• 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 »
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 »