• Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

    Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk.... Read More »
  • Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

    Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior... Read More »
  • PE Group Enters Oklahoma after Medicaid Rate Bump

    A skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma that recently benefited from the state’s Medicaid rate bump sold to a national private equity firm looking to enter the state. Built in 1967, Maplewood Care Center features 180 beds on over three acres in Tulsa. It is located close to several major hospitals and healthcare campuses, but occupancy was sitting... Read More »
  • Community Purchased through HUD Assumption

    Chad Mundy of the Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lewiston, Idaho. Built in phases in the early 2000s, the community featured five separate buildings, one of which was vacant after sustaining damage from a flood. As a result, occupancy was lower, based on the 89 licensed beds,... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Rounds Out Q4

    The Zett Group closed out Q4 with several closings in the Pacific Northwest. First was the sale of Fox Hollow, a 58-unit seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the community features 51 assisted living units and seven independent living “cottage-style” units. Set in a nice area of Eugene, it was owned by... 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 »