• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company is keeping busy, having announced two transactions for senior care assets in the Midwest. First, Brad Competty, Casey Moore and Doug Harper closed a $42 million Fannie Mae loan with a 12-year term and fixed interest rate for a CCRC client. Mr. Competty and Brendan Healy followed that up with a HUD refinance for two senior care properties in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by Riverview Health, the properties getting refinanced include a 176-bed skilled nursing facility and a 196-bed SNF. Riverview was also reimbursed for prior capital expenditures and replacement reserves. Finally, Lancaster Pollard arranged a bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a 125-bed... Read More »

Handing over the reins

The joint venture owner of a 283-unit entrance fee CCRC in Brentwood, Tennessee recently reshuffled its ownership, with a minority stakeholder acquiring the 70% share from partner and co-developer, Westminster Capital. Back in 2007, Westminster, Harpeth Green Properties (the current buyer) and LCS developed the community on nearly 50 acres. It featured 217 independent living units, a 66-bed skilled nursing facility and a stand-alone adult day care building. Plus, an additional phase of development is scheduled to start sometime in the next year, and will include 97 more IL units, a 350-seat auditorium and an 11,000-square foot health center. LCS’s affiliate, Life Care Services, operates... Read More »