• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... Read More »
Brookdale Census Holds Steady So Far

Brookdale Census Holds Steady So Far

We all know that historically the winter months have never been kind to nursing home census. Known as the flu season, occupancy tends to drop in the first quarter by 50 to 100 basis points, if not more. The same has been true for assisted living, especially since acuity levels started rising more than a decade ago. The one exception for some providers was during the pandemic recovery, when census was ramping up at unprecedented rates in general, and the flu was nothing compared with COVID. Brookdale Senior Living just announced its February occupancy results, and while they noted it was an improvement from “normal” pre-pandemic seasonality, first quarter-to-date occupancy declined by 40... Read More »
Brookdale Census Holds Steady So Far

Recovery Continues at Sabra Health Care REIT

After all the earnings reports for the fourth quarter 2023, we think it is safe to say the industry really has moved on from the pandemic. Not that the lasting effects have disappeared, as they may be with us for the rest of the decade, but most everyone seems to be getting back to “normal,” although at a different pace for each one. Sabra Health Care REIT is one of those that can safely be said to be on the safe side of the pandemic. With its fourth quarter earnings, it put out earnings guidance for 2024 for the first time since 2020. Like everyone else, Sabra and its tenants still have a way to go, but most everything is moving in the right direction.  What we like is that the lease... Read More »
Brookdale Census Holds Steady So Far

Nice Surprise For Diversified Healthcare Trust Shareholders

Readers know that Diversified Healthcare Trust has struggled in the past year or more, and even had a “going concern” issue where they were not sure if they would make it through the end of 2023, or so they told shareholders. The share price tanked, and management told investors if they did not agree to the merger with Office Properties Trust (controlled by the same people as DHC), that there was a good likelihood they would default on the debt that was coming due later in the year. A few shareholders took a stand against management, the institutional shareholder proxy services panned the merger as well, and the merger was canceled. The debt was refinanced, the share price took off and all... Read More »
Brookdale Census Holds Steady So Far

A Webinar Wrap-Up on 2023 M&A Valuations

The SeniorCare Investor recently hosted a webinar titled “2023 M&A Valuations and 2024 Predictions” with moderator Ben Swett, Managing Editor of SCI, Managing Director of Senior Living Investment Brokerage Bradley Clousing, Senior Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Services of Oxford Finance Tracy Maziek, and Principal of Scribner Capital James Scribner. After a chaotic and difficult year, in this webinar, the panelists dissected what exactly happened in 2023, how values changed and what motivated buyer and seller decisions. The webinar kicked off with a review of many statistics available in the soon-to-be-published Senior Care Acquisition Report, starting with how M&A... Read More »
2023 M&A Valuations and 2024 Predictions

2023 M&A Valuations and 2024 Predictions

Senior care owners, operators, brokers and lenders had to adapt to a rapidly changing lending and M&A landscape in 2023, but what new hurdles (or opportunities) will 2024 bring? Join The SeniorCare Investor and a panel of experts to get a sneak peek of the 2023 M&A valuation statistics and a preview of what is to come in the market. Read More »
National Health Investors Rocks The New Year

National Health Investors Rocks The New Year

Bucking the seasonality trend of January and first quarter blues, two of National Health Investors’ large seniors housing tenants posted increases in occupancy in January. Census at Senior Living Communities increased by 20 basis points in January to reach 83.3%. Meanwhile, Bickford Senior Living posted a 70-basis point sequential increase to 85.3%, matching the highest level it has seen in the past few years. The small SHOP portfolio of 15 communities was where the real growth occurred. January’s 30-basis point sequential increase to 84.7% was nice, but it was also 930 basis points higher than in January 2023. The fourth quarter saw a 420 basis-point sequential increase in occupancy and a... Read More »