• Novellus Divests in Colorado

    Evans Senior Investment 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, occupancy... Read More »
  • CBRE Secures Financing for Washington Asset

    CBRE secured financing for a seniors housing community in Tacoma, Washington, on behalf of a joint venture between Harrison Street, PMB and GenCare Lifestyle. Built in 2020, GenCare Lifestyle Tacoma at Point Ruston comprises 159 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The community fully opened in the fourth quarter of 2020 and... Read More »
  • Live Oak Bank Returns to Santee Seniors Housing Campus

    Live Oak Bank closed a $27.0 million refinance with a repeat client for an assisted living/memory care community, The Ridge at Lantern Crest, situated on a larger campus, Lantern Crest, in Santee, California. Lantern Crest, operated by Lantern Crest Senior Living, is a 34-acre seniors housing campus developed by The Grant Companies. It offers... Read More »
  • The Current Lending Environment for Senior Care Properties

    The financing process has killed dozens (and hundreds) of deals in the last couple of years, and yet M&A activity is near record levels in the seniors housing and care industry. So deals are getting done, and not just with cash. Who has been lending and at what cost to the borrower? What hurdles have to be overcome? And when capital costs do... Read More »
  • Lument Arranges Tennessee SNF Sale (& Loan Assumption)

    A skilled nursing facility in Tennessee that was struggling to maintain debt service and other loan obligations sold with the help of Laca Wong-Hammond and Isabel Carta of Lument Securities serving as exclusive financial advisor to the seller. Located in Rocky Top, about 25 miles from Knoxville, Summit View of Rocky Top is a 117-bed skilled... Read More »

The Assisted Living ;A Market

Cap rates are low, values are high, but the mix of buyers and sellers in the assisted living acquisition market is changing. How will that impact values going forward? The assisted living acquisition market has been vibrant for the past several years, with demand so high for some properties even the brokers representing the sellers have been surprised on occasion. But something has changed since last year, and there is some disagreement over whether we have reached a peak in the market, or not. A lot of that hinges on what happens to cap rates, and that will be influenced by what the Federal Reserve does. It is now looking like a rate hike may not be coming until next year. If that’s the... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard stakes its place out West

Ever-expanding, Lancaster Pollard is opening a new office in Denver, Colorado to oversee the structuring and funding of health care project financings for hospitals and senior living providers in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Joining the firm to lead this new venture is Rob McAdams, who has been involved in investment sales and debt and equity structuring for the hotel and hospitality industry since 2005, most recently serving as partner at U.S. Hotel Advisors in Denver. The firm also made news with the placement of a $1.8 million bridge loan for a 118-unit assisted living community in Reno, Nevada. After being acquired in 2013, the community improved operations significantly. Now,... Read More »

Average AL price deflates

Have we already seen the mountaintop when it comes to the average price per unit for assisted living sales? After four straight four-quarter periods of an average AL price per unit above $188,500 (topping out at $191,300 per unit in the four quarters ending Q3:14), that average has fallen to $183,600 per unit in the four quarters ending Q3:15. Now, to put that in perspective, the next highest yearly average was in 2012 with $164,000 per unit, so we have by no means plummeted from the peak (no bubble has burst either). But what may be true is that prices may have started falling back to earth a bit, and perhaps the highest quality portfolio sales have, for the most part, already taken... Read More »

Profitable pharmacy business sells big

We are switching gears slightly with the latest announcement from Mark Myers and Josh Jandris of Marcus & Millichap. The duo recently closed the sale of a privately owned, very profitable pharmacy company that services six New York skilled nursing facilities, five of which are in the Western part of the state and one in Long Island, with a total of 1,100 beds. Serving some of the best rated facilities in the Northeast, with good prospects to grow in the region, the pharmacy sold for $15 million. Gross revenue of the company is about $17 million, and EBITDA had historically been about $2 million, representing a price/EBITDA multiple of 7.5x. Read More »

New EB-5 developer hits the ground running in California

Al Rattan, a real estate developer with over 30 years of experience building residential, commercial, industrial, office, health care and senior care properties, is jumping back into the seniors housing market with his company, Continental East Development (CED). Founded in 2009, CED has already developed a number of retail, office, and medical properties, but started to take a look at seniors housing in 2011. Having already developed and operated an independent/assisted living community in Anaheim Hills, California (before selling it at full occupancy), Mr. Rattan plans to utilize large amounts of EB-5 equity (up to 60% of the development cost) raised through his USA Continental Regional... Read More »