• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    by | May 21, 2026 2:37 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | May 21, 2026 2:36 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | May 21, 2026 2:34 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | May 21, 2026 2:33 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | May 20, 2026 8:33 am | 60 Seconds, Opinion

    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 »
Back to Business for KeyBank

Back to Business for KeyBank

by | Apr 18, 2017 7:27 pm | Financings

Less than a month after KeyBank Real Estate Capital announced its $703 million financing to fund Blackstone’s purchase of 64 seniors housing communities from HCP Inc., it was back to business for the commercial real estate financing provider with another HUD refinance. John Randolph of KeyBank’s Healthcare Group arranged a $15.4 million HUD loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Harlingen, Texas, which is located just a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The 35-year loan refinanced existing debt on the facility, which was built in 2012, which helps explain the high value and debt of $128,300 per bed. Read More »

From Coulterville to California for Cambridge Realty Capital Companies

by | Apr 14, 2017 7:00 am | Financings

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies closed a couple of transactions for clients across the country. First up, in Coulterville, Illinois, the Cambridge team arranged a $3.76 million HUD refinance for a 71-bed skilled nursing facility. The owner, a Missouri LLC, received a 35-year, fully amortized term. Then, a California LLC received a $3.7 million HUD loan, courtesy of Cambridge’s Hymie Barber, to refinance its nearly 20-year old 58-bed assisted living community in Arroyo Grande, California. The loan comes with a 27-year term. Read More »
Back to Business for KeyBank

Busy Berkadia

by | Apr 11, 2017 8:36 pm | Financings

Berkadia has been busy so far this month, closing four transactions that ranged from Fannie Mae financing to HUD debt to a bridge loan. Starting with the largest, the team of Heidi Brunet and Jay Healy utilized Berkadia’s proprietary bridge loan program to finance the $28 million acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities, totaling 222 Medicare-certified beds, in Colorado, Kansas and Nevada. The borrower used the proceeds of the 12-month loan to fund 100% of the purchase price, plus transaction costs, and plans to refinance through HUD. Brunet and Healy also closed two HUD loans as well, including a $2.5 million, 35-year loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Sarasota,... Read More »
Strawberry Fields REIT Refinances Scottsburg Skilled Nursing Facility

Strawberry Fields REIT Refinances Scottsburg Skilled Nursing Facility

by | Mar 31, 2017 8:30 am | Financings

Six years after initially leasing a skilled nursing facility in Scottsburg, Indiana, and three years after purchasing it, Strawberry Fields REIT LLC is refinancing the facility with a $4.4 million 35-year HUD loan, featuring a 3.65% fixed interest rate. The REIT utilized a new FHA lending partner to execute the transaction, which took out an existing conventional bank acquisition loan. The 99-bed facility certainly has room to improve, with occupancy of 69% based on licensed beds and around 80% based on operational beds. But it has increased in value since Strawberry Fields’ 2014 purchase, when the facility sold for $3.415 million, or $34,495 per bed. Recently, it has been appraised for... Read More »

Capital Funding’s Trio of Financings

by | Mar 29, 2017 8:30 am | Financings

Showing off its prowess at HUD refinances, Capital Funding Group closed three of them for clients in the Southeast. First, in Washington D.C., Patrick McGovern provided a $10.5 million HUD loan to a 183-bed skilled nursing facility. This transaction comes full circle for Mr. McGovern, who arranged the original bridge acquisition loan (being taken out by the current HUD refinance) in addition to a $2 million working capital line to finance operations. Then, Gary Sever of Capital Funding Group closed two other transactions, including a $2.57 million HUD loan for an assisted living community in North Carolina and an $18.9 million HUD refinance of an assisted living community in Crozet,... Read More »