• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »
  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »
  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »
  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... Read More »
A Couple of Acquisition Loans From Harborview Capital Partners

A Couple of Acquisition Loans From Harborview Capital Partners

Harborview Capital Partners has been in the business of financing large acquisitions of senior care properties lately. Just last month, the firm arranged the sale and $37.4 million in HUD financing for a senior living portfolio in Arizona, and then days later, Harborview also sold a skilled nursing portfolio in Ohio and arranged a $20.7 million bridge loan to finance the deal. The team of Eli and Jonathan Kutner continued this impressive form in arranging a $20.71 million bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a skilled nursing facility in Westchester, New York (New York City MSA). The loan, provided by a national lender, featured a LIBOR-based rate and a three-year, interest-only term. In... Read More »
HHC Finance Hard At Work

HHC Finance Hard At Work

HHC Finance headed to the greater Los Angeles area to close its latest transaction, a $6 million HUD refinance of a 99-bed/38-unit skilled nursing facility. The loan features a fixed interest rate below 3.5% and a 30-year term, and it comes on the heels of a $32 million refinance, arranged by HHC Finance, of two senior care facilities located outside of New Orleans. Owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the two properties have a total of 437 beds and 318 units of skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care services. Recently, a 30-unit post-acute rehab center was added, and the construction loan to fund it was taken out by the refinance. More renovations are planned to both... Read More »

Greystone Refinances Queens Skilled Nursing Facility

A couple of years after Greystone financed the acquisition of a 302-bed skilled nursing facility in Queens, New York, the lender came full circle in refinancing it with a $59.8 million, or a whopping $198,000 per bed, HUD loan. Fred Levine of Greystone originated both the original bridge loan and the permanent financing on behalf of the borrower, Kennedy Management, a healthcare company owned and operated by the Fuchs family. Since the 2015 acquisition, the owners renovated and rebranded the facility, which now boasts many luxury features such as a dedicated concierge, resident lounges, bedside iPads and valet parking. The facility also offers a 40-bed ventilator unit and a 12-chair... Read More »
Bank It, With KeyBank

Bank It, With KeyBank

John Randolph and Laura Conway of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Group closed a couple of transactions, both involving HUD refinances. Trilogy Health Services was the borrower in both of the transactions. It first refinanced its 132-bed healthcare campus in Noblesville, Indiana with a $9.6 million loan. The facility was built in 2010 and features 49 skilled nursing, 33 assisted living and 29 memory care units. Trilogy also received a $5.7 million loan to refinance its Lafayette, Indiana skilled nursing facility. With 71 beds, it was originally built in 1969 but recently renovated in 2010. Both loans (which have 35-year amortization schedules) will also fund some repairs at the... Read More »

Erik Howard’s Transaction Trio

Baltimore-based Capital Funding Group recently closed three HUD transactions totaling nearly $25 million for a repeat borrower. Erik Howard, Managing Director of Real Estate Finance, facilitated the loans, which included a $9.06 million mortgage for a Colorado skilled nursing facility, a $9.96 million loan for a Washington facility and $5.75 in financing for another Washington SNF. All three loans refinanced existing term loans from conventional lenders, and Mr. Howard executed a no-lockout, five-year prepayment penalty structure that gave the borrower, a national operator of SNFs and assisted living communities, greater flexibility in the medium term. Read More »