• Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profits Close Separate Bond Transactions

    Ziegler announced the closing of two financings in Pennsylvania and North Carolina on behalf of separate borrowers. First was Messiah Lifeways’ $82.32 million of Series 2026A bonds. Messiah Lifeways is a not-for-profit that owns Messiah Village, a Type C fee-for-service CCRC serving over 700 seniors on an 85-acre campus in Mechanicsburg,... Read More »
  • The Saga of Genesis HealthCare Continues

    Genesis HealthCare was once one of the largest and most successful skilled nursing companies. But it grew too quickly, made some bad investments over the years (did we mention the billion-dollar merger with The MultiCare Companies?), and it always played the leverage game, whether with leases or debt, and usually both. Last summer, it filed for... Read More »
Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the sale of 26 skilled nursing beds from a facility in Ohio and coordinated the repurposing of the real estate for future behavioral health services. The owners made the decision to close the facility after determining that the small size of the building prevented it from achieving the operational efficiencies and economies of scale necessary for long-term success in the long-term care industry. Patients were transitioned to the seller’s nearby facility, maintaining continuity of care. Senwell capitalized on Ohio’s limited four-year cycle for transferring beds from overbedded to underbedded counties, securing the sale of the beds to a large... Read More »
Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas reported attributable net income per share of $0.14, up from $0.05 a year earlier for a gain of 180%. Normalized FFO per share also jumped 10% to $0.88, compared with $0.80 in Q3:24. On the operational front, the SHOP turned in a good performance, with same-store cash NOI rising 16% year-over-year to $232.4 million, led by the U.S. portfolio with a... Read More »
Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

Senior Care Campus Components Sell to Separate Buyers

Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated two separate transactions involving the assisted living and skilled nursing components of a senior care campus in Mansfield, Ohio. The seller, a local not-for-profit, faced significant operational and financial challenges, prompting an urgent need for a transition. Senwell was engaged to identify solutions that would preserve resident care and avoid closure. Despite limited financial and operational information available, partners were identified for both assets. The assisted living community was sold to a regional assisted living operator specializing in Medicaid Waiver programs that intends to reposition the entire campus to serve waiver... Read More »
Autumn Lake Healthcare Acquires Maryland SNFs

Autumn Lake Healthcare Acquires Maryland SNFs

First Citizens Bank’s Healthcare Finance business provided $338 million in financing to affiliates of Autumn Lake Healthcare for the acquisition of 12 Maryland skilled nursing facilities with over 1,500 beds. Based in Howell, New Jersey, Autumn Lake Healthcare’s portfolio includes 66 skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 8,200 beds in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Wisconsin and West Virginia.  The Maryland Commission released a notice detailing the transfer of the real property and bed rights of the following 12 facilities:  LG-OHI Frederick LLC, d/b/a Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek LG-OHI Clinton, LLC d/b/a Autumn Lake Healthcare at Bradford Oaks... Read More »
Welltower Shatters Single-Day Dollar Volume Record

Welltower Shatters Single-Day Dollar Volume Record

October was already on its way to setting records for M&A activity in the seniors housing and care industry before Welltower announced the most transaction dollar volume we have ever seen in a single day when it released its third quarter earnings. A couple of the largest portfolio acquisitions took place across the pond, but the REIT also announced that it was under contract or has closed an additional $4 billion of seniors housing acquisitions spanning nearly 40 transactions across over 150 communities and over 12,000 units in the United States. Starting with the biggest transaction, Welltower is acquiring a real estate portfolio of Barchester-operated communities in the United... Read More »
South Carolina Portfolio Trades

South Carolina Portfolio Trades

Newmark has hit a rich vein of activity, announcing several closings in the last few days. First, the team sold three communities across the Greenville, South Carolina, area on behalf of Atlas Senior Living. The communities were built between 2014 and 2016 and totaled 306 units, including 108 independent living, 144 assisted living and 54 memory care units. Average occupancy was strong, above 95%, and the portfolio sold for more than $100 million, or above $327,000 per unit. Atlas Senior Living will continue its good work and manage the portfolio going forward. According to LevinPro LTC, Atlas Senior Living acquired these communities in 2019 for $48.4 million, or $244,400 per unit, from... Read More »