KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Capital Square 1031 has acquired Whispering Pines, a 301-site manufactured housing community for seniors in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee. “This is Capital Square’s fourth acquisition this year of age-restricted manufactured housing communities in coastal Florida markets,” says Louis Rogers, founder and chief executive officer. “Capital Square is bullish on manufactured housing in Florida due to exceptionally strong demand from retirees and very limited supply for affordable senior housing.” The community is situated on approximately 61 acres of land, is 99 percent occupied and has additional land …
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DES MOINES, Iowa — LCS has promoted Chris Bird to executive vice president and chief operating officer. As COO, Bird will provide oversight of Life Care Services, CPS, asset management, procurement and onboarding operations at the Des Moines-based family of seniors housing companies. Bird will continue to lead operations, seeking to build community occupancy, foster capital partner relationships and develop new business. With Bird’s promotion, GeLynna Shaw has been promoted from senior director of rental communities to managing director of rental communities. Shaw will oversee all operational execution across the …
Pandemic Construction Slowdown May Ease Overbuilding Concerns, Say InterFace Development Panelists
by Jeff Shaw
Seniors housing developers have noted that both debt and equity have become difficult to secure as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lenders are providing much lower leverage on loans, and many capital partners are staying on the sidelines until the full effects of the virus have passed. But there may be a silver lining to the halt in new construction. Before the pandemic, an influx of new supply was driving down occupancy. Those oversupply concerns may have come to an end. “We needed to have a pause in new …
Monticello Provides $42.1M Financing for Skilled Nursing Facility Acquisition in Virginia
by Jeff Shaw
VIRGINIA — Monticello has provided $42.1 million in financing for the acquisition of a skilled nursing facility located in Virginia. The transaction also includes a $3.5 million working capital loan to the operating companies of the properties provided by Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital LLC. The buyer is an experienced owner and operator. Further details on the property, loan and acquisition were not disclosed.
TEXAS — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of four skilled nursing facilities in Texas. The properties feature a combined 340 beds. Two were built in the late 1960s and two were built in 2000. A REIT winding down its relationship with the facilities’ operator sold the facilities. Multiple undisclosed buyers acquired the properties for undisclosed prices.
Colliers Mortgage Funds Two HUD Loans Totaling $7.3M for Realife Cooperative Properties in Hibbing, Minnesota
by Jeff Shaw
HIBBING, Minn. — The Minneapolis office of Colliers Mortgage, part of Colliers International | U.S., has provided two HUD 223(a)(7) loans totaling $7.3 million to refinance two age-restricted multifamily properties in Hibbing, located in the northern part of the state approximately 80 miles south of the Canadian border. The properties, totaling 60 units, include Realife Cooperative of Hibbing and Realife Cooperative of Hibbing South. The market-rate cooperative properties are age restricted to heads of household age 62 or older. The refinancing enabled the borrowers to reduce the interest rates for …
NEW YORK CITY — New Senior Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: SNR), a New York City-based seniors housing REIT, has elected Norman Jenkins to its board of directors. Jenkins is president, CEO and managing partner of Capstone Development, a privately held developer of institutional-quality lodging assets. He will serve as an independent director on the board. Prior to founding Capstone in 2009, Jenkins was with Marriott International for 16 years, serving in various leadership positions before being named senior vice president of North American lodging development. His experience also includes five …
Grandbridbge Hires David Rothschild, Mary Christian to Lead West Coast Investment Sales Team
by Jeff Shaw
SAN DIEGO —Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has hired David Rothschild and Mary Christian to lead the company’s new West Coast investment sales team based in San Diego. Both previously with Cushman & Wakefield, Rothschild and Christian focus solely on senior living transactions and have represented sellers of senior living properties across the United States, Canada and the U.K. since 1986. As the leader of the San Diego team, Rothschild oversees financial underwriting of seniors housing properties, targets qualified investors, presents marketing packages to investors, conducts negotiations and leads due diligence …
WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass. — Truist Financial Corp. has provided a $136 million loan to National Senior Campuses, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) operator based in Wellesley Hills. The financing will be used toward five of the borrower’s communities, totaling 7,731 units in Warminster, Pennsylvania; Peabody, Massachusetts; Pompton Plains, New Jersey; Springfield, Virginia; and Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Greenspring, one of the borrower’s CCRCs in Northern Virginia, is the first affiliate that will benefit from the new debt proceeds. In total, the funding will provide $115 million toward multi-year, multi-phased …
RICHMOND, Va. — Enterprise Community Development has completed construction of The Rosa, an affordable seniors housing community in Richmond’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood. Partners on the project include the City of Richmond, the Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Virginia Housing, the Federal Home Loan Bank, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Truist, Enterprise Housing Credit Investments, and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. The four-story building features 82 mixed-income apartments, including 36 affordable units designated for workforce housing. It is named after the school for …