• REIT Acquires Two Class-A Assets

    The team at Newmark handled the sale of two Class-A seniors housing assets in Arkansas and Texas. The Rogers community in Northwest Arkansas was built in 2023 with 221 total units, comprising 26 cottages, 109 independent living units, 56 assisted living units and 30 memory care units. The Burleson, Texas, community also opened in 2023 and... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Inaugural North Dakota Deal

    Ryan Kelly, Steve Thomes, Connor Doherty and Kory Buzin of Blueprint arranged the sale of a 75-bed skilled nursing facility in central North Dakota. At the time of marketing, the facility was generating positive cash flow despite operating at only 50% occupancy, highlighting a compelling opportunity for an incoming operator to drive census growth... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Refinancing

    Grace Hill Capital served as exclusive financial advisor and placement agent on a refinance for a seniors housing community in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. A regional operator/borrower received the $10.33 million five-year loan with a fixed rate and one year of interest only. It was structured as a delayed draw term facility at 70%... Read More »
  • Walker & Dunlop Arranges Construction Funding

    Walker & Dunlop, Inc. arranged $40.52 million in debt and equity for the construction of The Highlands, a 137-unit affordable development for seniors in Hyattsville, Maryland. PJ McDevitt, managing director of W&D Affordable Debt, arranged the debt, and Macy Kisilinsky, senior managing director of W&D Affordable Equity, arranged the... Read More »
  • Class-A Communities Secure Bridge Financing

    BWE arranged a $52 million bridge loan for a portfolio of Class-A independent living, assisted living and memory care communities located across the Atlanta, Georgia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan areas. Ryan Stoll, National Director of Seniors Housing and Care at BWE, and Taylor Mokris, Senior Vice President of Seniors Housing and... Read More »
KeyBank Announces Unitranche Loan Program with Welltower

KeyBank Announces Unitranche Loan Program with Welltower

On the eve of NIC, KeyBank Real Estate Capital announced a new unitranche loan program with Welltower, Inc., and we hope it resulted in some meetings with curious potential clients. Entitled the Healthcare Real Estate Fund, it will total $750 million in lending capacity to provide first mortgage financing on seniors housing communities and skilled nursing facilities. Terms are expected to be between three and five years, with loan amounts ranging from $25 million to $75 million, approximately.  Since the unitranche loan blends senior and junior debt pricing and terms into a single first lien debt facility rather than creating two classes of debt and coordinating among multiple... Read More »
KeyBank Secures Financing For California SNF

KeyBank Secures Financing For California SNF

Eagle Arc Partners, a healthcare real estate investment firm, received a $10.2 million fixed-rate loan from KeyBank Real Estate Capital through the Federal Housing Authority’s (FHA) 232/223(f) mortgage insurance program to refinance Livermore Healthcare in Livermore, CA.  Livermore Healthcare is a 30-unit, 83-bed skilled nursing facility. The property was built in 1966 and received minor improvements in 2019, including new vinyl flooring in various common area rooms and hallways. The loan has a fully amortizing 35-year term and will pay off an existing bridge loan. KeyBank provided the original acquisition financing for Eagle Arc’s acquisition of 35 total skilled nursing... Read More »
KeyBank Secures Financing For Six Heartis Properties

KeyBank Secures Financing For Six Heartis Properties

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured $105.9 million in financing to recapitalize a portfolio of six assisted living/memory care communities operating under the Heartis brand, on behalf of their owner, Caddis Partners. The financing structure consists of an $80 million syndicated senior credit facility and a $25.96 million mezzanine loan provided by an institutional partner. The portfolio has a combined 631 units and 642 total beds, including both assisted living and memory care services. Five Heartis properties are located in Clear Lake, Longview, San Antonio, Arlington and Waco, Texas, while the sixth property is located in Peoria, Illinois. This financing will allow for stabilization of... Read More »
Affordable Housing Deal Gets Multiple Financing Sources

Affordable Housing Deal Gets Multiple Financing Sources

Community Preservation Partners and Hampstead Development Partners turned to KeyBank to secure capital to acquire and renovate an affordable senior apartment community in New Haven, Connecticut. Originally built in 1973, the Section 8 community consists of 121 units, split between 106 one-bedroom and 15 two-bedroom units. Plus, there is one ground-level retail bay, which includes a KeyBank branch, in the nine-story building. Going forward, the property will have a Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contract covering 112 units for 20 years, and the other nine units will also operate as tax-credit units.   KeyBank Community Development Lending and... Read More »
KeyBank Arranges Development Financing For Pennsylvania Property

KeyBank Arranges Development Financing For Pennsylvania Property

A new affordable senior apartment community in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania is going ahead thanks to a couple of financing options arranged and provided by KeyBank Community Development Lending. MVAH Partners, LLC, the project’s developer, will both convert a vacant former elementary school and add to the building at an estimated cost of $14.8 million. By the spring of 2022, there will be 42 units of low-income seniors housing and eight market-rate units.  Blueprints, a not-for-profit organization focused on services for low-income seniors, is partnering with MVAH on the project. To fund it, KeyBank provided an $11 million construction loan and arranged $12 million of 9% LIHTC... Read More »