• 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 »
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 »