• SLIB’s Active Start to May 

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage hit a rich vein of activity at the start of May, reporting several closings for seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. First, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Grants Pass, Oregon. Built in the 1960s, Oak Lane Retirement... Read More »
  • Final Asset Closes in SNF Portfolio Acquired by Ensign

    The Ensign Group acquired the real estate and operations of Marianwood Health and Rehabilitation, a 117-bed skilled nursing facility in Issaquah, Washington. The real estate was acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc., Ensign’s captive real estate company, and will be operated by an Ensign-affiliated tenant. The... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Financing for Two Standalone-Memory Care Communities

    BWE, together with Blueprint Capital Markets, closed two loans totaling $17.82 million to provide financing for the acquisition of two Class-A memory care communities: Windsong at Southridge ($10.42 million) and Windsong at Eola Hills ($7.4 million). Lundat Kassa of BWE handled the financing, having been brought onto the deal by the team at... Read More »
  • Montgomery Intermediary Group Announces M&A and Financing Activity

    Montgomery Intermediary Group continued its active 2025 with a financing and two recent M&A closings. First, Jeremy Warren worked on behalf of an owner/operator seeking to recapitalize a 210-unit assisted living community that was originally a purpose-built hotel. The goal was to generate cash for ownership and to finance cosmetic renovations... Read More »
  • Live Oak Closes Bridge-to-Sale Loan

    In April 2025, Live Oak Bank closed a $25 million bridge loan for a Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I, LP-held seniors housing community. The loan provides a bridge-to-sale and features a three-year initial term, 36 months of interest-only payments and $2.8 million in potential future earnout proceeds. Loan proceeds were used to return capital to... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes Bridge Loan Trifecta

Lancaster Pollard Closes Bridge Loan Trifecta

Lancaster Pollard’s bridge lending program got a good workout in the new year with three new closings. The team of Scott Blount, Chris Mauger, Brian Cafarella and Eric Sengpiel closed the largest transaction, which totaled $12 million, on behalf of Advanced Healthcare Management to acquire a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Southaven, Mississippi. A local hospital looking to exit the SNF business was the seller. That same team from Lancaster Pollard also closed a $6.7 million bridge loan for a 107-bed skilled nursing facility in Welsh, Louisiana. The transaction refinanced existing debt and capital improvement costs, and also provided some equity cash out. Finally, Mr. Mauger and Kyle... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Jason Dopoulos of Lancaster Pollard secured construction financing through HUD on behalf of Sunshine Retirement Living to expand its presence in southern California. Already with two senior living communities in the San Diego area, the Oregon-based Sunshine, along with Welbrook Senior Living, is working on building its first in the Los Angeles MSA. The Fountain Valley community will feature 106 assisted living and 39 memory care units when it opens in 2020. Situated about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles, it is also ideally located next to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, which certainly adds to the property’s appeal. With its low interest rate, the $36 million HUD loan should help... Read More »
Alliance Moving Forward at Massachusetts SNF

Alliance Moving Forward at Massachusetts SNF

The not-for-profit senior care operator, Alliance Health & Human Services, secured both a permanent refinance of its 101-bed skilled nursing facility in Braintree, Massachusetts, and a more stable financial future to further its mission there. The $14.2 million HUD loan, arranged by Aaron Becker of Lancaster Pollard, is the sixth overall closed in the relationship. It refinanced existing debt and reimbursed Alliance for prior capital expenditures. Alliance will now be able to file a Determination of Need with the state in order to invest another $3 million to renovate the facility. Under the program, the state would reimburse Alliance the renovation funds through a future increase in... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Hits the Mark With Life Insurance Financing

Lancaster Pollard Hits the Mark With Life Insurance Financing

Grant Goodman, Casey Moore and Doug Harper of Lancaster Pollard helped structure a life insurance refinance of two memory care communities owned by Agemark Corporation. Both located in Nebraska and totaling 75 units, the properties were encumbered with traditional bank debt. Looking to lock in their interest rate early in this rising rate environment, Agemark was introduced to Protective Life Insurance Company to obtain a 10-year, fixed-rate financing. This was the first transaction between the two but may not be the last. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Provides Bridge Loan to Midwest Operator Medicalodges

Lancaster Pollard Provides Bridge Loan to Midwest Operator Medicalodges

The 100% employee-owned senior care operator Medicalodges, Inc. recently obtained short-term financing from Lancaster Pollard for three of its skilled nursing facilities in Kansas and Missouri. Bill Wilson of Lancaster Pollard and Joe Munhall of LP’s Debt Syndications group arranged a $7.6 million bridge loan with a 36-month term through First Bank that will provide for capital expenditures at the three facilities and the repurchase of employee stock ownership plans. Medicalodges expects to take the loan out with HUD debt after the seasoning period. Read More »