• 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 »
Greystone Refinances Indiana CCRC

Greystone Refinances Indiana CCRC

A not-for-profit CCRC in Elkhart, Indiana received a HUD refinance courtesy of Greystone. Lisa Fischman originated the $23.9 million loan, which came with a 30-year term and amortization. Bringing on the refinance was a recent expansion of the 220-unit property that offers independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, short-term rehab services and, most recently, memory care services.   The community was founded in 1977 and features amenities such as a wellness center, chapel, two restaurant-style dining venues and a two-acre landscaped park. The new memory care expansion comprises four houses, with nine units in each, all surrounding a central atrium.  There was a previous... Read More »
PGIM Arranges Array of HUD Financings

PGIM Arranges Array of HUD Financings

PGIM’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Group was busy on the HUD front this month, closing three loans totaling more than $33 million for three senior care facilities. Christopher Fenton, Corley Audorff, Catherine Eby and Josh Williams originated the loans and all worked on the largest transaction, which was a $21.9 million loan for a 238-unit assisted living/skilled nursing campus in Connecticut. Utilizing HUD’s 232/223(a)(7) program, the not-for-profit owner was able to lower its current interest rate by 81 basis points, and the loan term was extended to 35 years.  Then, Messrs. Audorff and Williams funded a $10.9 million loan for a 141-unit senior care... Read More »
Dwight Capital Announces Both Bridge Loans and Agency Financings

Dwight Capital Announces Both Bridge Loans and Agency Financings

Dwight Capital ended 2020 with a bang, with more than $117 million of healthcare financings closed during the fourth quarter. The volume included a few bridge acquisition loans for senior care facilities across the country, starting with $15 million in bridge and mezzanine debt for the acquisition of three assisted living/skilled nursing facilities in Kansas. Adam Sasouness originated the transaction as well as a $13.95 million bridge loan for the Laurels Portfolio, which consists of three properties in northeast Ohio with 313 beds of assisted living and skilled nursing.   Previously owned by a REIT, the facilities were originally built in the 1960s and... Read More »
Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a HUD refinance for a skilled nursing facility in Cortlandt, New York. Built in 1984 and featuring 127 beds in 96 units, the facility offers both short- and long-term rehabilitation, along with physician services and complex medical care. Offered therapies include occupational, physical, cardiac, speech, post-surgical orthopedic care, stroke recovery, hip repair/joint replacement recovery, amputee recovery and training, off-site dialysis, bariatric rehabilitation, wound care, and IV antibiotic therapy. The $22.217 million loan came with a low, fixed interest rate and a 35-year term.  Matt Miller of Greystone followed that up... Read More »
Cambridge Ends Year With 13 Closings

Cambridge Ends Year With 13 Closings

Cambridge Realty Capital just announced its fourth quarter closings, which numbered 13 transactions valued at $100 million. That brings the firm’s 2020 total activity to 40 closings and $415 million in dollar volume, the second-highest number of annual closings in Cambridge’s history. The 40 properties that were financed were primarily nursing facilities and totaled 5,254 beds or units across several states.  The largest deal was a $16.9 million loan closed for a senior care facility in Peru, Illinois, with 94 skilled nursing beds, 68 assisted living units and 36 sheltered care beds. Other highlights include a $9.7 million loan for 164-bed skilled nursing facility in the... Read More »