• Diversified Healthcare Trust’s SHOP Delivers Strong Results

    Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) announced fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2025 results, and its SHOP segment delivered. Same-property SHOP NOI in the fourth quarter jumped 27.6% year over year to $38 million, and full-year SHOP NOI climbed 31.3% to $129.3 million. Same property SHOP occupancy reached 82.4% in Q4, up 90 basis points from... Read More »
  • Lease Option Closes for High-Performing CT SNFs

    A long-time regional owner/operator looking to secure capital for future redeployment into the skilled nursing sector approached Blueprint to market two skilled nursing facilities. The high-performing assets sit 40 miles apart in southern and western Connecticut with 301 total beds. The non-union facilities were generating $4.4 million of EBITDAR... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Acquires North Carolina Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A few seniors housing communities in North Carolina were recently divested by a North Carolina owner/operator. The three assets total 61 independent living units and 173 assisted living and memory care beds. The independent living component was developed by the seller. The buyer, a not-for-profit with more than 30 years of experience acquiring... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Owner/Operator Secures Its First HUD Financing

    In a transaction that marks the third time Berkadia has secured financing for the asset, the company arranged a $35.4 million HUD financing for a 189-bed skilled nursing facility in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The asset was developed in three phases between 1996 and 2007. It has been owned by a Louisiana-based owner/operator of skilled nursing... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Receives Financing

    MONTICELLOAM provided financing to three seniors housing communities in Illinois. Originated by Karina Davydov, the package includes up to $44 million in bridge financing with a 36-month term. The portfolio offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. The sponsor, a Midwest-based senior living operator... Read More »
Blueprint Closes New England Assisted Living Sale

Blueprint Closes New England Assisted Living Sale

The husband and wife owners of an assisted living community in Dover, New Hampshire started on their path to retirement with the help of Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Originally a historic colonial home that was converted to assisted living, the unique community still has a bed a breakfast feel to it. However, a local operator/developer saw the chance to refurbish and expand the property, purchasing it for an undisclosed amount. The husband and wife team will remain as the operator under a lease until the development project is completed, at which point operations will transfer to the new real estate owner. The transaction closed with an assist from former... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Flourishes This Summer

Live Oak Bank Flourishes This Summer

Showing off its versatility, Live Oak Bank facilitated acquisition financing for two separate, and very different, transactions. First, the bank provided a cash flow balance sheet loan to support a partner buy-out at Frontier Management. Formation Capital had owned a 50% stake in the senior living operator, but with this transaction, Frontier’s founder and CEO, Greg Roderick, became the sole owner. Established in 2000, Frontier now operates 80 communities with over 6,000 independent living, assisted living and memory care units across 12 states. Second, Live Oak Bank provided a $5 million SBA 7a loan for local operator in Utah to acquire two small assisted living communities in the town of... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Growing Its Senior Care Business

Live Oak Bank Growing Its Senior Care Business

Still just less than a year after forming its senior care lending division (and hiring Adam Sherman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors as the new division’s industry expert), Live Oak Bank closed two more loans for seniors housing properties. First, working on behalf of a local owner/operator in Georgia, Live Oak provided a $5 million SBA 7a loan and a companion balance sheet loan to fund the construction of a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in the town of Cartersville. The loans came with floating rates and fully amortize over 25 years, with no balloon payments. For the developer, this isn’t their first rodeo in northwest Atlanta (a market we have heard has seen... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Flourishes This Summer

Live Oak Bank Comes Alive In Seniors Housing Lending

After launching its senior care lending division and hiring Adam Sherman (most recently of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors and before that of RED Capital Group) as the new division’s industry expert late last year, Live Oak Bank just provided its first loan to a seniors housing property. The bank (the second-largest SBA lender in the country) closed a $3.6 million SBA 7a construction loan for a private owner/operator to build a 24-unit memory care community in Springboro, Ohio (Cincinnati MSA). It came with a 24-month interest-only period and 26-year fully amortizing term. The bank is looking to grow this business in the seniors housing space, rather than the more-regulated... Read More »