• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 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 »
Getting Ready For More Acquisitions

Getting Ready For More Acquisitions

The Ensign Group has nearly doubled its bank line of credit to $450 million. The new facility will include a $300 million revolving line of credit as well as a $150 million term loan. In addition, there is a $150 million expansion option. It looks like the company is lining up the dry powder for some more acquisitions. Robinson Humphrey and Wells Fargo Securities arranged the financing. Read More »
Minnesota SNF/ALF

Minnesota SNF/ALF

In another sale involving skilled nursing beds and assisted living, Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap sold a nursing facility in Duluth, Minnesota for $10.0 million, or about $53,000 per bed. Occupancy was solid and there were more than 180 total beds involved in the sale. Read More »
California SNF/ALF Sells

California SNF/ALF Sells

Krone Weidler of Weidler Integrated Healthcare Investment Properties, in affiliation with Marcus & Millichap, sold a skilled nursing and assisted living facility in California to a local private equity investor. Built in 1991, the property has 120 skilled nursing beds and 85 assisted living beds with occupancy that has been around 94%. The sales price was $15.6 million, or $76,100 per bed, and the buyer may have to turn the operations around a bit. Read More »
Opportunity Comes Knocking

Opportunity Comes Knocking

Ken Carriero and Damien Carriero of Colliers International’s National Seniors Housing Group recently sold an 88-unit assisted living community in Florida for $4.25 million, or $48,300 per unit. The community was built in 1987 and is licensed for 135 beds. In the past, occupancy had been stabilized at just under 90%, but had declined to 46% as a result of the seller’s illness. The cap rate came in at 7.7%, and we are sure that the buyer, New York-based Center Management Group, will be able to ramp up occupancy again. Read More »

Better in the long-run

Private equity group Valstone Partners is not looking back with the sale of its 42-unit assisted living/memory care community in Newport, Tennessee, barely a half year after acquiring the community as part of a portfolio transaction in December 2015. Built in 2000, the Brookdale Senior Living-operated community features 32 assisted living and 10 memory care units. It was operating decently with a 20% margin on approximately $1.62 million of revenues, with a 95% occupancy. But, the community’s size and location (rural eastern Tennessee) did not align with Valstone’s long-term strategy, prompting the sale. Mainstay Financial Group, a growing regional owner/operator, paid $3.9 million, or... Read More »

Three more Popular closings

Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP), was busy this month, closing a couple of term loans along with five separate credit facilities. Ken Mitchell, who leads the National Healthcare Financing Division of Popular, closed both an $18 million loan and a $13 million loan for Grand Healthcare System to exercise purchase options on a 179-bed skilled nursing facility in Queens, New York and a 122-bed skilled nursing facility in the Hudson Valley area of New York. Grand had been operating the facilities since 2014, both of which occupancy above 95% and strong quality mixes. Plus, the Queens facility recently opened a 14-bed unit to serve stroke patients. As for the... Read More »