The Cushman & Wakefield team of Dave Rothschild and Mary Christian closed on the sale of an 87-unit assisted living community in California at the end of the year. The community was built in 1998 and most of the units are assisted living with 10 memory care units. It has been operated by a large national provider, and while the financial performance could have been better, we expect it to improve with the buyer.
It is the first acquisition of RBP Communities, recently founded by Blake Parsons, who went out on his own after working in the family business, Parson’s House. Although pricing information has not been publicly disclosed, we suspect it was below the national average for assisted living. And we also suspect that under the management of a small operator, with a huge incentive to do well, the cash flow and value will grow. The community has been renamed Vista Blue Mountain.
