• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »
  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »
  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »
  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... Read More »

CCRCs Continue to Outperform

Investment banking firm Ziegler just came out with its quarterly analysis of the CCRC (LPC) market, using the NIC MAP census data. For the 99 NIC primary and secondary markets, CCRC average census increased by 50 basis points to 86.0% from the first to the second quarter. This is about 690 basis points higher than non-CCRCs. The analysis covers 1,097 not-for-profit and for-profit CCRCs, both entrance-fee and rental in the 99 markets. We do not know about the other 900+ CCRCs in the country.  Occupancy growth since the bottom of the pandemic has been slower in CCRCs than the rest of seniors housing mostly because census did not fall as much during the pandemic, with a relatively healthier... Read More »

Tailwind Investment Group Buys Active Adult Community

California-based investment group, Tailwind Investment Group has acquired the active adult community Vista Grande in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Built in 1972, the community comprises 168 units and sits on 11 acres just outside of Albuquerque. Cooper Street Capital (the seller) utilized Northmarq Investment Sales to help them sell the fully leased community.  Tailwind purchased the asset with the intention of making renovations to the property as well as planning for future acquisitions in New Mexico. The location of Rio Rancho appealed to Tailwind because about 100,000 people in the area hold a median household income about 20 percent higher than the rest of the Albuquerque metro area.... Read More »

Montgomery Intermediary Group Closes Tennessee Transaction

Andrew Montgomery, Co-Founder and Vice President of Montgomery Intermediary Group, closed the sale of an assisted living community in Tennessee. The community’s owner and operator was looking to retire from the seniors housing business and sold it to another owner/operator in the Nashville area that was looking to expand on its existing portfolio.  When stabilized, the community could be operating above 20% margins, which would amount to more than a 10% cap rate on the deal. That is the opportunity for the buyer, as well as the risk. The purchase price was not disclosed, but we understand it to be around $40,000 per unit. Read More »

Chartwell Retirement Residences to Sell Two Facilities

Chartwell Retirement Residences, the largest Canadian seniors housing company, has agreed to sell two of its long-term care facilities for C$112 million, or C$424,000 per bed (or US$331,000 per bed). Net proceeds to Chartwell are expected to be C$56.8 million after paying off C$41.9 million of mortgage debt. The two facilities are located in British Columbia.  The buyer of the 264-bed portfolio is AgeCare Health Services Inc. and Axium Infrastructure Inc. and its affiliates. The closing is expected to occur before the end of the year. Axium is an independent portfolio management firm with approximately C$9.4 billion in assets under management, as well as C$1.7 billion in co-investments.... Read More »

Alabama Assisted Living Community Sells

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Brad Clousing and Daniel Geraghty have successfully closed the sale of Heritage Assisted Living & Memory Care in Madison, Alabama. Built in 2015, the 46-unit (30 AL, 16 MC units) assisted living community sits on five acres near the Alabama-Tennessee border. The community maintained an occupancy rate of 96% at the time of sale but struggled with rental rates and other expenses.  The seller was a local group of physicians who divested the asset for $5.1 million, or $110,900 per unit, at a cap rate of 7.2% based on annualized trailing figures. At the time of sale, the community was bringing in around $2.2 million in revenue and $370,000 of EBITDAR,... Read More »

60 Seconds With Swett: SNF Values Soar Post-Pandemic, AL Falls

We continue to observe the post-pandemic senior care M&A market with curiosity, with many crosscurrents of headwinds and tailwinds to make sense of. And our most recent valuation statistics, which includes prices and financials both publicly announced and confidentially disclosed to us, shed some light on the currentmarket.First, the average price for skilled nursing facilities in the last four quarters soared 19% to $118,600 per bed from $98,000 per bed in calendar year 2021. Taking out the exceptionally high estimated price for Stonerise Healthcare’s SNFs, we still see the average price rising above $100,000 per bed for the four-quarter period. With more facilities coming up for sale... Read More »

Ziegler Closes Bank Acquisition Financing

The transactions keep coming from Ziegler, which closed $17.7 million in taxable bank financing for the acquisition of The View Alexandria by Goodwin Living, formerly Goodwin House. Goodwin Living acquired the property from Pinnacle Living this spring, adding to its two other senior living communities in northern Virginia.  The $17.775 million taxable loan was placed with Truist Bank. It has a five-year commitment period at pricing of 1 Month SOFR plus 2.00% with three years of interest only and a 25-year amortization. To mitigate interest rate risk, Goodwin Living worked with Ziegler Structured Products to implement a fixed payor swap for the five-year commitment period on the entire... Read More »

Joint Venture Building High-End Nashville Community

A joint venture between Ryan Companies, LCS and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital broke ground on Clarendale West End, a planned 261,000-square-foot, five-story seniors housing community in Nashville’s West End district. Situated near Vanderbilt University and downtown Nashville, the property will offer 172 independent living, assisted living and memory care units, with plentiful amenities. Rents will start at $4,400 a month for independent living, $6,000 for assisted living and $7,200 for memory care. Ryan Cos. is the developer and builder for the project, Ryan A+E Inc. is the architect of record, and Direct Supply Aptura is the development’s interior designer. Plus, upon completion in... Read More »

Del Webb Adds Another Active Adult Development

Active adult developer Del Webb has announced plans for the development of a state-of-the-art active adult community in southeast Michigan, The community, Kensington Ridge by Del Webb, will include over 600 homes and resort-style amenities. Plans are also in place for a 15,000-square-foot clubhouse on a 43-acre lake with a dock for fishing, kayaking and paddleboarding, an indoor pool, a fitness center, pickleball courts, walking paths, a community garden and gazebos.  Kensington Ridge by Del Webb will serve as the third active adult community in Michigan under Del Webb developments. Bluffs at Spring Hill and Turtle Creek in Lyon Township are two recent active adult communities built within... Read More »

Sonida Senior Living Announces Earnings

We are truly glad to see that Sonida Senior Living (formerly Capital Senior Living) is seeing improvements in census, contract labor use, rates and revenues. We are sure outgoing CEO Kim Lody wanted to leave with some upbeat news. Census (84% at quarter end) is now just 50 basis points below the pre-pandemic level. But as we have repeatedly said, pre-pandemic was not so good for the industry. We really have to look at three to four years before the pandemic as a goal. Several quarters ago we found a “typo” in the quarterly earnings release, which made the financial performance look better. After our reporting, they then issued a corrected release. In this second quarter 2022 earnings... Read More »

Dwight Mortgage Trust Closes Acquisition Loan

Dwight Capital’s affiliate, Dwight Mortgage Trust, has successfully closed acquisition financing totaling $27 million for four assisted living communities in the state of New York. The portfolio consisted of three communities in Jamestown: Tanglewood Manor, Memory Garden and Comfort Today. There was also The Magnolia in Frewsburg, New York. Altogether, the four communities combined for 293 units of assisted living and memory care. Dwight’s Josh Levin originated the transaction. The buyer of the portfolio was Culture Care Senior Living, led by CEO Gary Rohinsky.  Read More »