• 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 »
Contemporary Healthcare Capital Does Mezz

Contemporary Healthcare Capital Does Mezz

Contemporary Healthcare Capital (CHC) completed two mezzanine loans to help buyers fund the purchase of skilled nursing facilities. The Portopiccolo Group, based in New Jersey, bought a 165-bed facility in Covington, Tennessee and borrowed a combined $8.755 million. CoastalStates Bank of Hilton Head provided the senior loan and CHC provided a $2.25 million mezzanine loan. In addition to funding the acquisition, proceeds were also used for about $600,000 in capital improvements.   In a larger deal, Citadel Care Centers bought a 246-bed skilled nursing facility in the Miami area of South Beach, Florida. New York City-based Valley National Bank provided the senior debt of the total $33.9... Read More »
Off To The Races

Off To The Races

Just as the horses were coming into the stretch at the Derby last Saturday, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was closing on the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky. They were built in 1993 and 1999, and one of the facilities underwent a $1.7 million renovation in 2014. Combined occupancy was 80% with revenues of $10 million. The sales price was $7.5 million, or about $51,000 per bed. Chris Hyldahl, Gideon Orion, Michael Segal and Ben Firestone represented the California-based seller, and the buyer was ClearView Healthcare Management.   Just to the south, Brooks Blackmon and Trent Gherardini of Blueprint sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Butler,... Read More »

Greystone Hat-Trick in New York

Fred Levine of Greystone closed three HUD financings on the same day for an acquisition of three New York skilled nursing facilities. The $75 million loan, which comes to $133,690 per bed, financed three nursing facilities with 561 beds. They included Brookside Multicare in Smithtown (353 beds), White Plains Center for Nursing and Rehab in White Plains (88 beds), and Little Neck Nursing Center in Queens (120 beds). The Smithtown facility includes a pediatric unit and ventilator beds. Read More »