• Berkadia Secures Large Portfolio Refinance

    Berkadia closed $627.2 million in agency financing for Project Raven. Project Raven is a 35-asset seniors housing portfolio with 4,395 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The portfolio spans 15 states. Austin Sacco, Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld handled the financing on behalf of an institutional borrower.... Read More »
  • What Does Brookdale’s Proxy Fight Cost?

    It seems that hardly a day goes by without yet another SEC filing by Brookdale Senior Living detailing why its slate of Board candidates is far better for shareholders than the slate submitted by activist investor Ortelius Advisors. But how much are they spending on this? It would be nice to know, and we are sure shareholders would rather have... Read More »
  • Do We Hear $30 Per Hour as the New Minimum Wage?

    We know we have the People’s Republic of California, and after New York’s Democratic Party primary, we may have the People’s Republic of New York City by November. The surprise winner of the primary was 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani. He is a self-professed Socialist, and more. In addition to free bussing, freezes on apartment rents, higher taxes on... Read More »
  • BMO and TCG Refinance Florida CCRC

    BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group acted as sole lender on a real estate term loan refinancing for La Posada, a Class-A, 333-unit CCRC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Originally opened in 2014 and with a major renovation and addition completed in 2018, the campus offers independent living (245 units), assisted living (30 units), memory... Read More »
  • The Lenders Roundtable: A Capital Markets Update

    On Thursday, June 26th, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett sat down with a group of expert panelists to dive into the evolving financing process of M&A deals. Panelists included Dave Boitano, EVP & CIO of LTC Properties, Cary Tremper, President & CEO of Tremper Capital Group, and Patrick Gilbreath, Sr. Relationship... Read More »
HHC Finance’s HUD Haul

HHC Finance’s HUD Haul

The team at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) announced a series of six HUD closings totaling about $81 million on behalf of Cascade Capital Group and its operating affiliate Legacy Healthcare. An owner/operator of more than 135 skilled nursing facilities in 23 states (all acquired since the company’s founding in 2016), Cascade secured these HUD loans on six of its SNFs in the greater Chicago area. They all refinanced higher-rate, shorter-term conventional debt. Read More »
HHC Finance Capital Advisory Group’s Billion-Dollar Year

HHC Finance Capital Advisory Group’s Billion-Dollar Year

It was quite the year for Housing & Healthcare Finance’s Capital Advisory Group, which just about doubled its loan volume from about $510 million in 2017 (just its first full year in business) to over $1 billion in 2018. That impressive haul came from more than 60 bridge loans and credit facilities closing for skilled nursing and assisted living properties across 22 states. Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss (who was a panelist on our recent webinar about, you guessed it, bridge loans) have led the group since its inception in late-2016. Not only has their growing volume been impressive, but their transaction speed too, closing one $12 million bridge loan for a skilled nursing facility in... Read More »
Great Financing Product For Acquisitions

Great Financing Product For Acquisitions

Bridge loans are becoming increasingly important for acquisitions and renovations projects. Find out the details on this important webinar. If you are in the market for acquisitions, especially value-add acquisitions, or you want to do some major renovations on your existing building, do I have a financing product for you. I am talking about bridge loans, which are basically short-term loans to get you from point A to point B with your real estate. Their popularity has been increasing in the past few years, with more lenders and more types of products, providing even more liquidity to the seniors housing and care sector than before. Plus, some of the bridge lenders have created their own... Read More »
HHC Finance Wrapping Up 2018 With Two Northeast Transactions

HHC Finance Wrapping Up 2018 With Two Northeast Transactions

Seniors housing and care M&A may be slowing towards the end of 2018, but the lenders are still closing plenty of transactions. One of them, Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance), closed two HUD loans totaling $31 million for a couple of East Coast skilled nursing facilities owned by experienced regional operators (and repeat HHC customers). The smaller loan (for $6 million) was closed for a 108-bed SNF in southern New Jersey and refinanced existing conventional debt. Although it received several improvements in recent years, the facility was built in the mid-1960s and was occupied in the high-80s. The other loan was closed for a large 238-bed skilled nursing facility in... 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 »