Blueprint in the Buckeye State, Again
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced a couple of Ohio closings at the start of June. The firm first sold an 88-bed skilled nursing facility in Orrville, a small town about 40 miles south of Cleveland. Originally built in 1974, the facility was recently renovated and also features two independent living cottages totaling eight units. However, it was operating around breakeven, so the existing owner/operator decided to divest. A partnership between a high-acuity skilled nursing operator and O&M Investments, a private equity firm focused on the SNF market, emerged as the buyer. Connor Doherty and Brian Payant led the transaction, which did not disclose a purchase price. Mr.... Read More »The Ensign Group Expands in South Texas with Senior Care Campus
The Ensign Group may have just spun off its senior living assets into a new entity named The Pennant Group, but the firm can’t fully shake the seniors housing business, acquiring a senior care campus with 38 assisted living and 92 independent living units, along with 60 skilled nursing beds. Located in the town of Harlingen, the campus complements five other Ensign operations in south Texas, including another 82-bed skilled nursing facility in Harlingen that the company acquired from The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society in 2009. Ensign acquired both the operations and real estate in this transaction, bringing its portfolio to 198 skilled nursing operations, 27 of which also... Read More »
Ventas Doubles Down on Canadian Seniors Housing Market
The Big-3 REITs are back as buyers, with Ventas making the biggest splash of them all by acquiring 31 senior living communities in Quebec for approximately C$2.4 billion, or US$1.8 billion. Made in an 85/15% partnership with the in-place operator, Le Groupe Maurice, the acquisition is expected to generate compound annual NOI growth of 4% over the next five years. The stabilized portfolio, consisting of 28 communities located in core urban markets, has 7,885 units, an occupancy of 97%, an average age of seven years and more than C$2,600 in monthly revenue per-occupied unit. It certainly helps that the penetration rate for seniors housing in Quebec is twice that of the rest of Canada at 18%.... Read More »
NHI Acquires Discovery Senior Living Portfolio from Kayne Anderson
National Health Investors, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Discovery Senior Living to acquire six senior living communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana from affiliates of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors. The venture, of which NHI is a 97.5% owner, spent close to $126.850 million, or about $212,800 per unit, on the portfolio that totaled 145 independent living, 356 assisted living and 95 memory care units. Discovery, the existing operator, leased the portfolio under a 10-year agreement, with a 6.5% initial annual cash yield, a CPI-based escalator with a 2% floor and 3% cap beginning in year-two, and two five-year extension options. In addition to the base purchase... Read More »
