• 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 »
Capital One goes to Princeton

Capital One goes to Princeton

Working with HUD, Joshua Rosen of Capital One originated a $5.9 million refinance for a 95-bed skilled nursing facility in Princeton, Indiana. Originally built in 1968, with an addition in 1974, the facility features 45 semi-private units and five private rooms, and was operated by a local hospital. It was certified by Medicare and Medicaid, which led Rosen to work with HUD on Medicaid’s Upper Payment Limit program. Available in only a few states, the program is a federal limit on fee-for-service reimbursement of Medicaid providers. This incentivizes the owner to have a local hospital serve as operator, thereby increasing Medicaid payments, which can be taken into consideration during the... Read More »
Ferguson gets some Love

Ferguson gets some Love

A skilled nursing/assisted living facility in Ferguson, Missouri recently refinanced with the help of Washington D.C.-based lender, Love Funding. The facility is owned by Christian Woman’s Benevolent Associates, a not-for-profit founded in 1911 at first to care for impoverished mothers, then expanding the provide care for all those in need. The facility, which includes 150 skilled nursing beds in 78 units and 14 assisted living semiprivate units, is one of two facilities in the area that provides on-site dialysis services to its residents and serves mainly Medicaid patients. Between the two acuity levels, occupancy was approximately 89%. Robyn Cunningham and Adrian Hartman of Love secured... Read More »

No rest for the weary

Capital Funding Group recently announced the closing of four transactions for three different skilled nursing facilities across the country. First up, Capital Funding provided an undisclosed amount of subordinated debt to finance the acquisition of a 175-bed SNF in Modesto, California. A group of private real estate investors was the buyer, which brought on an affiliate of Windsor Healthcare to operate. Next up, in a deal that may sound familiar to our readers, CFG financed Vita Healthcare Group’s acquisition of a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. There were three parts to the transaction. Capital Funding arranged a $13.36 bridge-to-HUD loan funded through a... Read More »

KeyBank does double-duty

John Randolph and Charlie Shoop of KeyBank’s Healthcare Mortgage Group recently arranged $47.7 million of permanent financing, which included a $28.5 million HUD loan and a $9.2 million Fannie Mae loan, to refinance a portfolio of six assisted living communities. The HUD loan featured a low fixed rate for 35 years, while the Fannie Mae loan was originated and closed within 50 days. The portfolio includes 319 units and is entirely located in North Carolina. With the funds, the borrower, Ridge Care Inc., improves its cash flow flexibility and will be able to both make capital improvements and grow its portfolio. Back in March 2015, Ridge Care also received a $59.8 million credit facility... Read More »
Ferguson gets some Love

Love and Supportive

A brand new supportive living facility is set to go up on a 2.5-acre lot in an urban neighborhood around six miles from downtown Chicago. All 120 studio and one-bedroom units will be backed by Illinois’s Supportive Living Program, which is an apartment-style alternative to skilled nursing care for low-income seniors and those with disabilities under Medicaid. The project is estimated to cost approximately $27 million, or $225,000 per unit. MR Properties, which was formed in 2000 as a joint venture between two experienced Chicago developers, Phil Mappa and Colin Regan, is developing the facility, after having previously built a 335-unit community and a 224-unit community, both for... Read More »