• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Locust Point Closes Second Seniors Housing & Care Fund

Locust Point Closes Second Seniors Housing & Care Fund

Locust Point Capital just closed its second fund focused on direct lending in the seniors housing and care sector. Locust Point Seniors Housing Debt Fund II, L.P. closed above its target at $428 million, receiving strong interest from a combination of pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and wealth advisors. Three quarters of the commitments came from United States-based investors, while European investors provided the balance.   The fund well exceeds Locust Point’s first, which launched in 2016 with a $312 million debut total, but the strategies will be roughly the same. Fund II will provide subordinate debt, preferred equity and opportunistic senior... Read More »
Navigating the Senior Care Lending Market with Don Kelly of Locust Point Capital

Navigating the Senior Care Lending Market with Don Kelly of Locust Point Capital

Ben Swett, the Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sits down with Don Kelly, Managing Director of Locust Point Capital, to discuss the current state of the seniors housing and care lending environment. Ben Swett, Editor of The SeniorCare Investor – Don Kelly is the Managing Director of Locust Point Capital where he is responsible for loan originations and structuring. Don has more than 25 years of experience in the seniors housing and skilled nursing industry and he’s also been involved in the originating, structuring and underwriting of approximately $5 billion in transactions. So, Don, you seem like the right person to turn to for all our lending... Read More »
People on the Move

People on the Move

Don Kelly, formerly of CapitalSource Healthcare Finance but more recently a Senior Managing Director at MONTICELLOAM, has joined Locust Point Capital as Managing Director. He will be responsible for loan originations and structuring at the asset management firm, which focuses on direct lending to the lower middle market in seniors housing and care. Mr. Kelly has experience originating, structuring and underwriting approximately $5 billion in transactions across his career, which should help in his goal of expanding Locust Point’s market reach and product offerings in the lending market.  Mr. Kelly also has operating company experience, formerly working as an Executive Vice President at... Read More »
MedCore Partners Acquires Seniors Housing Portfolio

MedCore Partners Acquires Seniors Housing Portfolio

MedCore Partners and The National Realty Group announced their purchase of a seven-property senior living portfolio on the West Coast. The deal included five senior living communities in Washington State and two in California. Among the Washington properties were the 60-unit Birchview Memory Care in Sedro-Wooley, the 55-unit Discovery Memory Care in Sequim, The Sequoia in Olympia with 92 units, the 72-unit Cooks Hill Manor in Centralia and lastly, and the largest, The Village in Tacoma with 136 units. In California, there was Del Obispo Terrace in San Juan Capistrano with 91 units and the 76-unit Westminster Terrace in Westminster.   Their operator,... Read More »
Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program

Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program

Debt is certainly plentiful these days in the seniors housing and care market, leading us to a record level of M&A and investment in the industry. But what about equity? That can still trip up investors looking to purchase or develop a seniors housing property, especially if they have to raise it among family and friends, or from their own personal funds. But alternative asset manager Locust Point Capital is announcing its own project equity financing program for the seniors housing industry. The program will provide owner/operators with between $1 million and $10 million of equity capital for the construction, substantial renovation and/or acquisition of independent living, assisted... Read More »