• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »
MonticelloAM Funds Large Virginia Acquisition

MonticelloAM Funds Large Virginia Acquisition

MonticelloAM and its affiliates just announced a large first lien debt financing to fund the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in Virginia. The borrower, an experienced owner/operator with an established relationship with Monticello (having received acquisition financing for several other facilities in 2019), obtained $97.2 million in debt, including an $8 million working capital loan provided to its operating companies. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, provided the working capital.   The acquisition featured 856 beds located primarily around Richmond, bringing the owner’s portfolio to a total of 1,155 licensed beds. The... Read More »
Owner/Operator Makes Big Purchase in North Carolina and Kentucky

Owner/Operator Makes Big Purchase in North Carolina and Kentucky

An experienced owner/operator just bought a large portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina and Kentucky, thanks in part to first-lien debt financing provided by Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates. The acquisition involved 12 SNFs evenly split between the two states. The properties averaged a 1977 vintage, and the gross building area totaled 402,554 square feet.   There was also one skilled nursing facility already in the buyer’s portfolio that was refinanced in the deal. Altogether, there were 1,357 beds across the portfolio, bringing the buyer’s total to more than 8,750 licensed beds.  Monticello had worked... Read More »
Monticello Closes Two More First Lien Debt Financings

Monticello Closes Two More First Lien Debt Financings

The financings keep on flowing from Monticello Asset Management, which recently secured two more first lien debt packages for clients in the Mid-Atlantic. The Maryland transaction consisted of a $32 million loan provided to an experienced owner/operator with a portfolio of over 1,300 licensed beds to refinance its 177-bed skilled nursing facility in Cecil County (northwest Maryland). Built in 1994, the facility (through its operating company) also received a $2 million working capital loan. Then, in New Jersey, Monticello funded the acquisition of a rental CCRC in Camden County with $38 million in first lien debt. Consisting of 226 independent living units, 113 assisted living/memory care... Read More »
Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates provided $15.8 million in first lien debt to finance the acquisition of three assisted living/memory care communities in Tennessee. Totaling 126 units, the communities will also be renovated thanks to funds from this transaction. The borrower was an experienced owner/operator of seniors housing communities with a portfolio of more than 1,100 units, inclusive of recent acquisitions. This is the second Tennessee transaction closed by Monticello this month. The earlier deal consisted of $16.68 million of first lien debt for the refinance of two skilled nursing facilities and 303 total beds in the state. That transaction also included a $3 million... Read More »
Monticello Finances Two Tennessee SNFs

Monticello Finances Two Tennessee SNFs

Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates provided $16.7 million in first lien debt to refinance two skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee. Totaling 303 beds, the facilities are owned by an experienced owner/operator with a portfolio of more than 4,630 licensed beds. They were built in 1969 and 1977, respectively. Monticello also had an established relationship with the borrower, having financed its acquisition of a number of facilities in the past several years across multiple transactions. This transaction also included a $3 million working capital loan to the properties’ operating companies. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, provided that... Read More »