• Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »
  • Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »
  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »
  • More Shareholder Activism

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
A Popular transaction

A Popular transaction

Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP), provided financing to assist Centers Health Care in acquiring a formerly struggling 405-bed skilled nursing facility in Bronx, New York. Centers had been operating the facility under receivership since 2013, when it was losing money under not-for-profit ownership. Now the facility is profitable, and Centers added a new 70-bed New York State Assisted Living Program unit, which is eligible for Medicaid reimbursement. To fund the acquisition, Andrew Boland of Popular closed a $46.6 million acquisition mortgage and a $5 million leasehold improvement line of credit. Read More »

Three more Popular closings

Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP), was busy this month, closing a couple of term loans along with five separate credit facilities. Ken Mitchell, who leads the National Healthcare Financing Division of Popular, closed both an $18 million loan and a $13 million loan for Grand Healthcare System to exercise purchase options on a 179-bed skilled nursing facility in Queens, New York and a 122-bed skilled nursing facility in the Hudson Valley area of New York. Grand had been operating the facilities since 2014, both of which occupancy above 95% and strong quality mixes. Plus, the Queens facility recently opened a 14-bed unit to serve stroke patients. As for the... Read More »
A Popular deal

A Popular deal

Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc., closed a three-for-one financing for a Staten Island skilled nursing facility. The 372-bed facility includes a fully occupied 72-bed neuro-behavioral unit that is one of two in downstate New York. The operator, Centers Healthcare, acquired the then-300-bed facility in 2012 for $34 million, or $113,333 per bed, from St. Vincent Medical Center when the hospital was going through financial difficulties. Centers plans to add another 72 beds to its neuro-behavioral unit, for which Popular secured a $9 million leasehold improvement line of credit. In addition, the bank provided a $32 million mortgage to replace the facility’s existing... Read More »