• 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 »
KeyBank Real Estate Capital Refinances Two Pennsylvania Properties

KeyBank Real Estate Capital Refinances Two Pennsylvania Properties

A large regional owner/operator in the Northeast refinanced two of its senior care facilities through HUD, with the help of John Randolph of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Located in Pennsylvania, the properties include a 180-bed skilled nursing facility and a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, the latter of which also features a 73-bed independent/assisted living wing. Mr. Randolph arranged $57.7 million in HUD financing to pay down a portion of an existing bridge loan, originally secured by KeyBank’s Henry Alonso and Brandon Taseff, that was used to fund the initial acquisition, and subsequent recapitalization, of a portfolio of healthcare facilities located in the Northeast. Read More »
Greystone Closes HUD Refinance For Large New York SNF

Greystone Closes HUD Refinance For Large New York SNF

After working to close a $16.5 million HUD refinance for a 216-bed skilled nursing facility in Dunkirk, New York (Buffalo MSA) last month, Greystone’s Fred Levine closed another HUD loan for another large New York SNF. Located in Suffern, on the border with New Jersey, the facility consists of 203 beds and is the largest subacute care facility in Rockland County. Situated on six acres, it offers orthopedic rehab, cardiopulmonary rehab, wound care, concierge services and veterans programs, all under the management of CareRite Centers. To help fund renovations, and provide meaningful debt service savings, Mr. Levine arranged a $23.52 million HUD loan, with a fully amortizing 33-year... Read More »
The Ensign Group Receives $112 Million In HUD Financing

The Ensign Group Receives $112 Million In HUD Financing

Lancaster Pollard recently assisted The Ensign Group in a large $112 million portfolio financing arranged through HUD. The 30- and 35-year term loans were secured by mortgages on seventeen Ensign-owned properties and came with low, fixed interest rates. Ensign will use the loan proceeds to pay down previously drawn amounts on its revolving credit line, and the financing provides the company liquidity on a portion of its owned real estate. The proceeds will also fund future acquisitions and renovations, as well as other working capital needs. The company’s acquisition appetite seemed to wane slightly towards the end of 2017 (five deals announced in the first six months, versus two in the... Read More »
Greystone Gets It Done

Greystone Gets It Done

Aspens Senior Living partnered with Greystone to obtain construction financing for two of its latest seniors housing projects located in North Carolina and Arizona. First, to the Tar Heel state, where Aspens and joint venture partner Pennybacker Capital are currently building a 182-unit independent living community in Raleigh. A regional bank provided a $24.2 million loan to fund the construction. Then, in Gilbert, Arizona, Aspens, Pennybacker Capital and McFarlin Group are developing a 204-unit independent living community, with the help of a $25.8 million loan provided by a publicly traded bank and also arranged by Greystone. Greystone also snuck in a $16.5 million HUD loan arranged by... Read More »
Capital Funding Group’s Transaction Trifecta

Capital Funding Group’s Transaction Trifecta

Certainly ending the year on a strong note, Craig Casagrande of Capital Funding Group originated three transactions, totaling over $47 million. The largest of the loans, at $31.243 million, refinanced a bridge loan on a New York skilled nursing facility. CFG had closed the bridge loan at the end of 2016 to help the borrower recapitalize equity on what was an underleveraged facility, and simultaneously applied with HUD for a refinance, closing the transaction this October. Staying in New York, and with HUD, Mr. Casagrande originated a $9.843 million refinance for another skilled nursing facility in the state. And finally, CFG closed a bridge-to-HUD loan for a Pennsylvania SNF, totaling $6... Read More »