• Greystone Closes Large CLO

    Greystone closed a large collateralized loan obligation (CLO) composed solely of healthcare assets. Greystone CRE Notes 2025-HC4, LLC is a $451.6 million commercial real estate CLO backed exclusively by bridge loans provided by Greystone. The transaction marks the firm’s eighth overall CRE CLO and the industry’s fourth-ever CRE CLO composed... Read More »
  • Fortress Investment Group Divests Arizona Asset

    JLL Capital Markets has closed the sale of Inspira Arrowhead, a 165-unit seniors housing community in Glendale, Arizona. The community was under the ownership of Fortress Investment Group funds for just 18 months, but in that time occupancy rose from 89% to 94% and NOI improved by 35%. Fortress bought the asset in April 2024 in a joint venture... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Makes Another Acquisition

    Stacked Stone Ventures, a real estate investment firm founded by Kent Eikanas, followed up on its October acquisition in Oklahoma with the purchase of two assisted living/memory care communities in Illinois, near the St. Louis MSA. Similar to the Oklahoma deal, Stacked Stone has made Illinois acquisition in a joint venture with the private equity... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Large SNF Deal in Pennsylvania

    Not-for-profit to for-profit are not easy, and it took a two-year process for Blueprint to successfully close the sale of a 250-bed skilled nursing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The property appears to be Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation, one of three skilled nursing facilities owned by Dublin, Ohio-American Health Foundation... Read More »
  • JDI Realty Buys Alpharetta Asset

    A partnership recently acquired Chapters Living of Alpharetta, a 79-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia (Atlanta, MSA). Built in 2013, the high-quality community was previously known as Addington Place of Alpharetta. JDI Realty, in partnership with Purity Strategies and Chapters Senior Living, bought the community... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Refinance & Partnership Buyout in Wisconsin

Ziegler Secures Refinance & Partnership Buyout in Wisconsin

Ziegler’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice has successfully closed the refinance and partnership buyout of a family-owned post-acute care provider in southeastern Wisconsin. Eskay Real Estate 2020, Inc. (Eskay) owns and operates two campuses in the towns of Union Grove and Lomira, providing both skilled nursing and assisted living services at each location. The properties held two SBA loans, which Eskay wished to refinance, and one of the partners also chose to divest his majority interest in the company.  In comes Ziegler, which refinanced the loans with $9.557 million of HUD debt. Proceeds from the permanent debt allowed Eskay’s CEO,... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Bond Closing For Ohio Not-For-Profit

Ziegler Secures Bond Closing For Ohio Not-For-Profit

The Ziegler team closed a bond issuance for Community First Solutions to fund an expansion and capital improvements project across its senior living operations in Ohio. A not-for-profit company operating in Butler County, Community First Solutions (CFS) operates two CCRCs and a post-acute rehabilitation center in Hamilton, Ohio, plus an array of behavioral health services, pharmacy services, meal delivery service and other community-based supports in the state.   There were a number of individual bank notes that had various rates and maturities across CFS’ operation, so Ziegler consolidated that debt by issuing two series of bonds through the Butler County Port Authority, including $15.31... Read More »
Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing For CCRC Expansion

Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing For CCRC Expansion

Ziegler placed and closed a $38 million revenue bond series for Christian Retirement Homes to finance an expansion of its CCRC campus in Lincoln, Nebraska. Opened in 1968, the not-for-profit community has grown over the years to now include 121 independent living units, 53 assisted living units and 22 skilled nursing beds in four residential buildings. In 2017, Transforming Age affiliated with the not-for-profit to provide governance, management and financial support of the campus.   Management decided to expand with a new four-story building that will house 50 independent living units. Plus, they wanted to convert 10 assisted living units into five penthouse independent living units.... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Nine-Figure Refi

Ziegler Closes Nine-Figure Refi

Investment banking firm Ziegler closed a $114.82 million tax-exempt refinancing for Springpoint Senior Living, a major regional not-for-profit provider based in New Jersey. Springpoint operates eight CCRCs (LPCs) in New Jersey and Delaware, 19 affordable housing communities, a home care agency and a continuing care at home program.  Springpoint formed a new obligated group for this refinancing, which consists of the corporate entity plus the six CCRCs in New Jersey. The new financing repaid outstanding debt and also reimbursed the obligated group for $25 million in recent capital expenditures. The $114.82 million bond issue was rated BBB+... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Bond Refinance for Adventist Healthcare

Ziegler Secures Bond Refinance for Adventist Healthcare

Utilizing a relationship stretching back nearly two decades, not-for-profit Adventist Healthcare worked with the team at Ziegler to refinance its outstanding bonds. Issued through the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities, the transaction consisted of $18.725 million in fixed-rate bonds and another fixed-rate bond issue of $48.12 million with a delivery date in October 2021. Proceeds of this financing will be used to current refund the Series 2014A bonds, forward refund the Series 2011A bonds, and pay costs of issuance. Adventist HealthCare, which operates three acute care hospitals, a behavioral/psychiatric hospital, and a rehabilitation hospital, was also able to achieve... Read More »