Investment Management Firm Acquires LA Senior Living
JLL facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino, California. The buyer was an independent investment management firm. Aaron Rosenzweig and Dan Baker represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Built in 1977, Encino Terrace comprises 73 assisted living units. A recent renovation updated the common areas and 29 of the units. It stands three-stories tall on half an acre and comprises 54,450 square feet. Community amenities include resident laundry, a living room, dining room, fitness center, interior courtyard and a 41-space underground parking garage. Occupancy was 65% at the time of sale. The price was not... Read More »
NHI Making Moves in the M&A Market
National Health Investors appears set to get off the M&A sidelines, “sidelines” being relative for the REIT which has engaged in a fraction of new investments compared with pre-pandemic years. So far in 2024, NHI has closed on $56.6 million of investments with an average initial yield of 8.4%, split between both existing and new relationships. In addition, NHI signed LOIs on another $155.4 million, also with an average yield of 8.4% and is evaluating around $270 million of potential investments, excluding portfolio transactions and mostly within seniors housing (which is where the opportunities mostly lie for value-add transactions). The signed LOIs include primarily sale/leaseback... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires Class-A Active Adult Community in SC
Berkadia announced the sale of a Class-A, active adult community in Greenville, South Carolina. Built in 2022, The Aspens Verdae sits within the 1,100-acre master-planned Verdae neighborhood and comprises 159 one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders negotiated the transaction on behalf of the seller, Texas-based active adult developer Aspens Senior Living. The community was sold to Charleston, South Carolina-based Blaze Capital Partners and Partners Group. Public records show the purchase price as $33.2 million, or $208,800 per unit, which was financed by a $21.6 million loan from MetLife Investment Management. Read More »
Another County-Owned SNF Finds New Owner
Fewer and fewer counties have been able to hold onto their skilled nursing facilities, often lacking the scale (or expertise) to operate them profitably and having to support large losses on their books for years. COVID, the staffing shortage and soaring expenses did not help many, and we have seen more sales of county-owned facilities since then, although they were occurring for years before the pandemic, too. Evans Senior Investments recently sold Samaritan Health Center, a county-owned senior care facility in West Bend, Wisconsin. Built in 1969 and renovated in 2009, the facility is located about 30 miles northeast of Milwaukee. It offers three licensed programs: a skilled nursing... Read More »
