ATLANTA — Investment markets have been tumultuous over the past year, with high interest rates and inflation impacting the flow of debt and equity across the commercial real estate industry. Last year, many investors and brokers chose to weather the storm and try to make it to 2025, when it was estimated that interest rates would begin to moderate. Recently, however, conditions seem to be improving in the seniors housing sector, where many investors are leaving behind the “survive till 2025” strategy that defined 2023. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a …
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MALVERN, Pa., and KENSINGTON, Md. — Mesa West Capital has provided AEW Capital Management LP with $114.6 million in first-mortgage debt across two loans to refinance the seniors housing communities of Echo Lake in Malvern and Modena Reserve at Kensington in Kensington. Terms of the loans were not disclosed. AEW delivered the 250-unit Echo Lake to the market in 2020 alongside joint venture partner Sage Senior Living Inc., which operates the community. Located about 27 miles northwest of Philadelphia in Malvern, Echo Lake offers a mix of independent and assisted …
SARASOTA, FLA. — Aztec Group has arranged a $54.5 million bridge loan for Alloro at University Groves, a seniors housing community located in Sarasota. An affiliate of United Group of Cos. was the borrower. Mortgage REIT provided the debt. Developed in 2023, Alloro at University Groves features 183 units for residents aged 55 and older. Amenities at the community include a 12,587-square-foot clubhouse, fitness center, yoga room, salon, movie theater, pickleball and bocce courts, a spa, community garden, dog park and onsite dining facilities.
MESA, SURPRISE, PEORIA, SEDONA AND YOUNGTOWN, ARIZ. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $96.5 million in refinancing for a five-property, 971-unit seniors housing portfolio in Arizona. Alanna Ellis, Brad Miner and Ace Sudah of JLL Capital Markets Debt Advisory secured the financing for the borrower, Douglaston Development and The Hampton Group. Recently renovated between 2021 and 2024, the portfolio consists of 510 independent living units, 339 assisted living units and 122 memory care units. The portfolio includes Canyon Winds at 2851 N. Boulder Canyon and 7311 E. Oasis St. in Mesa; …
Owners of distressed seniors housing communities continue face a challenge in refinancing bridge loans due to tightened lending standards and cap-rate uncertainty. However, this month’s long-anticipated Fed interest rate reduction will help shrink the gap between earnings and debt service, offering owners and lenders more flexibility in crafting solutions for distressed loans. One option to meet the debt-service shortfall challenge is for borrowers to explore a loan restructuring with their lender. A restructuring, while unpleasant, may be the best option for both borrower and lender. The other options — litigation, …
BALTIMORE AND ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Enterprise Community Development Inc. has secured $116.4 million in financing for three affordable housing communities in Maryland. The three communities are The Greens at Irvington Mews II and Park Heights Place, both located in Baltimore, and College Parkway Place in Annapolis. The Greens at Irvington Mews II is a 59-unit community for independent seniors. The project is currently underway and is slated to complete in October 2025. Of the property’s total unit count, 47 residences will be set aside for residents earning up to 50 percent …
LAKE WORTH, Fla. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Mariposa, a 313-unit seniors housing community in Lake Worth, located about 17 miles south of West Palm Beach and 20 miles north of Boca Raton. The real services firm also secured financing for the buyer. The seller and sales price were not disclosed, but the South Florida Business Journal reports that the facility sold for nearly $63.8 million. The seller was Ventas, the Chicago-based healthcare real estate investment trust. JLL represented the seller, and procured the buyer, Focus Healthcare Partners. Additionally, JLL …
PHOENIX and PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Live Oak Bank has provided a $54 million bridge loan for an Arizona-based owner and operator of seniors housing communities. Loan proceeds were used to retire existing bank debt for a four-property campus portfolio in the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) of Phoenix and Prescott Valley. The loan provides a bridge-to-agency option and features a two-year initial term and 24 months of interest-only payments.
MORGANTOWN, W.VA. — Live Oak Bank has closed a $39 million unitranche loan — a hybrid financing structure that combines senior debt and subordinated debt into one loan — on behalf of a Charleston, S.C.-based owner and operator of seniors housing communities. Loan proceeds were used to retire existing bank debt along with partnership debt associated with the sponsor’s 2021 purchase of a 175-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community located in Morgantown, about 75 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa. The three-year loan provides a bridge-to-agency option and …
Tempo of Deal Velocity Increases as Industry Enters Homestretch of 2024
By Matt Valley Following a quiet end-of-summer period on the dealmaking front — “quieter than it has been for years with the exception of the pandemic” — Sabra Health Care REIT Chief Investment Officer Talya Nevo-Hacohen encountered a flurry of transaction activity in late August and early September. “It’s been gangbusters, and what we’re seeing is primarily seniors housing assets (independent living and assisted living) coming to market,” said the veteran REIT executive who participated in the webinar Seniors Housing Business hosted on Sept. 5, titled “Creating Value in Seniors Housing — …