Upscale Seniors Housing in the News
As the recovery from the pandemic seems to be slowing (or stabilizing), we have always said that the more upscale communities would have a better go of it than the more middle market ones. Location seems to be more important than age, as well. We toured a large community in Stamford, Connecticut that opened last year, and another smaller one in Darien, Connecticut that opened more than 25 years ago. The former is operated by Epoch Senior Living and the latter by Atria Senior Living. We actually went to the Atria property for the open house 25 years ago when CareMatrix (Abe Gosman) built it. Both communities were very nice and doing very well but could not have been more different,... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Releases Latest Activity
Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team has closed more than $515 million in transaction volume since mid-March for a combination of 33 facilities in seven states. That is a healthy chunk of all the lending that is getting done these days. The transactions were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson. Most notably, the team arranged $185 million in financing from a commercial bank and finance company to facilitate the acquisition of 13 skilled nursing facilities totaling 1,002 beds in West Virginia. Omega Healthcare Investors purchased four of the facilities and co-invested with a private family office on... Read More »
SLIB Announces Deals in Washington and West Virginia
Two teams at Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced deals this week, including one in Washington state and another in West Virginia. First, in Washington, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson sold a 54-unit assisted living community in the town of Shelton (on the Olympic peninsula). Built in 2000, it was previously owned by an investment group that was looking to divest its out-of-state assets. Occupancy was decent at 80%, but that could be improved. In the end, a Pacific Northwest owner/operator paid $4.9 million, or $90,700 per unit, for the community and plans to spend more on capital improvements and to increase the number of licensed beds. Next,... Read More »
Ohio AL Community Sells to Owner/Operator
An Ohio assisted living community that was formerly an elementary school sold to an in-state owner/operator thanks to Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. The duo represented the community’s original developer, which had taken over operational control of the community in 2018 after the previous operator declined their lease renewal. What an eventful several years of operating they signed up for. Built in 1920, the school was redeveloped into a 52-unit seniors housing community in 2007 and still features a gymnasium, plus the only sit-down restaurant in the town of Antwerp. Outsiders were allowed to dine there, except during the pandemic, of course.... Read More »
LTC Properties Reports First Quarter Results
We are still in the beginning stage of the first quarter earnings season with just a few companies in our sector reporting so far. LTC Properties reported first quarter results on April 27, with earnings slightly below expectations, but revenues above. LTC is one of the smallest REITs in our sector, but the only one that pays its dividends monthly, which we always considered a plus for investors. Like all of the REITs, some of their operators have had challenges during the pandemic keeping up with lease or mortgage payments, but there appears to be a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel. The good news for LTC is that they really have no significant debt maturities looming for the next... Read More »
CCRC in the Works in Los Angeles Area
Spieker Senior Development Partners broke ground on a major CCRC project in Woodland Hills, California, about 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Wisteria at Warner Center will feature six stories on 17 acres, with a total of 695 units, the vast majority of which would be reserved for independent living residents. In addition to the independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services, the community will include over 1.1 million square feet of medical office space. Entrance fees will start in the $500,000s and surpass $1 million for the larger penthouses, which can reach nearly 3,000 square feet. KTGY designed the project, and W.E. O’Neil Construction is the... Read More »
The Ensign Group Slightly Beats Forecasts
The Ensign Group posted another solid quarter, beating its forecasts by a bit, but not by enough to get investors excited. The shares traded down by about 3.6% on a day that the overall market was up by about 2%. The 52-week range is $70.29 to $102.26 per share, and with the current value just under the high, investors may be thinking that there is not much room to go up in the near term. Year over year, quarterly revenues were up 24.3%, adjusted earnings per share were up 14.1% and occupancy keeps on rising as well. They purchased the operations of 19 nursing facilities during the quarter. Unlike most companies, Ensign continues to grow, and grow profitably. But it is not just the... Read More »
Blueprint Closes South Carolina Deal without Delay
WindRiver Companies acquired a value-add assisted living/memory care community in South Carolina, with Kyle Hallion of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handling the deal on behalf of the undisclosed seller. The campus is the seventh owned asset for WindRiver, which operates another 12 properties in the Southeast, Texas and Oklahoma. Originally built in the late 1990s, the community features 77 units across two buildings. The smaller building that houses the memory care will have a portion of it converted to a corporate training center and regional office for WindRiver. That should help the company as it looks to grow its regional operating platform in the state. Occupancy was... Read More »
SLIB Sells in Southern New Jersey
A small seniors housing community sold in southern New Jersey with the help of Bradley Clousing, Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. In the transaction, they represented the publicly traded REIT seller, which was looking to divest a relatively small asset from its portfolio. The buyer was a regional owner based in New Jersey that is maintaining the current operator, Juniper Communities, until the change of ownership is completed. Built in 1997, the community features 47 licensed assisted living beds in 39 units that comprise six one-bedroom and 33 studio suites. It has been well maintained, and there is also room for expansion on the 6.15-acre site.... Read More »
KIRCO and Everbrook Senior Living Acquire Arbors of Stoughton
Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of the Arbors of Stoughton, a 91-unit assisted living/memory care community in Stoughton, Massachusetts, about 20 miles south of downtown Boston. Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner and Jim Dooley represented the seller, the Gralia Group of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and its institutional capital partner, in the transaction. The community opened in 2009 and had seen occupancy decline during the pandemic. So, the property provided a value-add opportunity to the buyer through capital improvements and continued lease up. It consists of a three-story building with a large interior courtyard connected to the first-floor amenity spaces. The assisted living... Read More »Schedule a demo
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