


New Senior Divests Struggling Pittsburgh Property
With its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania senior living community in danger of losing its license, New Senior Investment Group decided to divest the troubled asset, selling to an area not-for-profit for nearly half of what it originally paid for the property in 2013. The community’s operator, Oregon-based Blue Harbor Senior Living, had received a number of violations and operated it on a provisional license that meant that only 80 of its 164 units could be occupied. That could make anyone a motivated seller. So, six years after SNR acquired the community from the original developer for approximately $15.6 million, they decided to sell to Vincentian Collaborative System, a faith-based... Read More »
KeyBank Tops HUD Rankings
There’s a new king of the HUD 232 Lean program. KeyBank Real Estate Capital unseated long-time leader Lancaster Pollard (which had topped the list since 2010 in terms of dollar volume) after closing $812.7 million in loans in FY2018, a record for single-year volume in the program and up 144% from the firm’s FY2017 volume. In that time, KeyBank also closed the largest single-asset HUD loan in history when it secured a $127 million loan for a 499-bed skilled nursing facility in New York City. Lancaster Pollard still reported an impressive $610.4 million in loan closings (good enough for second place), while Capital Funding took third place with $466.0 million. Not resting on those impressive... Read More »