• 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 »
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 »