• 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 »
Walker & Dunlop & HUD

Walker & Dunlop & HUD

With the recent changes to HUD’s LEAN program, we wondered how long it would take to see a real impact on transaction volume with the agency. Well, Walker & Dunlop may not have closed an actual HUD transaction, but it did position itself well to do so in the future. For approximately $45 million, the company acquired the commercial mortgage servicing rights associated with a $3.8 billion servicing portfolio from Oppenheimer Multifamily Housing & Healthcare Finance, Inc., a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. The portfolio consists of over 480 multifamily and healthcare HUD loans, and makes Walker & Dunlop the largest HUD multifamily/healthcare servicer in the country. The... Read More »

Two cheers for Cambridge

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies closed nearly $25 million in HUD refinancings for two senior care properties in the Chicago area. Both were Alden Management Services facilities, two of 46 owned by the senior care provider mainly around Chicago and a couple in Wisconsin. A 121-bed assisted living community in Aurora received a $13.58 million loan with a 35-year term. In Chicago, a 300-bed skilled nursing facility refinanced with an $11.3 million loan, also for 35 years. Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. underwrote both transactions. Read More »
Pillar delivers

Pillar delivers

A 96-unit assisted living community in Glen Cove, New York undergoing an expansion to add a dedicated memory care wing also refinanced with HUD at the same time. The community, built in 1992 and owned by the not-for-profit National Healthplex, Inc., sought to repay existing municipal bonds, as well as to fund the conversion/rehabilitation project. Josh Hausfeld of Pillar originated a $32.5 million HUD loan, with a 40-year term. The financing was more complicated than usual, with a ground lease on the project land, a payment in-lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement, and the existing tax-exempt bonds issued by Glen Cove Industrial Development Agency. Following the expansion, the community will... Read More »

HUD grows

HUD just made things a little easier for owners of seniors housing and care properties to refinance through the HUD LEAN program. There were a couple of notable changes to the program. First, when facilitating a partner-buyout on a property and the borrower takes out a bridge loan to finance it, they can refinance that loan immediately with HUD, with certain caveats, including timelines for buyback provisions. The second notable change is a new system for determining debt seasoning. If a HUD loan is less than or equal to 60% loan-to-value (LTV), then there is no debt seasoning requirement. Between 60% LTV and 70%, there is no seasoning required as long as at least 50%of the existing bridge... Read More »

Big Sky gets big refi

In one of the company’s largest transactions closed in recent years, Denver-based Pineview Capital Group secured a $12.35 million HUD loan to refinance a 153-unit senior living community in Butte, Montana. The community was built in 1999 on a 13-acre property, with 102 assisted living units, 31 independent living units and 20 memory care units. There is also a 19% Medicaid census. Brett Patrick and Brian Therkildsen led the way for Pineview on this transaction. Read More »