• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Exits Two Non-Core New Mexico Assets

Not-For-Profit Exits Two Non-Core New Mexico Assets

Blueprint’s next skilled nursing transaction came from out West, in New Mexico, and featured two facilities formerly owned by the largest not-for-profit senior care provider in the country, Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which merged with another Sioux Falls-based healthcare company, Sanford Health, in June 2018 to create a $6 billion entity. Considered to be non-core by the nonprofit, the rural facilities totaled 150 skilled nursing beds and 25 independent/assisted living units but were located on opposite sides of the state in Aztec and Lovington. They were well maintained, with one facility recently undergoing a major renovation. Amy Sitzman... Read More »
HJ Sims Helps Out New North Dakota Joint Venture

HJ Sims Helps Out New North Dakota Joint Venture

HJ Sims helped finance a couple of the largest not-for-profit providers of senior care and health care in the country in order to team up and combine their services in the Bismarck/Mandan area of North Dakota. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (ELGSS), which currently operates over 224 senior living and care communities, and Sanford Health, the largest rural, not-for-profit health care system with 45 hospitals and 289 other locations, each operate skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the Bismarck area. In addition, Sanford Health operates an acute care hospital in the city. So, the organizations decided to form a joint venture to operate the facilities in the... Read More »