acquisition Update

Maryland Acquisition Update

We previously reported on the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Maryland, but had few details. Now we do. Both facilities are located in Baltimore and have a total of 307 beds, one with 225 beds with a 16-bed ventilator care unit which was built in 1990 and 1996, and the other with 82 beds, which was built in 2004. All things considered, these can be considered to be fairly new. The seller, Brinton Woods Management Company, did a very good job operating these facilities, which had a four-star and five-star CMS rating. In addition, overall occupancy was 92.5%, and they operated with a 13.4% margin in 2018, not too bad in today’s environment. Actually, quite good. Revenues in 2018... Read More »
CREATIVCAP Closes First Loan

CREATIVCAP Closes First Loan

Scott Kavel of Greystone fame has set up his own lending shop at CREATIVCAP, and less than two months since forming the business, he has already closed his first transaction. On behalf of Vista Pointe, an Oregon-based senior living operator, Mr. Kavel arranged $8 million in financing from a life company that featured a seven-year term and an all-in fixed interest rate under 5%. With the financing, Vista Pointe will be able to enter the Washington State market with a to-be-built, 56-unit senior living community, expected to open in early 2020. CREATIVCAP’s correspondent, GG Finance, also made a small equity investment in the project, adding to its portfolio of equity and mezzanine... Read More »
Greystone Goes Big on Long Island

Greystone Goes Big on Long Island

A huge skilled nursing facility on Long Island, New York just refinanced through HUD, with the help of Fred Levine of Greystone. Totaling 588 beds, this facility provides clinical care, physical, occupational and speech therapies, amputee rehabilitation, and pulmonary, ventilator, cardiac and memory care. It also received multiple significant renovations to its five inter-connected buildings. In June 2016, the borrower had obtained a high-leveraged bridge loan also from Greystone to finance its purchase of the facility. To take out that loan, Mr. Levine arranged $78.53 million in HUD financing, with a 30-year term and amortization schedule. Read More »
Great Financing Product For Acquisitions

Great Financing Product For Acquisitions

Bridge loans are becoming increasingly important for acquisitions and renovations projects. Find out the details on this important webinar. If you are in the market for acquisitions, especially value-add acquisitions, or you want to do some major renovations on your existing building, do I have a financing product for you. I am talking about bridge loans, which are basically short-term loans to get you from point A to point B with your real estate. Their popularity has been increasing in the past few years, with more lenders and more types of products, providing even more liquidity to the seniors housing and care sector than before. Plus, some of the bridge lenders have created their own... Read More »
Greystone Centers In On New York Refinances

Greystone Centers In On New York Refinances

Working on behalf of skilled nursing operator Centers Health Care, Fred Levine of Greystone arranged over $100 million in HUD financing to refinance a couple of their New York SNFs. Located on opposite sides of the state, these facilities were each acquired a few years ago from not-for-profit owners. Built in 1974, the 475-bed facility in the Bronx was formerly owned by the Daughters of Jacob Nursing Home Company. After operating the facility since 2013 and significantly improving performance, Centers acquired it in 2016. Now that the facility is fully stabilized with a 96% occupancy rate, Greystone provided a $71.78 million loan, or $151,000 per bed, with a 35-year term, to both refinance... Read More »