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
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
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 »
Independent Living Prices Drop
Independent living prices dropped in the four quarters ended September 30, 2018, but not as sharply as assisted living did. Buyers paid on average $219,600 per unit for independent living communities, down from a near-record high of $241,300 per unit during the last four-quarter period. Why the smaller drop? The IL market has seen much less development in the space (and has seen more stable average occupancy as a result), and its less staff-intensive model lessens the future labor risks. However, this smaller market is still sharply divided between the luxury, high-rent and high-margin IL communities built in high barrier-to-entry markets, and the more middle-market communities. It’s those... Read More »What Happened To Assisted Living Prices?
The results are in for our rolling four-quarter averages for assisted living, independent living and skilled nursing sales, and they may surprise you. Assisted living prices, on average, dropped 15% to just $177,600 per unit for the four quarters ended September 30, 2018. That follows six straight quarters with an average price above $208,000 per unit for the sector and represents the lowest level since the second quarter of 2014, when we recorded an average of $162,000 per unit. What happened to the assisted living sector, which has so far seen record levels of M&A activity? In the last 12 months, there not only have been a lower number of very high-priced deals (above $300,000 per... Read More »Schedule a demo
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