• Healthcare REIT Divests SNF to In-Place Operating Partner

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage returned to West Des Moines, Iowa, to sell a skilled nursing facility that it had previously sold in 2019. A healthcare REIT was the buyer back then and is now selling the facility to its in-place regional operating partner. Built in 2004, Arbor Springs features 56 beds on an attractive four-acre campus about 10... Read More »
  • Near-Stabilized AL/MC Community Lands Refinance

    Carnegie Capital closed a bridge refinance for a 50-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Houston, Texas MSA. Four years ago, the property was bought by a California-based operator with a growing footprint in Texas. Performance was approximately two to three months from stabilization, but with the acquisition loan maturity looming, a... Read More »
  • Record-Setting HUD Express Lane Application to Commitment

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided a $6.15 million loan to refinance Avalon Memory Care Keller, a 50-bed stand-alone memory care community in Keller, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth MSA). The fully amortized, 35-year HUD loan was provided for the owner, a Texas limited liability company, that wished to recast bank debt into a long-term non-recourse... Read More »
  • Large Healthcare Owner Receives Financing

    An owner of more than 80 healthcare properties spanning nine states secured bridge and working capital financing for its skilled nursing portfolio in Washington. The financing includes a $40 million bridge loan and a $6 million working capital line of credit, with a 36-month initial term. MONTICELLOAM provided the funding. Read More »
  • Out-of-State Owner Divests to Investor

    A couple of assisted living and memory care communities in Eastern Tennessee recently traded hands. The two properties comprise more than 100 units. A Chicago-based investor aligned with the seller’s long-term vision for the communities acquired the assets, and partnered with a regional operator that was looking to grow their presence in the... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Two More REIT Sales

Blueprint Handles Two More REIT Sales

The closings keep coming from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, as the firm has announced a series of acquisitions in the last couple weeks of the year, mainly for publicly-traded REIT clients. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal, Alex Florea and Scott Frazier first teamed up to sell an assisted living/memory care community in Escondido, California (an affluent suburb of San Diego). Previously owned by an LLC affiliated with Ventas, the community was originally built in 1986 and expanded with a new independent living building in 2006. Initially, the community offered a full spectrum of care from independent living to skilled nursing. However, the new IL building was converted to... Read More »

Sold before reaching the mountaintop

An assisted living community with an improving census and reputation sold to a regional operator before fully realizing its potential. As rough starts go, this community in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania may take the cake. Built in 1984 as a skilled nursing facility, it never opened as such because the developer defaulted on the bond financing the project. A Lutheran senior housing group then bought it and operated it as an assisted living community until January 2013, when a group of doctors bought the community with just 12 residents occupying it. After remodeling the third floor to add 29 memory care units and an adult day care program, the doctors brought the census up to 66 residents... Read More »