• 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 »
Lancaster Pollard Represents Hawkeye In Iowa Skilled Nursing Sale

Lancaster Pollard Represents Hawkeye In Iowa Skilled Nursing Sale

Chad Elliot, Quintin Harris and Kevin Laidlaw of Lancaster Pollard represented the seller of a six-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Iowa. Owned by Hawkeye Care Centers, these six facilities total 551 beds, with three of the properties featuring a small assisted living or independent living portion. Quality mix was high (over 50%) and operating margin averaged in the low teens, which is not too bad for skilled nursing in this market. The Lancaster Pollard team sold the portfolio to Summit Healthcare REIT for $29.5 million, or about $53,500 per bed. Summit entered into a triple-net lease agreement with Accura HealthCare, an Iowa-based operator with 18 facilities across the state.... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes HUD LEAN Loans

Lancaster Pollard Closes HUD LEAN Loans

The transactions keep on coming from Lancaster Pollard. After being revealed last month as the top HUD LEAN lender once again (with 79 transactions and nearly $770 million in volume during HUD’s fiscal year 2017), the firm has closed another two transactions on behalf of California-based borrowers. First, for Summit Healthcare REIT, Jason Dopoulos of LP refinanced four senior care facilities for a total loan amount of $55.1 million. The portfolio features a 181-bed skilled nursing facility in Millsboro, Delaware, a 151-bed SNF in Smyrna, DE, a 69-unit independent living community in Salem, Oregon, and a 66-unit IL/assisted living/skilled nursing facility in Portland, OR. The latter two... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes HUD LEAN Loans

Another Financing For Next Healthcare Group

HJ Sims showed its range of services in recapitalizing two skilled nursing facilities in Florida on behalf of a private healthcare real estate investment firm, Next Healthcare Group (NHG). Sims’ involvement with the facilities goes back to 2013, when it provided a $3.4 million HUD Plus™ subordinate loan to a related company of NHG, HBS Assets, to finance the acquisition of the two facilities located in Lake City and Bushnell, Florida. Built in the 1990s, which was relatively new for other northern Florida SNFs, the facilities were well occupied (at 92%) at the time of the sale with a high 40% Medicare census and 17% operating margin. HBS Assets had paid $20.86 million, or $139,100 per bed,... Read More »
Bridge To HUD With Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Bridge To HUD With Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Less than a year after receiving bridge financing, a 90-unit assisted living community in Billings, Montana is already refinancing through HUD, with Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group leading them along the way. Through BB&T Real Estate Funding, Grandbridge had originally provided the community a bridge loan at the end of 2016. Now, Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis have originated a $19.93 million HUD loan, with a 35-year term and 35-year amortization schedule, to refinance the community. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes HUD LEAN Loans

Harborview At It Again

Harborview Capital Partners is back in the news, working on behalf of a Tennessee-based borrower to refinance its assisted living community in Putnam County, Tennessee. Avi Begun of Harborview originated a $6.34 million HUD loan, with a 35-year term, and took advantage of an early rate lock to generate savings for the community. Read More »