• Clarion Partners Expands in Nashville MSA

    Clarion Partners, an affiliate of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that Clarion Partners Real Estate Income Fund Inc. acquired Vitality Living Franklin, a 126-unit seniors housing community in Franklin, Tennessee (Nashville MSA). The community was built in 2014, renovated in 2023 and faced little new competition in the area. It was... Read More »
  • Regional Buyer Acquires Community Adjacent to Its SNF

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham recently sold a 42-unit assisted living community in Cashmere, Washington, near Wenatchee in the central part of the state. Epledalen Assisted Living was built in 1999 and was fully occupied, but its local owner/operator wished to exit the industry.... Read More »
  • National Healthcare Properties and Discovery Buy Large Portfolio

    In an off-market deal, National Healthcare Properties acquired a portfolio of 13 seniors housing communities in eight states through a joint venture with Discovery Senior Living. The new SHOP assets total 592 units of assisted living and will be placed under a RIDEA structure with Discovery, which has been managing and will continue to manage the... Read More »
  • Debtor Sells SNF at Auction

    Blueprint was engaged by the debtor and approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Eastern New York District to sell the real estate of a skilled nursing facility outside of Yakima, Washington. Arcadia Medical Resort of Parkside was built in 1972 and is licensed for 88 beds, providing long-term care, rehabilitation and therapy services. It is set... Read More »
  • Dwight Capital Buys HUD Mortgage Servicing Rights Portfolio

    Dwight Capital acquired Midland States Bank’s seniors housing HUD mortgage servicing rights portfolio, which includes loans secured by skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and hospitals. The portfolio totals over $500 million in unpaid principal balance from 69 loans across 22 states. Now, following the acquisition, the loan... Read More »
Non-Stabilized SNFs Drop in Value

Non-Stabilized SNFs Drop in Value

We are fast approaching the publishing of our Senior Care Acquisition Reports, which we’ve split for the first time into the Skilled Nursing Acquisition and Investment Report and the Seniors Housing Acquisition and Investment Report. You can expect these Reports to hit your desk sometime in the next few weeks, if you order them, of course. In them, we’ve included more graphs, stats and analysis than ever before, along with comprehensive lists of the industry’s operators, private equity firms, REITs, lenders and brokers. Here is a taste of what you’d find: Source: The 2019 Skilled Nursing Acquisition and Investment Report Traditionally, we have defined stabilized occupancy for skilled... Read More »
Average SNF And Seniors Housing Prices Hit Four-Year Low

Average SNF And Seniors Housing Prices Hit Four-Year Low

The headwinds facing skilled nursing and assisted living have finally had their impact on acquisition values. We are obviously not in good times right now, but it is also not as bad as it sometimes appears. The mood is cautious for most, but hopeful for many, as occupancy and labor continue to be the problem issues facing the entire industry. What I don’t like, however, is when news reports come out saying that 50% of SNFs nationally lose money. What they fail to say is that this is after depreciation, amortization, interest and lease expense. Before these costs, the vast majority of nursing facilities are still making money, just not as much as in the past. It looks like 2018 was finally... Read More »
Average SNF And Seniors Housing Prices Hit Four-Year Low

Seniors Housing & Care Acquisition Stats

The Seniors Housing Acquisition and Investment Report, and the Skilled Nursing Acquisition and Investment Report will be coming soon with better data then ever before. We are closing out the 2018 data for our skilled nursing and seniors housing acquisition market statistics, which will be presented in two separate reports this year, to be released in March. They will be called the Seniors Housing Acquisition and Investment Report, and the Skilled Nursing Acquisition and Investment Report. Let’s just say that with a record number of publicly announced transactions last year, plus the private ones we receive, the quality of the data for this year’s reports is the best it has ever been. It... Read More »
Preliminary 2018 M&A Results Are In

Preliminary 2018 M&A Results Are In

The preliminary numbers are in, and 2018 has shattered the previous record for healthcare M&A deal volume with 1,850 transactions announced, and counting, according to Deal Search Online. That is more than 200 deals more than the previous record of 1,617 transactions announced in 2017. Of the 591 deals that disclosed a price across all 13 healthcare sectors, the total dollar volume comes out to about $330 billion, including two mega deals: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company’s $81.5 billion acquisition of rare disease pharmaceutical company Shire plc and Cigna’s purchase of pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts for $67 billion. By contrast, 2017’s total reached $311.6 billion, the largest... Read More »
2018: The Year of the Senior Care Deal

2018: The Year of the Senior Care Deal

Congress and the White House may be at an impasse, but seniors housing and care investors have been making deals at a record-setting pace in 2018. As of now, with a few days left before the usual end-of-year rush of closings, we have recorded 400 publicly announced senior care transactions so far this year. That both beats the previous record (365 deals announced in 2015) and crushes last year’s total of 307 transactions. Dollar value may be a different story when the year wraps up, as the total of all disclosed prices just tops $12.6 billion, the lowest annual sum since 2013’s $11.7 billion. But we have always said the health of the M&A market should be measured by the number of... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Prices Hold Steady

Skilled Nursing Prices Hold Steady

Despite numerous headwinds, an aging supply and decreasing national census, skilled nursing facility prices stayed remarkably steady in the past four quarters. In the 12 months ended September 30, 2018, we recorded an average price of $81,900 per bed for skilled nursing sales, up 4% from the previous four-quarter period and up 0.7% from calendar year 2017. We saw more of a change in the average cap rate, which dipped below 12% (a pretty rare occurrence) to 11.9%, which is down from 12.55% in the 12 months ending June 30, 2018 and from 12.3% in 2017. The average price is still about 20% off from the sector’s record-high average price of about $100,000 per bed in 2016, which begs the... Read More »