• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased... Read More »
  • CareTrust’s Flurry of Acquisitions

    CareTrust REIT, Inc. closed a series of transactions totaling approximately $437 million in late October. In two separate deals, the REIT acquired 12 skilled nursing facilities and one skilled nursing campus located across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The combined portfolio includes approximately 1,760 licensed skilled nursing beds and... Read More »
  • Ensign Adds to Its Utah and Alabama Footprint

    The Ensign Group, Inc. kicked off November with a couple of new deals. The publicly traded company acquired the real estate and operations of the following seven Stonehedge skilled nursing facilities in Utah: Stonehenge of American Fork (90 beds in American Fork) Stonehenge of Cedar City (50 beds in Cedar City) Stonehenge of Ogden (52 beds in... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

    A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term... Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

    A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19... Read More »
KeyBank Refinances Two Bickford Senior Living Properties

KeyBank Refinances Two Bickford Senior Living Properties

Bickford Senior Living refinanced two of its seniors housing communities in Iowa through HUD, with the help of John Randolph of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Commercial Mortgage Group and Grant Saunders of KeyBank’s Healthcare Finance Group. Bickford received $17 million in combined HUD financing, with fully amortizing 35-year terms.  Both communities were built in 1998, with the Davenport location including 35 assisted living and seven memory care units and the Marion campus comprising 31 assisted living and seven memory care units. They are two of Bickford’s 65 seniors housing operations in 11 states. In addition to visiting physical, occupational and speech... Read More »
KeyBank Closes Two Financings

KeyBank Closes Two Financings

KeyBank Real Estate Capital closed a couple of transactions for seniors housing and care clients this week, starting with a HUD refinance of two skilled nursing facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada. Built in 1998 and renovated in 2013, Silver Hills comprises 150 operating beds in 80 units and provides physical, speech and occupational therapy. Silver Ridge was built in 1999 with 147 operating beds in 78 units and provides both in-house and outpatient therapy services, including respiratory therapy. Both are owned by Capital Senior Ventures and operated by Covenant Care. KeyBank’s John Randolph, Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera originated and structured a $30.8 million HUD refinance, with a... Read More »
Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

Keybank Secures Fannie Mae Refinance For Five Communities

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured Fannie Mae financing for a portfolio of five seniors housing communities in several states operated by Enlivant. The long-term, non-recourse debt was secured by Charlie Shoop at an attractive interest rate. Plus, KeyBank’s Tim Sylvain, Paul Di Vito and Patrick Gilbreath originated and structured a balance sheet financing that extended the revolving lines of credit to other seniors housing properties operated by Enlivant.  Read More »
Keybank Finances Renovation of Senior Apartment Community

Keybank Finances Renovation of Senior Apartment Community

KeyBank Real Estate Capital and KeyBanc Capital Markets worked on behalf of National Church Residences to secure acquisition financing for the not-for-profit’s renovation of an affordable senior apartment community in Cleveland, Ohio. Built in 1976, the community sits on two acres next to the Cleveland Clinic. It features 12 stories and 171 total Section 8 units, which came in one- or two-bedroom configurations. National Church Residences’ renovation project will preserve the building as affordable housing in the long term.  So, KeyBank provided $14 million in HUD construction financing, with a 40-year term, and also sold $17 million of required tax-exempt bonds. In addition, KeyBank... Read More »
KeyBank Secures Financing For Idaho Property

KeyBank Secures Financing For Idaho Property

Thomas Development Co., a multifamily real estate developer based in Boise, Idaho, acquired a low-income senior apartment community in nearby Caldwell thanks to financing secured by Sarah Geis and Kevin Ruf of KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment.   The community is brand new and features 48 units comprised of 32 one-bedroom and 16 two-bedroom units. The two-story building also has a community room, exercise rooms, a library and management office. Forty-one of the apartments are restricted to residents earning 40% to 60% of the area median income, and the remaining seven units are market rate. Tomlinson Associates is the operator, and a manager will live on site. ... Read More »