• Kisco Senior Living Buys Beds in North Carolina

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage was engaged by a North Carolina-based skilled nursing owner to confidentially market and sell 75 adult care home beds in Wake County, North Carolina. The beds were affiliated with multiple skilled nursing facilities located across the county and were slated for sale because the owner was eliminating assisted... Read More »
  • Texas Capital Bank Provides Financing to Regional Operator

    A California-based regional senior care operator with more than 20 facilities across the western United States recently obtained a revolving credit facility, arranged by Grant Goodman of G Capital. Proceeds from the $30 million facility will be used to support working capital requirements and continue the owner’s strategic expansion as new... Read More »
  • Harbert Management Corporation Secures Financing for California Community

    Live Oak Bank provided a $25 million bridge-to-sale loan to finance a seniors housing community near Los Angeles, California. Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I LP, which is managed by Harbert Management Corporation, is the borrower. The financing features a three-year initial term, 36 months of interest-only payments and $2.8 million in potential... Read More »
  • Florida Portfolio Locks in Refinancing

    MONTICELLOAM announced the financing of a senior bridge loan and working capital facility for three skilled nursing facilities in southern Florida, totaling $108.75 million. The sponsorship group, a repeat client of MONTICELLOAM, intends to use the $105.5 million floating-rate senior bridge loan to refinance the existing debt on the portfolio.... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Brookdale Senior Living and SWAT

    Brookdale Senior Living announced it had recently formed SWAT teams to deal with its lowest-occupancy buildings to try to get them over the 80% hump, and there are a lot of them. Since then, the term SWAT team has been appearing more and more with other providers.  SWAT is a scary term, and stands for Special Weapons and Tactics, and in law... Read More »
Welltower Controversy?

Welltower Controversy?

Back when Welltower announced its agreement to let health system ProMedica Senior Care off the hook with its leases for 147 nursing facilities, leases that were drowning in red ink for ProMedica, we joked about it because, 1) we had just written that not-for-profit ProMedica’s board could not let the red ink flow for much longer, and 2) the new joint venture partner called Integra was not one of the commonly known “Integras” in senior living or health care, and there are many of them. But we did discover the relationship between Welltower’s Integra and an entity called Perigrove, which claimed to be an institutional investor with years and billions of dollars of investments under its belt.... Read More »
HTG Sells Henderson, Texas SNF

HTG Sells Henderson, Texas SNF

San Antonio, Texas-based ML Healthcare purchased a 125-bed skilled nursing facility in the town of Henderson, about 20 miles west of the Texas-Louisiana border. Built in 2008, the facility is laid out in a hub-and-spoke design on one story. It was 73% occupied and brought in approximately $7 million of revenues.  This was the last facility of a family owner/operator that had sold its six other nursing facilities in Texas over the last few years. They retired following the closing, and the purchase price was not disclosed. Mark Davis of Healthcare Transactions Group handled the transaction. Read More »

Blueprint Arranges Two SNF Transactions

After selling two other vacant Mainstreet-built transitional care facilities in Amarillo and Temple, Texas, earlier this year, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso sold the third and final property of the group. Located in Beaumont, the partially-built facility has 70 units but was never completed before being foreclosed upon.  Like the other Mainstreet facilities. Ms. Sitzman and Mr. Riso positioned the asset as a state-of-the-art building that could be acquired at an attractive basis. A Texas-based real estate investor emerged from a competitive bidding process, paying $8.7 million, or $124,000 per unit. They will lease the facility to an East... Read More »

Ziegler Finances Chicagoland CCRC Expansion

Ziegler closed two series of revenue bonds for Plymouth Place, an Illinois not-for-profit that owns and operates a CCRC in La Grange Park, Illinois. Incorporated in 1939 on about 18.6 acres, the campus includes 182 independent living units, 52 assisted living units, 26 memory care units and 82 skilled nursing beds. Ownership wished to expand by building 59 new independent living units within one two-story building, two three-story buildings, one four-story building and related common areas, parking and equipment. The units are expected to open in early 2024. A connector building with additional common areas will also be built, along with outdoor amenities like a yoga lawn, bocce ball and... Read More »
60 Seconds With Swett: Healthcare M&A Market Losing Steam, Too

60 Seconds With Swett: Healthcare M&A Market Losing Steam, Too

Our sister platform LevinPro HC tracks the M&A market across 12 other healthcare sectors, from hospitals and home health to physician medical groups and MOBs, with our deal database also going back to the early 1990s. And the trend in dealmaking that we are seeing in senior care appears to mirror the rest of the healthcare industry. Like in the seniors housing and care market, we have already broken the annual record for healthcare transactions, and there is still one month to go. As of this filming, we have tracked over 2,230 publicly announced transactions, surpassing the 2,209 transactions from all of 2021, which was the previous annual record high. A private equity rush into buying... Read More »

BWE Closes $62 Million To Finance Five Seniors Housing Communities

Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC (BWE) announced it has closed $62 million in loans to finance five seniors housing communities in the Carolinas and New York. The properties consist of three assisted living and memory care communities in the Greenville, South Carolina market, one assisted living/memory care community around Charlotte, North Carolina, and a 150-unit affordable senior housing development in Kenmore, New York. The South Carolina communities were Fairview Park Senior Living of Simpsonville, Oakview Park of Greenville and Spring Park of Travelers Rest, and all received a $42.6 million Fannie Mae loan originated on behalf of the borrower, Atlas Senior Living.... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Handles Indiana SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments Handles Indiana SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments announced it has handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Osgood, Indiana (Cincinnati MSA). Built in 1981, Manderley Health Care Center comprises 71 beds and sold for $4.15 million or $58,500 per bed. The seller of the facility was an independent owner/operator. At the time of marketing, it was 58% occupied and not producing positive cash flow. At one point, occupancy dipped below 45%, however the owners of the facility were able to bring occupancy up to 59% at the time of sale. The buyer was an East Coast owner/operator expanding its presence in the state of Indiana. Evans Senior Investments handled the transaction. Read More »
The Ensign Group Buys Two SNFs in Colorado

The Ensign Group Buys Two SNFs in Colorado

The Ensign Group has acquired the operations of two skilled nursing facilities in the greater Denver, Colorado area. Brighton Care Center in Brighton comprises 108 beds and sits less than 15 miles away from the other facility, Malley Transitional Care Center, a 162-bed skilled nursing facility in Northglenn. They will be subject to a long-term triple-net lease, and Endura Healthcare LLC, Ensign’s Colorado-based subsidiary, will take over operations. This Colorado acquisition brings Ensign’s growing portfolio to 271 healthcare operations across 13 states. According to Levin Pro LTC, last month, The Ensign Group and its captive REIT Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT also acquired Prisma... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Closes $1 Billion in November Transactions

Meridian Capital Group Closes $1 Billion in November Transactions

M&A and financing activity may be declining in the face of rising capital costs, but Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team closed more than $1 billion in transaction volume in November for a combination of 47 facilities in nine states. The transactions were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson. One of the team’s largest closings was the sale of 12 assets in Pennsylvania and Virginia totaling 1,302 skilled nursing and 44 assisted living beds, for which they also arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the various buyers. Additionally, the team arranged the $102.5 million sale of seven skilled... Read More »
Public REIT Acquires North Carolina Senior Care Portfolio

Public REIT Acquires North Carolina Senior Care Portfolio

A publicly traded REIT and its operating partner Saber Healthcare acquired a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in North Carolina for an undisclosed price. The REIT emerged from a competitive bidding process that saw 16 total offers and was ultimately selected due to its likelihood of closing and of not renegotiating on price. Indeed the price, although not disclosed, did not change from the initial bid submitted at the end of August. That is impressive, and kudos to Brandon and Ben Bohland of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors for facilitating the transaction. Featuring 691 licensed beds, including 100 beds (in 77 units) at the private pay... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Handles Indiana SNF Sale

Euson Lindsay Health Acquires Indiana Skilled Nursing Facility

Already the owner and operator of a skilled nursing facility northwest of Indianapolis, Euson Lindsay Health LLC announced it has acquired another SNF in the Indianapolis area. The target, The Green House Cottages of Carmel, comprises 72 beds across six buildings and also includes short-term rehabilitation, memory care and long-term care. It has been in operation since 2016 and provides skilled nursing care in a “home-like” setting. With this acquisition, Euson Lindsay Health is now considered the largest owner and operator of the skilled nursing “small home concept” in Indiana, with two locations under the Restoracy brand. Read More »