• PACS Gets Trading Period Extension

    PACS Group is trying to right the ship as it works to restate its prior financial statements amid an investigation into its Medicare billing practices, and return to providing regular quarterly earnings statements. The New York Stock Exchange Listing Operations Committee did agree to provide PACS with an additional trading period through November... Read More »
  • Outcome Healthcare Acquires Pennsylvania SNF

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of Mahoning Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 142-bed skilled nursing facility in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The seller, an independent owner, faced increasing financial and operational pressures in today’s skilled nursing environment. The selected buyer was a regional operator with a... Read More »
  • Full Continuum Community Obtains Refinancing

    CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced The Pointe at Meridian, a 100-unit seniors housing community in Meridian, Idaho. Built in 2022, The Pointe at Meridian was built in 2022 and consists of 60 independent living units, including 14 townhome units, 30 assisted living units and 10 memory care units. Grace Management took over management of the... Read More »
  • Arizona Seniors Housing Development Secures Construction Financing

    Fifty Stones Capital Group closed a $39.3 million construction loan for a seniors housing community in Chandler, Arizona. The proposed development comprises 147 units with 150 beds. The opportunity came to Fifty Stones Capital Group through a local broker.  The sponsor, an experienced local developer with a focus on multifamily and senior... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Sends Default Notice to NHC

    National Health Investors is addressing violations under its longstanding lease agreement with one of its largest tenants, National HealthCare Corporation. In July, NHI notified NHC/OP, L.P., an affiliate of National HealthCare Corporation and the tenant of 32 of NHI’s skilled nursing/senior care facilities and three independent living... Read More »
Another Bank Bond Financing From Ziegler

Another Bank Bond Financing From Ziegler

The bank bond financings keep coming from Ziegler, which recently closed another one on behalf of Presbyterian Village North located in Dallas, Texas. The not-for-profit CCRC was originally built in 2007 and now includes 89 buildings with 253 independent living units, 101 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a skilled nursing facility with 106 operating beds and 172 licensed beds, all on a 66-acre campus.   Its sponsor is Presbyterian Communities and Services, Inc., d/b/a Forefront Living, which is planning an expansion project that will include 112 independent living units in a new five-story building, in addition to renovations to the existing campus common... Read More »
Ziegler Structures Debt For Radiant Senior Living Acquisition

Ziegler Structures Debt For Radiant Senior Living Acquisition

Ziegler served as exclusive capital structuring advisor on a debt placement for the borrower, Radiant Senior Living, to acquire a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the Pacific Northwest. Two of the properties are located near Seattle, Washington, while the third is in Bozeman, Montana.   Previously owned by a publicly traded REIT, they combine for 36 independent living and 204 assisted living units and generate in-place, stabilized cash flow. However, there is an opportunity to add value through economies of scale, which suits Radiant and its 18-property portfolio in the Pacific Northwest.  The $42.6 million in financing consisted of both senior and mezzanine debt,... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Large Bank/Bond Financing

Ziegler Closes Large Bank/Bond Financing

Ziegler closed a huge financing package for HumanGood California Obligated Group to take out outstanding debt, advance refund other previous bond series and fund various campus improvements across the 14 CCRCs owned and operated by the Obligated Group in California. Altogether, the bank capital totaled $125 million.   There were $15.48 million in Series 2020A revenue and refunding bonds that refinanced an existing tax-exempt bank placement and came with a commitment period of 16 years, matching the previous placement. The Obligated Group received a variable rate based on 79% of one-month LIBOR plus a bank spread and also entered into an interest rate cap with a strike price of... Read More »
Ziegler Finances Spokane CCRC Expansion

Ziegler Finances Spokane CCRC Expansion

Ziegler has been quite busy arranging bond financings for not-for-profit clients, and the team has done it again for two CCRCs in Spokane, Washington. The borrower, Rockwood Retirement Communities (affiliated with Spokane United Methodist Homes), owns and operates Rockwood South Hill and Rockwood at Whitworth, which have a combined 600 residents.   The Whitworth community is set to expand its assisted living and memory care offering, with Phase I including the demolition of a portion of The Manor building to be replaced by 48 new assisted living units and 24 new memory care units. Then, in Phase II, ownership will replace the rest of The Manor, the healthcare center, two duplexes and two... Read More »
CCRC Bond Financing Rocks This Year

CCRC Bond Financing Rocks This Year

A week does not go by without another announcement about either a refinance of a not-for-profit CCRC or a new financing with the proceeds being used to expand or renovate, and even new, ground-up CCRC developments. Expand, during the worst pandemic in 100 years when seniors housing occupancy is plummeting? That’s what we said.  In our first transaction, Cain Brothers had been working with Whitestone: A Masonic and Eastern Community since 2007, when several areas of need were identified to make the community more competitive. It opened its doors in 1913 and is the oldest CCRC in North Carolina. It has been managed by Life Care Services, which together with Cain... Read More »