Hindsight is usually 20-20, and in the case of Five Star Senior Living, looking back two years, the company should have accepted the offer from Gemini Properties and the Thomas brothers of Senior Star, who offered to pay $325 million for 33 owned Five Star communities. They had already accumulated more than 6% of the […]
On November 15th, we hosted a webinar entitled “Are Assisted Living Prices Sustainable? Premium Prices for a Premium Product.” In it, our editor Steve Monroe and a panel of experts including Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Jacob Gehl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, Adam Kaplan of Solera Senior Living and Jesse Marinko […]
An independent owner/operator’s only senior care campus in Norwalk, Ohio sold to a regional operator thanks to the guidance of Evans Senior Investments. In the exit, the seller received $7.3 million, or nearly $55,000 per bed/unit, at an 8.9% cap rate, for the campus. This is not like any senior care campus. The property includes […]
A growing seniors housing investor saw upside at two assisted living/memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry markets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and purchased the pair for an undisclosed price. Ben Firestone and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors led the sales process on behalf of the publicly-traded REIT owner and the in-place operator, which […]
The 100% employee-owned senior care operator Medicalodges, Inc. recently obtained short-term financing from Lancaster Pollard for three of its skilled nursing facilities in Kansas and Missouri. Bill Wilson of Lancaster Pollard and Joe Munhall of LP’s Debt Syndications group arranged a $7.6 million bridge loan with a 36-month term through First Bank that will provide […]
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 […]