• Not-For-Profit Expands Texas Footprint

    Buckner Retirement Services, Inc., a not-for-profit senior living provider, acquired a CCRC in Texas. This will be the seventh senior living community owned/operated by Buckner in the state. The seller, Lifespace Communities Inc., acquired the community in 2019 and has operated it since. Lifespace was focused on finding a buyer with similar... Read More »
  • Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

    There may be a new publicly traded senior care company on the horizon, as PACS Group, a Utah-based skilled nursing operator with more than 200 facilities in its current portfolio, filed for an initial public offering with the SEC on March 13. It plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol PACS. The company is barely 10 years old but has grown its... Read More »
  • Ziegler Handles Chicago SNF Deal

    A for-profit buyer is taking over ownership of a not-for-profit skilled nursing facility in an affluent north Chicago suburb. Ziegler acted as advisor to the Illinois-based not-for-profit seller, with Managing Director Nick Glaisner leading the transaction and Melanie Shaffer in support.  This was an older, multi-story facility, having been built... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sells Plano Property

    Blueprint facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Plano, Texas. Built in the late 1990s, the community offers 65 units of assisted living and memory care. The buyer was a regional owner/operator looking to expand in the state. The seller, a developer/investor, is divesting the community after selling over 12 geographically... Read More »
  • Dwight & Co Adds to Services and Team

    Dwight & Co has expanded its seniors housing and healthcare financing solutions by launching working capital revolving lines of credit (revolvers). The company also announced a couple of new hires.  The revolvers will integrate into Dwight’s existing bridge, mezzanine, and HUD healthcare lending platform, providing a comprehensive... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Reflections on Spring NIC

60 Seconds with Swett: Reflections on Spring NIC

Maybe it was because Spring is around the corner, but the mood at the NIC in Dallas was relatively better, especially compared with the mood of the last three conferences when rising interest rates soured things in Fall 2022, the banking crisis of early 2023 affected last Spring and last Fall most were resigned to the reality of high rates and low values. That acceptance of the present market conditions means that almost no one is happy, but that they are more ready and willing to do deals again. And we heard of more performing, Class-A properties and portfolios hitting the market and receiving interest from buyers. More than in the previous year. On the lending side, banks are not totally... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Reflections on Spring NIC

60 Seconds with Swett: Memory Care Still Commands a Premium

We are just a couple of days away from publishing the 29th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report, which is available to all LevinPro LTC and LTC News subscribers as part of their subscriptions, and the impact of the capital markets upheaval on valuations affected nearly all property types in 2023. Still, a few historical norms remained. For instance, as they usually do, buyers placed a premium on memory care, whether standalone or as a portion of an assisted living community, over traditional AL properties in 2023, averaging $168,700 per unit versus $95,700 per unit, respectively. Both are down from their 2022 averages, according to the Report. Yes, these communities with memory... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Reflections on Spring NIC

60 Seconds with Swett: Where Are Senior Care Property Values Now?

Where do values stand for seniors housing and care properties after more than a year of capital markets upheaval and persistent, post-pandemic operational challenges? Well, after an exhaustive study of our proprietary M&A statistics, we will be previewing the results of the 29th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report in a webinar this Thursday February 22 at 1pm Eastern.  In addition, our distinguished group of panelists will discuss the market dynamics informing buyers and sellers’ decisions then and now, how the lending environment shifted and shaped M&A strategies, whether a wave of distress and defaults is at last on its way in 2024, and their own predictions for... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: SNF Values Drop

60 Seconds with Swett: SNF Values Drop

We are in the middle of compiling our 2023 M&A statistics for the soon-to-be-released 29th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report, and the difficult year that was 2023 is coming clearer into focus, at least from a valuation perspective. We’ll preview the skilled nursing market first, which remained relatively strong despite the numerous headwinds facing the sector. On the other hand, some of the tailwinds like rising reimbursement rates, falling supply of licensed beds and revenues from related ancillary businesses have helped prop up valuations. We heard consistently throughout 2023 that values for SNFs had dropped between 10-15% from their peak around 2021 and early 2022, BUT... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: SNF Values Drop

60 Seconds with Swett: January M&A Activity Hits a Recent High

If many are hoping for a fundamental shift in the M&A market in 2024, either for more activity, larger deals or Class-A, stabilized properties hitting the market, then January may have offered a glimmer of hope. We recorded 61 publicly announced transactions across the seniors housing and care sectors, according to LevinPro LTC. That is the highest monthly tally since January 2022 when 64 deals were made public. Back then, for some perspective, the 10-year Treasury rate averaged 1.76% that month, as opposed to around 4.0% last month. And liquidity was vastly different, too. There are also always December closings in the January total, which goes by announcement date, but that is true... Read More »
300 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Here We Go Again

300 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Here We Go Again

Whenever there are headlines about anything in senior care, we can always count on Senate hearings, with a lot of unfounded accusations and unrealistic recommendations. This usually leads to a new commission being formed, the results of which are delivered a year later in 300 pages that no one reads, except perhaps Richard Mollot of the Long Term Care Community Coalition. But that is his job. It is doubtful Liz Warren will read it. Let me start with Richard Mollot, who apparently claimed at the January 25th Senate hearing that there is a crisis in assisted living, and compared assisted living today with nursing homes in the 1970s and 1980s. Really? Did he ever go into a nursing home back... Read More »