• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Handles Michigan Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Handles Michigan Sale

Hands-off management led to a decline in occupancy at a senior care campus in Bay City, Michigan, and an ensuing sale was handled by Bradley Clousing, Ryan Saul and Joe Young of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The campus consists of a 151-bed skilled nursing facility that was built in 1955 and completely renovated in 2007, and a 38-unit assisted living community added in 2001. The seller was retiring from the family business and exiting the industry after operating in it for more than 50 years.   Regulatory changes, new competition in the market and the health of the remaining family member made operating the asset more difficult in recent years. As such, the SNF was facing occupancy... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 6, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 6, 2020

Senior care M&A continues to chug along, check out our recent chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice NY-based groupCarriage House & Health Care Center & Colonnades Assisted Living$6 million Regional NY-based owner/operatorSpring View Manor$1.125 million Imperial Healthcare GroupMadlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish LifeN/A The Ensign GroupThe Medical Lodge of... Read More »
Healthpeak Properties Heading Out of Seniors Housing

Healthpeak Properties Heading Out of Seniors Housing

Healthpeak Properties jolted the senior care industry when it announced it is in the process of unloading its entire seniors housing RIDEA portfolio (135 communities with 15,992 units) as well as its triple net lease portfolio (62 communities with 5,848 units). So far, $1.5 billion of assets are under binding and non-binding letters of intent in eight transactions, while $2 billion is under letter of intent in six deals. The rest of the communities are being actively marketed. The RIDEA assets, if they close, will sell at about a 5.8% cap rate based on trailing 12-months EBITDA ended March 31, 2020 (pre-pandemic), but closer to 3% based on third quarter performance annualized.... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells Value-Add SNF in Kansas

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells Value-Add SNF in Kansas

In a deal that went to market in mid-August and closed at the end of October, Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a skilled nursing facility in Conway Springs, Kansas. Situated in the south-central part of the state, the facility was built in 1964, with additions made in 1988 and 1996. It is licensed for 45 beds, with about 27 of those occupied at the time of the sale. This was the only facility owned by the Winter family, who has owned the SNF since opening, but Wichita, Kansas-based Axiom Healthcare Services had been operating it over the last year. As of June 2020, the facility was losing more than $400,000 in EBITDAR on nearly $2.45... Read More »
Senior Care Campus Sells Near Philadelphia

Senior Care Campus Sells Near Philadelphia

A not-for-profit, faith-based operator of senior care services in the Philadelphia area sold its flagship senior care campus in North Wales, Pennsylvania. That seller, Abramson Senior Care, has over 150 years of experience caring for the Jewish elderly in the area and opened this community in 2001 on 78 acres. The campus includes 324 private skilled nursing beds, 46 personal care (assisted living) units and two independent living units. Well-maintained, it also received over $5 million in renovations since 2008 and carries a five-star rating from CMS.  Abramson Senior Care made the decision to sell the campus but still wanted to see a continuation of its mission and religious programming,... Read More »
Ensign Acquires Former Omega Healthcare Investors SNF

Ensign Acquires Former Omega Healthcare Investors SNF

The Ensign Group acquired a skilled nursing facility in Amarillo, Texas, picking up both the real estate and operations in the deal. Featuring 82 beds, the facility was formerly owned by Omega Healthcare Investors, which acquired it in a portfolio deal in June 2010. It was part of the 57-facility portfolio operated by Daybreak Venture, LLC that OHI was in the process of divesting after Daybreak paid less than $1 million in rent in the third and fourth quarters of 2019. This Amarillo location was just 45% occupied at the time of the sale.  Ensign paid an undisclosed sum for the property and will rename it The Medical Lodge of Amarillo. Its subsidiary Keystone Care LLC will take over... Read More »