• New 1031 Exchange Platform Launches

    A new 1031 exchange platform designed to provide advisors and their clients with access to institutional-quality real estate investments through Delaware Statutory Trusts has launched. A Fortress Investment Group affiliate, Fortress Real Estate Exchange, will initially target investments in seniors housing, student housing and multifamily... Read More »
  • Regional Operator Acquires Large Multi-State Portfolio

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced a couple of portfolio deals this week totaling 15 separate properties. The larger deal featured 13 assisted living/memory care communities spread out in Georgia and South Carolina. Built between 1989 and 2014, the buildings have a combined 672 units, with 492 assisted living and 180 devoted to memory... Read More »
  • Oregon and Idaho Communities Sell

    Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group sold a 48-unit independent living community in Pendleton, Oregon, on behalf of a local owner/operator who was exiting the business. Built in the 1970s, the community was well occupied but could improve its overall operations. Still, there was positive momentum in the NOI, which rose from $320,000 in... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Purchases AL/MC Assets from Public Company

    A publicly traded company sold its portfolio of eight assisted living/memory care communities located throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, engaging Blueprint’s Kyle Hallion, Lauren Nagle and Ben Firestone to handle the deal. Each community included a smaller footprint, with 153 units total across the portfolio. The S&P 500 company owner... Read More »
  • Inland Acquires Class-A Asset

    Inland Real Estate Acquisitions announced its acquisition of a high-end seniors housing community in Monument, Colorado (between Colorado Springs and Denver). We heard about the Class-A transaction about six weeks prior, when Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced their... Read More »
SunTrust Bank Refinances Runk & Pratt Community

SunTrust Bank Refinances Runk & Pratt Community

Runk & Pratt, a family-owned operator of senior living communities in western Virginia, refinanced its 171-unit independent/assisted living community in Lynchburg with the help of SunTrust Bank. This isn’t the first transaction between the two. SunTrust had funded Runk & Pratt’s acquisition of the property in 2016 with a short-term bridge loan. Built in 2014, the community has been historically well occupied and generates strong cash flow. Taking out the acquisition debt, it received a $30.9 million Fannie Mae loan, with no recourse, a fixed rate for 10 years and a 30-year amortization schedule. Joshua Hausfeld handled the transaction for SunTrust. Just a year earlier, SunTrust... Read More »
SunTrust Secures HUD Loan For Lynchburg Senior Living Community

SunTrust Secures HUD Loan For Lynchburg Senior Living Community

Family-owned senior living operator Runk & Pratt secured a $13.2 million HUD loan to refinance its assisted living community in Lynchburg, Virginia. Thanks to a connection to the owners through David Wilt, market president of SunTrust Corporate & Commercial Banking in Roanoke, Virginia, Joshua Hausfeld of SunTrust CRE Seniors Housing & Healthcare Finance originated the loan, which came with a 35-year term and 35-year amortization schedule. The community was originally built 40 years ago but converted to assisted living in 1996 and now features 57 units and 81 beds, including some for memory care. It also underwent extensive renovations in 1998, 2003 and 2016, and has... Read More »