• Quarterly Investor Call #1

    by | Apr 19, 2024 5:31 pm | Opinion

    Skip the in-person conference, and get the latest senior care M&A and valuations data, market analysis and case studies on notable deals by watching The SeniorCare Investor’s first ever Quarterly Investor Call. Read More »

  • Pacific Companies Acquires National Portfolio

    by | Apr 19, 2024 3:20 pm | Acquisitions

    Pacific Companies, LLC, a privately owned real estate private equity firm based in San Diego, California, acquired the majority of the not-for-profit Retirement Housing Foundations market-rate seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. Ziegler served as exclusive sell-side advisor to RHF on the transaction, which closed in phases throughout late... Read More »

  • Owner/Operator Chooses Refinance Over Sale

    by | Apr 19, 2024 3:19 pm | Financings

    A national owner/operator faced with an underperforming seniors housing property in Missouri and maturing debt on the property secured a refinance thanks to JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital. The borrower, which has over 30 properties in its portfolio, acquired the 45-unit assisted living community in late 2017.  Occupancy and cash flow... Read More »

  • Two Seniors Housing Communities in Indiana Trade Hands

    by | Apr 18, 2024 3:31 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in northwest Indiana. The value-add communities are in Michigan City and Merrillville and comprise 119 assisted living and memory care units. They had strong pre-pandemic financial performance but more recently benefited from a substantial Medicaid Waiver reimbursement rate... Read More »

  • Artemis/Bridgewood Acquire Texas Portfolio

    by | Apr 18, 2024 11:38 am | Acquisitions

    CBRE was engaged in the sale of four seniors housing communities in the Dallas, Texas MSA: Village on the Park Plano (Plano), Village on the Park Denton (Denton), Village on the Park Stonebridge Ranch (McKinney) and Village on the Park McKinney (McKinney). The communities comprise 366 total units of assisted living and memory care and were built... Read More »

Converted convent sells in Wisconsin

by | Nov 27, 2015 8:22 am | Acquisitions

Meridian Senior Services recently purchased a 50-unit assisted living community in Racine, Wisconsin (between Milwaukee and Chicago) for $6.5 million, or 130,000 per unit, with a 12.3% cap rate. The community has quite a history. The main building was built in 1924 originally as a convent, but was completely gutted in 2008 to provide assisted living. Currently, the 64,000-square foot building sits on 4.07 acres. The seller, which bought the property in 2007 and spent approximately $2 million for the conversion, is a local operator. Despite the renovation, the older structure of the building means the rooms are on the small side and there is not much common area, hence the higher cap rate.... Read More »

Ziegler’s $1 billion relationship

by | Nov 26, 2015 8:30 am | Financings

Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation (SQLC), a Texas-based nonprofit that operates six senior living communities, hired Ziegler for the fourth time in 2015 to refinance one of its properties, which is located in the Barton Creek neighborhood of Austin, Texas and consists of 157 independent living units, 10 IL villas, 40 assisted living units, 23 memory care units and 42 skilled nursing beds. In order to refund $37.7 million in outstanding Series 2005 Bonds and finance renovations on the property, including a restoration project, SQLC turned to Ziegler to close a $50.69 million tax-exempt bond issue. The financing also helped fund a debt service reserve fund, pay the cost of issuance and... Read More »

Fraud And Senior Care

by | Nov 25, 2015 8:32 am | 60 Seconds, Opinion

Despite some high-profile allegations against senior executives for some type of financial wrong-doing, we are still thankful for all the good work done by the nation’s caregivers. What is it about caring for the elderly and financial fraud or other misdeeds? About once a week I read about a home health agency being charged with Medicare fraud. And then there is Medicaid fraud we hear about all too often with nursing facility owners, doctors and other providers. In our senior care industry, the founder of Sunwest Management, Jon Harder, was sentenced last week to 15 years in federal prison. Also last week, the SEC charged Chris Brogdon, the CEO of Global Healthcare REIT, with... Read More »

Four Green Bay-area properties sold

by | Nov 25, 2015 8:30 am | Acquisitions

Jacob Gehl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors led the sale of a portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities in Wisconsin for $18.35 million, or $146,800 per unit, with an 8.7% cap rate. Included in the portfolio were three properties in Green Bay, including a 20-unit stand-alone memory care community, and one in Appleton. Combined occupancy stood at 92% at the time of the sale, and the portfolio generated approximately $1.6 million in trailing EBITDAR on an annualized basis. Senior Housing and Healthcare Capital was the seller, while Summit Healthcare REIT was the buyer, which will lease the properties for a 12-year term to an affiliate of Compass Senior Living, an... Read More »

Wolff eyes seniors housing

by | Nov 24, 2015 7:11 pm | Developments, Financings

Another major multifamily developer is getting into the seniors housing industry. In the past year, we have seen a number of either private equity groups or real estate developers, all with experience in the multifamily market but not so much in seniors housing, dip their toes (some more like cannonballed) into seniors housing development, including Drever Capital Management, Alliance Residential and Validus Group. Now, Scottsdale, Arizona-based The Wolff Company announced its plans to develop six independent/assisted living communities with 858 units throughout the Western United States. To build up its seniors housing team, in March 2014 Wolff brought on Mike Milhaupt, who has over 20... Read More »