• October Kicks Off with Multiple Financings

    VIUM Capital announced a slew of closings at the start of October, ranging from HUD refinances to acquisition loans. The largest was a $72 million bride loan that refinanced four skilled nursing facilities in Pennsylvania totaling 525 beds. Proceeds will be used to take out senior debt and senior mezzanine debt. The facility will be structured as... Read More »
  • Newmark Negotiates Several Large Financings

    Sarah Anderson of Newmark has closed some notable financing transactions in the last couple of months, in addition to arranging acquisition financing for numerous deals handled by the Newmark investment sales team. One of the closings was for Vivante at Turtle Creek, a to-be-built seniors housing community on the prestigious Turtle Creek... Read More »
  • Funding Arranged for Skilled Nursing Clients

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, a specialized multifamily and seniors housing bridge lending platform, announced a couple of financings for skilled nursing clients in New England and North Carolina. First, for eight skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the firm closed a $70 million senior bridge loan with a 24-month initial term. It... Read More »
  • Newly Constructed Community Secures Financing

    BWE arranged refinancing for Clarendale Arcadia, a newly constructed senior living community in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. The financing was arranged on behalf of a repeat client joint venture between Harrison Street Asset Management, LCS, and Ryan Companies US, Inc., with LCS serving as the operator. Ryan Stoll, National... Read More »
  • Brookdale Shares Hit Seven-Year High

    Brookdale Senior Living has posted occupancy increases for several consecutive months. The operator has lagged behind the industry for a decade now, so it is about time.  Weighted average occupancy has increased each month since January, beginning at 79.2% and reaching 82.5% in September. The third quarter’s average of 81.8% is up 290 basis... Read More »
NHI Finances CCRC Expansion Project in Phoenix

NHI Finances CCRC Expansion Project in Phoenix

The Phoenix, Arizona market has been a hotbed of senior living construction activity thanks to its rapidly growing retiree population, and a large CCRC catering to high-income residents is looking to capture part of that growth with an independent living expansion. Sagewood already has 316 independent living units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. Demand for independent living was strong (with the IL units fully occupied in 2018), so ownership decided to build a Phase II, which included 101 more units. It was clearly the right decision, as 96% of the new IL units are already presold, with entrance fees projected to average $700,000. Recently, the... Read More »
Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

Big Rock Partners’ Next Big Project

No stranger to big senior living projects, Big Rock Partners (BRP) announced it will be building its second senior living community in Palm Beach County, Florida, at an estimated cost of $150 million, or over $530,000 per unit. BRP kicked it off with the $9 million acquisition of a 15-acre site in Delray Beach, where it will build 185 independent living, 50 assisted living and 44 memory care units. LCS will operate the community upon completion in 2021. Trez Forman Capital financed the land acquisition, and Al Rex of Walker & Dunlop is the project’s financing advisor. Last year, BRP opened a 320-unit community in Lake Worth at a cost of $106 million, which means the company’s total... Read More »
BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

As joint venture partners TH Real Estate (an affiliate of Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA) and LCS continue their acquisition activity, BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group got in on the action and arranged acquisition financing for two of the deals. First, the firm acted as sole lender for a $14.4 million term facility for a CCRC in Palm City, Florida with 225 independent living units, 20 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. They again acted as sold lender for another $12.3 million term facility arranged for a CCRC in Essex, Connecticut with 189 independent living units (including 13 cottages) and 45 skilled nursing beds. Read More »
CBRE Adds Another Bridge Lending Option

CBRE Adds Another Bridge Lending Option

Bridge loans are the hottest lending product for seniors housing and care right now (we’re actually hosting a webinar on that very subject next month), and CBRE Capital Markets is expanding its presence in that market with a large new vehicle aimed at providing more flexible short-term loans to seniors housing and multifamily borrowers. The program is called MF1 Capital, LLC and was structured as a mortgage REIT focused on providing equity to multifamily (about 75% of its business) and seniors housing (the remaining 25%) owners. CBRE’s strategic partners on the vehicle include multifamily real estate investment management firms Limekiln Real Estate and Berkshire Group. What sets this... Read More »
CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge

CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge

CBRE’s Aron Will has been on a roll lately, having just closed his fifth transaction in under a month. The latest helped fund the acquisition of four seniors housing communities in the Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana MSAs. They actually represent the stabilized properties within a seven-property portfolio acquisition (totaling 688 units) that CBRE also provided financing for. Totaling 360 units, of which 278 are dedicated to assisted living and the remainder to memory care, the stabilized portfolio has been third-party managed by LCS since 2015 and will continue to be. The buyer, a joint venture between LCS and TH Real Estate, the real estate private equity affiliate of... Read More »