• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... 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 »