• Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

    Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk.... Read More »
  • Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

    Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior... Read More »
  • PE Group Enters Oklahoma after Medicaid Rate Bump

    A skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma that recently benefited from the state’s Medicaid rate bump sold to a national private equity firm looking to enter the state. Built in 1967, Maplewood Care Center features 180 beds on over three acres in Tulsa. It is located close to several major hospitals and healthcare campuses, but occupancy was sitting... Read More »
  • Community Purchased through HUD Assumption

    Chad Mundy of the Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lewiston, Idaho. Built in phases in the early 2000s, the community featured five separate buildings, one of which was vacant after sustaining damage from a flood. As a result, occupancy was lower, based on the 89 licensed beds,... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Rounds Out Q4

    The Zett Group closed out Q4 with several closings in the Pacific Northwest. First was the sale of Fox Hollow, a 58-unit seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the community features 51 assisted living units and seven independent living “cottage-style” units. Set in a nice area of Eugene, it was owned by... Read More »

2017 HUD LEAN Rankings Are In

Total HUD LEAN loan volume hasn’t yet reached the heights of its FY2014, when the program closed over $4.2 billion in loans in 484 transactions, but it is getting there. In its FY2017, lenders closed just over $3.4 billion in 310 deals, up 20% from FY2016’s $2.84 billion volume (in 287 deals) and up 26% from FY2015’s $2.7 billion (in 291 deals). A total of 33 lenders closed at least one transaction, with Lancaster Pollard topping the list with 79 transactions. KeyBank came in second, with 33 loans, and Capital Funding was not far behind, closing 28 transactions. Housing & Healthcare Finance and First American Capital Group tied for fourth, each with 18 loans closed. Lancaster Pollard... Read More »

Housing & Healthcare Finance’s Bridge Lending Success

Housing & Healthcare Finance’s Capital Advisory Group has certainly been a success since its launch nearly two years ago. Focusing on bridge loans and credit facilities, the program has closed over $650 million in transactions, so far. Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, who lead the group, continued their good work into this summer, arranging over $100 million in bridge loans and credit lines in May and June. The largest of the closings included a $53 million bridge loan for a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities (and 948 total beds) in Wisconsin. Next up, Messrs. Haas and Gamss arranged a $37 million bridge loan on behalf of a SNF portfolio in Ohio with a combined 760 beds. A skilled... Read More »

Housing & Healthcare Finance’s Bridge Lending Business

The bridge lending program at Housing & Healthcare Finance seems to be flourishing since its launch in Fall 2015. It had a strong year in 2016, when the Capital Advisory Group (which arranges bridge loans and revolving lines of credit) closed about $350 million in transactions. Now, the team of Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss isn’t letting up, closing over $65 million in bridge loans in April alone. All of the loans were for skilled nursing clients across the country, including a $14.8 million loan for two facilities (with 213 combined beds) in Cincinnati, Ohio, a $21.5 million loan for three facilities (with 346 beds) in Oklahoma and a $13 million loan for two facilities (also with 213... Read More »
New Future for HUD Lender

New Future for HUD Lender

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC) is bringing on a new face to oversee its expansion efforts in the healthcare lending world, though this new addition is no stranger to healthcare finance. Keith Reuben, an industry veteran having been part of senior management at CapitalSource Inc. from 2001 to 2009, and then Executive Vice President of the Commercial and Specialty Finance Business at Capital One Bank from 2011 to 2015, has joined HHC as its CEO. The lender clearly has its niche in providing HUD financing to senior care properties, closing 28 transactions for a total of $355.9 million in FY2016, including the agency’s largest loan of the year: an $80.7 million loan to refinance a... Read More »

HHC’s Fitting Finale

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC) finished the year with over $25 million in two more HUD transactions. First, for a portfolio of five Texas skilled nursing facilities all built between 1960 and 1985 and owned by an experienced operator, HHC closed five loans totaling $21.2 million. The financing, with interest rates in the low 3s, will help fund needed repairs across the portfolio. And then, HHC arranged $5.6 million, also with an interest rate in the low 3s, for a 94-bed skilled nursing/memory care facility in California. Built in 1964, the facility was also owned by an experienced operator. Read More »