• Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... Read More »
  • Senior Care Campus Components Sell to Separate Buyers

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated two separate transactions involving the assisted living and skilled nursing components of a senior care campus in Mansfield, Ohio. The seller, a local not-for-profit, faced significant operational and financial challenges, prompting an urgent need for a transition. Senwell was engaged to identify... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures Funds

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced that the firm, along with firm affiliates, funded $48.10 million in combined bridge and working capital funding for a three-facility skilled nursing portfolio in North Carolina. The transaction included a $45.6 million bridge financing and a $2.5 million working capital line of credit. The borrower, a returning client,... Read More »
  • Autumn Lake Healthcare Acquires Maryland SNFs

    First Citizens Bank’s Healthcare Finance business provided $338 million in financing to affiliates of Autumn Lake Healthcare for the acquisition of 12 Maryland skilled nursing facilities with over 1,500 beds. Based in Howell, New Jersey, Autumn Lake Healthcare’s portfolio includes 66 skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 8,200 beds... Read More »
  • Central Florida Portfolio Secures Financing

    Grace Hill Capital, a seniors housing capital advisory firm founded by Adam Shealy, closed a refinance and recapitalization of a four-community independent living, assisted living and memory care portfolio in Central Florida. The portfolio comprises five buildings totaling 257 units, operated by a regional provider with a proven record of... Read More »
HUD Has a Portfolio Sale

HUD Has a Portfolio Sale

It is not often that we see a portfolio sale coming from HUD, or any sale for that matter, since it has always expe­rienced a very low default rate. But given the difficulties other lenders and landlords have had with the skilled nursing sector the past few years, it should not come as a surprise. HUD is offering for sale a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities and one supportive living facility in Illinois and Missouri. Six of the locations are in the Chicago MSA, three in the St. Louis MSA, two in the Peoria MSA, one in the Rockford, Illinois MSA, and one in the Davenport/ Moline/Rock Island, Iowa MSA. The licensed capacity of the portfolio is 1,662 beds, but the actual operating... Read More »
Monticello Funds Tennessee SNF Purchase

Monticello Funds Tennessee SNF Purchase

Following up on several other acquisition financings closed on behalf of a previous borrower in the past three years, Monticello Asset Management funded the purchase of two more skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee. Totaling $16 million in first lien debt that Monticello expects to refinance through HUD in the coming years, the transaction was arranged for an experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of more than 3,700 licensed beds. This latest acquisition totaled 303 beds across the two Tennessee locations. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, also provided a $3 million working capital loan to the operating companies. Read More »
Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge

Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge

Dwight Capital had a busy February for bridge loans, closing four separate loans for more than $13.7 million. The bridge loans included $3.96 million for a 12-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas and a $3.7 million loan for a three-facility, 193-bed portfolio that was sold by a not-for-profit to a repeat client of Dwight Capital. In addition, the Dwight team closed a $3.77 million bridge loan on a 116-bed SNF in New Jersey for a buyer that owns and operates several facilities in the state. Finally, they closed a $2.34 million bridge loan on a 32-bed assisted living community in New York. Once the HUD refinancing is completed, Dwight Capital will be providing a supplemental loan for the... Read More »
Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan

Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan

Leonard Lucas of Love Funding closed a $10.5 million bridge-to-HUD construction loan for a transitional rehab facility in Yuma, Arizona. The new facility will have 32,000 square feet and 41 private rooms. It will be 100% Medicare and managed care with no Medicaid patients. The bridge loan was placed with Love Funding’s parent company, Midland States Bank. This is the second bridge-to-HUD construction loan obtained through Love Funding in the developer/operator’s portfolio. Read More »
Harborview’s HUD Haul

Harborview’s HUD Haul

Despite the backlog caused by the government shutdown earlier this year, Harborview Capital Partners’ HUD pipeline has been particularly active lately, totaling over $46 million in two March transactions. The larger transaction featured a $23.9 million loan closed on behalf of a brand-new 180-bed skilled nursing facility in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The team then closed a $22.25 million HUD loan for a 164-bed SNF in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, Harborview flew down to sunny Florida to arrange two transactions for assisted living clients. First, for a 136-bed community on the Gulf Coast of Florida, they closed a $6.7 million loan with a five-year term, 20-year amortization and 12... Read More »