• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »

2016 HUD Rankings

We reported a few weeks ago that Lancaster Pollard was the most active HUD 232 LEAN lender with 60 transactions with a total value of $554.4 million, but KeyBank was close behind at 54 loans worth $521.8 million. In third place was Housing & Healthcare Finance with 28 deals and $355.9 million. HHC also closed the largest loan of the fiscal year, an $80.7 million loan on a 520-bed skilled nursing facility in New York. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage came next with 26 deals worth $180.5 million and Capital Funding followed them with 21 financings worth $261.0 million, including the second-largest closing of the year: a $43.4 million loan for a 314-bed skilled nursing facility in New York.... Read More »

HHC’s bridge to success

Since its launch in the Fall of 2015, Housing & Healthcare Finance’s (HHC) bridge lending program has brought in a lot of business so far in the last year, with the lender brokering 13 transactions and over $250 million in loan volume. Included in those closings were mostly skilled nursing facilities, except for a 183-unit CCRC in Cincinnati, Ohio, a SNF/assisted living community in Sacramento, and a SNF/ALF portfolio in Arkansas. The largest transaction totaled $60 million, while the smallest was approximately $4.2 million. Apart from brokering these transactions, HHC also provides bridge loans through its partner, Congressional Bank. The program is led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss,... Read More »
HHC Finance works in Yonkers

HHC Finance works in Yonkers

The team at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC) went through HUD to successfully refinance an independent living/assisted living community in Yonkers, New York. Located on 10 acres in a park-like setting, the community was recently renovated/upgraded in 2010. It also is the only provider in the area with the Medicaid Assisted Living Program. Occupancy at the 195-bed property has always been close to full. Working through a PILOT issue with HUD and the local municipality, HHC was able to close a $27 million refinance with an interest rate below 3%. Read More »

September’s top HUD lender

Our top HUD lender of the month was Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance), with over $120 million of closings in September alone. Included in that total were five 232/223(f) refinances: a $27 million loan for a 195-unit assisted living community in Yonkers, New York, $33 million to refinance a 332-bed skilled nursing facility in Philadelphia, a $6 million loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in New Jersey (New York City MSA), $3.8 million for an 84-bed skilled nursing facility in South Carolina and a $6.2 million refinance of a 67-bed skilled nursing facility in central New Jersey. In addition, HHC Finance closed $46 million of rate modifications for two existing... Read More »

Back to HUD

Just weeks after closing HUD’s largest ever SNF loan (an $80.7 million loan to refinance the existing conventional bank debt at a 520-bed skilled nursing facility in Manhattan, New York), Housing & Healthcare Finance was at it again, closing on a portfolio of 5 HUD loans totaling $68.5 million in January. The loans, which featured 30-year terms and fixed rates in the mid-3% range, were used to finance the acquisition of 5 skilled nursing facilities in New Jersey with a total of 703 beds in 345 units. Read More »