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
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
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 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 »Schedule a demo
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