• Brookdale Occupancy Stalls

    Brookdale Senior Living released its November occupancy results, and its census growth has stalled this Fall. In its consolidated portfolio, weighted average occupancy fell by 10 basis points from 82.6% in October to 82.5% in November, while month-end occupancy dropped more significantly from 83.7% to 83.4%. Same-community results were not... Read More »
  • Well-Performing Facility Sells for Strong Price

    A rare skilled nursing and behavioral health facility in Tucson, Arizona, sold for a strong price to a partnership between a regional healthcare equity investor and a national skilled nursing operator. Featuring more than 140 beds, the facility is licensed by the state for both medical and behavioral health services, being the only SNF in the... Read More »
  • AL Community with Attached SNF Trades

    An assisted living community with an attached, vacant 65-bed skilled nursing facility in Faribault, Minnesota, sold with the help of Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap. Built in 1998, Pleasant View Estates features 36 units and a 75% elderly waiver census. The community was well-occupied and operated at a strong margin. It was previously... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Funds Dallas Development

    Construction projects, although rare, can still get done these days. Tremper Capital Group successfully secured an $84 million non-recourse loan from a regional bank to fund a development in the Dallas, Texas MSA. The 164-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care project is being built by Harbert South Bay Partners in the... Read More »
  • UMRH Expands Two CCRCs in North Carolina

    Ziegler closed The United Methodist Retirement Homes’ (UMRH) $92.125 million Series 2025A, 2025B and 2025C bonds. UMRH is a North Carolina-based not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates three CCRCs in North Carolina: Croasdaile Village Retirement Community in Durham, Wesley Pines Retirement Community in Lumberton, and Cypress Glen... Read More »

A Conversation on the Bridge Lending Market with Oxford Finance

The industry is emerging from the pandemic, but new issues are always arising, so how are lenders reacting and how do they distinguish pandemic problems from provider problems? Ben Swett sat down with Kevin Harbour and Tracy Maziek of Oxford Finance to discuss the state of the bridge lending market in a rising interest rate environment. Read More »
Oxford Announces New Hire From Wells Fargo Capital Finance

Oxford Announces New Hire From Wells Fargo Capital Finance

After more than 17 years at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, Kevin Harbour has joined Oxford Finance’s healthcare services real estate and asset-based financing unit.  Mr. Harbour’s responsibilities as Managing Director will include maintaining the firm’s real estate bridge lending products, developing new financial products for qualifying healthcare enterprises, expanding Oxford’s asset-based financing platform across all healthcare industries, and managing the firm’s underwriting and business development teams. Mr. Harbour comes to Oxford with 18 years of expertise in healthcare lending, most recently as Head of Healthcare Loan Originations at Wells Fargo Capital... Read More »
Oxford Finance Closes Senior Loan for California ALF

Oxford Finance Closes Senior Loan for California ALF

AvantGarde Senior Living received a $28 million senior loan from Oxford Finance LLC. The funds will be utilized to refinance existing debt on a Tarzana, California assisted living community. AvantGarde, which was founded in 2008, owns and manages two high-quality assisted living communities in California, including the subject property, which was purchased as a 100-unit senior living hotel in 2010 and converted to a 138-bed licensed assisted living community. It provides AL, memory care and independent living services. Oxford also recently backed the acquisition of four Texas SNFs with a senior credit facility totaling $27.5 million. With that debt, Cascades Healthcare was able to purchase... Read More »
Oxford Finance Backs Acquisition of Four Texas SNFs

Oxford Finance Backs Acquisition of Four Texas SNFs

Oxford Finance helped finance the acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities in Texas with a senior credit facility totaling $27.5 million. Cascades Healthcare, an owner/operator of 15 skilled nursing facilities in Utah and Idaho, is the borrower, branching out into the Lone Star State for the first time. The facilities total 647 licensed beds. We learned of the deal earlier this month when Alec Blanc of Monarch Advisors announced his structuring of the transaction. Making up the credit facility was a $21 million acquisition loan that came with a three-year term and interest-only payments for the first two years, a $3 million revolving line of credit for working capital, and a $3.5... Read More »
Oxford Finance Secures Senior Credit Facility

Oxford Finance Secures Senior Credit Facility

Oxford Finance closed a $24 million senior credit facility with Lantern Group, an owner/operator of both skilled nursing and assisted living facilities headquartered in northeast Ohio. The funds were used to acquire three assisted living/memory care communities in Ohio, in the towns of Chagrin, Madison and Saybrook.   Totaling 219 units, they had been operated by Lantern since their original construction. Lantern will continue to operate them, no surprise there. The buyout had been in the works for some time, but Oxford helped navigate some hiccups along the way that come with getting deals done these days.  Read More »