OUR CREATIVE SOLUTIONS & LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS ADD VALUE & CERTAINTY IN EXECUTION

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Real Estate Sales, Debt,
& Equity Transactions

Benefit from a wealth of knowledge gained through decades of experience

We, The CREATIVCAP Family of Companies, consider ourselves to be an extension of our clients; and all the owners, operators and debt/equity providers with whom we work to be partners and friends. We leverage our creativity, knowledge, imagination, relationships and experiences to structure unique solutions that add value and ensure our clients are always one step ahead of the industry.

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CREATIVCAP Financing

Debt & Equity Solutions

CREATIVCAP Financing focuses on providing mortgage banking services across the capital stack for Construction, Bridge, Acquisition and Permanent Financing for Senior Housing, Commercial Real Estate and Multi-family real estate.

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“After meeting Scott less than two years ago we have formed a tremendous relationship with him and CREATIVCAP. CREATIVCAP has added value to our organization by conceptualizing pre-stabilization funding structures with Fannie Mae that others couldn’t see or said couldn’t be done. Creativcap has helped us obtain terms achieved by the largest operators in the business allowing us to focus on driving occupancy via our optimal living concept. Scott’s ideas and relationships were instrumental on 3 of our recent financings and he is also a great brainstorming resource for us. I, my partner and my team, view Scott and Creativcap as an important advisor and asset.”

Kendall Oliver, President Cambridge Village

CREATIVCAP Advisory

Investment Sales

CREATIVCAP Advisory focuses on providing real estate brokerage for Senior Housing, Commercial and Multi-family properties.

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“CREATIVCAP Advisory closed a successful sales transaction for us in March 2020 on our class A memory care community in Naples Florida. Scott sold another Bayshore community for us a few years ago and sold two Longview related assets for us in 2019. He does a great job on the Advisory and Financing side. Over the last 20 years, Scott has closed well over $1B in Financing and Sales transactions for me at Holiday Retirement Corp., Horizon Bay, Bayshore Retirement Living and Longview Senior Housing. He has an uncanny ability to think of unique structures and relationship partners that lead to win-win solutions for all. I highly recommend Scott and CREATIVCAP.”

Thilo Best, CEO of Longview Senior Housing Advisors & Principal of Bayshore Retirement Living

CREATIVCAP Investments

Client Assisting Mezzanine, GP & LP Capital Investments

CREATIVCAP Investments focuses on investing its own capital, across the capital stack in Senior Housing, Commercial and Multi-family properties.

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“I have known Scott for a long time and we have worked together on many successful closings. At Senior Lifestyle Corporation, CREATIVCAP Investments invested their capital with us on the LP and GP side of several of our development projects. CREATIVCAP Financing recently closed a permanent loan for us with a life insurance company and we have seen Scott’s creativity at work on the sales side when they brought us in as a third party manager to solidify a sale between a large Canadian owner and a US based REIT. Scott and the CREATIVCAP Family of companies add value and enhance the likelihood of closing.”

Jon DeLuca, President and Chief Executive Officer, Senior Lifestyle

CREATIVCAP Servicing

Loan Servicing

CREATIVCAP Servicing focuses on providing servicing for some of its Lending Partners.

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“CREATIVCAP has been a tremendous partner for Protective Life. The company has brought us many, new high quality relationships and is invaluable in structuring transactions. Scott adds a lot of value in doing whatever it takes to help the Borrower and Lender reach a mutually agreeable transaction. CREATIVCAP definitely takes a long-term relationship approach.”

Laura McDonald, Senior Vice President, Chief Mortgage and Real Estate Officer Protective Life Insurance Company

CREATIVCAP’s 4 Defining Principals

CREATIVITY

CREATIVCAP is known for their vision, innovative structures and ability to pair new parties to deliver unique beneficial solutions.

RELATIONSHIPS

CREATIVCAP is a family of companies with an extensive network of relationship and industry experts, all working together for the benefit of their customers, clients and friends.

EXECUTION

CREATIVCAP is relentless in its focus on execution; resolving issues, expediting workflow, furthering cooperation, ensuring each transaction results in a successful closing.

VALUE

CREATIVCAP is a full service firm delivering market leading terms, unique solutions, exceptional execution and on-going assistance, to provide each client meaningful, measurable value at closing and beyond.

What others are saying about us

Keith Fitzsimons, Chief Financial Officer of Gallaher Companies

We have partnered with CREATIVCAP INVESTMENTS on three construction related mezzanine loans totaling over $17 million and they were great to work with. Over the last twenty years, Scott (CREATIVCAP’s founder) has done innovative things for Oakmont, Gallaher Homes, and related entities on Financing, Investment and Sales assignments for our senior housing and multifamily communities. CREATIVCAP Financing recently added value by arranging a $26M multi-family loan with a life insurance company with which we had never worked. We consider the CREATIVCAP Family of Companies a trusted partner.

Keith Fitzsimons, Chief Financial Officer of Gallaher Companies

Robert Ezer, Chief Investment Officer, Amica Senior Lifestyles

Scott and I met at a Holiday Retirement Corp. NIC dinner about 20 year ago. We had good conversation and learned about each other business, but at that time there wasn’t any crossover. Fast forward 10 years, and a few moves, and my company entered into a joint venture with a US based company and Scott closed all our related debt totaling well over $500 million dollars and did an incredible job. About 5 years later when we decided to divest of some non-strategic assets, Scott led the successful sales efforts on over $500 million dollars in sales and advisory transactions for us in Canada. It’s refreshing and kinda cool to see over $1 billion in successful debt and sales closings come from a friendship developed at an annual NIC dinner where both parties lived in different countries and never expected to do business together. Robert Ezer, Chief Investment Officer, Amica Senior Lifestyles

Mark Burnham, Chief Executive Officer, OZ Cap

Over the past twenty years, Scott has been a tremendous financing source for me and my companies. He is a driven, creative, innovative professional and a pleasure to work with. Most recently, CREATIVCAP Financing did an outstanding job arranging a construction permanent combination loan with a life insurance company on a stand-alone memory care project for us in the Pacific Northwest. I look forward to continuing to partner with Scott and CREATIVCAP. Mark Burnham, Chief Executive Officer, OZ Cap

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CREATIVCAP
5425 Peachtree Parkway NW
Peachtree Corners, GA 30092

1.833.BECREATIV

Our History

Twenty plus years ago, Scott Kavel, the Founder of CREATIVCAP, placed his first Senior Housing cold call to the largest owner operator of Senior Housing in the United States, Holiday Retirement Corp. His call was taken by Thilo Best, Holiday’s finance team leader at the time. Thilo gave Scott a very specific challenge: “Only call me back if you can deliver a deep pocketed institutional lender that we’ve never done business with, that offers better terms than we’re currently receiving.”

After a lot of research, hard work, and leveraging the relationships he had built with Lenders in other commercial real estate product categories, Scott called Thilo back. He had a large, well-thought-of Life Insurance Company for Holiday to work with, and a whole new source of capital for the Senior Housing industry. It grew from there.

Scott focused on creativity and innovation, looked for new ways to structure deals, found new partners to pair together and delivered market leading terms. He was relentless about execution and collaboration, and insisted on delivering value beyond the original transaction. Most importantly, a commitment to creativity, relationships, execution and value became the defining principles for Scott and what would become The CREATIVCAP Family of Companies.

Mr. Kavel has gone on to close over $9.5 Billion in finance, sales and equity transactions in Senior Housing, Commercial Real Estate and Multi-family real estate. He has built deep relationships with a variety of capital providers and closed loans in 47 U.S. states and several provinces in Canada. He has achieved a number of industry firsts: Fannie Mae’s First Credit Facility for Senior Housing; Freddie Mac’s First Revolver for Senior Housing; and Protective Life’s First Construction Permanent Loan for Senior Housing, to name a few. But most importantly, he has developed a multitude of meaningful, long-lasting friendships, business partnerships and industry allies.

The CREATIVCAP Family of Companies was formed in January 2019 and wants to thank their friends, clients and partners, for helping them close over $335M in transactions in their first 12 months of business. Transactions were closed from Florida to California and include investment sales, construction loans, bridge loans, permanent loans and forward rate lock loans for Multifamily, Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care communities. CREATIVCAP Investments also invested proprietary capital in several projects to help bridge gaps for their customers.

Despite the market turmoil in 2020, business continues to accelerate, including CREATIVCAP Advisory closing an investment sale for a Senior Housing building owned by Mr. Best – more than 20 years after that initial cold call created a lasting friendship and partnership. The principles of creativity, execution, relationships and value will continue to drive CREATIVCAP and their partners to successful outcomes.

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OUR CREATIVE SOLUTIONS & LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS ADD VALUE & CERTAINTY IN EXECUTION

Benefit from a wealth of knowledge gained through decades of experience

CREATIVCAP Financing

Debt & Equity Solutions

CREATIVCAP Advisory

Investment Sales

CREATIVCAP Investments

Client Assisting Mezzanine, GP & LP Capital Investments

CREATIVCAP Servicing

Loan Servicing

CREATIVCAP’s 4 Defining Principals

Keith Fitzsimons, Chief Financial Officer of Gallaher Companies

Robert Ezer, Chief Investment Officer, Amica Senior Lifestyles

Mark Burnham, Chief Executive Officer, OZ Cap

Our History

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