• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: You’ve Got To Be Kidding

    Sadly, we are not kidding. President Trump has shown his true colors, and his true loyalty to the almighty dollar, with yet another pardon of one of the bad boys of senior care. But this bad boy is the worst of the group. We are referring to the just announced pardon of criminal Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of Skyline Health. Several months... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded REIT Divests Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A Wisconsin-based developer sold its five seniors housing properties in the Badger State to LTC Properties. Tukka Properties has a longstanding relationship with Walker & Dunlop, which had secured development debt, equity and permanent financing for the assets over the years and had also sold a Tukka-developed property to Welltower in 2021... Read More »
  • Sale Revives Stalled Seniors Housing Development

    Blueprint closed on the sale of a partially developed seniors housing community in Pearland, Texas. Originally planned as a 198-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community on 9.6 acres, the project was approximately 60% complete when development stalled. Blueprint targeted seniors housing operators and developers, as well... Read More »
  • MONTICELLOAM Closes One of Its Largest Financings

    In one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, funded $470.5 million in total bridge and working capital financing for a sixteen-facility skilled nursing portfolio. The sponsor group, which owns and operates over 200 skilled nursing facilities across the country, used the $455.5... Read More »
  • Cash Flowing Assets Trade in Florida and Oregon

    Blueprint was engaged by a repeat institutional private equity client in the sale of a Class-A assisted living/memory care community in the Clearwater, Florida MSA. The community has received investments over the years and offered immediate in-place NOI and strong operating margins, while presenting some value-add opportunities. Kyle Hallion,... 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 »