• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    by | Jan 16, 2026 2:37 pm | Acquisitions

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »

  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    by | Jan 16, 2026 2:35 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »

  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    by | Jan 16, 2026 2:34 pm | Acquisitions

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »

  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    by | Jan 16, 2026 2:31 pm | Acquisitions

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »

  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    by | Jan 15, 2026 4:06 pm | Acquisitions

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »
Caddis Recapitalizes Five “Heartis” Seniors Housing Communities

Caddis Recapitalizes Five “Heartis” Seniors Housing Communities

by | Feb 21, 2017 9:33 pm | Financings

Caddis just recapitalized five of its brand-new seniors housing communities in Texas. We’ve written about the “Heartis” brand (and Caddis-developed) before, which continues to grow in a number of Texas markets. The five properties just recapitalized are located in Amarillo, Cleburne (Fort Worth MSA), Conroe (Houston MSA), Cypress (Houston), and Fort Worth, a number of markets we have been keeping our eye on for overdevelopment. Nevertheless, this 352-unit portfolio must be performing well under the management of Frontier Management. Grant Saunders and Jay Jordan of KeyBank Real Estate Capital originated and underwrote the $62 million term loan. Read More »
Recapitalizing with KeyBank

Recapitalizing with KeyBank

by | Sep 30, 2016 2:44 pm | Financings

Grant Saunders, Sarah Belmont and Charlie Shoop of KeyBank Real Estate Capital all went to work to recapitalize a portfolio of eight seniors housing and care properties owned by Sentio Healthcare Properties, Inc. First, Saunders and Belmont helped the Orlando-based public, non-traded REIT refinance five of its properties, located in Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Louisiana, with a $62 million balance sheet term loan from KeyBank. Those properties are a combination of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing facilities. As for the three remaining properties (assisted living and memory care communities) located in Ohio, Maryland and Florida, Mr. Shoop arranged... Read More »

KeyBank goes big with HUD

by | Sep 6, 2016 8:49 pm | Financings

Formation Capital went to KeyBank Real Estate Capital to refinance a 22-property skilled nursing portfolio located in Florida (17 facilities) and Mississippi (five). With a total of 2,682 beds, the facilities were purchased in February from GE Capital. John Randolph and Paul Di Vito of KeyBank arranged $249 million in HUD financing, which will help pay down an existing bridge loan that funded a 66-facility acquisition. Read More »
The Key to success

The Key to success

by | Aug 5, 2016 2:21 pm | Financings

A life insurance company provided an $85 million permanent loan to Tradition Senior Living for its 311-unit senior living community in Dallas, Texas. Opened in 2014, the community includes 202 independent living units, 85 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. Monique Bimler of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Mortgage Banking Group arranged the 10-year fixed-rate loan, which amounted to more than $273,000 per unit. This is not the first time Tradition has relied on KeyBank. Since 2012, KeyBank has worked with Tradition on its capital raising efforts, including originating (led by Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera) the initial construction loan and agenting the syndication... Read More »
Everything’s bigger in Texas

Everything’s bigger in Texas

by | Apr 29, 2016 8:30 am | Financings

In one of the larger financings seen so far this year, KeyBank Real Estate Capital recently provided a total of $202.1 million in Freddie Mac loans to refinance a portfolio of five independent living communities in Texas. Owned by a joint venture between Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors and Discovery Senior Living (which purchased it in 2014 for approximately $290 million, or $276,000 per unit), the “Conservatory Senior Living” portfolio totals 1,053 units, built between 2005 and 2007. Charlie Shoop and Carolyn Nazdin of Key’s Healthcare Mortgage Group, together with Pail DiVito of the Healthcare Real Estate Group, arranged non-recourse, 10-year adjustable rate financing to refinance an... Read More »