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 »
60 Seconds with Swett: Healthcare M&A Totals
We know that seniors housing and care dealmakers pushed M&A activity to its second-highest total ever in 2023, with around 490 transactions, and counting. But what about the whole healthcare industry, which our sister publication LevinPro HC tracks? For the year, the 12 other healthcare sectors we cover, from Behavioral Health and Home Health to Hospitals and Physician Medical Groups, a total of 2,154 transactions were publicly announced, a 12% decline from the 2,443 transactions disclosed in 2022, which was a record-high. It also fell 4% short of 2021’s total, but historically, anything above 2,000 is on another level. After all, 2019 only reached around 1,400 deals. All sectors... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: 2023 M&A Totals Higher Than Expected
Happy New Year everyone, and we think most are very happy to put 2023 behind them. It was a difficult year for dealmakers, having to adapt to quickly changing capital markets, sometimes fickle lenders, buyers and sellers, and lower overall inventory of facilities to sell or finance. It would be hard to imagine a more challenging year, barring some catastrophe yet unknown to us. Sorry for putting that out there. And yet, believe it or not, seniors housing and care M&A transaction totals in 2023 only failed to surpass 2022’s total of 556 deals, which blew the previous record out of the water. We recorded 489 publicly announced deals in 2023, which is still a preliminary number that... Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Not So Merry This Year?
As many of you know, this time of year I often do my “Twas The Night Before Christmas” roast of senior participants in our industry, picking on either REITs, brokers, provider CEOs, or anyone else. Somehow, this year it just didn’t seem appropriate. They have been picked on enough, but not in jest like I try to do, even though some seem to take it a bit too personally. You shouldn’t. It seems the media, in particular The New York Times and The Washington Post, have decided to pick on the assisted living industry, maybe figuring nursing homes have already been through the media meat grinder, which they have. Last weekend, The Post came out with two articles blasting the assisted living... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: An Investor’s Guide to 2024: Buy, Sell, Finance & Thrive in Senior Care
Most are predicting similar conditions in the senior care M&A market next year, as compared with 2023, and that could be largely true with sustained high interest rates, operational and financial distress still out there and lower values. But taking advantage of the more subtle shifts in valuations, the lending environment, seller and listing profiles, acquisition strategies, distress and operational improvements could prime some for success in what should still be a difficult year. The decisions made in 2024 could also set the stage for many companies to excel in 2025 when M&A activity, new developments and valuations likely come storming back. We’ll be looking to the future... Read More »Schedule a demo
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