• Cap Rates Continue Compression in JLL’s Investor Survey

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard, Executive Managing Director of JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory, to discuss the results of JLL’s recently published 2026 Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey and Trends. They also covered some major topics heading into NIC in Nashville. Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Burning Questions for NIC Attendees

    This time next week, we’ll be heading out of Nashville from the Spring NIC conference likely buoyed by the overwhelmingly positive mood we’re expecting from most of our industry friends. It’s hard not to be optimistic when occupancy and margins are increasing to healthy levels nationally, and show no signs of stopping, when liquidity is... Read More »
  • Janus Living’s IPO Results

    Janus Living has completed its initial public offering, raising $878 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses payable by the company. The REIT sold 48.3 million shares of its Class A-1 common stock at $20 per share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ 6.3 million-share option. It made its New York... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Secures Slew of HUD and Bridge Financings

    VIUM Capital recently closed a series of healthcare and seniors housing real estate financings across multiple states, spanning both HUD-insured loans and bridge executions for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care assets. The largest loan was a $56.4 million HUD financing for a 325-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida. The facility... Read More »
  • Several Senior Care Finances Close

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group reported an active end of winter, closing a handful of debt transactions for clients in Illinois and Kentucky. First, he helped the owner of a 77-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky refinance existing acquisition debt following a successful operational turnaround. Since acquiring the facility... Read More »
Dwight Capital Acquires Love Funding

Dwight Capital Acquires Love Funding

The HUD market seems to be the steadiest in the senior care lending world since the onset of COVID-19, after a few hiccups and delays earlier this year. Recently, there was a shake-up in the lending market, as Dwight Capital acquired Love Funding, the HUD lending subsidiary of Midland States Bank.   Love Funding’s platform will be rebranded and integrated within Dwight Capital, while Midland States Bank will retain the existing Love Funding servicing portfolio. Read More »
Dwight Capital Acquires Love Funding

Love Funding Closes Puerto Rico Financing

Leonard Lucas of Love Funding headed down to sunny Guayama, Puerto Rico to close a HUD financing for the acquisition of a 60-unit age-restricted, Section 8 apartment complex. Featuring two, two-story buildings, the community is entirely covered under a new project-based Section 8 HAP contract secured by the buyer that runs for a period of 20 years. To acquire the community, the borrower obtained a $3.14 million loan, which came with a lower mortgage insurance premium of 0.25%.  The borrower was also able to realize additional savings through HUD’s reduced application fee incentive for projects located in a Qualified Opportunity Zone.    Read More »
Dwight Capital Acquires Love Funding

Love Funding Takes Out Bridge Loan

Eric Forguson of Love Funding helped the owner of a senior care campus in Arnold, Missouri (St. Louis MSA) take out bridge debt on the property and replace it with a $12.9 million HUD refinance. Built in phases over the last 30 years, most recently adding a 52-unit assisted living building in 2019, the community features a mix of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services, with 202 units/beds total. Its operations were strong, and it produced stabilized cash flow over a three-year period.  Mr. Forguson had originally secured a short-term bridge loan in April from Love Funding’s parent company, Midland States Bank. More than half of the loan’s proceeds... Read More »
Love Funding Secures HUD Construction Financing For New Jersey Projects

Love Funding Secures HUD Construction Financing For New Jersey Projects

Love Funding arranged financing for the construction of two new senior apartment buildings in Paterson, New Jersey. Love’s Leonard Lucas (say that five times fast) secured the HUD loans which totaled $55.6 million and came with low rates for the duration of construction and for a subsequent 40-year term. One location will feature 81 units in four stories, with two elevators, that will also offer a community room with a kitchen, on-site management and maintenance offices, lounge areas, an outdoor patio and garden space. A central laundry facility will be located on each floor. Social services will also be provided on-site via the Housing Authority of the City of Paterson, as well as... Read More »
People on the Move, January 2020

People on the Move, January 2020

There were a few high-profile moves in the senior care world in the last month. JLL announced the addition of a new advisory and investment transaction services practice, to be led by Deborah Street. Coming from CBRE, where she was previously the Vice President of the National Senior Housing group, Ms. Street will join JLL as a Senior Vice President and leader of the new practice, which will provide on-demand underwriting, strategic planning, transaction structure/return analysis, transaction management, and due diligence, as well as ongoing asset management services. She will work with Managing Directors Brian Chandler and Bryan Lockard, JLL’s Co-Leads for the Seniors Housing Valuation... Read More »