60 Seconds With Swett: Not-For-Profits Could Have a Tough 2023
The pandemic adversely affected all senior care companies in the last three years, but not-for-profits seem to have been hit the hardest. First seeing their occupancies decline, they were then hit by inflation and soaring wages, which, when you generally have expense management issues in good times, is a devastating combination. The generosity to support several years of losses at these organizations is noble, but their boards can’t sustain those struggling businesses forever, especially when their mission could be better served in other capacities. We recently saw the debacle at the not-for-profit ProMedica where Welltower let the health system off the hook with its underwater leases for... Read More »
Baier’s Brookdale Butcher Block
On Friday the 13th (kind of cute, isn’t it), Brookdale Senior Living announced some major C-Suite changes, including the removal of Steven Swain as EVP and CFO effective February 24th, with the current Chief Accounting Officer taking over those roles while remaining the CAO. In addition, Kevin Bowman is out as EVP of Community Operations (basically the COO) effective January 12th. The two division VPs for the East and West will now report directly to CEO Cindy Baier. We are not sure what happened, but this seems a little like blaming these two senior executives for the 50% plunge in Brookdale’s share price as a result of the recent dilutive equity raise. We don’t know where this equity... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Nebraska Community & Helps Arrange Acquisition Financing
Cedarhurst Senior Living acquired a well-occupied senior living community in Omaha, Nebraska, from a multi-asset class Midwestern developer. The A-quality building features 110 units of assisted living and memory care, and was consistently above 95% occupancy throughout the sale process. Still, there was upside in rental rates, and expenses could be potentially reduced under new ownership. So, the seller engaged Brooks Blackmon and Alex Florea of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to market and sell the property. Ultimately, Cedarhurst, a vertically integrated developer, owner and operator, emerged from a competitive bidding process to buy the community and retained Blueprint... Read More »
Denver Developer Doubles Down on Active Adult
Denver-based Headwaters Group announced its intention to increase its development and acquisition activity within the active adult market. The company recently launched its middle-market active adult initiative and will focus on for-rent communities for adults aged 55 and older in the western half of the United States, initially, with plans to expand nationwide. Headwaters and an unknown joint venture partner plan to build a 169-unit active adult community in Centennial, Colorado and is also under contract for land in Northglenn to build a 169-unit active adult community. In addition to these two Colorado communities, Headwaters is currently in the works for two more projects in Longmont... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Virginia Portfolio Deal
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale of five seniors housing communities comprising 250 units along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. CareTrust REIT announced that it had sold the portfolio earlier in January. Three of the assets were built between 1997 and 2002, one was built in the early 1980s, and the last is a historic landmark dating back to 1916. They sold for $13 million, or $54,000 per bed. Each of the five communities struggled during the pandemic and were underperforming, which presented an opportunity for an operator to acquire and grow the census back to previously stabilized levels. In a competitive sale process which yielded multiple offers, the... Read More »
Plains Commercial Announces Oklahoma Transaction
Plains Commercial Real Estate sold Monroe Manor in Jay, Oklahoma. Built in the 1960s and expanded in the early 1990s, the skilled nursing facility is licensed for 98 beds. Its Oklahoma-based operator was looking to exit the industry and retire. The buyer ended up being an Illinois-based owner/operator that had previously operated in Oklahoma but was looking to re-enter the state. Before the CON transfer, the buyer and seller agreed to have the buyer operate the facility before the transaction closed. The sale also involved a unique HUD deed restriction which required collaboration between the parties in order to complete the transaction. Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial... Read More »
Link Senior Development Building Albuquerque Community
A luxury senior living community is going up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the help of construction financing secured by JLL Capital Markets. Alanna Ellis led JLL’s Debt Advisory team on the transaction. Link Senior Development is building the three-story community to include 144 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, along with a host of amenities. It is situated on 6.5 acres adjacent to a new ambulatory urgent care center and an MOB. Link received a $51.8 million loan to fund the project. Assuming more conservative leverage on the transaction, the construction cost could be between $550,000 and $600,000 per unit. Read More »
Ziegler’s Construction Financing in Minnesota
Ziegler announced the closing of $47 million in construction financing for a new senior living community in Corcoran, Minnesota (Minneapolis MSA). Saint Therese of Corcoran, LLC, and its sponsor, Saint Therese, will comprise 99 independent living units, 34 assisted living units and 20 memory care units and sits on a 13-acre site. The financing comprises $18.2 million of Series 2022AB and $28.8 million of Series 2023 Senior Living Revenue Notes placed with Bremer Bank. Campus-wide amenities will include restaurant-style dining, outpatient therapy and wellness areas, as well as indoor and outdoor social gathering spaces. Organized in 1965 as a single-site nursing home in New Hope, Minnesota,... Read More »
Omega Healthcare Investors Working through It
Omega Healthcare Investors just provided an operator update, and the REIT will be working through some lingering problems for at least another year, if not longer. Perhaps the biggest problem remains Maplewood Senior Living, a Connecticut-based provider of assisted living and memory care services that is located about 10 miles from our Connecticut HQ. We tried to reach out to the founder several years ago, trying to be “neighborly,” but our efforts were ignored. Maybe they could have received some good advice. The company’s initial developments were on Connecticut’s Gold Coast, in the high-income neighborhoods of Fairfield County. Now, these areas are known to be high-barrier-to-entry... Read More »
Beverly Hills SNF Sells
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Los Angeles, California. Built in 1997, The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills comprises 150 Medicare beds and is located near the prestigious hospital of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. It also received many referrals from the hospital. There was an active bidding process, and a Los Angeles-based family office ultimately sold the asset to a private, high-net-worth owner/operator based in Los Angeles. The seller also negotiated a short-term lease for the facility until it identified an exchange property. Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir and Scott Frazier of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors... Read More »Schedule a demo
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