• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... Read More »
From Allen to Ziegler

From Allen to Ziegler

Ziegler just closed on a $26.2 million tax-exempt bond financing for Christian Care Centers (CCC), a not-for-profit based in Texas. CCC operates two retirement communities in Texas and is in the process of completing construction of a rental community in Allen, Texas, which will have 22 independent living units, 32 assisted living units and 36 memory care units. Read More »

Ziegler’s $1 billion relationship

Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation (SQLC), a Texas-based nonprofit that operates six senior living communities, hired Ziegler for the fourth time in 2015 to refinance one of its properties, which is located in the Barton Creek neighborhood of Austin, Texas and consists of 157 independent living units, 10 IL villas, 40 assisted living units, 23 memory care units and 42 skilled nursing beds. In order to refund $37.7 million in outstanding Series 2005 Bonds and finance renovations on the property, including a restoration project, SQLC turned to Ziegler to close a $50.69 million tax-exempt bond issue. The financing also helped fund a debt service reserve fund, pay the cost of issuance and... Read More »

Ziegler funds reposition project

A Kentucky nonprofit with plans to renovate and reposition its skilled nursing facility in the town of Covington (Cincinnati MSA) turned to Ziegler to close a $48.7 million non-rated, fixed-rate bond issue. Incorporated in 1962, Kenton Housing has repositioned its facility several times before, most recently in 1992 when the 210-bed facility existing today was constructed on an 11-acre plot in Covington. Now, the company plans to spend upwards of $33.5 million to both renovate its existing building and construct a new senior care facility in the town of Elsmere, which will consist of 54 skilled nursing beds and 20 memory care units. Kenton Housing will transfer the CON for 34 licensed... Read More »

Ziegler closes $135 million for Covenant Retirement Communities

Ziegler closed over $135 million in financing for Covenant Retirement Communities (CRC), an Illinois not-for-profit that owns and operates CCRCs in several locations throughout the U.S. The Obligated group consists of 4,769 units in 14 communities across eight states, with 3,065 independent living units, 755 assisted living units, and 949 skilled nursing beds. To refund the company’s outstanding Series 2005 bonds in the amount of $118.11 million, fund a debt reserve fund and pay certain costs of issuance, CRC issued $112.8 million in fixed-rate refunding bonds. Closing concurrently was $22.34 million of variable rate refunding bonds, which were immediately placed with Bank of America with... Read More »