CareTrust’s buying spree continues
CareTrust REIT entered the Michigan market, acquiring four assisted living/memory care communities in the state for $30.8 million, or $163,830 per unit. The assisted living/memory care portfolio includes a 46-unit community in Clarkston, a just-built 40-unit community in Goodrich, a 62-unit community in Burton and a 40-unit community in Lapeer. Similar to previous transactions this year, CareTrust immediately leased the communities to an existing operating partner, this time the REIT amending a master lease with Premier Senior Living. The lease will generate approximately $2.7 million in annual rental revenue, but because of the brand-new Goodrich community, CareTrust gave Premier a... Read More »
NHI in the Nutmeg State
Just a week after announcing it exercised a purchase option on five assisted living/memory care communities from Bickford Senior Living, National Health Investors has made another large purchase, including two Connecticut CCRCs for $56.3 million, or $119,787 per unit/bed. Built in 1968 with a 2009 renovation, the 241-unit/bed community in Bridgeport features 186 independent living units, 26 assisted living units, 13 memory care units and 23 skilled nursing beds. The other community, built in 1991 in Southbury, has 155 IL units, 26 AL units, 14 MC units and 34 skilled nursing beds on a 56-acre property. Both properties were owned by funds managed by certain affiliates of East Lake Capital... Read More »
