• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Blueprint and BlueMountain

Blueprint and BlueMountain

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced that it was involved in the Sabra Health Care REIT sale of 28 skilled nursing facilities in Texas and Louisiana to a joint venture of BlueMountain Capital Management, BM Eagle Holdings and Capital Funding Group for $282.5 million. Engaged by the joint venture buyer for their expertise on the Texas and Louisiana markets, Ben Firestone, Chris Hyldahl and Gideon Orion of Blueprint helped find local operating partners and tenants for the portfolio, which was previously operated by the now-bankrupt Senior Care Centers. Despite the bad news surrounding SCC’s financial troubles, these facilities were still operating decently well, particularly... Read More »
Harrison Street Exits Oregon Assets

Harrison Street Exits Oregon Assets

The Springs Living successfully recapitalized its exiting equity partner, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, in a couple of senior living communities with the help of a bank loan secured by Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing. Originally acquired as part of larger $65 million four-property portfolio in 2012, these two properties are located within the Portland, Oregon MSA. With an average age of about 15 years, they currently feature a total of 145 independent living, 82 assisted living and 41 memory care units. The Springs (TSL) and Harrison Street had invested a significant amount of capital into the properties to make them the top competitors in... Read More »
Two Sales Closed by the Knapp Group

Two Sales Closed by the Knapp Group

Knapp Group Seniors Housing Advisors of Marcus & Millichap closed a couple of sales around the Great Lakes. First, Jim and Justin Knapp teamed up to represent a local owner in their sale of an assisted living community in southeast Michigan, exactly 11 years after helping them initially acquire it. Built in 1987 and recently receiving significant upgrades, the 50-unit community was well occupied (over 90%) and operated at a 20.5% margin. With the new improvements, that margin should only improve. Another local owner/operator paid $6.5 million, or $130,000 per unit (at an 8.4% cap rate), for the property. Then Justin Knapp was the lead advisor in the sale of a 55-unit assisted... Read More »

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending April 5, 2019

Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice CareTrust REIT, Inc.Skilled nursing portfolio$211 million Private equity groupVista Gardens$22.8 million Strawberry Fields REIT LLCThe Waters of White Hall$6.85 million Regional owner/operatorRosewood Care Center of Galesburg$3.3 million Avamere Family of CompaniesMountain Ridge Assisted... Read More »
The Most-Active Acquirers of 2019, So Far

The Most-Active Acquirers of 2019, So Far

This may sound familiar, but CareTrust REIT and The Ensign Group have been the two most prolific acquirers of senior care assets so far this year, with four announced acquisitions each since January 1. This comes at a time with public operators and REITs are very publicly trimming their portfolios of either non-performing or non-core businesses. But, this isn’t simply a 2019 trend for CareTrust and Ensign, which announced 18 and 17 acquisitions, respectively, from 2017 to 2018. Neither company has shied away from a turnaround opportunity either, but they are clearly doing something well, as both are trading near their historical high share prices. CareTrust made the biggest splash in April... Read More »