• 3rd Quarter Investor Call

    On Thursday, October 23, The SeniorCare Investor’s Ben Swett moderated a panel featuring expert panelists Erik Lindenauer of NewPoint Real Estate Capital, Sarah Anderson of Newmark, and James Scribner of Scribner Capital. The discussion focused on the lending landscape amid improved capital markets, and expectations heading into 2026. Panelists... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Activity Remains Strong Through Q3:25, Suggesting Another Potential Record Year  

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the third quarter of 2025 totaled 205 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 13% increase from the 182 transactions disclosed in the second quarter of 2025 as well as from the 182 deals in Q3:24. Additionally, the $3.47 billion spent on... Read More »
  • REIT Acquires Full-Continuum Community

    Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint facilitated the sale of a full continuum, Class-A asset in North Ogden, Utah. Opened in 2019, The Lodge at North Ogden has 22 independent living, 70 assisted living and 30 memory care units. The community exhibited consistently strong cash flow and historically successful operations. Plus, there is... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Continues to Grow Its Portfolio

    Blueprint represented a large, institutional private equity firm in its divestment of an assisted living and memory care community, which Benchmark Senior Living and National Development ultimately acquired. Built in 2013, the 85-unit Arbor Terrace Roseland is in Roseland, New Jersey, near New York City. It was over 91% occupied with an EBITDAR... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Q3 Financing Activity

    Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare platform completed over $1.54 billion in financing for seniors housing communities as of the end of the third quarter. Under the leadership of SVP, Head of FHA & Seniors Housing Finance Steve Ervin, the platform facilitated $350 million in PLG Bridge with participations, $258 million in HUD... 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 »