DALLAS — Sonida Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: SNDA), a Dallas-based owner-operator of communities and services for seniors, has entered into loan modification agreements with Fannie Mae covering all 37 of its communities mortgaged through the government-sponsored entity. On June 29, Sonida entered into a comprehensive forbearance agreement with Fannie Mae as the first of a two-step process to modify all existing mortgage agreements with Fannie Mae. The modifications finalize the comprehensive restructuring. The terms of the Fannie Mae loan modifications were consistent with those set forth in the forbearance agreement. …
SMITHTOWN, N.Y. — Live Oak Bank has provided a $29 million loan for Benchmark Senior Living. The financing replaced the original construction debt for a 101-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Long Island town of Smithtown. Benchmark opened the community in 2018.
By Matt Valley Heading into 2023, Lument’s Aaron Becker anticipated a challenging year for lenders and borrowers due to the sharp rise in interest rates, but he underestimated the level of difficulty. Capital providers tightened underwriting standards more than expected, which negatively impacted deal volume. U.S. property and portfolio sales in the seniors housing sector, excluding skilled nursing, totaled $3.27 billion during the first half of 2023 compared with $4.57 billion during the same period in 2022, according to MSCI Real Assets. That’s a 28 percent decline in deal volume …
By Steve Nowak, Esq. Appraisal methodologies for financing seniors housing properties factor in more than real estate to produce amounts that exceed property-only value. That means seniors housing owners may be paying real-estate taxes on non-real-estate assets. Everyone can agree that a senior living operation — whether independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing or some combination — consists of a variety of assets. There are real estate assets (the land and building); personal property assets like furniture and kitchen equipment; and intangible business assets such as the work …
PACIFIC NORTHWEST — Harborview Capital Partners has arranged a $10 million revolving line of credit for six assisted living and skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 300 beds in the Pacific Northwest. The loan for a regional operator features 20-year amortization. Eli Osdoba and David Chiger led the transaction. Further details were not disclosed.
MINNESOTA, OHIO and WISCONSIN — Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of Dwight Capital, provided a $29.5 million bridge loan for a portfolio of five skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin: The Landing at Stow, Evansville Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation, Edenbrook Fond du Lac, Edenbrook of Rochester, and Edenbrook of Edina. Together, the facilities consist of 441 beds across 25 acres. The purpose of the loan was to refinance three of the facilities and acquire the other two. Dwight has financed over 20 facilities for …
HUMBLE, Texas — Lument has provided a $13.4 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance The Fordham at Eagle Springs, an active adult community in Humble, a northern suburb of Houston. Tom Dixon, a director in affordable housing production based in Charlotte, North Carolina, led the transaction for Lument. The Fannie Mae loan has a 10-year term, four years of interest-only payments, 30-year amortization and a fixed interest rate. The Fordham at Eagle Springs was built in 2020 and consists of six buildings housing 137 units. The property is located within …
By Jason Clouet, Bayview PACE For seniors housing developers and project sponsors, the timing of the growing adoption of commercial property assessed clean energy (C-PACE) financing couldn’t be better. While demographics show demand for housing is rising, many new seniors housing projects are stalled as traditional financing sources are drying up, or rising interest rates have squeezed margins, or worried partners have increased equity/debt demands. C-PACE financing is saving new construction projects across the country that were halted or facing delays. It is also providing a welcome restructuring of the …
It has been more than three years since COVID-19 lockdowns wreaked havoc on skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care facilities. Among other consequences, falling admissions and occupancies required many operators to seek or extend short-term loans to survive until brighter days. The good news is that, to a certain extent, those days have arrived: Rebounding occupancies are inching closer to pre-pandemic levels, higher Medicaid reimbursements are flowing to net operating income, and labor costs are stabilizing, says Michael Gehl, chief investment officer for FHA lending for NewPoint Real Estate …
The Sept. 14 webinar “It’s the Dog Days of the Senior Living Investment Market — How to Find theCreativity Needed to Overcome Capital Markets Crunch“ analyzed the outlook throughout today’s seniors housing market. Operations recovery, development, transaction trends, capital availability and pricing were all points of discussion for an hour-long conversation between a six-person panel of industry experts. Where are there opportunities and how is the seniors housing world adapting to the current environment? Click here to find out more about what experts are seeing in the capital markets landscape. Major …