• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... 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 »