• New Buyer Enters Seniors Housing

    A privately held REIT focused primarily on private pay seniors housing communities throughout the U.S. engaged Blueprint in the sale of its seniors housing community in Bloomfield, Michigan. Michael Segal, Brooks Blackmon, Daniel Waldhorn and Lauren Nagle handled the transaction. Built in 2001 with significant renovations starting in 2015, the... Read More »
  • Bull Realty Handles Georgia AL/MC Transaction

    Ernie Anaya of Bull Realty handled the sale of a seniors housing community in Cartersville, Georgia. Built in 2021 on 8.83 acres, Tiger Lily Estates is an assisted living and memory care community that features 48 units across five buildings with 38,339 total square feet. The community additionally offers adult day care, licensed for 23... Read More »
  • Elevation Financial Group Acquires in Texas

    Elevation Financial Group announced the acquisition by Elevation Real Property Fund VIII of Reunion Court of Kingwood in Houston, Texas. The asset was acquired for $7.25 million, or $38,000 per unit. Built in 2000, Reunion Court of Kingwood comprises 120 independent living, 42 assisted living and 28 memory care units. Elevation will repurpose the... Read More »
  • IRA Capital Secures Financing

    BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group announced that it closed on a $58 million term loan with IRA Capital related to a 252-unit seniors housing community in Lynnwood, Washington. The property consists of independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Living Care Lifestyle manages the asset. According to LevinPro LTC, IRA and an... Read More »
  • Senior Living Operator Secures Financing

    SLR Healthcare ABL provided an $8 million asset-based revolving credit facility to a Midwest based senior living operator. The operator manages more than 30 skilled nursing facilities across multiple states. Proceeds of the credit facility were used to refinance existing debt and provide additional liquidity for operations. The transaction was... Read More »
LTC M&A Sector Reaches New Transaction Volume Record

LTC M&A Sector Reaches New Transaction Volume Record

The most active dealmaking year was 2022, in which 559 transactions were announced, according to LevinPro LTC. As of Friday October 18, 2024, the senior care sector has hit a new record in terms of transaction volume. We are currently at 560 transactions, and still have some of October plus all of November and December to go.  Overall, the deals announced this year have been smaller and more distressed than in previous years, while many portfolios were broken up into numerous smaller deals because of the lack of financing available for big deals. But we also hear from dealmakers that the process for closing deals is still long and difficult, making the record-high volume even more... Read More »
Greystone & VIUM Capital Top HUD Rankings

Greystone & VIUM Capital Top HUD Rankings

The HUD LEAN rankings for HUD’s fiscal year 2024 ended September 30 are out, and the program saw 220 loans close, totaling nearly $3.2 billion for a nearly 10% increase over FY2023’s total volume. Closings only accelerated in the second half of HUD’s fiscal year, and the next 12 months could see another increase in activity. Topping the charts, both in terms of deals and dollar volume, was Greystone, with 52 deals and $708.3 million of volume. Greystone led the way in FY2023, too, with 39 deals and nearly $700 million of volume, and in FY2022 with 35 deals. VIUM Capital ranked in the second spot in both categories, with 34 deals and $344.8 million of volume. This is a return to the second... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: 2024 Already Surpasses 500 Deals

60 Seconds with Swett: 2024 Already Surpasses 500 Deals

The optimism in the seniors housing and care industry was palpable at the NIC Fall Conference in Washington, D.C. last week, partially because of interest rates falling for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, but also partially because of the record-setting M&A streak we have been on for most of the year, so far. We are three quarters into 2024, and we have already virtually reached 2023’s annual deal total of 511 deals, at 508 deals according to LevinPro LTC. If you include the deals made public on October 1, we have surpassed that total, with an entire quarter to go. And if the anecdotal stories of BOVs, new listings and closing pipelines are true, we are going to shatter... Read More »
Brookdale Reports Highest Occupancy Since March 2021

Brookdale Reports Highest Occupancy Since March 2021

While we would hope that seniors housing companies are reporting their highest occupancy levels since the bottom of the COVID market in March 2021, Brookdale Senior Living did it in pretty good fashion. Brookdale finally topped 80% in month-end occupancy for August, reaching 80.4%, or a 50 basis-point increase over July. It also represented a 110-basis point increase from a year ago. Weighted average occupancy reached 78.9% in August, a 30-basis point sequential increase and a 130-basis point increase year over year. We would expect solid census increases in the traditionally strong third quarter, so this was not a surprise. But they will have to maintain these improvements through the... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Rates Tumble on Eve of NIC

60 Seconds with Swett: Rates Tumble on Eve of NIC

Two years ago at the NIC Fall Conference, the spike in interest rates, with the 10-Year Treasury rate heading above 3.5%, seemed to spook many investors, as deals started disintegrating left and right. That did not help to lift the mood of everyone there. Then, last year, on the eve of NIC, rates were again spiking, this time above 4.5% and heading to 5.0%. The Fed may have stopped its rate increases, but the costs of borrowing were not on the decline. At least there was a belief that the worst had passed, or at least we were in the middle of the worst. Again, did not lift the spirit of the thousands of NIC attendees, and thank you for the open bars.  Now, we are approaching another... Read More »

Spotlight on Senior Care M&A, Sixth Edition

The SeniorCare Investor is releasing a mid-year update of its key valuation statistics for the assisted living, independent living and skilled nursing sectors in its latest report: Spotlight on Senior Care M&A. Check out the average prices and cap rates, as well as analysis of industry headwinds and tailwinds. Read More »