• 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 »
Love in Carrollton

Love in Carrollton

A new independent living community is being developed in Carrollton, Texas, with the help of a $26.3 million HUD construction loan arranged by the team at Love Funding. Sitting on 5.5 acres in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, this community will feature 183 apartments and five stand-alone cottages, as well as a clubhouse and other amenities. The 40,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church is also located across the street, which should provide a boost to occupancy. Laura Saull-Smith of Love secured the financing, which came with a 40-year term. An ownership group is behind the development, which includes principals Charlie Nicholas, Luke Harry, Steven Rumsey and Chris Willhite. Read More »

Meridian primes Continuum for HUD

Continuum Healthcare has been busy growing its portfolio and is now looking for permanent financing for the six of its skilled nursing facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania they acquired over the last three years. In the meantime, Meridian Capital Group has arranged $135.5 million in bridge financing for the facilities. The loan came with a four-year term, six months interest-only, under 15% recourse, and was provided by a balance sheet and mezzanine lender. Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson of Meridian handled the transaction, and expect to take out the bridge financing with a HUD refinance in two years. Built between 1979 and 1999, the skilled nursing portfolio features 920... Read More »
A team effort

A team effort

We wrote in the August issue of The SeniorCare Investor of Birchwood Health Care Properties’ acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities and a hospice care and home health company in Oklahoma, and that HJ Sims had financed a $5.25 million subordinate loan to fund the deal. Now, RED Capital Partners has just announced that it closed a $12.7 million balance sheet acquisition loan for Birchwood’s take-over of the 361-bed portfolio. The transaction was unique, in that the ancillary home health and hospice business provided credit support for the bridge-to-HUD loan. Read More »

Living large on Long Island

Typically, you see assisted living communities number between 50 and 100 units, and only rarely over 150 units. Those large facilities are usually reserved for independent living. But a 200-unit assisted living community on Long Island in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York recently went through HUD to refinance its variable-rate bank debt. Ken Gould of Lancaster Pollard arranged a 30-year HUD loan for the community, which also enabled it to set aside a large initial deposit on its replacement reserves while still keeping the loan-to-value low. That reduces the community’s annual contribution and improves its debt service coverage. Read More »

Capital Funding’s closings

Capital Funding Group closed a couple of transactions recently for SNFs up and down the East Coast. Starting in New York, the lender provided a $19.1 million bridge-to-HUD loan for a borrower to acquire a 167-bed skilled nursing facility. The loan covered over 90% of the $20.87 million, or $125,000 per bed, purchase price. Craig Casagrande originated the transaction, which was funded through a combination of senior and mezzanine debt and included a turnaround component based on projected improvements to the facility’s performance. Plus, Chip Woelper originated a $3 million working capital loan for the borrower to finance operations. In a separate transaction, Capital Funding served as sole... Read More »