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Berkadia Bullish on Senior Housing After Its $1 Billion Day
One of the largest and priciest senior housing deals of the year has been Columbia Pacific Advisors’ acquisition of 79 Hawthorn Retirement Group properties, announced in June. That transaction also contributed to a banner day for Berkadia on Sept. 7, when the firm’s Seniors Housing Read More »
Movers & Shakers: Dominion Senior Living, Lifespace Communities
Dominion Senior Living Welcomes Five New Hires to Tennessee Community Knoxville, Tennessee-based Dominion Senior Living has welcomed five new members to its management team who will oversee the operations of its soon-to-be-opened Athens, Tennessee, community. Industry veteran Melissa Ingram brings 27 years of experience to Read More »
Senior Housing Finance Activity: Berkadia, Walker & Dunlop
Walker & Dunlop Arranges $20 Million and $6.9 Million Loans for Senior Housing Projects in Florida, Wisconsin Bethesda, Maryland-based commercial real estate services and finance company Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) recently arranged a $6.9 million loan for William Booth Towers, a 15-story, 168-unit Section 8 apartment community Read More »
Senior Housing REITs to Ride Out the Storm of 2017
After a year marked by up-and-down transaction volume, senior housing real estate investment trusts (REITs) may be gearing up for a buying rebound in 2017—but don’t expect them to acquire Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD). That’s one prediction for what the year ahead will hold for Read More »
3 Reasons For Optimism In Senior Housing Finance in 2017
Senior housing players have some reasons to be optimistic about financing looking toward the year ahead. The positive outlook stems from the Trump administration’s talk of deregulation, along with interest rate action and real estate investment trust (REIT) activity. Another outcome that may have an Read More »
Why a Senior Housing ‘Rough Patch’ Will Not Derail RIDEA
Challenges facing the senior housing sector likely will eat into communities’ net operating income, but this may not deter real estate investment trusts (REITs) from continuing to pursue RIDEA transactions. “…There has been an ongoing shift among health care REITs to acquire higher quality properties Read More »
Chinese Firm to Buy Stake in Canadian Provider for Reported $744 Million
Chinese investors have played major roles in recent blockbuster senior housing deals in the United States, and now the action is spreading north of the border. Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group is poised to buy a majority stake in Vancouver-based Retirement Concepts for a reported $744 Read More »
Senior Housing Finance Activity: Grandbridge, Lancaster Pollard
Grandbridge Facilitates Funding of $125 Million Seniors Housing Portfolio Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group recently facilitated the purchase of a $125 million seniors housing portfolio secured by four independent living seniors housing communities in four states. Funding for the assumption Read More »
Senior Housing Finance Activity: HFF, Capital Funding Group
HFF secures $41.5 Million Financing for Seniors Housing Portfolio in Sacramento, CaliforniaHolliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) recently announced that it has secured financing worth $41.547 million for a three-property seniors housing portfolio in Sacramento, California. HFF worked on behalf of an affiliate of Harbert Management Corporation Read More »