• 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
  • Two Seniors Housing Sales Close

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage is continuing on its hot streak this month, closing two additional deals in Alabama and Florida. In the Alabama transaction, Dan Geraghty and Brad Clousing represented a large national owner/operator that was resizing its portfolio to concentrate on its core market. So, the company divested an assisted... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Exits Georgia

    Selectis Health, Inc. has completed its exit from Georgia with the help of Michael Segal and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint. In the beginning of the year, Selectis Health divested Providence of Sparta Health and Rehab and Warrenton Health and Rehab to Journey, also with the help of Segal and Waldhorn (more on that deal can be found here). The... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

    Caddis Partners and Singerman Real Estate have divested another seniors housing community, Heartis Fayetteville. This comes shortly after the joint venture’s sale of Heartis Venice and Heartis Longview. Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare represented the seller in all three... Read More »
  • Bonds Issued for Independent Living Expansion

    Ziegler closed John Knox Village’s $47.85 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2 and B-3 bonds issued through the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. John Knox Village (JKV), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, is a CCRC consisting of 1,038 independent living units, 180 assisted living units and 121 skilled nursing beds. This transaction marks JKV’s... Read More »

Senior Care Realty Gets It Done

There was a roadblock, but Senior Care Realty’s Daren Dudgeon sold a 60-unit assisted living campus in Wisconsin. A husband and wife team had gradually built the campus over the years, starting with a 20-unit (20-bed) building in 1997, then another, and finally a third identical building added in 2005. Each building featured a common room, kitchen and dining room, while all the rooms came with at least a half-bathroom. The owners even had land for a fourth building and had been in partnership with another local mom-and-pop, but they recently decided to retire and sell the campus, which was around 94% occupied, with a 58% private pay census. Despite the less-than-optimal payor mix,... Read More »

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending September 29, 2017

Check out our recent senior care transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.24 skilled nursing facilities$430 million Sagora Senior LivingWatercrest at Alamo Ranch & Isle at WatercrestN/A Sagora Senior LivingWatercrest at Sugar Land & The Sycamores at Sugar LandN/A Thrive FPAutumn Leaves of Northwest Austin & Autumn Leaves of Glen EllynN/A Texas investment groupWinchester Meadows$15... Read More »
Byrne Sells in Sedalia

Byrne Sells in Sedalia

Rural seniors housing communities, even when they are relatively newly built, often come with a risk. Located far from high-density and high-income areas, these communities can sometimes struggle to maintain consistently high occupancy or strong levels of cash flow, especially if there is a significant Medicaid census. However, the right operator can find success in almost any market. That was the case when Patrick Byrne of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a 129-unit independent living/assisted living community in the town of Sedalia in central Missouri. Built in 2006, with expansions in 2008 and 2013, the community consists of a 52-unit IL building, with a connecting 47-unit AL... Read More »
Sagora Senior Living Adds Two Senior Living Communities To Portfolio

Sagora Senior Living Adds Two Senior Living Communities To Portfolio

A prominent senior living provider in the Lone Star State, Sagora Senior Living, acquired two more communities, bringing its total portfolio to 31 properties across four southern states. Both properties were developed in late-2014/early-2015 by Dallas-based South Bay Partners under the “Watercrest” brand. The Sugar Land location features 180 units and 12 cottages of independent living, plus an adjacent community with 77 assisted living and 43 memory care units. That is similar to the San Antonio location, with 192 IL units, 26 cottages, 72 AL units and 50 MC units. Once again, the AL/MC building was located on an adjacent property. Based in Fort Worth, Sagora has so far concentrated its... Read More »

Enlivant, Brookdale Senior Living and Hawthorn Retirement

After the announcement of Sabra Health Care REIT’s 49% investment in the majority of Enlivant’s assisted living properties at a value of $195,000 per unit, the market chatter started anew. The common theme was that if Enlivant’s properties, which were designed and built in areas assuming a 20% to 40% Medicaid census, could sell for that high a price, surely someone would belly up to the bar and take Brookdale Senior Living private, which generally has nicer properties. Not so fast. Like Hawthorn Retirement before it, which went for a high price, these two companies are relatively “clean,” meaning there are not complex issues to work out, such as landlord permissions, ADA... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Divestitures Continue

Skilled Nursing Divestitures Continue

Large skilled nursing divestitures seem to be in vogue these days, as another institutional skilled nursing owner sold 23 of its non-core facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, with the help of Evans Senior Investments. Consisting of 1,682 total licensed beds, the portfolio was approximately 84% occupied, but five facilities were 90% occupied or higher. Some facilities were also operationally underperforming, and their EBITDAR margins took a hit. So, there is clearly some work to do, and some value to add. It certainly helps that most of the facilities are located in major metro areas in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The buyer, an owner/operator based on the East Coast, paid $94 million, or about... Read More »