• Regional Operator Acquires Large Multi-State Portfolio

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced a couple of portfolio deals this week totaling 15 separate properties. The larger deal featured 13 assisted living/memory care communities spread out in Georgia and South Carolina. Built between 1989 and 2014, the buildings have a combined 672 units, with 492 assisted living and 180 devoted to memory... Read More »
  • Oregon and Idaho Communities Sell

    Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group sold a 48-unit independent living community in Pendleton, Oregon, on behalf of a local owner/operator who was exiting the business. Built in the 1970s, the community was well occupied but could improve its overall operations. Still, there was positive momentum in the NOI, which rose from $320,000 in... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Purchases AL/MC Assets from Public Company

    A publicly traded company sold its portfolio of eight assisted living/memory care communities located throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, engaging Blueprint’s Kyle Hallion, Lauren Nagle and Ben Firestone to handle the deal. Each community included a smaller footprint, with 153 units total across the portfolio. The S&P 500 company owner... Read More »
  • Inland Acquires Class-A Asset

    Inland Real Estate Acquisitions announced its acquisition of a high-end seniors housing community in Monument, Colorado (between Colorado Springs and Denver). We heard about the Class-A transaction about six weeks prior, when Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced their... Read More »
  • Institutional Investor Acquires Oklahoma SNF at Record Price

    A private investor looking to exit the skilled nursing business to focus on other ventures recently sold its Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, asset. The building is one of the newest skilled nursing facilities in the state.  The facility had a strong census at the time of sale, but there was some upside with a shift in the operating model. Daniel... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital Closes Two Oklahoma Financings

Cambridge Realty Capital Closes Two Oklahoma Financings

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies closed two HUD transactions in the state of Oklahoma for a couple of skilled nursing facilities operated by Diakonos Group. The first was for a 125-bed senior care facility in Collinsville (Tulsa MSA), which received a $2.4 million loan with a fully amortizing 26-year term. The facility is comprised of 90 skilled nursing and 35 assisted living beds, with long- and short-term care plus physical, occupational and speech therapy services. Then, Cambridge arranged a $7.48 million loan, with a 28-year term, for a senior care campus in Vinita (northeast Oklahoma). The property offers 50 independent living, 25 assisted living and 127 skilled nursing beds, with... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Arranges Two Financings

Lancaster Pollard Arranges Two Financings

Lancaster Pollard keeps the closings coming, arranging two transactions for senior care facilities in Georgia and California and showing some variety in the process. First, Conner Girdley led the way on a construction financing for a to-be-built community with 131 units of assisted living and memory care in Cobb County, Georgia. The borrower, Brickmont Assisted Living, obtained $24.5 million in tax-exempt bond financing though the Section 142(d) program, which provides financing to assisted living communities that set aside at least 20% of their units for residents whose income is 50% or less of the area median gross income. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the... Read More »
Harborview Capital Partners Arranges HUD Refinances

Harborview Capital Partners Arranges HUD Refinances

Harborview Capital Partners, a commercial real estate finance, equity and advisory firm, recently announced a few HUD transactions. First, on behalf of a repeat client, Ephraim Kutner and Jonathan Kutner arranged a $7 million HUD loan for a 96-bed skilled nursing facility in Lake County, Illinois. The non-recourse loan came with a 35-year amortization schedule. Then, Harborview took advantage of the low-interest rate environment to refinance several previously placed HUD loans for their clients. The Harborview team achieved substantial rate reductions on loans exceeding $53 million for skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 450 beds in Illinois and New Jersey. That reduced annual... Read More »
Berkadia Brings on the Financings

Berkadia Brings on the Financings

Berkadia announced an impressive array of financings it closed in the past three months, ranging from HUD mortgages, to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac deals and a couple of bridge loans, all totaling nearly $160 million in volume. The largest deal was a $107.6 million Fannie Mae master credit facility closed for a portfolio of eight senior living communities in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. Ed Williams and Rafael Nobo (serenaded with Happy Birthday last July on a flight from Chattanooga) secured the 10-year, fixed rate financing, with an interest-only period, on behalf of the portfolio’s Louisiana-based developer, owner and operator to refinance the properties, consolidate debt into... Read More »

HJ Sims Heads to Hawaii for Latest Financing

Two skilled nursing facilities in Hawaii refinanced their debt and lowered their interest rate by about 60% in a transaction led by HJ Sims. The facilities, both located in Honolulu, consisted of 92 beds and 75 beds, respectively. Before this refinancing, they were collateralized with a single, high-interest rate bridge loan that had both a short term and expensive extension provisions. Sims Mortgage Funding (SMF) underwrote a $14.08 million loan through HUD to take out as much of the bridge debt as possible, resulting in a loan at about 80% of the estimated market value. The loan came with a 35-year term and a 2.05x debt service coverage ratio. In addition, to round out the capital stack,... Read More »