• Public REIT Acquires New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

    Blueprint announced that it handled the sale of a three-community private pay seniors housing portfolio in Rhode Island. A Dallas-based private equity firm engaged Blueprint in 2025 to sell the portfolio, which it acquired with Capital Health Group in 2019. The assets comprise 367 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in the... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Exits Senior Care Industry

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage completed a regional owner/operator’s exit from the seniors housing industry with a third and final disposition. The asset was The Homestead in Fallon, Nevada, about one hour east of Reno. It was originally built between 1972 and 1980 and has undergone significant renovations in 2007 and 2018. Most recently, in... Read More »
  • Well-Performing SNF Trades in Iowa

    A skilled nursing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that boasted strong occupancy levels and consistent cash flow traded hands. The facility had long-standing referral relationships and a reliable census pipeline. But, there is still room for upside.  Ownership was intentional in selecting a buyer that would preserve and build upon the facility’s... Read More »
  • Class-A Active Adult Community Trades

    An active adult community north of Houston, Texas, sold with the help of Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Ross Sanders and Dave Fasano of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare. Alders Magnolia encompasses 184 units in Magnolia, and was built in 2021. The seller was Capitol Seniors Housing, and the buyer was Texas-based active adult development and... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests to For-Profit Owner/Operator

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors announced the closing of two separate senior care sales. First, Brandon Bohland and Collin Hempfling handled a faith-based not-for-profit organization’s divestment of a senior care campus in the Charlotte, North Carolina MSA. The campus has a 50-bed skilled nursing facility and a 96-bed assisted living... Read More »
SunTrust Sets Eyes On Colorado Bridge Financing

SunTrust Sets Eyes On Colorado Bridge Financing

SunTrust Bank’s ears must have been burning, because on the day of our webinar, Bridge Loans: The Hottest Lending Product for Seniors Housing and Care (which you can still listen to here), the bank originated a $31 million bridge loan for an independent living community in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Just completed earlier this year, the community is geared to higher income residents and boasts a number of modern amenities. It was developed by The Wolff Company, an Arizona-based private equity firm that is developing a number of luxury senior living properties a year with operating partner Clearwater Living (which will also manage the Colorado Springs community).  Artin Anvar of 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 »
Cohen Financial Closes Michigan Financing

Cohen Financial Closes Michigan Financing

In northern Michigan, Cohen Financial, a division of SunTrust Bank, arranged more than $4.1 million in HUD financing for an assisted living community in the town of Alma. The 41-unit community is owned and operated by Grand Rapids-based Leisure Living Management, and as recently as 2013, it added a 12-bed memory care unit to its services. On behalf of the community, Cathy Bronkema, managing director of Cohen Financial’s Grand Rapids office, and Joshua Hausfeld, managing director of SunTrust CRE Seniors Housing & Healthcare Finance, secured a fixed-rate $4.116 million loan, with a 35-year term and 35-year amortization schedule. Read More »
Pillar Powers Through Two HUD Financings

Pillar Powers Through Two HUD Financings

The team of Pillar Financial, a division of SunTrust Bank, has been active lately, closing more than $20.7 million in financings for two Rust Belt seniors housing communities. Don Husi, based in Pillar’s Nashville office, first originated a $13.59 million HUD loan, with a 30-year term, to refinance a scattered-site that includes 143 beds spread across one large skilled nursing facility and two small assisted living communities in Menasha and Appleton, Wisconsin. The properties offer their residents a continuum of care, if need be. Then, in Moosic, Pennsylvania, Mr. Husi originated a $7.18 million HUD refinance for a 35-unit/58-bed memory care community. The 35-year loan took out an... Read More »

Ridge Care Senior Living Looking To Grow In South Carolina

Already a force in West Virginia and North Carolina, Ridge Care Senior Living is expanding its assisted living/memory care portfolio into South Carolina with a brand-new 100-unit (60 AL and 40 MC) community in the beach town of Pawleys Island. Expected to open in Summer 2018, the community is expected to cost around $20.5 million, or over $200,000 per unit, to develop, which is close to the average for the regional cost for like-communities of $208,000 per unit, according to our in-house database. SunTrust Bank, through its Aging Services practice, provided an $11.3 million loan to fund the construction. Ridge Care, which currently manages 13 senior living communities on behalf of  a small... Read More »