Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Fortis Files for Receivership

Fortis Management Group Files for Receivership Fortis Management Group filed for receivership in an agreement with its landlords, the company revealed on July 12. The Milwaukee-based management company operates 60 skilled nursing facilities and five independent and assisted living communities throughout Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Read the full story on Skilled Nursing […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: HJ Sims, Capital One

HJ Sims Completes $98 Million Financing for Life Plan Community in Pennsylvania HJ Sims, a privately held investment bank and wealth management firm, recently completed a $98 million financing for Brethren Village, a life plan community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The financing consisted of fixed-rate, BB+ rated Series 2017 refunding bonds, structured with term and serial bonds, […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Greystone, Walker & Dunlop

HJ Sims Arranges $17.5 Million Bond Refinancing for New Hampshire CCRC HJ Sims, an investment bank based in Connecticut, recently arranged $17.5 million in bond financing for a nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Laconia, New Hampshire. The new bonds will replace and restructure existing debt on the CCRC, Taylor Community, in addition to terminating […]

Investor Group Makes $625,000-Per-Unit NYC Senior Housing Play

Another high-profile senior housing project is coming to Manhattan, through the nearly $150 million acquisition of a 15-story building on the Upper East Side. The art deco building has 239 units, meaning that the purchase price equates to more than $625,000 per unit. Despite this eye-popping sum, the incoming owners describe the building—which has a […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Capital One, Lancaster Pollard

Capital One Establishes Unitranche Loan Program Capital One (NYSE: COF), with HPS Investment Partners as its strategic co-investor, recently established a new program to originate unitranche loans to middle-market health care companies. The program, through Unitranche Loan Transaction, LLC, will help borrowers to obtain first lien unitranche loans without a syndication process or a rating agency. “In […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Capital One, Ziegler

Capital One Closes $10.3 Million in FHA Loans to Refinance Two Illinois SNFs Capital One (NYSE: COF) recently announced that it has provided two fixed-rate HUD 232/223(f) loans totaling $10.3 million to refinance a 131-bed skilled nursing facility in Carbondale, Illinois, and a 70-bed skilled nursing facility in Anna, Illinois. The transaction was originated by Senior Vice […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Greystone, CBRE

Greystone Provides $49.4 Million in Freddie Mac Financing for Seniors Housing in California and Colorado Greystone, a real estate advisory, investment and lending firm, announced it provided $49.9 million in Freddie Mac loans to refinance two assisted living and memory care communities in Denver, Colorado, and Carmichael, California. Greystone Managing Directors Scott Kavel and Cary […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Ziegler, Kindred

Ziegler Closes $34.49 Million Bond Issue on Behalf of UMRH Chicago-based speciality investment bank Ziegler announced the successful closing of the $34,485,000, tax-exempt, fixed-rate Series 2016A Bond issue on behalf of The United Methodist Retirement Homes (UMRH). UMRH, a Life Care Services partner since 2000, is a multi-site operator of three continuing care retirement communities […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: HFF, NHI

HFF Closes Sale of Seniors Housing Community in Florida Dallas-based Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) announced it has closed the sale of a seniors housing community in Melbourne, Florida, called Sonata at Melbourne. HFF marketed the community on behalf of the seller. Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors, a real estate private equity investor in off-campus student […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Ensign, CareTrust

The Ensign Group Announces $250 Million Revolving Credit Facility The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG), which is based in Mission Viejo, California, announced that Ensign and its operating subsidiaries have boosted its revolving credit facility by $100 million to an aggregate of $250 million, $105 million of which was drawn as of Feb. 1. The credit […]