• Cap Rates Continue Compression in JLL’s Investor Survey

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard, Executive Managing Director of JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory, to discuss the results of JLL’s recently published 2026 Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey and Trends. They also covered some major topics heading into NIC in Nashville. Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Burning Questions for NIC Attendees

    This time next week, we’ll be heading out of Nashville from the Spring NIC conference likely buoyed by the overwhelmingly positive mood we’re expecting from most of our industry friends. It’s hard not to be optimistic when occupancy and margins are increasing to healthy levels nationally, and show no signs of stopping, when liquidity is... Read More »
  • Janus Living’s IPO Results

    Janus Living has completed its initial public offering, raising $878 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses payable by the company. The REIT sold 48.3 million shares of its Class A-1 common stock at $20 per share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ 6.3 million-share option. It made its New York... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Secures Slew of HUD and Bridge Financings

    VIUM Capital recently closed a series of healthcare and seniors housing real estate financings across multiple states, spanning both HUD-insured loans and bridge executions for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care assets. The largest loan was a $56.4 million HUD financing for a 325-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida. The facility... Read More »
  • Several Senior Care Finances Close

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group reported an active end of winter, closing a handful of debt transactions for clients in Illinois and Kentucky. First, he helped the owner of a 77-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky refinance existing acquisition debt following a successful operational turnaround. Since acquiring the facility... Read More »
HJ Sims Arranges Refinancing for North Carolina CCRC

HJ Sims Arranges Refinancing for North Carolina CCRC

HJ Sims returned to a CCRC in Charlotte, North Carolina to arrange a refinancing solution for the campus. The transaction comes nearly two years after HJ Sims closed $12.95 million in tax-exempt Revenue Anticipation Bonds to cover pre-development and development costs for an expansion project. A year later, HJ Sims identified a refunding opportunity for the sponsor’s outstanding Series 2013 bonds. They utilized Cinderella Bonds, which would be taxable until the optional redemption date, after which the bonds would convert to tax-exempt.  Sims served as a placement agent and worked with the sponsor’s financial advisor, Pearl Creek Advisors, to conduct a bank solicitation to also refinance... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Two Pennsylvania Seniors Housing Communities

HJ Sims Refinances Two Pennsylvania Seniors Housing Communities

HJ Sims closed a two-part refinance for Asbury Communities Inc.’s two seniors housing properties in Pennsylvania. The Erie location, Bethany Village, has two campuses with 400 independent living units, 100 assisted living units and a 69-bed skilled nursing center. The Mechanicsburg property, Springhill, features 158 independent living units, 35 personal care units and an 80-bed SNF. The loans refinance bonds from 2012 and include a $20.4 million bank loan and tax-exempt, fixed-rate bonds totaling $27.2 million. Altogether, that is $47.6 million of debt arranged for Asbury. That follows a $23.34 million financing package that HJ Sims closed for a small CCRC in New Orleans, Louisiana.... Read More »
Live Oak Bank and HJ Sims Team Up

Live Oak Bank and HJ Sims Team Up

Sometimes to get a deal done you have to get creative and be flexible. It appears that was the case for a recent sale of a 55-unit assisted living and memory care community located in Utah. Of the total, 42 units are assisted living and 13 are memory care. Even though capital sources have opened up, to get maximum leverage, if that is what you want or need, your lending groups can get flexible.  Live Oak Bank and HJ Sims teamed up to provide the financing solution for the buyer of this community, a regional owner/operator with 15+ years of experience that currently manages more than 1,600 units in more than 25 communities across five states in the Mountain West... Read More »
HJ Sims Secures HUD Loan For Brooklyn Apartment Community

HJ Sims Secures HUD Loan For Brooklyn Apartment Community

Sims Mortgage Funding, a subsidiary of HJ Sims, secured a $7.035 million HUD loan for Marien-Heim of Sunset Park, a 169-unit Section 8 senior apartment community in Brooklyn, New York. It is owned by a local, not-for-profit community development organization. That owner had previously obtained an $8.313 million HUD loan in 2012 that refinanced its Section 202 Direct Loan, funded capital reserves and repairs, generated annual debt service savings and earned them a development fee.   But the current low interest rate environment prompted another refinance on Sims’ recommendation. HUD approved the interest rate reduction proposal in about 75 days, and the loan closed 29... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Louisiana Senior Housing Community

HJ Sims Refinances Louisiana Senior Housing Community

After already closing over $530 million of HUD loans in Louisiana, Sims Mortgage Funding is returning to the state to refinance Metairie Manor, nearly a decade after previously refinancing the property. Metairie Manor is a 287-unit, Section 8 funded, affordable senior housing community, owned and managed by affiliates of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. This represents the 11th refinancing Sims has closed for the Archdiocese and its management affiliate, Christopher Homes, Inc.  Sims previously helped refinance Metairie in 2012 when it paid off its HUD Section 202 Direct Loan. That refinancing produced about $250,000 in annual debt service savings that have been used to fund various... Read More »