The Market of Lafayette
In the heart of Cajun country, Cushman & Wakefield’s Robert Black and Sean McNee facilitated the sale of two seniors housing communities on behalf of the local owner and operator. Both located less than a mile apart in Lafayette, Louisiana, the all-private pay properties included a 70-unit independent/assisted living community that was built in 1997 and a just-opened 37-unit memory care community. The buyer, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV will bring on Colonial Oaks Senior Living to operate the communities under a 15-year absolute net lease with two 10-year renewal options and annual rent escalators of 6.3% after year one and 2.5% thereafter. Griffin-American financed the... Read More »Net-worth nets results
A high net-worth healthcare real estate investor saw quite the value-add opportunity in a portfolio of five assisted living communities located throughout Central Florida. The properties were perhaps fated to change hands, as they were acquired by the seller (a publicly traded REIT) as part of a large merger a few years ago, but were not seen as “core” communities. There is some work to be done too. Built from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, the buildings need some capex. And despite a stable occupancy in the mid- to high-80s, a significant portion of the census was Medicaid payors. Under management of a national operator (which had been in place for a short time before the REIT took... Read More »
No Worries in Missouri
The trio of Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Josh Salzman, Esq. from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors sold three rural skilled nursing facilities in the southeast corner of Missouri on behalf of a public REIT owner. The facilities were the only three in the state to be managed by the Texas-based tenant. So management could perhaps be tightened by an in-state operator, as the portfolio’s census had fallen in recent years to below 50% in the six months ended March 2016, annualized. Cash flow was also negative at two of the facilities, and not trending well. The age of the buildings did not help matters, with one facility built in 1967, although the other two in the early-1990s. But... Read More »
