• Brookdale Making Progress, but Is It Enough?

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its best EBITDA performance in several years, nearly topping $100 million, RevPOR continues to grow (5.8% sequentially), and second quarter guidance for adjusted EBITDA is now between $93 million and $98 million. On the labor front, they had a solid 70% retention rate for Executive Directors for the trailing... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Divests Facility, Exiting Sector

    Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by a regional owner/operator in its divestment of a senior care facility. The seller is looking to consolidate its portfolio and exit the skilled nursing industry. The buyer is a regional-based owner adding to its portfolio throughout the state,... Read More »
  • BMO Provides $140.6 Million in Bridge Financing

    BMO Healthcare Real Estate provided $70.6 million in bridge financing to a joint venture of New Perspective Senior Living, Boldt Capital and Fengate Asset Management, for the recapitalization of two Class-A seniors housing communities. The communities total 290 units in Franklin and Waukesha, Wisconsin. Loan proceeds include capital allocated for... Read More »
  • Newer-Vintage Facility in New Mexico Changes Hands

    Blueprint was brought on to facilitate the sale of an inpatient transitional care facility, Las Cruces Port Acute and Rehab. Built in 2017, the facility features 50 beds and is in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It’s located within two miles of three short-term acute care hospitals that offer quality Medicare referral opportunities. Trailing EBITDAR was... Read More »
  • Public REIT Divests in Northern Louisiana

    Helios Healthcare Advisors facilitated the purchase of two assisted living communities in Northern Louisiana on behalf of an independent investment group based in Texas and Louisiana. Savannah Court of Bastrop and Savannah Court of Minden were owned by a public REIT and operated by a regional provider under a triple-net lease. Built in the late... Read More »

Berkadia Closes a Big One

Just how did NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. fund its $875 million acquisition of a 32-property senior living portfolio? They hired Chris Fenton and Jay Healy of Berkadia Seniors Housing and Healthcare to secure $648.2 million of Fannie Mae debt. The 10-year fixed-rate financing features a 4.17% interest rate, a 73.5% loan-to-value and a 30-year amortization. All individual loans were cross collateralized and cross defaulted. The 32 properties are in 12 states with 4,012 independent living units and average occupancy in excess of 90%.   Read More »

New Prudential Fund Secures $110 Million Deal

Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI) closed on an acquisition of three large assisted living and memory care communities for $110 million, or $281,300 per unit. The new fund, Senior Housing Partners V, closed in May with $629 million of capital commitments. It is PREI’s fifth fund dedicated to seniors housing. One community in Tennessee opened in April 2012 and has 130 units, and another in Tennessee opened last October and has 126 units. The third property is in Connecticut, and it opened last September and has 135 units. PREI will retain Hearth Management, which previously owned the properties in a joint venture partnership, as the manager. Tim Cobb and Steve Thomas of Blueprint... Read More »

Watercrest Senior Living Breaks Ground in Florida

Vero Beach, Florida-based Watercrest Senior Living Group, and its development partner Starling Senior Living, celebrated the official groundbreaking of a 90-unit assisted living community in Jacksonville, Florida. It will have 66 assisted living units and 24 memory care units totaling 79,000 square feet. All of Watercrest’s memory care associates are Certified Dementia Specialists. The building was designed by PQH Group.   Read More »

Seniors Housing Weekly Update – Legal Wrangling With CCRCs

May 26, 2015. 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe. One CCRC lost a legal battle with regard to its dining room policies. Other ramifications?… Legal Wrangling With CCRCs The American Seniors Housing Association recently issued a legal brief on a fair housing settlement involving a CCRC. The Justice Department had filed a complaint against a CCRC that had restricted use of the main residential dining room to the residents of the independent living units. This restriction also applied to spouses of an IL resident who were in the skilled nursing unit. Having personally spent a lot of time in a CCRC, I know that many residents don’t like to be reminded of what the future will be like for them,... Read More »

Seniors housing prices by quartile

An owner of a new, well-occupied, profitable seniors housing property may look at the average price paid per unit of $208,200 for assisted and independent living communities in 2014 (according to the 2015 Senior Care Acquisition Report) and think it has no meaning to them and their above-average property. They may have a point, so we broke down the market by quartile and separated out the higher end of the market from the lower. Given the higher valuations and number of high-quality properties coming on the market, it should surprise no one that the upper quartile hit a new record with a price of $250,800 per unit (meaning that 25% of the properties sold in 2014 went for prices above this... Read More »