• CIBC Completes Several Financings

    CIBC Bank USA announced a handful of senior care financings across multiple states. First, the company closed a $17.5 million cash-out refinancing for a regional operator’s portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with 235 total beds in northeast and southeast Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. The facilities have an effective age of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Adding HUD Lending Platform

    Fresh off another record-setting year for investment sales activity, Blueprint announced a major expansion of its capital markets services to now include FHA/HUD lending and servicing capabilities. The firm is acquiring the existing FHA/HUD lending platform of MidCap Financial Services, and hiring Tony Marino, formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital... Read More »
  • More New Capital Enters Seniors Housing

    A fully-integrated real estate firm that is well known in the student housing world announced its foray into the seniors housing industry. Landmark Properties focuses on the development, construction, acquisition, investment management, and operation of high-quality residential communities, but the company’s intent is to invest in ground-up... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Recent Financing Activity

    In the past 30 days, Berkadia’s Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro have closed $111.5 million across four financings for four separate sponsors, encompassing eleven properties in six states. The activity included three bridge financings totaling $69.6 million from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet and a $41.9 million HUD refinance. The first... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President as of March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
Two Utah Assisted Living Communities Sell

Two Utah Assisted Living Communities Sell

Paying $26.5 million, or $236,500 per unit, a real estate investment firm acquired two assisted living communities in southern Utah. Under “The Retreat” brand, these communities are both located in the town of St. George (in Washington County). Built in 2012, The Retreat at SunRiver has 48 units (36 assisted living and 12 memory care) on 1.72 acres, and the 64-unit Retreat at Sunbrook (50 AL and 14 MC units) sits on 2.38 acres and features unique amenities such as a putting green, bocce ball court and water landscaping. Occupancy exceeded 90% at both communities, and the operating margin was above 40% throughout the transaction period. Meridian Senior Living will lease the communities from... Read More »
Acquiring in the Acela Corridor

Acquiring in the Acela Corridor

As we are about to travel from the New York City area to Washington, D.C. for the upcoming NIC Fall Conference, we must take note of two teams that did that trek probably a number of times recently. Grandbridge Real Estate Capital provided through its proprietary lending platform, BB&T Real Estate Funding, a $43.5 million non-recourse acquisition/bridge loan for a joint venture between Blue Vista Capital Management and Meridian Senior Living. Owned by Holladay Corp., a D.C.-based real estate developer/owner, the targets included an 88-unit assisted living/independent living/respite care community built in 1976 in Yorktown Heights, New York and a 131-unit (147 units post-renovation)... Read More »

Seven sales in North Carolina

Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap burst out of the gate in July, arranging the sale of seven senior care properties (six assisted living and one skilled nursing facility) in North Carolina in three separate transactions, totaling almost $43 million. The first was the sale by a not-for-profit foundation of five assisted living properties with 300 units (there are 60 units at each) for $22.3 million, or about $74,300 per unit. Meridian Senior Living was the buyer. Second, a group of private investors sold their 60-unit assisted living community in Wadesboro, North Carolina to Meridian Senior Living for $4 million, or $66,700 per unit. Finally, Mr. Pardoll, together with Mark Myers also... Read More »

Berkadia secures $93 million in financing

We wrote last month of ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager’s purchase of 14 senior living properties with 1,038 units from a joint venture between Iron Point Partners and Meridian Senior Living for an undisclosed price. The portfolio was mostly assisted living (719 units), with 208 memory care units and 111 independent living units as well. To fund the acquisition, ROC turned to Berkadia to arrange an $84 million, three-year floating-rate loan through BBVA Compass Bank. Berkadia also contributed $20 million of the overall financing through its Proprietary Bridge Lending Platform. In addition, earlier this year ROC purchased a 76-unit assisted living and memory care community in Canton, Ohio,... Read More »

ROC’s busy 2015

It’s been a busy 2015 for ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager, which is part of Salt Lake City-based Bridge Investment Group Advisors. So far this year, ROC has acquired 21 senior living communities in nine different states, totaling 2,247 units, coming on the heels of a 14-property, $230 million-deal announced in September 2014. Not all of the 2015 transactions had revealed prices, but the price per units ranged from $77,700 per unit for a 345-unit senior living community in Glendale, Arizona, up to $246,700 per unit for a portfolio of 4 assisted living communities in Texas. The most recent transaction, announced last week, was the purchase of 14 senior living properties (with 1,038 units of... Read More »