• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... 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 »