• 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 »
Ziegler Closes Financing For Not-For-Profit Owner/Operator

Ziegler Closes Financing For Not-For-Profit Owner/Operator

Ziegler has closed a series of bonds for Otterbein SeniorLife to acquire Kendal at Granville, a CCRC located in Granville, Ohio. Now renamed Otterbein Granville, the not-for-profit owner/operator will use proceeds from Series 2021B bonds to acquire the community and subsequently use the proceeds from the acquisition to refund the community’s Series 2015 bonds, acquire certain leased property on the campus and pay the cost of issuance.  The bonds consist of $24.5 million of tax-exempt Series 2021B bonds and $20.5 million of tax-exempt forward delivery Series 2023 bonds scheduled to close in April 2023. Proceeds of the Series 2023 bonds will be used to refund Otterbein’s... Read More »
Radiant Senior Living Sells AL Community in Washington

Radiant Senior Living Sells AL Community in Washington

Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side advisor to Radiant Senior Living in the sale of South Pointe Assisted Living, a 42-unit independent living and assisted living community located in Everett, Washington. Radiant, a West-Coast-based family-owner and operator of senior care communities, acquired the community in 2020 as part of a larger portfolio transaction including one other community in the Greater Seattle area as well as another community in Bozeman, Montana. The portfolio, which featured a majority of assisted living units, reportedly sold for just under $200,000 per unit.   Prior to acquiring the community from the previous lessor, Radiant... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Texas Owner/Operator

Ziegler Closes Financing for Texas Owner/Operator

Ziegler has closed $116.1 million of Series 2021 bonds for Methodist Retirement Communities (MRC), a not-for-profit based in Texas which currently owns and operates 13 seniors housing communities throughout the state. Once the bonds are closed, two communities will join four MRC-affiliated communities currently comprising the MRC Obligated Group. Proceeds of the bonds, which are being privately placed with Truist Bank and Hancock Whitney Bank, will be used to refinance the existing indebtedness of the two communities.  Ziegler implemented a “Cinderella” refunding structure where Series 2021 taxable bank bonds (which convert to tax-exempt bonds at the first call date) advance refunded the... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Philadelphia Operator

Ziegler Closes Financing for Philadelphia Operator

Ziegler arranged $39.4 million in bond financing for Simpson, a nonprofit operator based in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia. Formerly known as Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged, the borrower operates three CCRCs in the region: Simpson House in Philadelphia, Simpson Meadows in Downington and Jenner’s Pond in West Grove. In total, the portfolio includes 482 independent living, 56 personal care, 118 assisted living and 178 skilled nursing units. As a result of this financing, Simpson’s entire capital structure now comprises all public, fixed-rate bonds. Proceeds from this deal will refinance existing bonds from 2015 and fund capital expenditures, among other uses.  Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Florida CCRC Operator

Ziegler Closes Financing for Florida CCRC Operator

Ziegler closed a $16.645 million bond series for Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, Inc. (Oak Hammock), a not-for-profit corporation formed in 1998 to own and operate a large CCRC in Gainesville, Florida. The 135-acre campus consists of 269 independent living units, 46 assisted living units, 24 memory support units and 73 skilled nursing beds. All of the skilled nursing beds are Medicare certified and currently maintain a five-star CMS rating.  The proceeds of the Series 2021 bonds will be used, together with other available funds, to refinance outstanding Series 2017B Notes, finance approximately $1.876 million of capital expenditures, and fund a debt service reserve... Read More »