Shazam: Welltower Outperforms in Q3
We figured that Welltower’s seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) would continue to improve after the second quarter, but let’s just say the improvement was better than we thought it would be, and probably better than most everyone else thought as well. On a same-community basis, SHOP occupancy surged by 120 basis points sequentially to 81.7%, and by 220 basis points year over year. The always-strong third quarter was good to them. Occupancy, however, was not the highlight. Same-community SHOP revenues increased year over year by 9.8% while operating expenses increased by just 5.1%. It makes sense that the spread between RevPOR and ExPOR should widen as census grows above 80%. This... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Gloom Prevails at the NIC Conference
As always, it was great to see so many of our industry friends, and plenty of new faces, at the NIC Conference in Chicago last week. And typical of most conferences, many asked us what we thought the mood of the conference was. We wondered if it would be at all better than the grim 2022 Fall conference when the capital markets had fundamentally shifted for the worse. Unfortunately, we cannot say it was better than that. With the 10-year Treasury rate touching 5% at the start of the conference and consistent signals from the Fed that interest rates would be “higher, for longer,” any hope for an improving capital markets environment unleashing a flood of financings and M&A (at higher... Read More »
LTC Properties Comes Out with Q3 Earnings
LTC Properties came out with its third quarter earnings on October 26, and the REIT’s loan origination program, which grew at a time when making acquisitions did not make as much financial sense, is continuing to pay off. Q3 net income was boosted by higher interest income from a variety of sources. There was financing receivables due to the acquisition of 11 assisted living/memory care communities in the first quarter of 2023 and three skilled nursing facilities in the third quarter of 2022. Higher interest income also came from mortgage loan originations in Q1:23 and a $17.0 million mezzanine loan origination in Q3:23. An affiliate of Galerie Living received that loan to recapitalize and... Read More »
KeyBank Finances New Construction in Cleveland
A new affordable senior apartment community is being built in Cleveland, Ohio, thanks to $11.3 million in 9% tax credit equity provided by KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI). Garrett Square Apartments will include 49 units of affordable seniors housing in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland. The financing package comprised a $9 million construction loan and a $2.3 million permanent loan. Additional permanent financing sources include secondary soft loans totaling $1.7 million provided through the City of Cleveland’s American Rescue Plan Act, $900,000 from City Home, and $450,00 from the County ERA fund. The site is currently occupied with a parking lot and... Read More »
Ensign’s Q3:23 Earnings Are Released
The Ensign Group came out with its third quarter earnings on October 25, and the results were mostly positive. GAAP diluted earnings per share rose 12.1% over the previous third quarter to $1.11. However, that was off $0.01 compared with the second quarter. On an adjusted basis, EPS rose to $1.20 in Q3:23, up 15.4% from Q3:22 and up 3.4% from Q2:23. The company’s share price dropped by just 0.7% on a down day for the market. Adjusted EBITDAR also increased to $158.4 million for the third quarter, or $633.6 million on an annualized basis. Revenues soared from $770 million in Q3:22 to $940.8 million in Q3:23 on the back of higher reimbursement, new acquisitions and increased census.... Read More »
All Charges Against Silverado Dropped
In a case that never should have been charged, by an overzealous district attorney in California (of course), all charges against Silverado Memory Care, its employees and its CEO, Loren Shook, have been dismissed. The only thing we wonder is, what took them so long? Other than the fact that this never should have happened. Multiple felony counts of elder endangerment and of violations causing death, and this in the first few months of COVID, when even the CDC was clueless about the disease? This should have been dropped months ago, but we suppose it had to be played out. We hope that this will be a lesson to other, overzealous DAs who want to make a name for themselves, that they should... Read More »
JLL Lands LifeCo Loan
A life insurance company provided a senior loan to refinance The Landing at Augusta Woods, a 148-unit seniors housing community in Spring, Texas. JLL Capital Markets arranged the $28 million mortgage on behalf of the borrower, Harmony Communities. Taking out existing construction debt and funding an expansion of the community, the loan came with a four-year, fixed-to-floating rate term. JLL Capital Markets’ Debt Advisory team, led by Senior Director Zane Sweet, Director Alanna Ellis and, Analysts Zach Brantley and Kyle White, handled the transaction. Opened in 2021, the community comprises a 120-unit apartment-style complex that provides independent living, assisted living and memory care,... Read More »
CFG Arranges Acquisition Financing for CA SNF Deal
It was announced that Capital Funding Group arranged acquisition financing for International Equity Partners and Cypress Healthcare Group’s purchase of three skilled nursing facilities in California. The not-for-profit Eskaton sold the facilities to exit the stand-alone SNF space, and it was represented by Ziegler in the process. The sale included the 99-bed Eskaton Care Center Manzanita in Carmichael, the 148-bed Eskaton Care Center Greenhaven in Sacramento and the 149-bed Eskaton Care Center Fair Oaks in Fair Oaks. All were built around 1980 and were losing millions on $42.1 million of 2022 revenues. The transition process required Attorney General approval, which was given in September.... Read More »
Distinctive Living Enters Tennessee Market
With the capital markets still dissuading many buyers from getting into the M&A market, we have seen more growth through the addition of new management contracts among many operators in the senior care industry. One company, Distinctive Living, expanded its portfolio to Tennessee after assuming management of The Village at Bellevue, an assisted living/memory care community in Nashville. The community features 69 AL and 18 MC units and marks Distinctive’s entry into the state. Distinctive has existing and to-be-built locations in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. There are studio, one-bedroom and... Read More »
Continuum Advisors Launches New Brokerage Business
There’s a new brokerage and advisory firm in the seniors housing world. Launched by Jay Jordan and Dave Kliewer, both formerly of Grandbridge, Continuum Advisors will focus exclusively on national seniors housing investment sales. Already, the team has approximately $500 million in current engagements, and fresh off of another NIC conference, that figure is sure to increase soon. Jordan and Kliewer bring more than 40 years of experience in sell-side seniors housing representation, with the pair having sold over 200 seniors housing communities in 35 states. Before their three years at Grandbridge, both previously worked at Cushman & Wakefield, as well. Read More »Schedule a demo
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