• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... 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 »