Senior Housing Finance Activity: MidCap Financial, Capital Funding Group

MidCap Financial Arranges $7.9 Million Loan for Skilled Nursing Facility in Arizona Commercial finance company MidCap Financial recently arranged a $7.9 million, fixed-rate HUD 232/223(f) loan to refinance a 137-bed, 69-room skilled nursing facility in Sun City West, Arizona. The financing was arranged by MidCap Financial Housing Capital Inc. Managing Director Brett Patrick. Ziegler Closes […]

These Were the Busiest Senior Living Bond Underwriters in 2016

The busiest senior housing underwriter in the country last year wasn’t a large, multinational financial corporation—instead, it was an investment bank a fraction of that size. Chicago-based specialty investment bank Ziegler was the top health care/senior living municipal underwriter by number of financings in 2016, with 80 bond issues worth about $4.46 billion, according to Thomson […]

Monday Jump-Start: Welltower’s Lawsuit, Amazon Echo ‘Silver’

Happy Monday! Here’s last week’s most-read news: HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) hired Scott Brinker as its new chief investment officer, and Welltower (NYSE: HCN) responded to the appointment with a lawsuit. Not-for-profit post-acute providers in Illinois have a plan to go up against Symphony Post Acute Care Network—and other for-profits— and win. Tana Gall, CEO […]

Nonprofits Devise Plan to Take On Symphony Post-Acute Network

The words “Symphony Post Acute Network” can send shivers down the spines of many not-for-profit post-acute providers, and for good reason. The Chicago-based, for-profit post-acute care operator poses fierce competition for several not-for-profits in the Chicagoland area, where it operates most of its 28 buildings—including some newer properties that are state-of-the art. Now, however, not-for-profit […]

NHI CEO: ‘Trance’ Over Senior Housing Cap Rates Could End

Competition seems to be ramping up among senior housing owners seeking deals, and an expected shift in pricing might be why. In fact, executives at Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) have been “in a trance” over senior housing cap rates—and they believe other senior housing owners have been, too. “We’ve been in a trance […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Ziegler, Harborview Capital Partners

Ziegler Closes $54.05 Million Financing for CCRC Operator in California Chicago-based speciality investment bank Ziegler recently announced the closing of the $54,045,000 tax-exempt, fixed-rate Series 2017 financing for Channing House, a California not-for-profit 501(c)(3) company that operates a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Palo Alto, California. The CCRC has 191 residential living units, 26 […]

HCP Hires Brinker as CIO, Welltower Responds With Lawsuit

HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) has added a familiar face as its chief investment officer—but a former employer of the new executive has responded to the appointment with a lawsuit. HCP’s plans are for Scott Brinker to join the Irvine, California-based real estate investment trust (REIT) as its executive vice president and CIO, effective Jan. 4, 2018. Brinker will report […]

How Sabra’s ‘Transformational’ Merger Could Sharpen Its Competitive Edge

Following its planned $7.4 billion merger with Care Capital Properties (NYSE: CCP), Sabra Health Care REIT (Nasdaq: SBRA) will be the eighth-largest health care real estate investment trust (REIT) in the country—but that’s not the company’s end goal. Rather, the Irvine, California-based REIT aims to eventually become a far more competitive player in the senior housing deal […]

Welltower CEO Discusses ‘Most Compelling Real Estate Opportunity in Decades’

Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) sees big opportunities for medical office and senior housing real estate. In fact, the $2.75 billion sale of Duke Realty’s medical office building portfolio, announced this week, was a major topic of discussion Friday on Welltower’s first quarter 2017 earnings call. Thomas DeRosa, CEO of the Toledo, Ohio-based real estate investment trust, admitted that Welltower had been interested […]

Monday Jump-Start: Brookdale Sale Talks Ongoing

Happy Monday! It’s a busy time in the senior housing industry as public companies begin to share their latest financial results. It’s also a busy time in “funny hat” news, due in part to one half of an athletic elderly couple. Here’s what you may have missed last week: HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) is on […]