• Sabra Health Care REIT Picks Up the Transaction Pace

    Sabra Health Care REIT is ramping up its senior care M&A activity and its SHOP exposure, set to exceed the $1 billion in investments it spent in 2025. The REIT completed several transactions during the first quarter, with investments closed year to date totaling $206.1 million, with an estimated initial cash yield of 8.0%. The pipeline... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Growing

    Clarion Partners is continuing on its acquisition streak, adding Legacy House of Avondale to its portfolio. The 169-unit Class-A assisted living/memory care community is in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, with a strong operational footing. Clarion Partners further expanded its relationship with MorningStar Senior Living through the deal, partnering... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Virginia Deal

    A publicly traded company engaged Blueprint to sell a value-add independent living community in a growing submarket of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1987, the 122-unit community could benefit from investments in the physical plant. It was also not stabilized.  A competitive market generated multiple bids in multiple rounds and improved... Read More »
  • Public REIT Acquires Full-Continuum Communities

    A pair of full-continuum seniors housing communities that sit approximately 10 miles apart traded in Northwest Arkansas. Village on the Park Bentonville in Bentonville and Village on the Park Rogers in Rogers offer a total of 208 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Each community also offers contiguous land for further... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

    HUD’s fiscal year 2026 hit the halfway point on March 31, and so far VIUM Capital is leading the way in closed 232 loans and by total loan volume with 41 transactions and $598.0 million in volume, respectively. That represents 22% of the program’s closed loans in the first half of the fiscal year and 19% of the total volume. And 32 of VIUM’s HUD... Read More »
HHC Finance Closes Four HUD Deals

HHC Finance Closes Four HUD Deals

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) just announced four transactions from its HUD pipeline, totaling more than $44 million. The first deal was closed for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio. Built in the early 1970s, it had occupancy in the low 90s and received a $10 million loan. Another skilled nursing facility in Ohio then obtained a $10.2 million loan from HHC Finance. That 93-bed facility was a little older (built in the mid-1960s) and was also well occupied around 95%.   Next, HHC Finance closed a $10.5 million HUD loan for a 100-bed skilled nursing facility in Maryland. And finally, the firm closed its largest deal of the group for a 165-bed skilled nursing... Read More »
HHC Finance’s Busy HUD Month

HHC Finance’s Busy HUD Month

Summer vacation didn’t start at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance), we suppose, as the firm closed seven HUD loans totaling $119 million in the month of June. The largest deal was a $61 million refinance of a 360-bed skilled nursing facility in New York. Built in the early-1970s but recently renovated, the facility was occupied in the mid-90s. HHC Finance followed that up with a $22 million HUD refinance of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida that was built in 2015 and occupied in the high-80s. Both loans were closed with interest rates in the mid-2s. That makes for some happy long-term clients.  HHC Finance rounded out its June activity with five HUD loan... Read More »
HHC Finance Posts Strong Financing Activity in May

HHC Finance Posts Strong Financing Activity in May

The team at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) reported a strong May, closed a couple of HUD loans and a number of rate modifications for senior care clients across the country. The two HUD loans totaled $31 million. A 108-unit assisted living community in Minnesota obtained the first.   Built in 1996, it boasted an occupancy rate in the mid-90s. HHC Finance arranged the second HUD loan for a 191-bed skilled nursing facility in California. Built in 1991, it was also occupied in the mid-90s. Both refinances took out higher rate bank debt.  HHC Finance didn’t stop there, taking advantage of near-record-low interest rates by closing five loan... Read More »
HHC Finance Closes Four HUD Deals

HHC Finance Impresses & Lerner Will Chair Englewood Health Boards

Housing & Healthcare Finance impressed in the last week of April, closing $117 million in HUD loan modifications for nine skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. That is one area in the financing world that seems to have not slowed down as a result of COVID-19. That still took HHC Finance to react quickly to improving capital market conditions to lower their clients’ loan rates with almost no out-of-pocket expenses for them. The facilities receiving the rate modifications totaled 1,238 beds.  The good news kept on coming for HHC Finance, as Richard Lerner, Co-Owner and Executive Vice Chairman at the firm, was appointed Board Chairman at Englewood Health... Read More »
Housing & Healthcare Finance Handles HUD Refinance

Housing & Healthcare Finance Handles HUD Refinance

The team at Housing & Healthcare Finance has closed a couple of HUD financings totaling $57 million. There was a $34.1 million loan for a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities located throughout Minnesota. The experienced borrower was able to replace conventional debt on the portfolio with a substantially higher interest rate. They came with 30- and 35-year terms. The loan amount came in at about $120,000 per bed/unit.  Built from 1958 to 2008, averaging 38 years old, the portfolio totals 464 total beds. Two of the facilities also feature assisted living units. Occupancies ranged from the low-80s to the high-90s.   Finally, HHC Finance closed a $22.8 million rate modification... Read More »