• 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 »
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 »