• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »
  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »
  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »
  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital’s crazy end to October

Cambridge Realty Capital’s crazy end to October

The team at Cambridge Realty Capital got to work this October, announcing eight transactions in the span of a few days. The largest of them featured a $26.92 million HUD loan closed for a 320-bed skilled nursing facility in Melville, New York. All but one of the remaining six transactions featured a HUD loan, ranging from $2.2 million to $18.3 million, for skilled nursing facilities, ranging in size from 78 to 170 beds. Cambridge also arranged a $3.0 million HUD loan for a 65-bed assisted living community in Boiling Springs, South Carolina. All told, nearly $80 million in financing was closed in the last few days of October. Well done to the Cambridge team. Read More »

CFG’s transaction trifecta

Capital Funding Group showed off its variety of services in its latest grouping of closings, totaling $25 million in financing. Gary Sever led the way in the largest transaction, closing a $17.6 million HUD construction loan for a to-be-built assisted living/memory care community in Cary, North Carolina. The building is expected to open in May 2017 with 40 AL and 40 MC units. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Stein originated a $5 million cash flow loan for a Texas skilled nursing operator. And finally, Chip Woelper arranged a $2.5 million working capital line of credit for a 141-bed skilled nursing/rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles. Well done to the CFG team. Read More »

Wait, there’s more

After announcing its seventh fiscal year in a row when it led all other HUD LEAN lenders in terms of total loan amount, Lancaster Pollard showed it was not a one-trick pony, closing two Fannie Mae refinances for clients in California. First, Jason Dopoulos arranged a $19 million loan for a 115-bed assisted living/memory care community in Oregon. The transaction refinanced an existing $10.5 million HUD loan as well as $8.2 million of previously incurred capital expenditures. And second, Grant Goodman closed a $14.5 million Fannie Mae loan for a 110-bed assisted living community in northern California, which refunded $9.6 million in existing debt and $4 million of incurred capex. Doug Harper... Read More »
SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

Despite an apparent tightening in the seniors housing financing world (a topic which we will discuss in detail in our webinar at 1PM on October 27), borrowers may soon have a new name to choose from. SunTrust Bank announced it intends to acquire substantially all assets of the operating subsidiaries of Pillar Financial, LLC, along with its multi-family, affordable housing, healthcare property, senior housing, and manufactured housing lending platforms. Pillar’s HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac licenses also enticed SunTrust, which would be able to offer agency lending options to its clients. In return, Pillar would gain access to a number of expanded products including bridge loans, equity... Read More »

2016 HUD Rankings

For the seventh fiscal year in a row, Lancaster Pollard has topped the HUD LEAN rankings, and closed 521 loans and nearly $4 billion through the program in the past seven years. In FY2016, Lancaster Pollard accounted for 19.5% of total activity, and led all other lenders in transactions closed and total loan amount, with 60 and $554.4 million, respectively. The transaction number is actually down from FY2015 (when LP closed 65 loans), but the loan amount grew by 4% from $531 million. Overall, the HUD LEAN program saw a 5% increase in total loan volume to $2.84 billion. Read More »