• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Provides Bridge Loans To Stabilizing Properties

Live Oak Bank Provides Bridge Loans To Stabilizing Properties

Live Oak Bank ended 2021 by closing three loans for senior care clients totaling over $50 million. First, Mississippi-based Claiborne Senior Living received a $33.5 million loan to facilitate a partner buyout for a Class-A, 213-unit independent living, assisted living, and memory care community built in 2017 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Claiborne took over management in early 2021 and added net 41 residents YTD through November 2021, or more than three residents per month. Locust Point Capital partnered with Claiborne to complete the capital stack. Approximately $1.8 million in loan proceeds will support capex improvements, enhanced programming, and a marketing campaign to rebrand the... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Branches Out with Two Financings

Live Oak Bank Branches Out with Two Financings

Live Oak Bank announced its latest closings for a couple of construction projects. First, to build a high-quality, 68-unit assisted living community in Fairbanks, Alaska, the bank provided $15 million in debt for the borrower and developer, Frontier Partners, LLC, which has familiarity in the market. The debt was structured into two loans utilizing the SBA 504 program, including an interim construction loan totaling $10.2 million to be held by Live Oak and a second bridge loan prior to the 504 Debenture totaling $4.8 million.  Next, Live Oak closed a $5 million SBA 7a construction loan with a $3.4 million conventional pari-passu loan for Lotus Senior Living to... Read More »
Live Oak Bank and HJ Sims Team Up

Live Oak Bank and HJ Sims Team Up

Sometimes to get a deal done you have to get creative and be flexible. It appears that was the case for a recent sale of a 55-unit assisted living and memory care community located in Utah. Of the total, 42 units are assisted living and 13 are memory care. Even though capital sources have opened up, to get maximum leverage, if that is what you want or need, your lending groups can get flexible.  Live Oak Bank and HJ Sims teamed up to provide the financing solution for the buyer of this community, a regional owner/operator with 15+ years of experience that currently manages more than 1,600 units in more than 25 communities across five states in the Mountain West... Read More »
Columbia Pacific Secures Construction Financing for Virginia Project

Columbia Pacific Secures Construction Financing for Virginia Project

Live Oak Bank closed a $26.1 million construction loan for the development of a 126-unit assisted living (90 units) and memory care (36 units) community located in Chesapeake, Virginia. The loan came with a five-year term, but no other details were disclosed.  Columbia Pacific Real Estate Fund III, LP is developing the project, which is situated on 6.63 acres. Leisure Care, a consistent partner of CPA, will operate it going forward. This represents Live Oak Bank’s second loan closing with CPA in the last six months.   Read More »
Lument Arranges Bank Loan For Watercrest Community

Lument Arranges Bank Loan For Watercrest Community

Lument arranged bank financing for Watercrest Senior Living’s newly built senior living community in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Steve McGee, managing director at Lument since joining the team in 2020 to head its debt syndication group, led the transaction, which took out construction debt at the property. Opened in 2018, Market Street East Lake has 64 units of memory care and joined Watercrest’s growing portfolio, which currently numbers 13 properties across the Southeast.  The new bridge-to-agency loan totals $12.3 million and covers about 70% of the property’s value. That puts the community at around $275,000 per unit in value. The debt came with a floating interest rate for a five-year... Read More »