With how unpredictable the last year has been, it would be foolish to believe that we can reasonably predict what will happen in the next five years as it relates to Life Plan Community financing and capital markets as a whole.
However, we have learned in recent months that communities can implement innovative financing tactics to create operational cashflow in this current market situation. Here are some thoughts, considerations and possible opportunities for your organization.
Owner-operators will soon be confronting thorny financial questions as they emerge from the fog of the pandemic. How should skilled facilities prioritize spending? As one banker observed, the capital markets for skilled nursing may not have returned to where they were before COVID-19, but both debt and equity are available for operators who can prove their clinical expertise.
HJ Sims completed a $3.8 million retroactive Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing package on behalf of StoneCreek Real Estate Partners and Civitas Senior Living, for StoneCreek Littleton, a 92-unit assisted living and memory care facility in Littleton, Colorado that opened in January 2020. Please read more in Senior Housing News.
HJ Sims ‘ Managing Principal, Bil Sims, was recently interviewed by the Fairfield Hamlethub. In the article, he discusses HJ Sims’ history, investment banking, bond and wealth management expertise. Read more.
Broadview Senior Living at Purchase College, a community under development in Westchester County NY and an HJ Sims’ client, is the latest example of bringing together seniors and students to promote lifelong intergenerational learning on a vibrant college campus. Watch the story on CBS NY. Read the HJ Sims Case Study.
A bond underwriter with a specialty in senior living facilities (HJ Sims) is deploying some outside-the-box financing tools for those clients. Read more in the Bond Buyer.
HJ Sims in December closed on a $30.03 million financing package for The Bethel Methodist Home, also known as The Knolls, a CCRC in Valhalla, New York. The campus opened in 2002 under the name Westchester Meadows; Bethel Methodist assumed ownership and management in 2016. Read more here in Senior Housing News.
HJ Sims closed on a $77.6 million refinancing and capital project package on behalf of John Knox Village, a life plan community for age- and income-qualified residents in Pompano Beach, Florida. Read more in Senior Housing News.
There are two vaccines for COVID-19 awaiting approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, signaling that there is an end to the pandemic on the distant horizon. However, the impact of the outbreak on the seniors housing industry may be long-lasting.
A group of the industry’s top brass recently suggested that many of the changes made to adapt to the virus may in fact be permanent, and operators should prepare for this.
HJ Sims has arranged $38.2 million in bond financing for Presbyterian Villages of Michigan (PVM), a nonprofit network of seniors housing communities. Read more in Seniors Housing Business.