• Eight Wisconsin Senior Care Assets Sell in Four Deals

    Senior Care Realty had an active October, with a handful of deals closed by Chad Wegner and Bob Richards. The four transactions involved senior care assets spread throughout Wisconsin. In one of the transactions, Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty sold four assisted living and memory care communities across two campuses in Wisconsin. The... Read More »
  • Public REIT Offloads SNFs Following Lease Non-Renewal

    Blueprint started the fourth quarter well after selling a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Florida, California and Virginia, on behalf of a public REIT. The existing tenant elected not to renew its master lease, prompting the portfolio divesture. The first closing was completed in Florida for two high-quality SNFs. The two facilities... Read More »
  • Senior Care Owner/Operator Acquires AL Community

    Dan Mahoney and Dillon Rudy of Blueprint were engaged by a Louisiana-based not-for-profit owner/operator to market a 40-unit assisted living community in the Inland Northwest region of Idaho. The property maintained a steady resident base and in-place HUD financing. The organization was divesting because the asset no longer geographically aligned... Read More »
  • Developer Divests to Capital Group

    A Class-A seniors housing community near Wichita, Kansas, found a new owner thanks to Evans Senior Investments. The seller developed the community in 2014 and has operated it since then. There are 101 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Occupancy was consistent around 90%, and the operating margin was in the high-20s,... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living Finances Arizona Community

    Marcus & Millichap arranged $22 million in financing for The Springs of Scottsdale, a 143-unit independent living community in Phoenix, Arizona. Paul Winterowd secured the financing with a national life insurance company on behalf of Stellar Senior Living. The sponsor secured a five-year loan at 60% loan-to-value, with a competitive interest... 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 »