• Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... Read More »
  • Senior Care Campus Components Sell to Separate Buyers

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated two separate transactions involving the assisted living and skilled nursing components of a senior care campus in Mansfield, Ohio. The seller, a local not-for-profit, faced significant operational and financial challenges, prompting an urgent need for a transition. Senwell was engaged to identify... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures Funds

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced that the firm, along with firm affiliates, funded $48.10 million in combined bridge and working capital funding for a three-facility skilled nursing portfolio in North Carolina. The transaction included a $45.6 million bridge financing and a $2.5 million working capital line of credit. The borrower, a returning client,... Read More »
  • Autumn Lake Healthcare Acquires Maryland SNFs

    First Citizens Bank’s Healthcare Finance business provided $338 million in financing to affiliates of Autumn Lake Healthcare for the acquisition of 12 Maryland skilled nursing facilities with over 1,500 beds. Based in Howell, New Jersey, Autumn Lake Healthcare’s portfolio includes 66 skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 8,200 beds... Read More »
  • Central Florida Portfolio Secures Financing

    Grace Hill Capital, a seniors housing capital advisory firm founded by Adam Shealy, closed a refinance and recapitalization of a four-community independent living, assisted living and memory care portfolio in Central Florida. The portfolio comprises five buildings totaling 257 units, operated by a regional provider with a proven record of... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

The team at Live Oak Bank arranged a couple of financings for two owner/operator clients. First, to refinance a newly built memory care community in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Live Oak provided a five-year, floating rate bridge loan totaling $12.3 million to the developer, Watercrest Senior Living. Opened in March 2018, the purpose-built community has 64 units and operates under Watercrest’s “Market Street” brand. Watercrest worked with Lument to arrange the financing. This brings Watercrest’s portfolio to 13 communities in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia.  The second transaction saw Live Oak Bank provide a $28.5... Read More »
Live Oak Bank’s Construction Lending Spree

Live Oak Bank’s Construction Lending Spree

There’s no doubt that construction lending has slowed, and the loans that do close are much more conservative and now almost always require some sort of recourse. Nevertheless, Live Oak Bank closed three construction financings in December alone, capping off a successful year for the bank’s senior care lending platform.  First was an $8.5 million loan for a to-be-built senior living community in Reidsville, North Carolina. ALG Senior had controlled a Certificate of Need to operate assisted living in the county for many years and eventually purchased a 12.5-acre site. The community will feature 58 units and 75 beds of both independent living and assisted living, and... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

Live Oak Bank Announces Two SBA Loan Closings

SBA lender Live Oak Bank has been hard at work recently arranging coronavirus relief loans through the Paycheck Protection Program, but the bank also announced a couple of SBA loans that closed earlier this year. First, Live Oak secured acquisition financing for a partnership to buy a 37-unit assisted living community in the town of Shohola, Pennsylvania (in the northeastern part of the state near the New York border). Previously owned and operated by a local individual, the stabilized community was built in 1990 on a 16-acre site. It is the first property directly owned by the acquirer. To fund the deal and limit the equity requirement of the borrowers, Live Oak provided a $5.2 million... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Reports Lively Quarter

Live Oak Bank Reports Lively Quarter

Live Oak Bank was hard at work in the third quarter, closing three loans on behalf of senior care clients across the country. First, on behalf of a joint venture between Smith/Packett and RSF Partners, the lender closed a $6.2 million commitment for a conventional refinance of a 136-bed skilled nursing facility in Parksley, Virginia (Eastern Shore). Smith/Packett had originally acquired the community from a local hospital in 2017, bringing in Saber Healthcare to operate the property under a lease agreement. In the last couple of years, the firm has invested millions in renovating the property. And now, the time has come to refinance. Live Oak then closed a $3.3 million SBA 7a construction... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Two Balance Sheet Loans

Live Oak Bank Closes Two Balance Sheet Loans

Utilizing its balance sheet lending program, Live Oak Bank closed two conventional loans on behalf of senior living clients. Adam Sherman led the way on both transactions. The first was arranged for a to-be-built assisted living/memory care community in Mason, Ohio being developed by Berengaria Development, the real estate arm of Marcus Investments. There will be 23 AL and 18 MC units, with BrightStar Senior Living, an affiliate of home health care provider BrightStar Care, leasing and operating the property upon completion. The project received a $6.9 million loan, with a five-year term, 25-year amortization and 24 months of interest only payments to accommodate the construction and... Read More »