60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: The Ensign Group Does It Again
I opened my email yesterday and a good industry friend sent me The Ensign Group’s second quarter earnings results with the question, Scam? I can understand his disbelief, as I have also thought there may be some monkey business with the company and its superior performance, especially during the pandemic. I could not find anything. One equity analyst asked, what’s not to like? Double-digit revenue and EBITDA growth, sequential and year-over-year occupancy growth, average daily revenue is up and management increased its guidance for the rest of the year. And remember, Ensign owns and operates skilled nursing facilities, a sector still under tremendous financial pressure. How did... Read More »Greystone Affiliate Builds Low-Income Seniors Housing
Greystone affiliate America First Multifamily Investors, L.P. (ATAX) announced that it has purchased $72 million in tax-exempt and taxable mortgage revenue bonds for the acquisition of land and construction of a 200-unit seniors affordable housing property in Los Angeles. The community will be named Residency at the Entrepreneur and will provide housing for seniors earning a range of 30% to 80% Area Median Income. In addition, 99 of the units will be master leased by The People Concern, whose constituents are seniors, individuals at risk of homelessness, and low-income families. At completion, the community will be owned by Residency at the Entrepreneur, LP, a California limited... Read More »CareTrust REIT Provides “B” Piece Loan
CareTrust REIT announced that it has extended a $22.25 million “B” piece secured loan for the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in California, with White Oak Healthcare Partners structuring the financing package. The portfolio comprises approximately 600 beds, and a private investment firm was the buyer. The “B” piece of the secured term loan carries a three-year maturity with two, one-year extensions and an annual SOFR-based interest rate with a minimum floor of 8.5%. White Oak also structured $53.4 million in financing to fund the deal. The borrower and operator were undisclosed, but both have long established relationships with CareTrust. This follows the REIT’s... Read More »Grandbridge Works on Lifespace Communities Acquisition
Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Senior Housing Investment Sales team has successfully arranged the sale of a three-property CCRC portfolio in Texas. The 664-unit portfolio consisted of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units with both entrance fee and rental structures. They include Wesley Court in Abilene, The Craig in Amarillo and Meadow Lake in Tyler. The Tampa-based Grandbridge team led by David Kliewer and Jay Jordan, in partnership with San Diego-based David Rothschild, represented the seller, Dallas-based private equity firm RSF Partners, in a joint venture with Evergreen Senior Living Properties, LLC and its affiliated manager ER Senior... Read More »Blueprint Capital Markets Finances Lloyd Jones Acquisition
We recently learned that Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors not only represented the REIT owner of an Indiana community that it sold, but Blueprint Capital Markets, run by Alex Florea, secured acquisition financing for the buyer, Lloyd Jones. Rittenhouse Village of Valparaiso, a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2009 in Valparaiso, Indiana. The property appears on National Health Investors’ most recent property list, with Discovery Senior Living serving as the operator/lessee, revealing NHI as the seller in this transaction. The historically profitable community was negatively impacted by the pandemic but started to rebound operationally. Blueprint Capital... Read More »Monarch Advisors Primes Oregon Community for Permanent Refinance
Monarch Advisors, an affiliate of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, closed a new loan to refinance and expand a 38-unit memory care community in the Portland, Oregon area. The local owner engaged Monarch to source $8.75 million of senior debt for the transaction. Alec Blanc of Monarch secured a commitment from a regional bank that specializes in senior housing nationally. The loan retired the existing bank debt on the property and provided cash at closing to fund a 16-unit expansion. At less than 60% of the as-stabilized value, the community will be well-positioned for a permanent mortgage upon completion and lease-up. The rate floats at Prime with typical financial covenants and... Read More »Fortress Investment Group Acquires Scottsdale Property
CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the sale and acquisition financing for Andara Senior Living, an independent and assisted living community in Scottsdale, Arizona. This transaction was CBRE’s third financing of the community, having previously arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the current seller (real estate investment firm Reliant Group) in 2012 and an agency refinance in 2018. Reliant decided to turn over its asset into the hands of a joint venture between Colonial Oaks Senior Living and Fortress Investment Group. Built in 2010, the community consists of 170 total units spread across a campus of two, three-story residential wings interconnected by a covered walkway. Through... Read More »Primrose Senior Living Sells Four-State Portfolio
The Primrose Retirement Communities Portfolio consisting of four independent and assisted living communities has been sold to an undisclosed public REIT and a regional private equity group. The portfolio comprises 351 total units (199 IL and 152 AL) and is spread out across four states: Colorado (Pueblo), Indiana (Kokomo), Oklahoma (Stillwater) and Wyoming (Cheyenne). Built between 2008 and 2013, the seller Primrose Senior Living decided to divest these assets with the intention of recapitalizing, paying off investors, and establishing a new capital relationship. Primrose remained as the portfolio’s operator as well. Each community maintained above-average occupancy levels throughout... Read More »Parentis Health Acquires Quality Life Homes
Parentis Health has acquired Quality Life Homes, a small senior living portfolio of five communities in Laguna Niguel, California. Parentis Health will be adding this portfolio into its Verona Court portfolio of senior residential care properties. Verona Court will now operate 16 senior care facilities with this latest acquisition.The seller of Quality Life Homes is Dawn Sather, who started her business in 1991 with her husband. After he passed away in 2021, Dawn made the decision to sell the company and ultimately chose Parentis Health as the buyer because of the similar model that Verona Court has in place. With six beds per home and three or fewer patients per caregiver, its staff will... Read More »Dialyze Direct Partners with CommuniCare
CommuniCare Family of Companies has been in the news a lot lately, with its role in the acquisition of Stonerise Healthcare in West Virginia, but the operator also just announced a partnership with Dialyze Direct, a provider of home hemodialysis services in skilled nursing facilities, to conduct onsite hemodialysis services at its facilities across the country. Dialyze Direct now covers 170 SNFs in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The company has been on a major growth path this year, announcing three separate acquisitions of other dialysis providers: RenPro Renal Services in... Read More »Schedule a demo
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