• 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 »
HHC Finance Refinances New York-Area SNF

HHC Finance Refinances New York-Area SNF

Several years after acquiring a 160-bed skilled nursing facility, an experienced owner/operator is refinancing with the help of Housing & Healthcare Finance. Working through HUD, HHC Finance closed a $28 million loan for the greater New York area facility, replacing higher-rate and shorter-term debt in the process. Since the acquisition, the owner has significantly improved operations and obtained a five-star rating from CMS. Still, renovations were needed at the 20-year old facility, and the HUD loan will provide for around $7 million in improvements. Read More »
Hats Off to Capital Funding

Hats Off to Capital Funding

About three years after it acquired a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, Vita Healthcare Group decided to refinance the property with a HUD loan provided by Capital Funding. Craig Casagrande originated the $16.1 million mortgage, which takes out the original $13.36 million bridge loan and $1.5 million working capital loan provided by the firm to support the 2016 acquisition. That original financing included a turnaround component that increased the loan amount based on projected improvements to the facility’s performance. So, assuming a roughly 90% loan-to-cost, the 2016 purchase price can be estimated just below $15 million, or $106,100 per bed. In early 2016, the... Read More »
HHC Finance’s HUD Haul

HHC Finance’s HUD Haul

The team at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) announced a series of six HUD closings totaling about $81 million on behalf of Cascade Capital Group and its operating affiliate Legacy Healthcare. An owner/operator of more than 135 skilled nursing facilities in 23 states (all acquired since the company’s founding in 2016), Cascade secured these HUD loans on six of its SNFs in the greater Chicago area. They all refinanced higher-rate, shorter-term conventional debt. Read More »
X-Caliber’s Excellent First Year in Bridge Lending

X-Caliber’s Excellent First Year in Bridge Lending

After only being in operation since March, X-Caliber Capital’s bridge lending group had an impressive 2018, closing $250 million in healthcare and seniors housing financings. Those transactions included everything from acquisition financings and recapitalizations to value-add and cash-out refinances. Plus, the firm will look to bring all of these loans to HUD for a permanent take-out. X-Caliber also closed out 2018 strong with three transactions in the last 45 days, including a $32 million acquisition loan for a Connecticut skilled nursing portfolio. We’ll see what’s in store for 2019. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company is keeping busy, having announced two transactions for senior care assets in the Midwest. First, Brad Competty, Casey Moore and Doug Harper closed a $42 million Fannie Mae loan with a 12-year term and fixed interest rate for a CCRC client. Mr. Competty and Brendan Healy followed that up with a HUD refinance for two senior care properties in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by Riverview Health, the properties getting refinanced include a 176-bed skilled nursing facility and a 196-bed SNF. Riverview was also reimbursed for prior capital expenditures and replacement reserves. Finally, Lancaster Pollard arranged a bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a 125-bed... Read More »