• New 1031 Exchange Platform Launches

    A new 1031 exchange platform designed to provide advisors and their clients with access to institutional-quality real estate investments through Delaware Statutory Trusts has launched. A Fortress Investment Group affiliate, Fortress Real Estate Exchange, will initially target investments in seniors housing, student housing and multifamily... Read More »
  • 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 »
Love Funding Funds Florida Development

Love Funding Funds Florida Development

A new assisted living community will open in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, thanks to a $16.3 million HUD loan secured by Ken Charbauski of Love Funding. Located at the site of the former Alba Court Inn Hotel, which was built in 1895 and demolished in 2010, the community will feature 88 assisted living and 21 memory care beds in 93 total units. Adjacent to the four-story building will also be a 4,000-square foot adult day care center being renovated from a shuttered church. Urbanus Development, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the project’s developer, with Miami Beach-based MIA Senior Living coming in as the operator. The non-recourse loan featured a 40-year term following the construction... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Keeps the HUD Closings Coming

Lancaster Pollard Keeps the HUD Closings Coming

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company just closed its 16th HUD financing since the government shutdown ended in January. They clearly did their leg work during the shutdown, as in the first three weeks following it, 16 of the 25 FHA 232 commitments issued by HUD went to Lancaster Pollard, for a total of $224 million in closings. The latest transaction featured a $17.3 million loan closed on behalf of Tryko Partners for its 171-bed skilled nursing facility in Brick, New Jersey. Over four years ago, Tryko had acquired the facility from Florida-based New Vision for $10 million, or under $60,000 per bed. At the time, it featured 148 skilled nursing beds and 23 assisted living units and operated... Read More »
Cambridge Refinances Texas Senior Living Community

Cambridge Refinances Texas Senior Living Community

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies arranged a HUD refinance of an assisted living/memory care community in Sherman, Texas. Built in 1982 and featuring 49 units, the community is owned by a Texas limited liability company, but according to our M&A database, it was last acquired in 2015 by a non-traded REIT. At the time it was 98% occupied and was purchased for $5.2 million, or about $106,100 per unit. The community is now being refinanced by a $4.645 million HUD loan with a 30-year term. Read More »
HHC Finance’s March Madness

HHC Finance’s March Madness

Housing & Healthcare Finance posted a strong month in March with six HUD transactions closed for skilled nursing facilities in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas, plus one for a 156-bed supportive living facility in Illinois, all totaling $62 million. The Illinois closing marked the fifth supportive living HUD closing for HHC Finance in the last 12 months, an impressive stat given the small size of the market. Not resting on its HUD laurels, HHC Finance also announced that it placed about 15 bridge loans totaling more than $150 million in the first quarter, alone. They were closed by the firm’s Capital Advisory Group, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss. Read More »
Greystone Refinances SentosaCare’s Southampton SNF

Greystone Refinances SentosaCare’s Southampton SNF

Five years have passed since Greystone arranged a $54.5 million acquisition bridge loan for SentosaCare to purchase a 280-bed skilled nursing facility in Southampton, New York. That means it’s time for a refinance, which Fred Levine obliged by arranging a $58.8 million HUD loan with a 35-year term ($210,000 per bed). Located on nine acres on the affluent South Fork of Long Island, the facility provides both short-term and long-term care services. There are also two separate secure Alzheimer’s/dementia care units. Read More »