• 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 »

Lancaster Pollard closes 21 deals

Lancaster Pollard had a busy month in May, closing 21 seniors housing financing transactions totaling over $136 million. Most of the loans were through HUD, including four refinances for skilled nursing facilities in Georgia and Florida, two FHA 232/241(a) expansion projects for skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest, and a $23.5 million new construction loan through HUD for an assisted living/memory care community in Virginia. Five of the transactions were for note modifications of existing HUD loans, while six were either refinances or rehabilitation loans for affordable seniors housing properties. LP facilitated one term loan placement of $7.4 million for the construction of a... Read More »

Health Care REIT looking North, again

In its existing RIDEA joint venture with Revera, Inc., Health Care REIT purchased Regal Lifestyle Communities, a Toronto-based operator of 23 independent living communities with more than 3,600 units. The joint venture, with HCN owning 75% and Revera 25%, will pay CAD$12.00 per share (a 27.1% premium), or approximately US$623 million ($173,100 per unit), for the portfolio, assuming CAD$359 million (US$ 291.9 million) of debt with a weighted average interest rate of 3.8% and an average maturity of four years. The initial cash yield is expected to be 6.1%, with HCN investing US$248.8 million in the transaction. The communities, located in Ontario (13), Quebec (7) and one each in British... Read More »

The largest just got larger

The largest provider of skilled nursing in the country, Genesis HealthCare, increased its facility ownership to 23% of its inpatient sites with the acquisition of 24 skilled nursing facilities with 3,056 total beds for $240 million, or $78,500 per bed. The facilities, owned by Revera, Inc. and generating approximately $280 million in 2014 revenue, are located in New Jersey (8), Vermont (5), Washington (3), Connecticut (2), Massachusetts (2) and one each in Maryland, Virginia, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Under the agreement, Genesis will acquire the real estate of 20 of the 24 facilities, and will enter into long-term lease agreements with Health Care REIT for the remaining four. In the... Read More »

Two Nebraska senior living communities top $300,000 per unit

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT purchased two relatively new, well occupied and well run senior living communities in Nebraska owned by Dial Retirement Communities for $66 million, or $300,000 per unit, with a 6.2% cap rate. The community in Omaha was built in the early 2000s and features 75 independent living units, 24 assisted living units and 15 memory care units with an occupancy of 98%. The community in Bennington, built in 2009 and 2013, features 39 IL units, 51 AL units and 16 MC units with an occupancy of 91%. Dial Retirement will operate the communities for Griffin-American under a long-term management agreement. Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of Marcus & Millichap represented... Read More »

Owner of three Texas SNFs exits the market

We’ve heard it plenty of times in the last year, but an owner/operator is exiting the skilled nursing market with the sale of their three Texas skilled nursing facilities. The portfolio featured some assisted and independent living units, with a total of 473 beds/units. The facility in Waco is comprised of 90 skilled nursing beds, 72 assisted living units and 25 independent living units, and was 98% occupied. The facility in Richardson contained 106 skilled nursing beds and 62 assisted living units, and had a census of just 65%. Lastly, the 119-bed facility in Austin, which was solely skilled nursing, was 85% occupied. The portfolio, built from 1986 to 1988, was only operating at a 13.6%... Read More »

New post-acute care venture

Looks like Mainstreet will be gaining some new competition, with a new venture entering the transitional care space, with a plan to develop upwards of 12 projects, all of which are currently in some stage of pre-development. The new venture, called Innovative Health LLC, was started by Brian Cloch, the founder and former President of the Affordable Assisted Living Coalition, and Brad Haber, who came from GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services. Combined, the duo has 50 years of experience in the long-term care industry. The properties will go by a “prototype” with 60 to 70 transitional care beds, mostly in private rooms. To fund the projects, Innovative Health will obtain HUD or... Read More »