Greystone’s Bridge to HUD
Greystone’s Fred Levine successfully refinanced two skilled nursing facilities in Jackson, Tennessee. Greystone had actually provided the bridge loans used to fund the facilities’ acquisition in 2016 by a private Tennessee-based individual. The buyer had been leasing the facilities but exercised their right of first refusal to snap up the properties. The 160-bed facility sold in 2016 for $14.6 million, while the 64-bed facility was $4.6 million. Two years later, the owner refinanced the properties with $20.9 million in fixed-rate HUD financing, with a 30-year term and amortization period. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Rocks Refinance for SanStone
Lancaster Pollard was brought in by North Carolina skilled nursing provider SanStone Health & Rehabilitation to reorganize its capital stack. Kevin Oakley acted as lead banker and, with the help of Gerald Swiacki and Joe Munhall, helped close a series of transactions resulting in more than $120 million in financing for the borrower. That included arranging a new commercial banking relationship as the syndication agent and structuring HUD debt. All of this will help address future capital needs, including funding acquisitions, modifying ownership interests and increasing borrowing capacity to mitigate risk. Read More »
HHC Finance’s Bridge Lending Program Takes Off
Housing and Healthcare Finance’s (HHC Finance) Capital Advisory Group closed an impressive number of bridge loans lately, totaling $185 million across 12 transactions in the last several months. The team, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, spread out across the country to get the deals done in North Carolina, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, New York and Alabama. The largest transaction involved a two-skilled nursing facility portfolio in California receiving a $50 million loan. HHC Finance’s Elan Magence joined Messrs. Haas and Gamss to arrange the transaction. On top of that busy period of bridge lending, HHC Finance closed an $11 million HUD refinance of a 100-bed... Read More »
