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
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
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
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 »
