• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... 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 »