• BMO Provides Loan to Merrill Gardens and PGIM

    BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group acted as sole lender on an acquisition term loan of $41 million on behalf of Merrill Gardens and an institutional investor for The Ackerly at Sherwood. The Class-A community comprises 130 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in Sherwood, Oregon. It will be operated by Merrill... Read More »
  • CBRE Arranges Refinance for PinPoint Commercial

    CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a refinance for the PinPoint Portfolio on behalf of senior care provider PinPoint Commercial. Aron Will and Michael Cregan arranged the $62.1 million, three-year, interest only loan. The loan was provided by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group through its core real estate lending... Read More »
  • Diversified Healthcare Trust Closes Two Mortgage Financings

    Diversified Healthcare Trust closed two fixed rate mortgage financings totaling $94.3 million, secured by six seniors housing communities managed by Five Star Senior Living, the operating division of AlerisLife Inc. The financings consist of a $64 million, five-year mortgage loan and a $30.3 million, ten-year Fannie Mae mortgage loan. Proceeds... Read More »
  • Ensign Makes Another Move

    The Ensign Group acquired the operations of Toluca Lake Transitional Care, a 52-bed skilled nursing facility in North Hollywood, California. The real estate will be acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc., Ensign’s captive real estate company, following receipt of state regulatory approvals. The acquisition was part of... Read More »
  • CareTrust Acquires 10-Facility Skilled Nursing Portfolio

    CareTrust REIT, together with a large third-party healthcare real estate owner, acquired a skilled nursing portfolio in the Pacific Northwest. The portfolio comprises 10 facilities with 911 beds across Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The total purchase price was approximately $146 million, or $160,300 per bed, inclusive of transaction costs. ... Read More »
NHI Reports Drop in December Occupancy

NHI Reports Drop in December Occupancy

National Health Investors released another business update, and the news was not great. The REIT’s occupancy growth had started to slow in the fall of 2021, but its latest December averages showed declines across its three major operators when compared with November’s average. Senior Living Communities dropped by 10 basis points across the nine properties it operates for NHI from 81.9% in November to 81.8% in December. Bickford Senior Living’s 42 properties, the largest of the portfolios, saw a 90-basis point decline from 81.8% to 80.9%. Then, the 17 properties operated by Holiday Retirement fell by 190 basis points from 79.1% to 77.2% month over month, the lowest monthly average since... Read More »
Convivial Life Acquires Beachside AL/MC Community

Convivial Life Acquires Beachside AL/MC Community

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged the sale of The Cabana at Jensen Dunes, a 126-unit assisted living and memory care community in Jensen Beach, Florida to Florida-based not-for-profit Convival Life. Opened in August 2016, the beachside community had 85% occupancy at the time of sale. Convival also purchased an adjacent 11.35-acre development parcel entitled for more than 210 independent living units. The combined purchase price was $32.5 million.  The seller, One HC–Jensen Beach LLC, is an investment group who utilized the 142d bond program, along with EB5 financing, to develop the project. Performance through the COVID-19 pandemic was steady, and the community saw some... Read More »
Alabama Buyer Adds to Southeast Portfolio

Alabama Buyer Adds to Southeast Portfolio

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors recently closed on a portfolio of two Class-A senior living properties in Alabama and Tennessee. The communities were built in 2018 and consist of 152 units of independent living, assisted living, and memory care. With lease-up regaining momentum following the pandemic, the target offered incremental investor upside via a turnkey memory conversion at one community and an opportunity to expand on excess land at the other community. Ownership engaged Blueprint in the fall of 2021 and the properties spent only a brief time on-market. The winning bidder was an Alabama-based owner/operator looking to expand their operating footprint in the Southeast. No... Read More »
Blueprint Advises Sale of Two Class-A Communities

Blueprint Advises Sale of Two Class-A Communities

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors recently closed on a portfolio of two Class-A seniors housing communities in Georgia and Florida, owned and developed by Atlanta-based Aspire Development Partners and managed by The Arbor Company. Located in Canton, Georgia, The Arbor at BridgeMill consists of 206 units and opened in 2018. The Lakeside at Amelia Island in Fernandina, Florida has 187 units and opened in two phases between 2018 and early 2019. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed. Aspire originally engaged Blueprint in the fall of 2020 to evaluate strategic options and, after a brief marketing process, decided to delay the offering as M&A markets improved. As many of us... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Five SNFs Across the Country

Berkadia Refinances Five SNFs Across the Country

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare recently announced $47 million in financing for five skilled nursing facilities across the country. Managing Director Jay Healy secured the financing on behalf of the borrowers. First, we have the HUD refinancing of a 40-bed/unit, Medicare-only SNF in Sacramento, California. The $14.45 million, 48% LTV HUD loan retired the construction debt and covered transaction costs for the California-based client. That puts the value of the property at $29.65 million, or around $740,000 per bed. We’ve heard of the high values SNFs command these days, but nothing like that. However, it was built in 2019, was certified for Medicare in August 2019 and only... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Provides Bridge Loans To Stabilizing Properties

Live Oak Bank Provides Bridge Loans To Stabilizing Properties

Live Oak Bank ended 2021 by closing three loans for senior care clients totaling over $50 million. First, Mississippi-based Claiborne Senior Living received a $33.5 million loan to facilitate a partner buyout for a Class-A, 213-unit independent living, assisted living, and memory care community built in 2017 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Claiborne took over management in early 2021 and added net 41 residents YTD through November 2021, or more than three residents per month. Locust Point Capital partnered with Claiborne to complete the capital stack. Approximately $1.8 million in loan proceeds will support capex improvements, enhanced programming, and a marketing campaign to rebrand the... Read More »
Welltower Updates Census Progress

Welltower Updates Census Progress

Welltower has the largest owned portfolio of seniors housing communities among the healthcare REITs (SHOP) and census has been steadily rising since the bottom early last year. But the rate of growth, like many others, has been slowing. Average U.S. occupancy growth was 30 basis points in October, 50 basis points in November and zero in December. Spot occupancy for the U.S. portfolio ended December at 77.8%, or 90 basis points above September 30. That’s not too bad for a fourth quarter, but December was disappointing and most likely reflected the holiday season as well as the spreading Omicron variant. Up until December they had had nine consecutive months of increased occupancy. The good... Read More »

Ventas Provides Census Update

Ventas has the second largest SHOP portfolio among the healthcare REITs, so it is always a decent barometer for what is actually happening in the seniors housing market. The REIT’s portfolio has performed exceptionally well since the bottom of the market in mid-March 2021, as have most of the providers across the country. The easing of restrictions as well as the vaccine combined for a robust turnaround that we all knew would come at some point. However, we all knew (well, some of us) that the unprecedented net gains in the second and third quarters last year were not sustainable, as much as we would have liked them to be. Call it the pent-up demand or anything else, with portfolios... Read More »
Two Stabilized MC Communities Find New Owner

Two Stabilized MC Communities Find New Owner

An owner/operator successfully recapitalized two newly constructed, Class-A standalone memory care communities located in the Oklahoma City and Dallas Fort-Worth MSAs. The 2016- and 2018-built communities total 76 units (36 and 40 respectively) and were developed and managed by an experienced operator, who will stay on to manage operations.  It is worth noting that both assets demonstrated consistent upward trending operational performance despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Occupancies exceed 95% and generated $5.9 million in total revenue, and $1.9 Million in EBITDAR representing an impressive 32.5% operating margin. No wonder the current operator is staying on. Blueprint Healthcare Real... Read More »
Dwight Capital Reports Active Q4

Dwight Capital Reports Active Q4

Dwight Capital closed $291.46 million in seniors housing and healthcare financings during the fourth quarter of 2021, including bridge loans for the Certus Portfolio, Solaris Portfolio, and Epic Portfolio. These transactions were funded through the firm’s commercial mortgage REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust. Featured among Dwight’s Q4 closings are an $89 million bridge acquisition loan for a 1,352-bed portfolio of fifteen skilled nursing facilities located across Ohio. The borrower, Certus Healthcare Management, plans to invest in a capex plan to complete interior improvements across these properties. In the Southeast, Dwight has seen a lot of activity. They closed a $48.28 million bridge... Read More »
Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Expands Into Colorado

Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Expands Into Colorado

Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America has broken ground on their newest CCRC, Aberdeen Ridge, thanks to the recent successful closing of their $140.02 million Series 2021 bonds issued through the Colorado Health Facilities Authority and underwritten by Ziegler. This is PMMA’s first venture into Colorado. The faith-based, not-for-profit corporation is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas and operates 15 senior living communities and two hospices across Kansas and Missouri, serving over 2,400 residents. In 2018, PMMA acquired a Texas not-for-profit corporation, which owned an undeveloped 15.25-acre site within 1.5 miles of Garden of the Gods National Park, and which already had the permits and... Read More »