The team of Allen McMurtry, Paul Carr and David Kliewer of Cushman & Wakefield helped a development collaboration successfully sell its two-year old assisted living/memory care community in the Tampa, Florida area. Gulf Coastal Development and Rookis Development (along with operator Watermark Retirement Communities) have a history of teaming up to develop other senior living […]
National Health Investors entered into a new relationship in Michigan, after acquiring a pair of assisted living communities from, and leasing them back to, affiliates of Comfort Care Senior Living. The targets were built in the last five years around Saginaw, Michigan, and include a 51-unit assisted living/memory care community in Bridgeport and a 53-unit […]
There was a perfect correlation between size of skilled nursing facility sold and the average price per bed in 2017. In general, the smaller the nursing facility, the lower the price, and the larger the facility the higher the price. In 2016, the correlation existed except average prices declined for those facilities over 180 beds […]
Holiday Retirement recapitalized two of its seniors housing communities with a single $65 million adjustable-rate loan provided by Capital One. One community, with 241 independent living units, plus a separate wing with 12 assisted living units that is managed by Superior Home Care, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The other, with 159 IL and AL […]
With so much capital flooding the senior care space, lenders and investors need a better appreciation of what it is they are funding. People like to say that the seniors housing and care industry is driven by demographics, but for the past few years it has been driven by cheap and abundant capital. But to […]
Many of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ closings this year have featured a publicly traded REIT divesting skilled nursing facilities (a theme in the past year), which was yet again the impetus for its latest deal. Christopher Hyldahl, Ben Firestone, Gideon Orion and Michael Segal worked on behalf of Sabra Health Care REIT to sell […]
Many buyers prize a community’s cash flow over many other factors when looking for relatively safe investments that can provide returns to their capital providers. The past three years haven’t reached the record set in 2014 of $14,200 per unit, but in a year where the average price per unit for seniors housing (independent and […]
Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors headed to Palm Springs, California for their latest sale, representing a publicly traded REIT in the disposition. Built nearly 20 years ago, the property featured four 15-unit assisted living cottages and two 15-unit memory care cottages, for a total of 90 units. It had a […]
After a busy Spring growing its medical office building portfolio, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV jumped back into the senior care M&A market to acquire eight skilled nursing facilities in Missouri, at a price of $88.2 million, or $79,300 per bed. The portfolio, comprising 1,112 licensed beds, is well performing and will be leased under a […]
When buyers value a skilled nursing facility, or any senior living property, it is always the absolute level of cash flow (NOI) that matters, not the operating margin or expense ratio. Buyers are purchasing a stream of net cash flow, and that net cash flow is going to provide the returns to capital providers. As […]