• 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 Comprehensive Refinance of Maryland CCRCs

HJ Sims Closes Comprehensive Refinance of Maryland CCRCs

HJ Sims was engaged by Asbury Atlantic, Inc. to refinance two of its CCRCs in Maryland with a combination of taxable and tax-exempt financing. Located in Gaithersburg and Solomons, the two communities were already saddled with higher-rate, tax-exempt bonds and other non-callable bonds with a balloon maturity. Sims successfully extended a taxable bank loan that was used to pay the termination fee for a swap that remained outstanding after the underlying bonds were refunded. The team then closed $96.12 million in tax-exempt bonds, which include proceeds to fund capital expenditures and free up operating cash to partially repay the taxable bank loan to make the swap termination payment. The... Read More »
People on the Move, October 2018

People on the Move, October 2018

After four years of investing in seniors housing communities with Silverstone Health Care Real Estate, an investment platform she co-founded which produced equity returns over of 250%, Stephanie Anderson is now a national sales director with Housing & Healthcare Finance, based in the Boston area. Before Silverstone she was with Health Care REIT, GE Healthcare Finance and Ventas, all of which provided a great background for her new position….Walker & Dunlop has hired Michael Davis as senior vice president in its FHA finance group, who will be working on HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans for W&D’s seniors housing and care clients. Justin Hill has joined JLL Capital Markets as... Read More »
Another Civitas Development in the Lone Star State

Another Civitas Development in the Lone Star State

Civitas Senior Living may have already expanded outside its home state of Texas, with three existing communities and four more on the way in Florida, Kentucky, Colorado and Arizona, but the Fort Worth-based company is coming home for its latest development. The 188-unit community, located in the Red Oak suburb of Dallas, will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services and will join the 32 other properties currently owned and operated by Civitas. To finance the development, HJ Sims invested $5.85 million of preferred equity, which it funded by placing corporate taxable bonds. The subordinate financing was structured to meet the requirements of the senior lenders... Read More »
CCRC Expands With Help From HJ Sims Financing

CCRC Expands With Help From HJ Sims Financing

A not-for-profit CCRC in Sandy Spring, Maryland that has been in business since 1962 was looking to expand and obtained financing from HJ Sims to fund the project. On a 62-acre campus, the community (called Friends House) features 32 independent living units and 75 low-income rental apartments, 82 comprehensive care beds and 21 assisted living units. However, ownership saw the need to replace the low-income apartments with a new 80-unit low-income housing building in a joint venture with Homes For America (HFA). But that’s not where the future changes stop. The CCRC will also renovate and expand the existing communal building, remove two vacant cottage units, and develop 14 new cottage... Read More »
HJ Sims Generates Significant Savings Through Bond Issue

HJ Sims Generates Significant Savings Through Bond Issue

American Baptist Homes of the Midwest successfully refunded its outstanding bonds with the help of HJ Sims, generating millions in savings in the process. Recently, across ABHM’s 13-property portfolio, the provider has funded repositioning projects at many locations, significantly lowering their cash reserves. So, HJ Sims worked to refund ABHM’s Series 2007 and Series 2009 bonds in a way that lowered the Obligated Group’s cost of capital. Sims priced a $61.785 million issue with an arbitrage yield of 4.811%. That generated a net present value savings of approximately $6.5 million, or about 11% of the par amount of the refunded bonds. And, ABHM will realize 82% of the savings within the... Read More »