• 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 »

Cambridge completes four HUD transactions

Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. has had a busy month, underwriting four HUD loans worth over $50 million. All of the loans went towards refinancing skilled nursing facilities for three separate local limited liability companies and an Illinois not-for-profit. The first, an $8.7 million loan with a fully amortizing 30-year term, refinanced a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in Dayton, Ohio. Staying in Dayton, a 148-bed skilled nursing facility received a $14.2 million HUD refinance with a 30-year term. Next, Cambridge arranged a $16.5 million loan with a 32-year term to refinance a 235-bed facility in Elmwood, Illinois that also provides Alzheimer’s and dementia care. Finally, an Illinois... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard Making News

Lancaster Pollard is certainly keeping busy this month. First, Lancaster Pollard Finance Co., led by Doug Korey, provided a $5.4 million balance sheet loan to fund Benicia Senior Living’s acquisition of a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in Eugene, Oregon. Second, Chris Blanda of LP structured a $5.4 million HUD LEAN loan with a 25-year term for nonprofit Baptist Homes to expand the Medicare skilled nursing offering at its CCRC in Louisville, Kentucky. Third, for Real Properties Health Facilities Corp.’s $29.5 million refinance of its 12 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities with 1,000 available beds in four states, Lancaster Pollard served as placement agent, with... Read More »

Cain Bros. arranges two HUD loans

Cain Brothers Funding, the mortgage banking affiliate of Cain Brothers, arranged $31.5 million in HUD financing for two clients in California and New York. The first was a $13.67 million HUD mortgage loan for Eskaton Senior Living Communities to refinance a 105-bed non-profit assisted living community in Northern California. The proceeds of the loan retired existing bank debt and an interest rate swap, to replace it with a 35-year fully amortizing term and a fixed interest rate of 3.07%. The second loan was a $17.8 million HUD mortgage for Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens to refinance existing commercial bank and tax-exempt bond indebtedness on a 200-bed skilled nursing facility... Read More »

Capital Funding Group funds two SNF acquisitions

Capital Funding Group recently completed two bridge-to-HUD loans for the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities. The first, an $18.29 million loan arranged by Craig Casagrande, financed the acquisition of two SNFs in Pennsylvania, totaling 256 beds. If this sounds familiar, you would be right, as the transaction, between buyer, Vita Healthcare Group and seller, a regional senior living operator, was featured in the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor. The two facilities, a 173-bed SNF (90% occupied) built in 1978 and a facility with 45 skilled nursing beds (75% occupied) and 38 personal care beds (85% occupied) built in 1968, with the skilled nursing beds added in 1996, were the... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard closes 21 deals

Lancaster Pollard had a busy month in May, closing 21 seniors housing financing transactions totaling over $136 million. Most of the loans were through HUD, including four refinances for skilled nursing facilities in Georgia and Florida, two FHA 232/241(a) expansion projects for skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest, and a $23.5 million new construction loan through HUD for an assisted living/memory care community in Virginia. Five of the transactions were for note modifications of existing HUD loans, while six were either refinances or rehabilitation loans for affordable seniors housing properties. LP facilitated one term loan placement of $7.4 million for the construction of a... Read More »