• 60 Seconds with Swett: M&A Activity Heats Up in May

    We have said this before, but the seniors housing and care M&A market is on pace to record its best-ever year in terms of transaction activity, and by some margin. Already by this point in May, we are closing in on 250 transactions for the year, so far, which puts us on track for more than 600 publicly announced deals when we close out 2024.... Read More »
  • National REIT Re-Tenants Vacant Oklahoma Seniors Housing Asset

    Blueprint’s behavioral healthcare team advised a national REIT to re-tenant a vacant seniors housing asset in the Tulsa, Oklahoma MSA. The existing asset was vacant at the time of engagement and identified as a great candidate for a behavioral healthcare provider due to strong demand and referral networks for inpatient substance abuse and mental... Read More »
  • Atlas Healthcare Makes CCRC Purchase in Massachusetts

    Evans Senior Investments was engaged by an independent owner/operator in its divestment of a CCRC in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Shrewsbury Campus is made up of three components: Southgate at Shrewsbury (senior living), Shrewsbury Nursing & Rehabilitation (skilled nursing) and Shrewsbury Medical Center (medical office buildings). ESI ran a... Read More »
  • HutsonWood at Spring Hill Secures Funding

    Ziegler announced the closing of HutsonWood at Spring Hill, Inc.’s Series 2024 revenue bond anticipation notes. The notes are comprised of $14.67 million of Series 2024A tax-exempt notes sold publicly to institutional investors and $3.0 million of Series 2024B subordinate taxable notes purchased by an affiliate of the borrower. HutsonWood (dba... Read More »
  • Novellus Divests in Colorado

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of an assisted living community in Denver, Colorado, representing Novellus Living in the transaction. ESI previously facilitated the sale of the community less than two years ago. Originally built in 2002, Novellus Cherry Creek comprises 66 units and operates on a 59% private pay basis. In 2022,... Read More »

Record-high SNF price

Have you ever seen a skilled nursing facility sell for over $300,000 per bed? Well, according to our data (which dates back to 1989), such a deal has not happened, until today. Sabra Health Care REIT, which recently acquired nine seniors housing properties in Canada (lowering its SNF exposure to approximately 50%), purchased four Maryland skilled nursing facilities with 678 beds for $234 million, or a whopping $345,100 per bed. When you look at the purchase price for three of the facilities (with 472 beds) at $175.2 million, the price per bed is an even higher $371,000. The fourth facility, which has a $10.8 million HUD loan with a 5.60% interest rate and sold for $58.8 million, was valued... Read More »

RED funds Avanti’s growth

Avanti Senior Living, which is developing five senior living communities in the Southeast (three in Texas and two in Louisiana) turned to RED Capital Partners to help fuel its construction pipeline, receiving a second $13.8 million balance sheet construction loan to build a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community in Flower Mound, Texas. The community will feature 50 units of assisted living and 40 units devoted to memory care, and represents Avanti’s third project to break ground under its joint venture with an affiliate of real estate fund manager, Iron Point Partners. Last December, RED also arranged a $13.5 million balance sheet construction loan for Avanti to construct a 90-unit... Read More »

High-quality IL properties drive prices

In 2014, we saw record-high average prices paid for seniors housing communities (which includes both assisted living and independent living). One observation was that those records were largely driven by a higher number of quality, well-run (and thus, high-priced) independent living communities coming onto the market, presumably by owners who wondered if there will ever be a better time to sell. One tell-tale sign of the high-quality independent living sales driving up average prices was the average net-operating income per unit when compared to that of purely assisted living. Based on 2014 sales, the average net-operating income per unit for independent living communities was $17,100,... Read More »

Seniors Housing Weekly Update – Another Holiday Sale For Fortress

June 23, 2015. 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe. New Senior Investment Group pays $640 million for 28 Holiday Retirement Communities… It has been eight years since Fortress Investment Group closed on its acquisition of Holiday Retirement Corporation for $6.6 billion, or $188,500 per unit. It saw occupancy drop from around 90% to well below 80% in less than three years. There was high turnover among the staff. There were some debt extensions to give it more time. Did we mention the Great Recession hit a year after closing the deal? A lot can happen in eight years, including continued low interest rates which help keep valuations up. This week, they announced another portfolio sale, this... Read More »

High-quality property opening in high-income area

One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country will soon open its first seniors housing community. River Oaks (in Houston, Texas), the most affluent community in the state of Texas, and among the top ten in the United States, with real estate values ranging from $1 million to over $20 million, is the home to The Village of River Oaks, a 195-unit independent living/assisted living/memory care community to be built by a joint venture between Bridgewood Property Company and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. The property, featuring 99 IL, 68 AL and 28 MC units, will be managed by an affiliate of Bridgewood, Retirement Center Management, which manages senior living communities in Texas... Read More »