• Michigan Assisted Living Community Changes Hands

    Harborside Senior Living, a 20-unit/30-bed assisted living community in Luna Pier, Michigan, near the Ohio border and the Toledo MSA, sold to Lamont Jones, a healthcare entrepreneur who is building a seniors housing brand in Michigan. Built in 2023 by a pair of investors, Harborside Senior Living will now operate under the leadership of Luna... Read More »
  • Assisted Living/Memory Care Portfolio Secures Bond Financing

    D.A. Davidson closed $120.04 million in Senior Living Revenue bonds, Series 2026A-1, Series 2026A-2 and subordinated bonds forKingsPath Target Housing of Minnesota, LLC. The bonds financed the acquisition and refinancing of seven assisted living/memory care communities with 224 units in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, MSA. The acquired... Read More »
  • Another Record Year on the Horizon

    The bar keeps rising, and the industry continues to clear it, with a third consecutive annual record for publicly announced senior care M&A activity appearing well within reach. Through the first five months of the year, the industry has averaged 81 publicly announced deals per month. Annualized, that pace would result in just under 1,000... Read More »
  • Northstar Senior Living and Alta Senior Living Merge

    In the mad dash for growth in the seniors housing sector, a lack of new development and an abundance of buyers crowding certain corners of the M&A market has led some owner/operators to seek acquisitions or mergers of whole management companies. It can certainly be a viable alternative that allows one to grow without a massive capital... Read More »
  • In-Place Operator Acquires Senior Care Campus

    CBRE National Senior Housing’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing for a senior care campus on behalf of Wingate Living and its affiliates. Wingate Living is a Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living developer/owner/operator with a focus on New England. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the financing, securing a... Read More »
X-Caliber Arranges Financing for SNF Portfolio in New England

X-Caliber Arranges Financing for SNF Portfolio in New England

A portfolio of 10 skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts and Connecticut has been sold to an experienced and highly regarded owner/operator with financing in hand from X-Caliber Capital. The $100 million loan comes to about $70,000 per bed in debt, placing the purchase price somewhere above that. Built in the 1980s and 1990s and totaling 1,416 skilled nursing beds, the properties are cash flowing and have occupancy around 85%. The purchase price and other details are undisclosed. Read More »
X-Caliber Capital Secures Bridge Loan in Keystone State

X-Caliber Capital Secures Bridge Loan in Keystone State

X-Caliber Capital helped fund the purchase of a large skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania with an acquisition bridge loan closing. Located in Harrisburg, the facility has 400 beds and about 200,000 square feet. It was occupied in the low-90s at the time of the sale. The undisclosed buyer obtained the $45 million bridge loan, with a three-year term. That debt comes out to $112,500 per bed, putting the value of the facility surely above that. We know buyers put a premium on larger SNFs, since these properties can better scale the higher labor and care costs, but this facility must have been operating well. Read More »
X-Caliber Closes Four Financings

X-Caliber Closes Four Financings

The team at X-Caliber Capital has been putting in the hours lately, with three bridge loans and a HUD refinance to show for the hard work. First, the firm closed a $40 million bridge loan, with a three-year term, for an undisclosed borrower to acquire a 10-facility, 700-bed skilled nursing/assisted living portfolio in Illinois. Next, X-Caliber arranged $32 million in four-year financing to support the acquisition of seven assisted living/independent living communities in four states, with over 650 units across the portfolio. The third bridge loan totaled $1.6 million and came with a three-year term. That was also arranged for an acquisition, this time for a 39-unit assisted living... Read More »
X-Caliber’s Excellent First Year in Bridge Lending

X-Caliber’s Excellent First Year in Bridge Lending

After only being in operation since March, X-Caliber Capital’s bridge lending group had an impressive 2018, closing $250 million in healthcare and seniors housing financings. Those transactions included everything from acquisition financings and recapitalizations to value-add and cash-out refinances. Plus, the firm will look to bring all of these loans to HUD for a permanent take-out. X-Caliber also closed out 2018 strong with three transactions in the last 45 days, including a $32 million acquisition loan for a Connecticut skilled nursing portfolio. We’ll see what’s in store for 2019. Read More »