• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:27 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:26 pm | 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

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:25 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:24 pm | Acquisitions

    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

    by | Nov 6, 2025 3:23 pm | Acquisitions

    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 Arranges Fannie Mae Refinance in North Carolina

KeyBank Arranges Fannie Mae Refinance in North Carolina

by | Mar 2, 2018 8:34 am | Financings

A high-end assisted living community located halfway between Greensboro and Durham, North Carolina just refinanced with the help of Charlie Shoop of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Built in 2014, the one-story community features 65 units of assisted living and memory care on a roughly eight-acre plot in the town of Mebane, and was well occupied. It is operated by Ridge Care, which has a portfolio that includes 11 other communities in North Carolina and one in West Virginia. To refinance existing debt, Ridge Care received a $15.5 million fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan, with a 10-year term subsequent to a two-year interest-only period. Read More »
KeyBank Arranges Fannie Mae Refinance in North Carolina

KeyBank Real Estate Capital Refinances Two Pennsylvania Properties

by | Jan 9, 2018 3:35 pm | Financings

A large regional owner/operator in the Northeast refinanced two of its senior care facilities through HUD, with the help of John Randolph of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Located in Pennsylvania, the properties include a 180-bed skilled nursing facility and a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, the latter of which also features a 73-bed independent/assisted living wing. Mr. Randolph arranged $57.7 million in HUD financing to pay down a portion of an existing bridge loan, originally secured by KeyBank’s Henry Alonso and Brandon Taseff, that was used to fund the initial acquisition, and subsequent recapitalization, of a portfolio of healthcare facilities located in the Northeast. Read More »
KeyBank Arranges Fannie Mae Refinance in North Carolina

KeyBank Refinances Portion of Welltower/Chinese Deal

by | Nov 29, 2017 7:01 am | Financings

Welltower’s sale of a 75% ownership interest in a 39-property senior care portfolio to Chinese firms Cindat Capital Management and Union Life Insurance Co, Ltd. is back in the news, with KeyBank Real Estate Capital refinancing a portion of the original acquisition financing. In what was the fourth-largest long-term care transaction (by purchase price) of 2016, at $930 million, the Chinese joint venture took over ownership of 11 seniors housing communities master leased to Brookdale Senior Living and 28 skilled nursing/post-acute care facilities leased to Genesis Healthcare. Welltower retained a 25% interest in the portfolio, and both operators stayed on to manage. KeyBank originally... Read More »
KeyBank Finances Luxury Independent Living Development

KeyBank Finances Luxury Independent Living Development

by | Nov 14, 2017 8:32 pm | Developments, Financings

A new independent living community is going up on the Princeton University Healthcare campus, with the help of construction financing arranged by Grant Saunders, Peter Trazzera and Jake Hollinger of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Group. Featuring 260 total units, including 15 studios, 145 one-bedrooms and 100 two-bedrooms, the project is being developed by SBLP Senior Living Fund I, a fund that invests in the development of seniors housing projects. A joint venture between South Bay Partners, a Dallas-based seniors housing developer, and LAMB Properties, a real estate investment vehicle owned by the Bluhm family, sponsors the fund. Upon completion, Sage Senior Living will take... Read More »

KeyBank, Kindred and BlueMountain

by | Sep 22, 2017 7:02 am | Acquisitions, Financings

BlueMountain Capital Management has been steadily working to close its large acquisition of 96 skilled nursing facilities from Kindred Healthcare (a deal valued at approximately $700 million). For its latest tranche of closings, the firm received $128 million in acquisition financing originated by Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Mortgage Group. The term loan funded the purchase of 13 facilities including nine in California, three in Massachusetts (that are nearing approval) and one in Nashua, New Hampshire. Of the California facilities, five are located in San Francisco, plus one each in Salinas, Stockton, Walnut Creek and Livermore. This marks... Read More »