• Omega Invests in Saber Healthcare Joint Venture

    by | Nov 3, 2025 8:26 am | Acquisitions

    Omega Healthcare Investors released its third quarter earnings and made some news when it disclosed the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in a joint venture with Saber Healthcare. The JV will own and lease 64 skilled nursing facilities that were previously wholly owned by affiliates of Saber, which will retain a 51% equity interest in the JV... Read More »

  • Health Systems as Sellers in Three Transactions

    by | Nov 3, 2025 8:25 am | Acquisitions

    Cain Brothers advised on a trio of senior care transactions involving health systems as sellers, which could be a growing trend, particularly among any resource-constrained systems. Conversely, other systems may see the need to own skilled nursing beds in the future in order to control the transfer of their post-acute patients to SNFs and free up... Read More »

  • Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

    by | Nov 3, 2025 8:23 am | Acquisitions

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the sale of 26 skilled nursing beds from a facility in Ohio and coordinated the repurposing of the real estate for future behavioral health services. The owners made the decision to close the facility after determining that the small size of the building prevented it from achieving the operational... Read More »

  • Not-For-Profits Secure Bond Financings

    by | Nov 3, 2025 8:22 am | Financings

    Ziegler announced the successful pricing of $34.0 million Series 2025 bonds for The Chapel Hill Residential Retirement Center, Inc. d/b/a Carol Woods. Carol Woods is a North Carolina not-for-profit organization incorporated in July 1972 by a group of local citizens to develop, own and operate a CCRC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Currently,... Read More »

  • Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    by | Oct 31, 2025 8:40 am | Acquisitions

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... Read More »

SunTrust Bank Funds Large CCRC Expansion

by | Aug 25, 2017 7:00 am | Financings

As the construction boom continues across seniors housing, existing communities often have to renovate, expand or convert in order to survive. A 20-year old CCRC in Richmond, Virginia is doing just that, with a massive expansion project planned to add and improve the services it offers. Owned and operated by not-for-profit Pinnacle Living, formerly Virginia United Methodist Homes, the 90-acre campus will receive a new fitness and wellness center (complete with a swimming pool), two enclosed corridors that connect independent living to the new center, a new two-story health care center with 20 private rooms on each floor and common areas, a new parking deck, and potentially a number of new... Read More »

Trust In SunTrust Bank

by | Jul 18, 2017 8:14 pm | Developments, Financings

SunTrust Bank pulled double duty for an entrance fee CCRC in Stone Mountain, Georgia, providing permanent financing for both the existing community and a new addition in the form of a $74.4 million loan on behalf of the owner/operator, Isakson Living. Through its Aging Services practice, SunTrust provided a mix of fixed- and floating-rate debt, about 60% of which went towards refinancing the existing 398-unit CCRC, known as Park Springs. Built in 1999, the community was over 90% occupied and was ready to expand. So, the remaining 40% of the financing (about $27.8 million) funded a brand-new health center to feature an 18-unit skilled nursing rehab facility next to a new physical therapy... Read More »

Harborview’s Good Work

by | Jan 20, 2017 8:31 am | Financings

Harborview Capital Partners brought in SunTrust Bank to help refinance a portfolio of 19 senior living communities, with 917 units, located in Kentucky and Tennessee. Consisting of independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the communities are owned by Goodworks Unlimited, which operates a portfolio of 25 properties in TN and KY. Avi Begun and David Nussbaum of Harborview arranged a $68.3 million loan provided by SunTrust, featuring a five-year term and LIBOR+155 interest rate. That should position Goodworks well for future growth and expansion projects. Harborview has been quite busy the last few months, closing over 10 HUD and bank financings since November.... Read More »
SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

SunTrust Bank and Seniors Housing

by | Oct 20, 2016 3:56 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

Despite an apparent tightening in the seniors housing financing world (a topic which we will discuss in detail in our webinar at 1PM on October 27), borrowers may soon have a new name to choose from. SunTrust Bank announced it intends to acquire substantially all assets of the operating subsidiaries of Pillar Financial, LLC, along with its multi-family, affordable housing, healthcare property, senior housing, and manufactured housing lending platforms. Pillar’s HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac licenses also enticed SunTrust, which would be able to offer agency lending options to its clients. In return, Pillar would gain access to a number of expanded products including bridge loans, equity... Read More »