Transactions & Financings: Bridgewood’s $56M CCRC Refinancing; Mission Senior’s $22M Construction Financing

SunTrust provides $60M Loan for Baltimore CCRC Expansion SunTrust Banks Senior Vice President of Senior Care Finance Yasamin Al-Askari arranged a $60 million loan for the expansion of Roland Park Place, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community in Baltimore. Proceeds will fund the second phase of the project, an eight-story building with 58 units, a […]

Bridgewood Property Quietly Builds Regional Scale in Senior Living

Bridgewood Property Company has quietly become a regional force in senior living with a “steady as she goes” approach to development and operations. The Houston-based company has developed 34 communities since its founding, founder and president Jim Gray told Senior Housing News. Its current portfolio of 22 properties in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, totaling 2,600 […]

Transactions & Financings: New Senior Issues Fortress Affiliate $40 Million In Stock, NHI Lends $180 Million

New Senior Investment Group Issues Fortress Affiliate $40 Million in Series A Preferred Stock New Senior Investment Group (NYSE: SNR) filed an 8-K form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicating the New York City-based real estate investment trust (REIT) issued 400,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock to FIG LLC, an affiliate of […]

Transactions & Financings: Chicago Pacific Founders, CBRE

MidCap Closes First Mortgage Loan for Florida Community MidCap Financial, a commercial finance firm that concentrates on middle-market transactions, recently closed a transaction with Zon Living Concepts, LLC. The senior housing and senior care company owns and operates Zon Beachside, a Class A assisted living and memory care community in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. The […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (6/9/16)

(Rendering of Landmark Memory Care located in Lafayette, Colo. — Photo courtesy of Landmark Memory Care) Construction: Planned Development of Thrive at Green Island Community Announced Flournoy Development Company of Columbus, Ga. and Atlanta-Based Thrive Senior Living announced their partnership to develop Thrive at Green Island in Columbus, Ga. Flournoy will be the developer for […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Greystone Closes $210 Million Portfolio Sale

Greystone Closes $210 Million Sale of 8-Property Senior Housing Portfolio  Greystone Real Estate Advisors, a real estate lending, investment and advisory company, closed the sale of an eight-property senior housing portfolio for $210 million. Seven of the properties are in Texas, with another located in Oklahoma. Greystone represented the sellers in the transaction, Harrison Street […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Blueprint, Greystone

Greystone Real Estate Advisors Closes Sale of Seniors Housing Community in Texas Greystone, a real estate lending, investment and advisory company based in New York City, announced its Real Estate Advisors group closed the sale of Spring Creek Village, a newly-constructed 108-unit memory care and assisted living community in Spring, Texas. Financial details were not disclosed. […]

Affordable Senior Housing Is the Next Big Growth Opportunity

Senior housing operators will be forced to address the growing need of low- to moderate-income seniors in the coming years, as an estimated 3.5 million seniors today don’t have enough money to pay for higher acuity services. The high-end senior living facilities that have emerged within the past few years just won’t cut it when […]

The Sweet Spot: Where Luxury and Affordable Senior Housing Meet

Where looming demographics and a lack of adequate supply are widening the rift between high-end and affordable senior housing, some providers have found solid ground in the middle-price point development market. Providers who have begun to target the middle-income bracket have already seen rewards in the form of lower development costs and the anticipated demand […]