• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... 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 »