• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Problem with CMS Interpretive Guidelines

    Just a day after we highlighted the potential downsides of overregulation of assisted living from the federal level, a case of regulatory overreach involving a nursing home just headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District in hopes of overturning a $1.8 million civil monetary penalty. Without getting into the minutiae too much, the... Read More »
  • Kayne Anderson Fund Tops Target

    The familiar refrain continues, with more capital continuing to flow into the seniors housing industry, property prices should keep rising. Kayne Anderson Real Estate, the real estate private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., has closed the largest opportunistic equity fund in its history, at more than 70% above its initial... Read More »
  • Well-Performing Full-Continuum Community Sells

    Blueprint announced its role in the sale of Morningstar at Golden Ridge, a seniors housing community in Peoria, Arizona (Phoenix MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 38 independent living, 65 assisted living and 35 memory care units. It is nearly fully occupied. The community is one of the newest and most well-appointed assets within a... Read More »
  • Kaplan Development Divests to Cedarwood Group

    Cedarwood Group closed its acquisition of Saranac Village at Will Rogers, a 75-unit independent living community in Saranac Lake, New York. The seller was Kaplan Development Group, which took over Will Rogers after the first year of it being open as a senior living community. The community was originally built in 1928 as a Tudor-style... Read More »
  • Omega Welcomes New CEO and CFO

    Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.’s President, Matthew Gourmand will become the REIT’s Chief Executive Officer in conjunction with the planned retirement of Taylor Pickett, effective October 1, 2026. Pickett will also step down from the Board of Directors upon his retirement, and the Board of Directors intends to appoint Gourmand to the Board,... 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 »