• 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 »
NHI Adds Another Holiday Retirement Community to Master Lease

NHI Adds Another Holiday Retirement Community to Master Lease

In the middle of restructuring and extending its master lease with Holiday Retirement, National Health Investors also was able to acquire a senior living community in Vero Beach, Florida. Consisting of 157 independent living and 75 assisted living units, the community was leased back to Holiday for approximately $2.6 million in rent annually. It falls under the new lease terms, which come with annual lease escalators beginning November 1, 2020 and varying between 2% and 3% depending on the annual revenue growth of the 26-property Holiday portfolio. As part of the acquisition and lease restructuring, Holiday also paid NHI $17.1 million in cash and relinquished a $10.6 million cash security... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires Former Emeritus Community Outside of St. Louis

Joint Venture Acquires Former Emeritus Community Outside of St. Louis

Veritas Senior Living and Curis Capital joined forces to acquire a 107-unit senior living community in Herculaneum, Missouri (St. Louis MSA). Previously an Emeritus-owned community (before Emeritus sold it to Platinum Healthcare in 2009 and before the Emeritus-Brookdale blow-up), the 30-year old property currently features 81 assisted living and 26 independent living units. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the property last sold for $3 million in 2009. We expect its value has risen since then. The buyers plan on adding an in-house therapy space in partnership with HealthPro. Read More »
HTG Sells Two Baltimore Brinton Woods SNFs

HTG Sells Two Baltimore Brinton Woods SNFs

Healthcare Transactions Group continued its prolificacy in the Maryland M&A market with the sale of two more Brinton Woods skilled nursing facilities in Baltimore. Previously owned and operated by Brinton Woods Management Company since 2007 and 2008, the facilities are located across the city from each other. The East Baltimore SNF features a four-star rating and 225 beds, including a 16-bed ventilator unit. It draws most of its patients from MedStar Health and the Johns Hopkins Health System. In West Baltimore, the 82-bed SNF boasts a five-star rating and gets the majority of its patients from Lifebridge Health and the University of Maryland Health System. A New York-based... Read More »
Genesis HealthCare Buys and Divests

Genesis HealthCare Buys and Divests

As it continues to improve its capital structure and rationalize its lease exposure, Genesis HealthCare has joint ventured with Next Healthcare Capital to buy 15 skilled nursing facilities with 2,147 total beds previously leased from Welltower located in Pennsylvania (6), New Jersey (4), Connecticut (3), West Virginia and Massachusetts. Genesis will own a 46% stake in the venture, and lease the properties, at presumably a lower rate than with Welltower, and there will be no escalators for the first five years. Welltower’s lease had 2% annual escalators. Next Healthcare appears to be willing to wait for that extra return, since Genesis has a purchase option beginning in 2026 to buy out the... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Shows Its Strength

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Shows Its Strength

Starting his year off strong, Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold an Assisted Living Program (ALP) community in western New York for $3.0 million, or $125,000 per unit, at a 10.2% cap rate. Introduced in the state around 30 years ago, the ALP program essentially provides a higher level of care (close to skilled nursing) in an assisted living setting for Medicaid residents. It’s proven to be a win for the state, which can reimburse nearly skilled nursing level care at a lower rate, and for the providers, which can take in Medicaid residents at a significantly higher rate. Even with the higher care and staffing costs, those all-Medicaid facilities can often boast 30%... Read More »
Giannini Gets It Done in Wisconsin

Giannini Gets It Done in Wisconsin

Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap sold a senior care campus in Wisconsin for $14 million, or about $80,500 per bed. Located on the Illinois border in Beloit, the property features 120 skilled nursing and 54 assisted living beds. The SNF was well occupied but with a high Medicaid census, while the assisted living was all private pay. It benefits from a good local reputation and its proximity to retail shopping areas. The new owner was not disclosed. Read More »