• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »

Transaction trifecta

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors finished out the year strong with three closings, including U.S. Memory Care’s sale of four MC communities in Texas to a private investor, and a publicly traded REIT’s divestment of a 298-unit independent living community operated by Brookdale Senior Living in Southfield, Michigan. Tremper and Garbers’ final transaction of 2016 also involved Brookdale, as the company sold two of its Carolina seniors housing communities for $33 million. The Hendersonville, North Carolina community was built in 1985 and 1993 with an independent living building and a separate memory care facility. There was also a 30-year old property in... Read More »

Greystone gets it done

We’ve written plenty on the memory care (and assisted living) development boom going on in Texas, especially in the markets of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. And we have wondered how, if everyone and their neighbor is building memory care in those areas, the communities would fill up. That will be the challenge for a private investor who just bought four recently-built stand-alone memory care communities previously owned and operated by U.S. Memory Care. Located in Cedar Park (Austin MSA), Houston, Plano (Dallas MSA) and Colleyville (also Dallas), these communities were built between 2013 and 2015 with 70 units and 75 beds. U.S. Memory Care also included a beauty/barber shop,... Read More »