• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
HJ Sims Closes Bank Financing for Not-For-Profit’s Independent Living Expansion

HJ Sims Closes Bank Financing for Not-For-Profit’s Independent Living Expansion

Thanks to a two-part bank financing arranged by HJ Sims, not-for-profit Presbyterian SeniorCare Network (PSCN) will open a new independent living community in North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania, adding to its significant presence in the western part of the state.   PSCN, which already provides senior care services to over 6,500 seniors through 53 senior living communities, affordable housing facilities and at-home programs/services, is partnering with Senior Housing Partners, a subsidiary of Presbyterian Homes & Services.  HJ Sims had worked with PSCN and its related entities before, including the 2017 construction financing for a memory care expansion and its Washington, PA campus,... Read More »
HJ Sims Funds CCRC Expansion Project in North Carolina

HJ Sims Funds CCRC Expansion Project in North Carolina

HJ Sims has a long history with the SearStone Retirement Community, a CCRC in Cary, North Carolina, and recently closed another financing for the property. Sponsored by Samaritan Housing, Inc., the community currently consists of 131 independent living units, 38 IL estate homes, 14 assisted living units and 25 skilled nursing beds.   HJ Sims originally financed the first phase of the CCRC with a $117 million non-rated fixed rate bond issue in 2012. Then, the investment bank funded an expansion in 2016 with an $8 million issue. HJ Sims also provided the original seed capital, and the funds to advance refund the 2012 issue, and provided a portion of the pre-development capital for a Phase II... Read More »
CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For HJ Sims/Voralto Living Purchase

CBRE Secures Acquisition Financing For HJ Sims/Voralto Living Purchase

The CBRE National Senior Housing team arranged acquisition financing for a North Texas assisted living/memory care community. A joint venture between HJ Sims and Voralto Living was the buyer, obtaining a four-year, floating-rate loan with 24 months of interest only from a national bank. Featuring 60 units, the community was a newer vintage and will join Voralto’s six other communities in Texas, and one in Georgia. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg handled the transaction for CBRE.  It’s been a busy year already for CBRE’s Senior Housing Debt and Structured Finance team, which has closed over $515 million in debt and equity originations across 15 separate transactions. In the months... Read More »
HJ Sims Expands Its Investment Banking Team

HJ Sims Expands Its Investment Banking Team

HJ Sims announced a major expansion to its Investment Banking Team, adding two senior bankers and opening new offices in the Midwest and on the West Coast. Lynn Daly joined the firm as Executive Vice President in the new Chicago location, bringing over 30 years of experience working with not-for-profit organizations in financing. Previously, she was acting head of Senior Living Investment Banking at BB&T Capital Markets, and also spearheaded the Catholic Initiative within senior living investment banking at Ziegler.  Brady Johnson also joined the HJ Sims team as Senior Vice President in the new West Coast office in Orange County, California. Previously at Hunt Real Estate Capital,... Read More »
HJ Sims Secures Bond Financing for Tennessee CCRC

HJ Sims Secures Bond Financing for Tennessee CCRC

A new life plan community (or continuing care retirement community, as we still call them) is going up in Collierville, Tennessee (Memphis MSA) thanks to a large $219.25 million bond placement arranged by HJ Sims. Situated on 36 acres with 176 independent living apartments, 63 independent living garden homes, 52 assisted living units, 32 memory support units and 60 skilled nursing units, the community will also feature an impressive array of amenities. For dining, there will be five venues, an outdoor kitchen, a pub and sports bar. There will also be an athletic club, massage therapy, Jacuzzi, day spa, beauty shop, barber shop, performing arts center, movie theater, library, bank, gift... Read More »