ANAHEIM, CALIF. — JCH Senior Housing Group has arranged the sale of Country Villa Health Service’s entire portfolio, which comprises 18 skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community across Southern California, at bankruptcy auction for $65 million. JCH’s Shep Roylance, Jim Hazzard and Nick Stahler oversaw the auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Orange County. Shlomo Rechnitz, the founder of medical supply company Twin Med LLC and owner of Bruis & Rockport Services, the largest nursing home provider in California, entered the winning bid. Covenant Care and Kaiser submitted a larger bid — $73 million — but Judge Catherine E. Bauer rejected the proposal because it didn’t comply with bid rules. Ron Bender of Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill L.L.P. served as bankruptcy counselor to Country Villa, and Hamid Rafatjoo from Venable LLP served as creditor committee counsel. JCH is a consulting firm based in Anaheim Hills.
CONROE, TEXAS — Lancaster Pollard’s proprietary private equity program, Propero Seniors Housing Equity Fund, has partnered with a joint venture mainly consisting of Paradigm Senior Living, the land owners and passive individual investors for the development of a new seniors housing and care facility to be called Woodhaven Village. Located in Conroe, Woodhaven Village will be a 140-unit community consisting of 60 independent living units, 60 assisted living units and 24 memory care beds. Propero is a private equity fund established by Lancaster Pollard to invest in seniors housing properties. Construction on the facility began this summer and will be complete in late 2016.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has closed $42.6 million in bond financing for Moravian Home, which owns and operates Salemtowne, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Winston-Salem. Salemtowne opened in 1972 and consists of 171 independent living units (98 apartments and 73 cottages); 46 assisted living beds; and 84 skilled nursing beds (18 of which are memory care) on 115 acres. The bonds will be used to fund Phase I of Salemtowne’s strategic plan, which includes the construction of a new skilled nursing facility that will initially contain 100 skilled nursing beds (40 of which will be rehabilitation beds) and 20 assisted living memory care beds. The total building size will be approximately 126,780 square feet, with 14,950 square feet devoted to the assisted living memory care beds. The project is a replacement and expansion of existing facilities. The tax-exempt, fixed-rate bonds have a 2045 final maturity (30-years). Davenport & Co. LLC served as a 15 percent co-manager and PFM served as financial advisor on the transaction.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA AND BELLEVUE, NEB. — NorthMarq Capital has secured a $3.4 million Freddie Mac refinancing loan for two Section 8 affordable housing properties. Maple Second Avenue Apartment Homes is located at 3524 Second Ave. in Council Bluffs. The property features one- and two-bedroom floor plans with a patio/balcony and in-unit washers and dryers. Bellevue Place Apartments, a senior community located at 1808 Warren St. in Bellevue, contains one-bedroom floor plans with paid utilities. John Reed of NorthMarq Capital’s Omaha office represented the borrower, the Seldin Co., in the transaction.
HIGH SPRINGS AND ORLANDO, FLA. — Bank Leumi USA, a full-service commercial and private bank, has provided $16.7 million in total refinancing to Plantation Oaks Senior Living Management, a Florida-based owner/operator. The first loan is secured by a first mortgage on an existing seniors housing community located in High Springs, comprising 37 assisted living units and 29 memory care units. The credit facility was structured with a $5 million initial funding and a $1.2 million earn-out. The second credit facility is secured by an existing senior housing community located in Orlando, comprising 17 independent living units, 86 assisted living units and 22 memory care units. The $10.5 million financing was structured with an initial funding of $5.4 million, a $3.5 million holdback to fund the expansion of a 48-unit memory care building and a $1.6 million earn-out. Both of these loans refinanced existing debt, lowered the interest rate and provided a dividend to the owners of the communities. The fixed-rate loans have a five-year term and are intended to serve as a bridge to agency financing or to the future sale of the communities. Hely Santeliz of Bank Leumi led the team that structured the loan.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIF. — LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE:LTC), a seniors housing and healthcare real estate investment trust based in Westlake Village, has completed the previously announced acquisition of a 10-property portfolio for $142 million. The properties provide 891 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care services. Nine of the properties are located in Wisconsin and one is located in Illinois. Specific names and locations were not disclosed. LTC entered into a triple-net master lease agreement with an affiliate of Senior Lifestyle Corporation, which will operate the communities. Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate, led by Ben Firestone, brokered the deal on behalf of the undisclosed seller. The purchase was funded by the LTC’s revolving credit facility. LTC’s stock closed at $43.90 on Wednesday, Aug. 19, up from $40.03 a year prior.
ZEPHYRHILLS, FLA. — American House Senior Living Communities has acquired Commons on Pretty Pond, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Zephyrhills. The purchase price was not disclosed. The community, which will be renamed American House Zephyrhills, features 132 studio, one- and two-bedroom units including 111 assisted living and 21 memory care apartments. Units range in size from 300 to 892 square feet. American House is a Michigan-based affiliate of REDICO, and is seeking to expand its seniors housing portfolio in Florida.
HOUSTON — Senior Quality Lifestyles Corp. (SQLC), a Texas-based nonprofit developer of seniors housing, has completed financing for the expansion and renovation of The Buckingham, a seniors housing complex in Houston. Financing was completed through the sale of $109 million in series 2015 bonds. The project will add space for 187 additional residents. Ziegler Capital Markets served as bond underwriter for the transaction. Construction has already begun. Currently, The Buckingham has 204 independent living apartments, 43 assisted living suites, 16 memory care residences and 60 private skilled nursing rooms. The Buckingham acquired six additional acres to accommodate the project and will add 106 independent living apartment homes, 33 assisted living suites, 18 memory care residences and 32 private skilled nursing rooms. The new independent living apartment homes will be offered in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Greystone, a real estate lending, investment and advisory company, has provided a $58.3 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance Varenna at Fountaingrove, a 163-unit independent living facility in Santa Rosa, just north of San Francisco. Affiliates of Oakmont Senior Living own and operate the luxury community. The 10-year loan was funded via Freddie Mac’s Index Lock product, which enabled the borrower to take advantage of the existing 10-Year Treasury rate prior to commitment.
TEANECK, N.J. — HFF has closed the sale of, and secured financing for, Heritage Pointe of Teaneck, a 142-unit independent living facility located at 600 Frank W. Burr Blvd. in Teaneck. The firm marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Lowe Enterprises Investors, to an undisclosed buyer. Additionally, HFF secured a $33.2 million floating-rate loan on behalf of the buyer through Investors Bank and TIAA Direct, a division of TIAA-CREF Trust Co. FSB. Completed in 2004, the four-story property features 45 one-bedroom, 94 two-bedroom and three three-bedroom units, averaging 1,045 square feet. On-site amenities include a restaurant-style dining room, exercise room, wellness room, arts and crafts room, card room, resident lounge with fireplace, business center, recreation room, hair and nail salon, and tennis courts. The property was 97.2 percent occupied at the time of sale. Ryan Maconachy, Chad Lavendar, Jose Cruz, Kevin O’Hearn and Michael Oliver of HFF brokered the transaction, while Steven Klein, also of HFF, arranged the financing.