• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
The HUD Doors Are Still Open

The HUD Doors Are Still Open

One thing to come out of the coronavirus crisis (among many things) has been record-low interest rates, with the 10-year Treasury yield falling as low as 0.318% on March 9 and the federal funds rate being cut to 0-0.25%. It has been in the federal government’s interest to maintain liquidity in the market, as much as possible, so how has that policy affected HUD lending in the senior care industry? We asked Michael Gehl of Housing & Healthcare Finance a few questions, and here are his answers:  1) First question is, is HUD still doing business?  Yes, HUD is still doing business, as you can imagine a number of people are working from home, which does create its challenges not... Read More »
HHC Finance’s Bridge Lending Program Takes Off

HHC Finance’s Bridge Lending Program Takes Off

Housing and Healthcare Finance’s (HHC Finance) Capital Advisory Group closed an impressive number of bridge loans lately, totaling $185 million across 12 transactions in the last several months. The team, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, spread out across the country to get the deals done in North Carolina, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, New York and Alabama. The largest transaction involved a two-skilled nursing facility portfolio in California receiving a $50 million loan. HHC Finance’s Elan Magence joined Messrs. Haas and Gamss to arrange the transaction. On top of that busy period of bridge lending, HHC Finance closed an $11 million HUD refinance of a 100-bed... Read More »
Austin-Area Assisted Living Gets HUD Financing

Austin-Area Assisted Living Gets HUD Financing

An experienced ownership group went through Housing and Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) to refinance its conventional debt on its 32-unit assisted living/memory care community in Kyle, Texas. Located about 15 miles south of Austin, the community was built in 2014 (around when development was especially heating up in certain markets in Texas) and currently operates at occupancy in the mid-90s. It had in-place, higher rate and shorter term conventional and subordinated debt but was able to replace it with a $4.86 million HUD loan, arranged by HHC Finance.  Read More »
HHC Finance’s Capital Advisory Group Hits $1 Billion

HHC Finance’s Capital Advisory Group Hits $1 Billion

Housing and Healthcare Finance’s (HHC Finance) Capital Advisory Group just crossed the $1 billion mark in loans closed since its inception a little over two years ago. Pushing the group over the edge were a couple of bridge loans arranged by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss. The pair first structured a $12.2 million loan for two assisted living communities in Michigan, and then arranged a $6.0 million loan for a skilled nursing facility in Kentucky. The financings came with relatively low leverages and were arranged on behalf of a couple of experienced borrowers. Read More »
HHC Finance Firing on All Cylinders

HHC Finance Firing on All Cylinders

Housing and Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) was busy in February, closing three HUD transactions for nearly $43.7 million in business. First, in Nassau County, New York, a 218-bed/95-unit assisted living community obtained a $23 million loan with an interest rate in the low 3s. Built in 1960, the building had operated as a long-term psychiatric care facility until it was purchased by the current owner in 2001. Over the next three years, the owner, which has owned and/or operated several senior care facilities in the New York City area, invested $12 million in renovations and converted the property to a low-income assisted living community. Now with the current HUD refinance, the borrower... Read More »