• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    by | Jul 3, 2025 12:08 pm | Acquisitions

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »

  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    by | Jul 3, 2025 11:33 am | Acquisitions

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »

  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    by | Jul 3, 2025 11:33 am | Acquisitions

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »

  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    by | Jul 3, 2025 11:32 am | Acquisitions

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »

  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    by | Jul 3, 2025 11:31 am | Financings

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... Read More »

2016 HUD Rankings

by | Nov 8, 2016 6:39 pm | Financings

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

by | Nov 3, 2016 8:25 pm | Financings

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

by | Oct 12, 2016 8:31 am | Financings

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

by | Oct 5, 2016 1:10 pm | Financings

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

by | Feb 3, 2016 8:31 am | Financings

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 »