• 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 »
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 »