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 »