• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    Next week for our Second Quarter Investor Call, sponsored by Ziegler, we’ll be trying something different that is sure to be both entertaining and useful for our audience of operators, investors, brokers, lenders and everyone else. We’ll be tackling The Great Debates of Senior Care, covering some of the most important issues facing the industry.... Read More »
  • Thank You Ortelius?

    Brookdale Senior Living just reported June occupancy, and the increases were much better than we expected for a second quarter, which historically has been a mixed bag for the industry. Let’s just say, we were impressed. June’s same-community weighted average occupancy was 81.1%, up 220 basis points year over year and up 50 basis points... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells SNF in New Jersey

    Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage got a skilled nursing sale in New Jersey over the finish line after survey issues caused a buyer switch-up. Built in 1980, Medford Care Center is located in the town of Medford (about an hour east of Philadelphia) and features 180 beds on an 11-acre campus. Operations were not strong, and the... Read More »
  • Carnegie Capital Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Texas Portfolio Deal

    Carnegie Capital, the national seniors housing debt brokerage founded and run by JD Stettin and David Farhadian, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a $124 million, or $117,100 per bed, portfolio acquisition transaction. Carnegie provided a combination of advisory work and debt placement for the nine-skilled nursing facility portfolio with... Read More »
  • 12 Oaks Senior Living Appoints New CFO

    12 Oaks Senior Living appointed Elliott Westerman as CFO, effective immediately. Westerman has more than two decades of leadership experience across senior living, healthcare, and real estate sectors. As CFO, Westerman will oversee all aspects of financial management, including financial planning and analysis, capital structure strategy,... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Financing for Seniors Housing and Care in 2023 and Beyond

60 Seconds with Swett: Financing for Seniors Housing and Care in 2023 and Beyond

The upheaval in the capital markets has directly impacted the seniors housing and care M&A market by terminating a number of deals, dissuading property owners from even selling, lowering property values and by making the deals that do close that much harder to get done. But the financing world, nor the M&A market, hasn’t come to a standstill. Far from it, especially putting today’s deal activity in historical perspective. That is because there are sellers that still have to sell for a variety of reasons, buyers that are prepared to buy (at a discount, to be sure), owners that have maturing debt and need to refinance, and different types of lenders that still want to put capital out... Read More »
Lument Facilitates Not-For-Profit’s Exit from Senior Care

Lument Facilitates Not-For-Profit’s Exit from Senior Care

Following the pandemic, we have seen many mom & pop’s exit the senior care industry for a variety of reasons, but we also speculated that smaller not-for-profit organizations would be forced to sell their communities after staffing costs significantly brought down their already-thin operating margins. For many, their missions could be better served by pivoting to other services, and Lument has recently helped a couple of not-for-profits divest their only senior care assets. And the proceeds received from those sales far exceeded the organizations’ highest expectations, putting them in a stronger financial position to continue their work by other means. The most recent transaction saw... Read More »
CFG Finances 7-SNF Deal for Venza Care

CFG Finances 7-SNF Deal for Venza Care

Capital Funding Group closed an $84.7 million bridge-to-HUD loan, collaborating with a strategic partner to arrange the deal. The financing supported the acquisition of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community with a total of 797 beds in Alabama. Venza Care was the borrower. Capital Funding Group Managing Director, Long-Term Care, Craig Casagrande and Vice President, Andrew Jones originated the transaction. The deal follows CFG’s recent closing of $10.9 million in HUD financing to refinance an existing bridge loan for a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in California. Read More »
Berkadia and Live Oak Bank Close Four Bridge Loans

Berkadia and Live Oak Bank Close Four Bridge Loans

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare partnered with Live Oak Bank to close four bridge-to-HUD loans totaling $86 million in the first quarter of 2023. The partnership, which started in October 2022, has closed $143 million of bridge-to-HUD and GSE transactions to date, the majority of which have been structured as A/B notes with Berkadia funding the B-note. The interest-only loans typically carry terms of 24 months with rates floating over one-month term SOFR. They facilitated purchases and refinances of four assisted living/memory care communities, two skilled nursing facilities, and one independent living community, all scattered throughout the country. Managing Director Jay Healy... Read More »
LevinPro LTC Records a Small Deal Surge in April

LevinPro LTC Records a Small Deal Surge in April

By nearly all accounts, M&A activity has significantly slowed, as we just recorded our first sub-100-deal quarter in Q1:23 since the first quarter of 2021. However, a mini deal surge in the first two weeks of April has caught us a little off guard. In that time period, we have recorded 27 publicly announced deals, which is just one deal off of the entire month of February’s 28 transactions and a handful away from March’s 31 transactions, according to LevinPro LTC. In addition, the 27 deals have comprised approximately 70 properties. Skilled nursing deals accounted for 41% of the deals from the two-week period, but SNFs were the majority of properties sold, or 53%. Those ratios closely... Read More »
Plains Commercial Handles Two-SNF Sale

Plains Commercial Handles Two-SNF Sale

A couple of older skilled nursing facilities sold in Missouri and Arkansas after their regionally-based, not-for-profit owner decided to scale back on its operations. General Baptist Healthcare owned the two facilities. Built in the 1960s, General Baptist Nursing Home of Piggott in Piggott, Arkansas, is licensed for 105 beds. The other facility, General Baptist Nursing Home of Campbell in Campbell, Missouri, was built in the 1970s with 90 licensed beds. Occupancy had suffered in the buildings through the pandemic and was beginning to slowly climb in the facilities, currently standing at 33% at Piggott and 67% at Campbell. Emerging through multiple other bids, the ultimate buyer was a... Read More »
Publicly Traded REIT Divests AL Community in Florida

Publicly Traded REIT Divests AL Community in Florida

An assisted living community in northeastern Florida found a new owner with the help of Bradley Clousing and Daniel Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 2004 in the town of Merritt Island, the community has 70 units, with kitchenettes in each apartment. Its publicly traded REIT owner decided to divest the asset to a regional owner/operator based in Florida. The new owner plans to renovate the community and make significant upgrades to improve occupancy, revenues and overall bottom line performance. No purchase price was disclosed. Read More »
High-Quality SNF Portfolio Sells in Mid-Atlantic

High-Quality SNF Portfolio Sells in Mid-Atlantic

We previously reported on the sale of a skilled nursing portfolio in the Mid-Atlantic when Walker & Dunlop announced its Q1:23 activity, but after speaking to people familiar with the marketed portfolio, we have more details to disclose. Located in the Mid-Atlantic region, the portfolio consists of five skilled nursing facilities and nearly 770 beds, with four of the properties clustered around one major MSA.  These were older facilities, built from the 1960s to the 1980s, but were well maintained and showed well. The quality assets were also managed by a strong outgoing operator. As such, operations were strong, and the portfolio boasts a high Medicare census above 20% plus an... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Two Skilled Nursing Portfolio Deals

Blueprint Handles Two Skilled Nursing Portfolio Deals

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced its involvement in a couple of skilled nursing sales involving a total of nine properties. The larger deal featured seven facilities in the state of Texas, which after a competitive bidding process sold to a regional owner/operator with an extensive operating footprint in the state and an upcoming 1031 exchange event. Geographically clustered in central and east Texas, the facilities were built in 1969, on average, and had a total of 564 beds. Before the pandemic, they boasted a strong operation with consolidated total revenues and EBITDAR inclusive of QIPP income exceeding $20.7 million and $2.5 million, respectively, in 2019. In... Read More »
Evans Sells SNF in the Land of Enchantment

Evans Sells SNF in the Land of Enchantment

A West Coast-based group entered the state of New Mexico with the acquisition of a 101-bed skilled nursing facility in the rural northwestern part of the state. Despite its rural location, the facility had a strong operation, with occupancy improving from 83% during the marketing process to 95% upon closing. In addition, a strong Medicaid rate increase implemented in July 2022 helped boost cash flow.  Evans Senior Investments represented the seller, a Southwest regional operator, in the transaction. Showing off the potential for expense savings, Evans sold the asset for $16.5 million, or $163,400 per bed. Read More »
Bourne Financial Group Acquires Two Senior Living Communities

Bourne Financial Group Acquires Two Senior Living Communities

Bourne Financial Group acquired a pair of senior living communities in Santa Monica, California, for $13 million, or $265,300 per unit. Bella Mar and Ocean Villa were originally developed as hotels in the 1950s but converted to senior living in the 1970s. In addition, the properties were both renovated in 2014.  Bella Mar has 20 units of memory care, and Ocean Villa has 29 units of assisted living. Occupancy was around 60% across the communities. Revenues reached $3.2 million, but the pair operated around breakeven. H2C represented the seller, Meridian Senior Living, in the transaction. Read More »