Newmark Facilitates a Sale and Refinance
Newmark’s Senior Housing Team handled the sale of a seniors housing community in South Carolina. Built in 2021, New Haven at Little River features 154 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in Little River, South Carolina. Totaling 200,000 square feet, it has 89 IL, 44 AL and 19 MC units. No additional details were disclosed, QSL Management announced that it took over management on October 17 and renamed the community The Barclay at Little River. Newmark’s Seniors Housing Team also secured a $140 million cash-out refinance through Freddie Mac for a seniors housing community in Atlanta, Georgia, called Corso Atlanta. Taking out the original construction loan, the package... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Refinancing
Mesa West Capital provided a joint venture with a loan to refinance a seniors housing community in Montvale, New Jersey. The joint venture comprises AEW Capital Management, Thrive Senior Living and Pike Construction. The five-year, floating-rate $57 million loan is secured by Thrive at Montvale. Built in 2022 by Thrive and Pike, the community features 88 independent living, 83 assisted living and 32 memory care units on 11.5 acres across 214,000 square feet. Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: What Could Stop the M&A Momentum?
Last week, we recorded our 560th deal of 2024, which breaks the annual record for M&A volume across seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions. And we have more than two months to go. So there can be no dispute that we will set an M&A record this year, and by a large margin. But could 2024 actually end with a whimper? We ask that because the 10-Year Treasury rate, which fell to 3.6% in September, the lowest level in more than a year and a half, is now above 4.2%, or the highest level since July. Much of the optimism at the NIC conference last month hinged on the Fed’s 50-basis point rate reduction in September and the 10-Year rate was at its low then too, but what about now?... Read More »
Brookdale and the Golden Age
A lot has been made recently of the looming Golden Age of seniors housing. An analyst at Jefferies & Co. came out with a strong recommendation of Brookdale Senior Living and its potential to take advantage of the upcoming age wave. They referred to Brookdale as the leading senior living provider well positioned for this. A more accurate description would be the largest senior living provider. It did not matter, as the share price jumped by 12% during the day on very heavy volume. But we have seen this movie before. To take advantage of the Golden Age a few things have to happen, and one is to negotiate a new lease for its 121 properties with Ventas that will provide more cash flow to... Read More »
LTC M&A Sector Reaches New Transaction Volume Record
The most active dealmaking year was 2022, in which 559 transactions were announced, according to LevinPro LTC. As of Friday October 18, 2024, the senior care sector has hit a new record in terms of transaction volume. We are currently at 560 transactions, and still have some of October plus all of November and December to go. Overall, the deals announced this year have been smaller and more distressed than in previous years, while many portfolios were broken up into numerous smaller deals because of the lack of financing available for big deals. But we also hear from dealmakers that the process for closing deals is still long and difficult, making the record-high volume even more... Read More »
Do Elections Matter?
In less than three weeks we will be having an election that could set the stage for what happens in the country for many years to come. Or not. There is always a lot of fearmongering over what one candidate will do compared with the other. Usually, change comes slowly, or not at all. As is usually the case in presidential elections, there is little talk about senior care, other than the growing costs of entitlements, with no reasonable solutions coming from either side. It is a topic that is easily avoided, and we are tired of the lip service. But in Washington State, there are several initiatives on the ballot, one of which involves taxes and LTC insurance. You will remember that... Read More »
Invesque’s Recent Activity
Invesque recently announced several transaction and refinancing updates. First, in September, the company sold an Illinois skilled nursing facility for $16.5 million, with proceeds from the sale going towards reducing borrowings under the KeyBank credit facility. Invesque now only owns two SNFs. Next, in October, Invesque sold seven seniors housing assets in Maryland (three), Virginia (three) and Tennessee. They comprise 355 units and were previously managed by Commonwealth Senior Living. Invesque originally acquired a 17-property (and later 20-property) Commonwealth portfolio in 2019 for approximately $285.4 million, or $236,800 per unit. The 2024 sale price for the seven assets was $65.4... Read More »
National Owner Acquires Louisiana SNF
After acquiring and turning around a skilled nursing facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, a mom & pop operator is selling the asset and entering into a well deserved retirement. Built in 1990 with a renovation in 2017, Regency House Alexandria features 60 skilled nursing beds and 10 assisted living beds. It only accepted Medicare and private pay residents and generated more than $1.5 million of EBITDAR at closing. There was also an assumable HUD loan on the property with an attractive interest rate, and even some upside with an increase to the facility’s Medicare census. Blueprint procured multiple offers before a national owner/operator was ultimately selected by the seller. The... Read More »
Tutera Acquires Iowa Senior Care Campus
A not-for-profit senior care campus in Asbury, Iowa, found a new owner with the help of Jeff Binder, Jason Punzel and Jake Anderson of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Dubuque, Iowa-based Luther Manor Communities had previously owned the campus, plus one location in its home town of Dubuque, before failing to pay back over $15.7 million in loans and having the locations fall into receivership in August 2023. Since then, they have been operated by Walnut Creek Managing Co. (an LLC affiliated with Tutera Senior Living, which operates in the region), and Kansas City-based attorney (and serial senior care receiver) Michael Flanagan was appointed as the receiver. The Asbury campus... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Loan Trifecta
For anyone who has wondered which banks are actively lending in this capital markets environment, Live Oak Bank has been on a tear in the last few weeks, closing more than six transactions recently. The latest three were bridge loans closed on behalf of seniors housing owners in three states in the Southeast. First was an $8.5 million bridge loan for a joint venture between Manor Lake Development and Buligo Capital Partners. The loan features a three-year initial term and 24 months of interest-only payments before the borrowers expect to refinance with an agency. Loan proceeds were used to recapitalize partnership notes for an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Atlanta,... Read More »Schedule a demo
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