60 Seconds with Swett: WSJ’s Private Equity Analysis in Health Care
Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an article examining private equity activity in the healthcare M&A market, specifically that its activity was down compared with 2023 because of increased regulatory scrutiny and higher interest rates. The article cited Pitchbook transaction data, and some of the numbers left our editors at our sister platform LevinPro HC, which exclusively covers the healthcare M&A market, scratching their heads. According to Pitchbook, as cited in the article, there were 180 PE add-on deals, or when a PE firm buys a company through a portfolio company, through May 28. Our numbers are higher, as LevinPro HC recorded 193 deals from a PE-backed company,... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: How Serious Is the Minimum Staffing Mandate?
We conducted a survey of our readers, asking some questions on the skilled nursing M&A market. Most of the results will be featured in the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor, released later this week, but here are a couple of takeaways from it. First, we asked whether the threat of the minimum staffing mandate (as it currently stands) would impact buyer demand for SNFs. The majority, or 72%, said “somewhat” while 21% said “not at all.” Only 7% thought that there would be a significant impact. Posing the same question, but how lenders’ ability to lend for SNFs would be impacted, also saw the majority, or 64%, of respondents say “somewhat” and 14% believed it would have no impact.... Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: What if Boomers Are Not the Disruptors?
How many times have you heard that the boomers will be major disruptors of the seniors housing sector, causing providers to rethink, and change, how they provide their care and services? Too many times? I admit, I have been guilty of this as well. But I have been thinking about this concept (I know, a scary thought), and now I have some doubts. What do seniors housing providers do? They provide housing, care, meals, and an environment for socialization, among other services, all in a safe setting. Since I am in the middle of the pack of boomers, I don’t see those services changing much. Tweaked? Of course. But the basics should always be there. Boomers are going to be very demanding, or so... Read More »
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. The split between skilled nursing and seniors housing activity followed historical norms, at 42% of the deals being for SNFs. And over $2.5 billion of transaction volume has been publicly disclosed, not including scores of deals with confidential prices, including large portfolios. How could volume be so high despite a challenging lending and... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: The Current Lending Environment for Senior Care Properties Q&A
The higher cost and scarcity of capital has made getting just about any deal done that much more difficult, from an M&A transaction to a refinancing to a new construction project. We know that we don’t need to tell most of you that. But we also know that right now is a great time to buy, that it may be the time to commence construction, and that those with maturing debt are sometimes faced with a difficult decision: refinance or exit. So, we have convened a panel of financing experts to lay out the lending landscape and provide answers to those seniors housing and care owners on how to get deals done today, from which sources, and at what terms. But also, what financing options make... Read More »Schedule a demo
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