• 60 Seconds with Swett: Getting Realistic with New Development

    The positive mood at the NIC Fall Conference was contagious, as dealmakers were looking forward to a potential record-breaking fourth quarter. We at LevinPro are also gearing up to cover a new elevated level of M&A activity and pricing in the coming months, with our updated valuation tool better accounting for today’s market and the estimated... Read More »
  • NHC Responds to NHI

    National Healthcare Corporation, the tenant of 32 of National Health Investor’s skilled nursing/senior care facilities and three independent living communities, is disputing NHI’s determination of default after the landlord formally notified the operator that it was in default and must cure the default within 30 days to avoid an Event of... Read More »
  • REIT Acquires High-Quality Continuum of Care Community

    Blueprint facilitated the sale of a Class-A seniors housing community in Jasper, Georgia. Built in 2022, The Lodge at Stephens Lake includes 83 units of independent living cottages, assisted living and memory care. It is adjacent to a large active adult development and benefits from significant planned residential and commercial growth. At the... Read More »
  • Legend Senior Living Adds Allentown-Area Asset

    A Class-A, well performing property outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania, traded to a joint venture between Legend Senior Living and a new capital partner. Alex Florea and Kevin Lukehart of Blueprint handled the transaction. Legend previously operated The Vero at Bethlehem, which opened in July 2023 and stabilized within 18 months. At the time of... Read More »
  • CFG’s Senior Care Financing Activity

    Capital Funding Group financed more than $86 million across six transactions from early to mid-August. The transactions supported two memory care communities, four skilled nursing facilities, and one psychiatric hospital in Missouri, California, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers, one of which is a... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital Secures Illinois HUD Refinance

Cambridge Realty Capital Secures Illinois HUD Refinance

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies refinanced a large skilled nursing facility in Rockford, Illinois (near the Wisconsin border) with a HUD loan. Built in 1963 and now featuring 270 beds, the facility is owned by an Illinois-based LLC.   It provides short-term rehab care in both semi-private and private units. Services include orthopedic, cardiac, pulmonary and neuro-stroke rehabilitation, behavioral health and on-site dialysis. To refinance an existing HUD mortgage, Cambridge arranged a new $12.04 million loan with a fully amortizing, 35-year term.  Read More »
HHC Finance Closes Three More HUD Refinances

HHC Finance Closes Three More HUD Refinances

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) is continuing to take advantage of historically low interest rates by arranging HUD refinances for its clients. The company’s most recent activity saw it secure three loans totaling more than $33 million for three senior care facilities.   There was a 100-bed skilled nursing facility in Delaware and two assisted living communities totaling close to 200 units in New Jersey (100 units) and New York (95 units). The refinances replaced existing HUD loans and extended the clients’ terms. HHC Finance also closed another $37 million in loan modifications for its (happy) clients.  Read More »
Capital Funding Group Closes Q1 In Style

Capital Funding Group Closes Q1 In Style

Capital Funding Group’s new off-balance sheet credit venture, CFG Credit Partners, has done it again, arranging another nine-figure bridge loan to support the acquisition of a skilled nursing portfolio. This transaction totaled $285 million. Using the funding, a nationally recognized borrower (which has worked with CFG before) was able to acquire 16 skilled nursing facilities in the Mid-Atlantic region. Erik Howard and Tim Eberhardt originated the transaction for Capital Funding Group, and Capital Funding, LLC, a subsidiary of CFG Bank, participated in the transaction.  This deal appears very similar to CFG Credit Partners’ $317.5 million bridge-to-HUD financing for Eagle Arc Partners’... Read More »
Lument Refinances Upstate New York Assisted Living Community

Lument Refinances Upstate New York Assisted Living Community

Lument has sprung into spring, following up its arranging of bridge debt for a recently built senior living community in Florida with another refinance of an assisted living community in upstate New York. This transaction, however, involved HUD and featured an $8.3 million loan with a 35-year term. Miles Kingstone led the transaction, which reimbursed the borrower for previous capital expenditures and also took out a bridge loan that Lument originally helped secure in 2017 for the family owner/operator to purchase the property.   Formerly a skilled nursing facility, the building was vacant until Joseph Murabito of Morningstar Care... Read More »
Greystone Funds Ohio SNF Acquisition

Greystone Funds Ohio SNF Acquisition

To fund the acquisition of a skilled nursing facility in Youngstown, Ohio, Fred Levine of Greystone arranged bridge financing for the new owner. Built in 1964, the facility features 99 beds and has been owned and operated by Guardian Healthcare. However, going forward, Bal Harbour Management will take over day-to-day management.   The bridge loan comes out to $3.98 million, or around $40,200 per bed. Assuming a typical 70% loan-to-value, that puts the purchase price around $57,400 per bed, which is right around the average for facilities built more than 40 years ago of $56,100 per bed, according to the 26th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition... Read More »