• Stand-Alone MC Community Trades in Arizona

    Blueprint represented an institutional seller in the sale of its stand-alone memory care community in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona MSA. Built in 2009, the asset features 48 units with 60 beds and received approximately $2 million in recent capital improvements. There is opportunity for occupancy growth and rental rate optimization. ... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Its Acquisition Streak

    Clarion Partners continued on its acquisition streak, adding two communities in California to its growing portfolio. The latest deal featured The Commons on Thornton and The Commons at Union Ranch, two seniors housing communities totaling 198 units in California’s Central Valley. They were previously owned and operated by MBK Senior Living, which... Read More »
  • Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

    M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory... Read More »
  • Olympus Retirement Living Expands

    The Zett Group closed the sale of a 63-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Boise, Idaho market. Set in the town of Emmett, Meadow View Senior Living was trending positively in its operations, but there was still some work to be done. An owner/operator engaged Blake Bozett and Spud Batt to sell the community to an undisclosed buyer.... Read More »
  • Large Senior Care Portfolio Trades Hands

    A portfolio comprising senior care assets across Washington State recently sold with the help of JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage. At first, only one of the assets was brought to market, but an offer emerged for the entire nine-facility portfolio. The price for the skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses ranged... Read More »
Ensign Group Does It Again

Ensign Group Does It Again

Perhaps The Ensign Group should hire Britney Spears to perform at its Holiday party this year, and she can sing, “Oops, I did it again.” Because that is exactly what Ensign did. Another profitable quarter notched in its belt when too many skilled nursing operators continue to suffer, and it upped its earnings guidance for the rest of the year, the second time it has done so this year. The skeptic would claim they just give low guidance so they can keep on upping it. We don’t really care, as long as they keep on performing as they do. The “market,” however, was disappointed because Ensign missed consensus earnings per share estimates by one penny, so the share price dropped by 4%. Ho hum.... Read More »

Health Care M&A On Pace for Record Year

Despite a volatile market, healthcare investors are undeterred. Inflation, significant labor issues and declining stock value are major headwinds that should be slowing down activity, but the past few quarters have shown the resilience of the healthcare M&A market. Nearly 1,800 healthcare deals were announced through the end of September, a steep increase from the 1,560 sales reported in the same period in 2021. This year will break records if activity continues at this pace. Investors and dealmakers announced 686 deals in the third quarter, representing a 5% drop from the 731 transactions reported in the second quarter. With all the headwinds hitting the industry, we expected a more... Read More »

Health Needs of Seniors in Seniors Housing Communities

At the recent Fall NIC Conference, NORC at the University of Chicago presented the findings of a recent study of seniors housing residents. We are sure Medicare Advantage plans have combed through the data, as much of it was an eye-opener, even for us. The study cohort included more than 250,000 seniors housing residents and more than 325,000 in nursing homes enrolled in fee-for-service. In seniors housing, the residents were pretty evenly split among majority IL (32.5%), majority AL (31.6%) and CCRC/LPC (30.0%). The most shocking discovery was that CCRC/LPC residents have an average of 12.2 chronic medical conditions. In theory, these are among the healthiest of residents in senior living... Read More »

Spotlight on Senior Care M&A

The seniors housing and care industry has witnessed incredible growth so far in the 21st century, surviving the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic among other bumps along the way. Despite the headwinds, investors continue to pour money into the space in search of higher returns and to capitalize on demographic trends. But post-pandemic, where did valuations settle across the senior care sectors and why? Check out the just-published special report, Spotlight on Senior Care M&A to see the latest M&A stats and market analysis. Read More »

CCRCs Continue to Outperform

Investment banking firm Ziegler just came out with its quarterly analysis of the CCRC (LPC) market, using the NIC MAP census data. For the 99 NIC primary and secondary markets, CCRC average census increased by 50 basis points to 86.0% from the first to the second quarter. This is about 690 basis points higher than non-CCRCs. The analysis covers 1,097 not-for-profit and for-profit CCRCs, both entrance-fee and rental in the 99 markets. We do not know about the other 900+ CCRCs in the country.  Occupancy growth since the bottom of the pandemic has been slower in CCRCs than the rest of seniors housing mostly because census did not fall as much during the pandemic, with a relatively healthier... Read More »

Welltower Comes Out with Q2 Earnings

Welltower reported yet another active quarter of acquisitions and investments, completing $1.6 billion of pro rata gross investments, including $1.1 billion in acquisitions and loan funding, as well as $448 million in development funding in the second quarter. One of the largest acquisitions was when the REIT acquired a portfolio of 25 active adult communities in non-coastal East Coast and Midwest markets, including 20 newer vintage properties and five properties currently in development, for $502 million or $172,000 per unit. In addition to that acquisition, the company bought an assisted living/memory care community in Bakersfield, California for $22 million, or $203,700, per unit, with... Read More »