How transparent are the activist shareholders about what would happen to Brookdale Senior Living if it followed through on their recommendations? Not very. After spending four years being critical of practically everything Brookdale did since the acquisition of Emeritus, the one thing I did not criticize the company for doing was not selling off its […]
When a local assisted living operator in Arkansas wanted to exit the seniors housing industry, they turned to Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to get the job done. Their final property was a 30-unit assisted living community in the town of Clarksville in northwest Arkansas. Built in 1996 and 2008, […]
One of Watercrest Senior Living Group’s success stories just reached stabilization and refinanced with the help of Chris Fenton of PGIM Real Estate Finance. Developed at an approximate cost of $17 million, or $191,000 per unit, in Sebastian, Florida, the 89-unit property opened in May 2016 and shot out of the gates in its lease-up, […]
KeyBank Real Estate Capital is not slowing down after they claimed the top spot for HUD Lean volume in FY2018, going back to a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities to arrange a HUD refinance. The facilities were part of a nine-SNF portfolio acquired by Foundations Health Solutions with the help of an $87.5 million […]
We are always looking for a glimmer of optimism in the quarterly earnings reports for publicly traded seniors housing and care companies, and sometimes we find it. One only has to look at The Ensign Group, which has a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing. Everything seems to be moving up at Ensign. GAAP […]
Only three years after buying a senior living community in Park Ridge, Illinois (Chicago MSA), Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) is selling at a premium. Originally built as a hotel in 1962 but converted to senior living in 1986, this property includes 154 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. CSH had purchased it […]
Greystone’s Fred Levine successfully refinanced two skilled nursing facilities in Jackson, Tennessee. Greystone had actually provided the bridge loans used to fund the facilities’ acquisition in 2016 by a private Tennessee-based individual. The buyer had been leasing the facilities but exercised their right of first refusal to snap up the properties. The 160-bed facility sold […]
KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged acquisition financing for two skilled nursing portfolios in Nevada and Texas. A joint venture between Capital Senior Ventures and BlueMountain Capital Management was the buyer in both transactions. In the larger deal, Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera provided a $105.8 million bridge loan to fund the purchase of 12 skilled […]
Lancaster Pollard was brought in by North Carolina skilled nursing provider SanStone Health & Rehabilitation to reorganize its capital stack. Kevin Oakley acted as lead banker and, with the help of Gerald Swiacki and Joe Munhall, helped close a series of transactions resulting in more than $120 million in financing for the borrower. That included […]
With Tuesday’s mid-terms, will there be any impact on seniors housing and care? First of all, this mid-term election matters in many ways. But I keep on getting asked whether it will have much of an impact on the seniors housing and care sector. My gut response is no, at least on the federal level. […]