• 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 »

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 »