• 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’s $50 Million Month

Lancaster Pollard showed off its financing prowess, closing a variety of transactions this month that totaled over $50 million. Bill Wilson first arranged a $9.5 million HUD loan on behalf of an Oklahoma City-based senior care operator to refinance one of its skilled nursing facilities and fund the recent construction of a therapy addition. Lancaster Pollard and the borrower have a strong relationship, working together on five transactions, totaling over $40 million, since 2014. Mr. Wilson, with assistance from Joe Munhall, also obtained a $17.4 million construction loan for a 120-unit senior living community (with independent living, assisted living and memory care) in Lincoln, Nebraska.... Read More »
Berkadia Gets Busy

Berkadia Gets Busy

The team at Berkadia has been busy lately, closing seven HUD, Fannie Mae and bridge loans for a number of clients across the country. Managing Director Heidi Brunet handled five of those for two separate borrowers. First, two years after it opened, an 87-unit assisted living/memory care community in South Carolina is refinancing its construction debt with an $18.5 million, 10-year, fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan. Lease-up has evidently gone well, as occupancy stands at 93%. The same borrower also received from Ms. Brunet a $5.3 million, 10-year, fixed-rate supplemental loan through Freddie Mac to fund an expansion project at a high-end Virginia CCRC. The property was originally built in 2011... Read More »

MidCap Financial’s Latest HUD Financing

Brett Patrick, Managing Director at MidCap Financial Housing Capital, recently arranged $7.95 million in 35-year HUD financing on behalf of a skilled nursing facility in Sun City West, Arizona (Phoenix MSA). The loan took out existing bank debt on the facility, which was built in 1985. There are 137 beds in the one-story building, which breaks down to 68 semi-private units and one private unit. Occupancy stood at 84% (over the current national average of 81%, according to NICMAP), with a 60% Medicaid census. Read More »

Lancaster Pollard Lands Financing For Nonprofit Clients

Lancaster Pollard showed its strength in agency funding, closing over $40 million in financing to help a couple of not-for-profit clients expand their services. First, in Osceola, Wisconsin, Brad Competty led the way in closing a $7.1 million HUD refinance on behalf of Christian Community Homes, a senior care provider in western Wisconsin (Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA). Originally built in 1981 as a skilled nursing facility, CCH expanded its Hudson, WI campus over the years to include senior apartments (opened in 1986), assisted living (1993) and memory care (2009). More recently, in 2011, the organization expanded on a new campus in Osceola with a 40-bed skilled nursing facility and a 20-bed... Read More »
Two Transactions From HJ Sims

Two Transactions From HJ Sims

HJ Sims recently helped a CCRC in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (Jacksonville MSA) refinance its existing bond debt, generating significant savings for the well operating property. Developed in the mid-1980s, this community features 227 independent living units, 38 private assisted living units and 60 skilled nursing beds. Occupancy has historically been high and consistently over 95% for the independent living units, which recently received a renovation. The community’s Series 2007 bonds were not eligible for an advance refunding, because they had repaid the 1993 bonds that were used to advance refund the original 1987 issuance. However, HJ Sims worked with the community’s commercial bank... Read More »