• Live Oak and Berkadia Team Up on Bridge Loan

    Live Oak Bank recently closed a $34.3 million bridge loan in partnership with Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for a two-property portfolio owned and operated by BrightSpace Senior Living. The communities are located in the Nashville, Tennessee, and Boise, Idaho MSAs. The loan was structured in an A/B arrangement, with Berkadia funding the... Read More »
  • California Memory Care Communities Receive HUD Loans

    Lument closed two HUD loans totaling $20.7 million to refinance two memory care communities in northern California. Doug Harper, managing director at Lument, co-originated the loan with Grant Goodman of G Capital. The two communities are Crescent Oaks Memory Care, which features 22 units and 36 beds in Sunnyvale, and Silver Oaks Memory Care,... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Two Seniors Housing Transactions

    Berkadia closed the sale of two separate assets in Florida and Georgia. First, Berkadia was engaged by a national owner/operator in the sale of a CCRC in South Florida. The property appears to be Abbey Delray, a 505-unit community originally built in 1979 in Delray Beach that features 327 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 30... Read More »
  • Fortress Buys Large Seniors Housing Campus

    Fortress Investment Group just purchased one of the largest rental seniors housing communities in the country, adding The Village at Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida, to its portfolio. Regionally anchored by the University of Florida and the innovative UF Health network, and located directly across from SantaFe College, the 100+ acre campus... Read More »
  • Interview with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services to talk about the findings from BBG’s annual investor survey. DeBee shares his thoughts on what was surprising about the results and highlights the points he agrees with. You can view the survey results here. Read More »
Brookdale Q3 Results Disappoint

Brookdale Q3 Results Disappoint

Historically, and we are going back more than 12 years, the third quarter has been the best quarter of the year for occupancy increases, and usually cash flow increases based on those census jumps. This was certainly the case for Welltower and Ventas this year, the two largest owners of seniors housing communities. Unfortunately, Brookdale Senior Living, which continues to underperform the market and lags these two REITs, leaves investors disappointed and wondering what is wrong. And dare we say disillusioned with management’s forecasts, which have not panned out at all this year. Don’t get us wrong. Occupancy has increased, but not in the way investors expected, and “little” things like... Read More »
SHOP at National Health Investors Outperforms

SHOP at National Health Investors Outperforms

At National Health Investors, it seems to be all about SHOP, SHOP, SHOP. Although it is a small portfolio at just 15 properties, it is becoming mighty. September’s occupancy was 89.1%, compared with 81.2% a year ago, representing a 790-basis point increase. From July 2023, the increase was 1190 basis points. It is now the highest occupancy portfolio of the major property groups for NHI. The sequential increase from August was 60 basis points.  The SHOP NOI increased 30.4% year over year and represents the highest quarterly result since the portfolio’s formation in April 2022. As we have written previously, SHOP portfolios are performing well, and REITs are expanding them. All is not... Read More »
Welltower Continues To Outperform

Welltower Continues To Outperform

Welltower announced its third quarter earnings results, and they were better than even the most optimistic investors thought they would. Probably better than what CEO Shankh Mitra thought they would be six months ago.  Everything is up, and while not where the numbers were a few years before Covid, the performance is better than most. Same-community occupancy in their SHOP portfolio grew by 310 basis points year over year and RevPOR grew by 4.9%. And same-community NOI increased by 300 basis points.  The REIT completed $2.4 billion in gross investments, and it has an acquisition pipeline that would make the other REITs blush. But don’t forget, it has nothing to do with their cost... Read More »
Third Quarter Investor Call

Third Quarter Investor Call

The Third Quarter Investor Call, sponsored by NewPoint Real Estate Capital and moderated by Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, featured a panel of lending experts who offered their capital markets advice to borrowers in several different scenarios: M&A deals, refinancing troubled assets, the costs of construction lending today, and more. The panel included Nick Gesue, CEO of NewPoint, Zach Britton, Director – Originations of Locust Point Capital and Matthew Whitlock, Head of Senior Housing Investments of Berkshire Residential Investments. Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: What Could Stop the M&A Momentum?

60 Seconds with Swett: What Could Stop the M&A Momentum?

Last week, we recorded our 560th deal of 2024, which breaks the annual record for M&A volume across seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions. And we have more than two months to go. So there can be no dispute that we will set an M&A record this year, and by a large margin. But could 2024 actually end with a whimper? We ask that because the 10-Year Treasury rate, which fell to 3.6% in September, the lowest level in more than a year and a half, is now above 4.2%, or the highest level since July. Much of the optimism at the NIC conference last month hinged on the Fed’s 50-basis point rate reduction in September and the 10-Year rate was at its low then too, but what about now?... Read More »
Brookdale and the Golden Age

Brookdale and the Golden Age

A lot has been made recently of the looming Golden Age of seniors housing. An analyst at Jefferies & Co. came out with a strong recommendation of Brookdale Senior Living and its potential to take advantage of the upcoming age wave. They referred to Brookdale as the leading senior living provider well positioned for this. A more accurate description would be the largest senior living provider. It did not matter, as the share price jumped by 12% during the day on very heavy volume. But we have seen this movie before. To take advantage of the Golden Age a few things have to happen, and one is to negotiate a new lease for its 121 properties with Ventas that will provide more cash flow to... Read More »