• Janus Living Goes Public After Upsizing IPO

    Janus Living, a Healthpeak Properties-formed REIT and now the only publicly traded U.S. REIT fully dedicated to seniors housing with its entire portfolio structured under RIDEA, has launched its initial public offering of Class A-1 common stock. The company is now listed on the NYSE under the ticker “JAN.” It plans to pay a quarterly dividend of... Read More »
  • Partnership Acquires Two Long Island Communities

    Two Long Island assisted living communities were sold by their original developer/operator. Village Green Senior Living in Levittown (opened in 2020) and Village Walk Senior Living (opened in 2018) in Patchogue were acquired by a partnership between Fundamental Advisors, Scribner Capital and Atria Senior Living. They will be renamed Atria... Read More »
  • Artemis Real Estate Partners Purchases Class-A Community

    The developer of a Class-A seniors housing community in the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA, has passed the torch to a new owner. Pillars of Lakeville, now known as The Crest at Lakeville, sits on 1.8 acres. Oppidan Investment Co., a company that developed multiple Pillars senior living properties in Minnesota, acquired the land from Crossroads... Read More »
  • Stand-Alone Memory Care Community Gets New Owner

    1031 CF Properties, a leading DST investor, acquired a stand-alone memory care community in the Spokane, Washington MSA. Built in 2005 with expansions in 2007 and 2013, Generations Memory Care offers 48 private units with 28,472 square feet on 2.067 acres. The seller was an investment group based in northern California that purchased the asset in... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Closes First Public Bond Issue in 20+ Years

    Ziegler announced the closing of a $30.0 million tax-exempt fixed rate bond issue for Butterfield Trail Village, Inc. (BTV). The Series 2026 bonds were issued through The Fayetteville Public Facilities Board. BTV is a not-for-profit corporation founded by five local churches in 1981 to own and operate a continuing care retirement community on... Read More »
Austin-Area Assisted Living Gets HUD Financing

Austin-Area Assisted Living Gets HUD Financing

An experienced ownership group went through Housing and Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) to refinance its conventional debt on its 32-unit assisted living/memory care community in Kyle, Texas. Located about 15 miles south of Austin, the community was built in 2014 (around when development was especially heating up in certain markets in Texas) and currently operates at occupancy in the mid-90s. It had in-place, higher rate and shorter term conventional and subordinated debt but was able to replace it with a $4.86 million HUD loan, arranged by HHC Finance.  Read More »
Affordable Housing Complex To Get A Make-Over

Affordable Housing Complex To Get A Make-Over

Cambridge Realty Capital left its comfort zone of financing skilled nursing facilities, arranging a $32.7 million HUD-insured loan that was funded by tax-exempt bonds, with owner’s equity facilitated by low-income housing tax credits. The combination refinanced a 211-unit affordable elderly housing complex in Baltimore, Maryland. The extra funds are to be used to modernize the 40-year old physical plant. We suspect there are many more of these types of buildings that need updating, in addition to more of these buildings in general to help low-income elderly as they age. Read More »
KeyBank Closes Largest Single-Asset HUD Loan

KeyBank Closes Largest Single-Asset HUD Loan

In the largest single-asset HUD closing in history, KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured $127 million in financing for a large 499-bed skilled nursing facility in New York City. Originally built in 1966, with renovations in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, the facility was operating at full occupancy. Its owner, a regional owner/operator, used the loan’s proceeds to pay off an interim acquisition bridge loan provided by KeyBank and a syndicate of lenders. The HUD financing also helps fund over $7 million in capital expenditure improvements made to the property. KeyBank’s John Randolph, Henry Alonso and Brandon Taseff led the way on the transaction. Read More »
CFG Rolls Into Spring

CFG Rolls Into Spring

Capital Funding Group hit the spring running, closing eight deals worth just under $109 million. Six of the financings were HUD and the remaining two were bridge-to-Hud loans. Craig Casagrande closed two HUD financings in New Jersey. The first was a $16.3 million HUD loan for a 176-bed skilled nursing and assisted living facility, and the second was a $21.3 million HUD loan for a 152-bed skilled nursing facility. He also closed an $8.4 million bridge-to-HUD loan for a 164-bed skilled nursing and assisted living facility in Ohio.   Next up was Patrick McGovern, who also had a hat-trick. He closed a $12.9 million HUD loan in Michigan for two skilled nursing facilities with 178 beds,... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard’s Active April

Lancaster Pollard’s Active April

Lancaster Pollard closed a trifecta of transactions this month. The largest was a $23.4 million HUD loan closed on behalf of Hillcrest Health Services to refinance its skilled nursing facility in Papillion, Nebraska. Located on the 44-acre senior living community of Hillcrest Country Estates, the SNF features 126 skilled nursing beds and 12 independent living units. Built in a household model, with 13 residents each in eight cottages and a 22-unit post-acute rehab cottage, the facility was developed in a way to receive financing separate from the rest of the senior living community. The 35-year loan, arranged by Quintin Harris, refinances the existing bank debt and inter-company notes used... Read More »