• 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 »
HHC Finance Firing on All Cylinders

HHC Finance Firing on All Cylinders

Housing and Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) was busy in February, closing three HUD transactions for nearly $43.7 million in business. First, in Nassau County, New York, a 218-bed/95-unit assisted living community obtained a $23 million loan with an interest rate in the low 3s. Built in 1960, the building had operated as a long-term psychiatric care facility until it was purchased by the current owner in 2001. Over the next three years, the owner, which has owned and/or operated several senior care facilities in the New York City area, invested $12 million in renovations and converted the property to a low-income assisted living community. Now with the current HUD refinance, the borrower... Read More »

Berkadia Serves Up Agency Financings

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare team, led by Chris Honn, has been working at a furious pace since the end of last year, closing $288 million in financings in the past two months. First up on the agency side, Berkadia arranged a $36.7 million Freddie Mac loan, with a 10-year fixed-rate term, for a recently stabilized 131-unit independent living community in Birmingham, Michigan. Through Fannie Mae, the team also closed a $98 million, seven-year loan (with a fixed rate) on behalf of the owners of a 605-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Florida who were looking to cash out their equity. For a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities, and 222 beds, in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, Berkadia... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard’s Transaction Triple

Lancaster Pollard’s Transaction Triple

The team at Lancaster Pollard posted a trifecta of Fannie Mae/HUD transactions across the middle of the country. The largest of the three, an $11 million Fannie Mae loan with a 10-year fixed-rate term, was arranged for an assisted living/memory care community in Omaha, Nebraska. The community had existing Fannie Mae debt, at a higher interest rate, but was in need of repairs and renovations. Quintin Harris arranged the transaction, which provided $3 million in new money for the renovation project. Then Kyle Hemminger closed a Fannie Mae loan for a three-year old, 48-bed memory care community in the Houston area that is owned by a Texas-based operator. That was the second Fannie Mae closing... Read More »
Capital One Closes HUD Refinance of Large Illinois SNF

Capital One Closes HUD Refinance of Large Illinois SNF

One of the largest skilled nursing facilities in Illinois just received a $16.8 million 35-year HUD refinance, courtesy of Joshua Rosen of Capital One. Located in the town of Joliet (about 40 miles outside of Chicago), the facility serves both Medicaid and Medicare patients in either private or semi-private rooms. In addition to long-term care, it also offers respite care and sub-acute/short-term rehab care (to Medicare patients), encompassing physical/occupational/speech therapy, wound care management, cardiac rehab, trach care and post-stroke management. The facility was built in 1975, but improvements have been made since then. The owning principals, which have operated it since 1998,... Read More »
New Future for HUD Lender

New Future for HUD Lender

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC) is bringing on a new face to oversee its expansion efforts in the healthcare lending world, though this new addition is no stranger to healthcare finance. Keith Reuben, an industry veteran having been part of senior management at CapitalSource Inc. from 2001 to 2009, and then Executive Vice President of the Commercial and Specialty Finance Business at Capital One Bank from 2011 to 2015, has joined HHC as its CEO. The lender clearly has its niche in providing HUD financing to senior care properties, closing 28 transactions for a total of $355.9 million in FY2016, including the agency’s largest loan of the year: an $80.7 million loan to refinance a... Read More »