The presidential candidates are ignoring the real problems, and people should be sick of it. I don’t know about you, but I am getting very irritated at this election. And not just because my guy did not win much of anything on Super Tuesday. I am sick of hearing about spray tans, goofy hair, liars, […]
We held our annual Senior Care M&A Outlook webinar last Thursday, which featured a discussion between our editor Steve Monroe, John Cobb, CIO of Ventas, Inc., Scott Kremeier, Senior Vice President at Houlihan Lokey, and Ryan Maconachy, Senior Managing Director at HFF. In it, the panelists discussed how the seniors housing and care M&A market […]
On March 1, Brookdale Senior Living announced a major change to its senior leadership. Effective March 18, the company’s President, Mark Ohlendorf, and effective March 11, its former Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer and current Executive Vice President, Kristin Ferge, will step down. Mr. Ohlendorf had served a variety of leadership roles for Brookdale, including […]
In the depths of this winter, let’s head south to Largo, Florida, where the subsidiary of the owner of rehabilitation, skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living communities throughout the country purchased a 128-bed assisted living/memory care community for an undisclosed price. Owned by a religious non-profit, the community was built in 2006 with a […]
After a record-setting year across all senior care sectors in 2014, average skilled nursing facility prices soared again to a new record of $85,900 per bed, or 12% higher than in 2014. In the assisted living market, the average price paid per unit just topped the previous record set in 2014 by less than 1.0%, […]
Just two years after acquiring a 114-unit assisted living/memory care community in Peoria, Arizona (Phoenix MSA), Platinum Health Care decided to sell, more than doubling its value in the process. Back in February 2014, the Skokie, Illinois-based owner/operator bought the 30-year old community when it was just 64% occupied, and losing money to boot. But […]
After topping our 2015 broker list in terms of dollar volume, with $1.45 billion in transactions closed that year, HFF is off to a strong start in 2016. On the financing side, the company, led by James Fowler, Ryan Maconachy and Chad Lavender, recently arranged $95.5 million in joint venture equity and construction financing for […]
Record prices again for skilled nursing facilities in 2015, while some of the larger players still struggle. You know I have been talking about the disconnect in the public equity markets for a few months. Some of the largest skilled nursing companies have seen a rough patch recently, and rougher for some than others. One […]
HFF recently announced the closing of a sale that we reported on in the January issue of The SeniorCare Investor (but didn’t have full details). The acquired 93-unit assisted living/memory care community is located in the Upper Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, and sold for $36.25 million, or $390,200 per unit, to Washington D.C.-based […]
John Randolph and Charlie Shoop of KeyBank’s Healthcare Mortgage Group recently arranged $47.7 million of permanent financing, which included a $28.5 million HUD loan and a $9.2 million Fannie Mae loan, to refinance a portfolio of six assisted living communities. The HUD loan featured a low fixed rate for 35 years, while the Fannie Mae […]
