• Invesque Inches Closer to SNF Exit

    Invesque released its fourth quarter and full-year 2022 earnings, and announced that it is making progress in its refocus towards a private pay, seniors housing portfolio. During the fourth quarter and subsequent to year-end, Invesque sold or entered into a purchase and sale agreement for two medical office buildings for a combined $12.03... Read More »
  • Carnegie Capital Secures SNF Bank Refinance

    JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital closed a bank refinance for a 90-bed skilled nursing facility in north central Texas. Built in the 1980s, the facility was acquired by the borrower less than two years ago. It was occupied in the high-80s, and while cash flow was positive (with around 30% of its NOI derived from QIPP revenue), it did not cover debt... Read More »
  • The Mogharebi Group Closes Seniors Housing Sale

    A Los Angeles-based private real estate investment group acquired a 284-unit seniors housing community in Wildomar, California, from Craig Thralls, a local developer. The Mogharebi Group represented Mr. Thralls in the transaction. An entity linked to Positive Investments was the buyer.  Built in 2000, Wildomar Senior Leisure Community features... Read More »
  • Active Adult and Its Impact on Seniors Housing

    Active adult is rapidly emerging as a major subsector within seniors housing, but what are the companies making the biggest plays, how do buyers and lenders value these properties, and what will be the impact on the other seniors housing subsectors? The SeniorCare Investor’s Managing Editor Ben Swett sat down with Mark Myers of Walker &... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Teams Up on Orange County Development

    MorningStar Senior Living, Confluent Senior Living and Concord Development Partners have completed a 166,000-square-foot senior living community in Mission Viejo, California. The 132-unit community, MorningStar of Mission Viejo, broke ground in March 2021 and actually completed ahead of schedule, which does not happen often.  There are studio,... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Census Drops

Brookdale Senior Living Census Drops

As you may remember, in October 2020 we did a comprehensive study of seniors housing occupancy for the 10 years leading up to the pandemic. What we found surprised us in many ways. We used assisted living occupancy as a proxy for the entire seniors housing market, mostly because it is the largest segment, using the NIC MAP census numbers. What we found was that for the 11 years prior to the pandemic, occupancy had never increased in the first quarter of any year. In the first quarter of 2022, however, Brookdale Senior Living beat those odds by posting a 50-basis point increase in month-end occupancy after dropping 30 basis points in January. Weighted average occupancy for that quarter was... Read More »
Biden Administration Wants More SNF Transparency

Biden Administration Wants More SNF Transparency

The Biden administration is at it again. While he had just a passing reference to skilled nursing in his State of the Union address, Joe Biden is back at it now. They are continuing with the mantra that after private equity firms buy nursing homes, the mortality rate increases by 10%. However, they do not say why and what other influences there may be, such as higher acuity rates, which would by definition result in more deaths. Private equity firms always try to get their operators to increase the Medicare census in facilities they purchase because that is where the profits are, not in custodial care Medicaid patients. This is partly why there is an increase in taxpayer spending after a... Read More »
Good News For Ventas, and Seniors Housing

Good News For Ventas, and Seniors Housing

Ventas just released its fourth quarter earnings as well as full-year 2022, and its seniors housing portfolio is looking up. Year-over-year same-community performance improved in all categories. Average occupancy increased by 140 basis points to 82.5%. While this is not a great increase for a 12-month period given the lows they were coming from, we’ll take it. Same-community cash net operating income increased year over year by 19.1% to $150.5 million, and the operating margin expanded by 220 basis points to 24.5%. Now, this is not even close to the old days, but a nice pickup. We believe, however, that these numbers include the various government payments which are going away, so the... Read More »
Good News For Ventas, and Seniors Housing

Baier’s Brookdale Butcher Block

On Friday the 13th (kind of cute, isn’t it), Brookdale Senior Living announced some major C-Suite changes, including the removal of Steven Swain as EVP and CFO effective February 24th, with the current Chief Accounting Officer taking over those roles while remaining the CAO. In addition, Kevin Bowman is out as EVP of Community Operations (basically the COO) effective January 12th. The two division VPs for the East and West will now report directly to CEO Cindy Baier. We are not sure what happened, but this seems a little like blaming these two senior executives for the 50% plunge in Brookdale’s share price as a result of the recent dilutive equity raise. We don’t know where this equity... Read More »
Omega Healthcare Investors Working through It

Omega Healthcare Investors Working through It

Omega Healthcare Investors just provided an operator update, and the REIT will be working through some lingering problems for at least another year, if not longer. Perhaps the biggest problem remains Maplewood Senior Living, a Connecticut-based provider of assisted living and memory care services that is located about 10 miles from our Connecticut HQ. We tried to reach out to the founder several years ago, trying to be “neighborly,” but our efforts were ignored. Maybe they could have received some good advice. The company’s initial developments were on Connecticut’s Gold Coast, in the high-income neighborhoods of Fairfield County. Now, these areas are known to be high-barrier-to-entry... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Reports December Occupancy

Brookdale Senior Living Reports December Occupancy

Sometimes no news is good news. After two straight months of declines, Brookdale SeniorLiving reported that December’s month-end occupancy remained flat with November at 78.1%.That can be considered good news since we are in the beginning of what could be a terrible fluand COVID season. In addition, weighted average occupancy remained flat from November to December at 77.0%,after dropping by 20 basis points in November. If they can hold the line for the next threemonths, the company could start to see some improvement in the second quarter. Weightedaverage occupancy peaked in October at 77.2%, while month-end occupancy peaked inSeptember at 78.4%. So far this year, after a dismal 2022,... Read More »