• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Community in Oregon

CBRE Refinances Community in Oregon

Harrison Street and The Springs Living recently refinanced its jointly owned seniors housing community in Lake Oswego, Oregon (Portland MSA), with the help of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root of CBRE National Senior Housing. CBRE had also arranged the original construction loan for the community in 2017, so the team was clearly familiar with it. They secured a non-recourse, four-year loan, with a floating rate and three years of interest only, through a national bank. Opened in 2019 with 216 independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the community also features amenities like a rooftop deck with covered dining and a wine bar, an indoor heated swimming pool and hot tube,... Read More »
Harrison Street/Revera Joint Venture Acquires Four Communities

Harrison Street/Revera Joint Venture Acquires Four Communities

Harrison Street is expanding its presence north of the border, announcing a joint venture with Revera Inc. to acquire four high-quality senior living communities in southern Ontario. Comprising three communities around Toronto and one in Cambridge, the portfolio consists of 537 total units of senior apartments, independent living, assisted living and memory care. Revera will continue to operate the communities going forward. As part of the transaction, the JV will share ownership of the portfolio, but no ownership share or purchase price was disclosed.  The deal marks the third investment by Harrison Street’s recently launched Canada Alternative Real Estate Fund, which has the initial... Read More »
CBRE Finances Harrison Street/Anthology Joint Venture

CBRE Finances Harrison Street/Anthology Joint Venture

CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root have arranged construction financing on behalf of a joint venture between Anthology Senior Living and Harrison Street.  The five-year floating rate loan with 42 months of interest only was provided through a regional bank for Anthology Boynton Beach, a 130-unit senior living community in Boynton Beach, Florida. It comprises 98 assisted living units and 32 memory care units on 5.3 acres within a larger planned development named Main Street at Boynton. The to-be-built community will be operated by Anthology Senior Living, a seniors housing-focused subsidiary of CA Ventures.  Amenities will include a fitness center, spa,... Read More »
CBRE Finances New Senior Housing Construction in North Carolina

CBRE Finances New Senior Housing Construction in North Carolina

The Village on Morehead, a to-be-built, Class-A, 199-unit senior living complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, has secured construction financing courtesy of CBRE Senior Housing’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root. CBRE arranged this loan on behalf of a joint venture between Bridgewood Property Company and Harrison Street.  This 12-story independent and assisted living community will be operated by Retirement Center Management (RCM), Bridgewood’s wholly-owned management group. The Carolinas Medical Center, North Carolina’s largest hospital, is located less than a mile from the community.   CBRE originated a four-year, floating-rate loan with full term of interest only 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 »