Average IL cap rate falls 80 basis points
The average cap rate largely depends on the properties that sold. Even in a year when valuations rise and cost of capital remains low, cap rates may actually rise because the communities sold were of lesser quality. That factor has played a key role in determining the average cap rate for independent living communities in the last two years. In 2013, there were more low-quality, small properties that sold, which drove the average cap rate for the year up 20 basis points to 8.2%. However, there were more quality independent living communities sold in 2014, which helped decrease the average cap rate by 80 basis points to 7.4%. What most likely happened is that owners of these prime... Read More »MOB to Senior Living?
Monarch Senior Living is trying something new in seniors housing development. The company acquired a vacant 17,800 square-foot medical office building (MOB) in La Jolla, California for $7.115 million, which it plans to convert into a 26-unit/44-bed memory care community. Monarch will own the community with Menlo Park, California-based real estate equity sponsor HG Capital, and will also manage it upon completion. To fund both the purchase and the repurposing of the building, Aaron Beck of NorthMarq Capital arranged a five-year $9.96 million first mortgage loan for Monarch. The financing featured interest-only payments, a floating rate and minimal recourse so as to give the joint venture... Read More »Another Holiday portfolio sells to a REIT
So goes another large portfolio of Holiday Retirement properties, with NorthStar Realty Finance’s acquisition of 32 independent living communities from affiliates of Harvest Facility Holdings, itself an affiliate of Holiday. The acquisition marks another step towards Holiday’s owner Fortress Investment Group’s goal of transforming Holiday into an operating company. In fact, since October 2013, Holiday has sold over 200 properties totaling about $5.1 billion. In that time, nearly all of those assets were sold to REITs, such as New Senior Investment Group, Sabra Health Care REIT, National Health Investors and Ventas, and that is no different in the most-recent transaction. NorthStar Realty... Read More »County conversion
In what turned out to be a multi-year saga, the former director of development for Elderwood Senior Care (which was acquired in 2013 by Post-Acute Partners, a New York City-based health care services company), David Tosetto, is finally set to open a 150-unit assisted living community in Lockport, New York. In 2007, Niagara County closed the Mount View Health Facility, a 172-bed nursing facility, with the intention of replacing it with a new assisted living community, which was later determined to be financially infeasible. So in 2012, Mr. Tosetto, offered to purchase the facility for $550,000 and convert it into a 150-bed assisted living community. The sale closed in 2013, and Tosetto... Read More »Schedule a demo
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