• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: You’ve Got To Be Kidding

    Sadly, we are not kidding. President Trump has shown his true colors, and his true loyalty to the almighty dollar, with yet another pardon of one of the bad boys of senior care. But this bad boy is the worst of the group. We are referring to the just announced pardon of criminal Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of Skyline Health. Several months... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded REIT Divests Seniors Housing Portfolio

    A Wisconsin-based developer sold its five seniors housing properties in the Badger State to LTC Properties. Tukka Properties has a longstanding relationship with Walker & Dunlop, which had secured development debt, equity and permanent financing for the assets over the years and had also sold a Tukka-developed property to Welltower in 2021... Read More »
  • Sale Revives Stalled Seniors Housing Development

    Blueprint closed on the sale of a partially developed seniors housing community in Pearland, Texas. Originally planned as a 198-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community on 9.6 acres, the project was approximately 60% complete when development stalled. Blueprint targeted seniors housing operators and developers, as well... Read More »
  • MONTICELLOAM Closes One of Its Largest Financings

    In one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, funded $470.5 million in total bridge and working capital financing for a sixteen-facility skilled nursing portfolio. The sponsor group, which owns and operates over 200 skilled nursing facilities across the country, used the $455.5... Read More »
  • Cash Flowing Assets Trade in Florida and Oregon

    Blueprint was engaged by a repeat institutional private equity client in the sale of a Class-A assisted living/memory care community in the Clearwater, Florida MSA. The community has received investments over the years and offered immediate in-place NOI and strong operating margins, while presenting some value-add opportunities. Kyle Hallion,... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures Another Agemark/Protective Life Financing

Lancaster Pollard Secures Another Agemark/Protective Life Financing

Grant Goodman, Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard worked on behalf of Agemark Senior Living Communities to refinance its 36-unit memory care community in Kearney, Nebraska. Placed with Protective Life Insurance Company, the $8 million term loan also allowed Agemark to extract equity from the property. The parties involved in this transaction have been seeing a lot of each other in the past year. Lancaster Pollard and Agemark have worked together to close three transactions through Protective Life in that time. Most recently, Agemark refinanced two other Nebraska memory care communities with 10-year, fixed-rate financings. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Hits the Mark With Life Insurance Financing

Lancaster Pollard Hits the Mark With Life Insurance Financing

Grant Goodman, Casey Moore and Doug Harper of Lancaster Pollard helped structure a life insurance refinance of two memory care communities owned by Agemark Corporation. Both located in Nebraska and totaling 75 units, the properties were encumbered with traditional bank debt. Looking to lock in their interest rate early in this rising rate environment, Agemark was introduced to Protective Life Insurance Company to obtain a 10-year, fixed-rate financing. This was the first transaction between the two but may not be the last. Read More »