Not-For-Profit Community in North Carolina Changes Hands
The Well-Spring Group has entered into an agreement with Cone Health to acquire The Village at Brookwood, a 47-acre CCRC in Burlington, North Carolina. Building finished in 2003, and the community consists of 110 apartments in a five-story building; 45 one-story garden homes; and a health care center with 48 rooms licensed for assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing care. The community was originally designed to accommodate about 340 residents, and current census is reported to be 247 residents, placing occupancy around 75%. The community offers living options from $2,339 to $4,453. Back in mid-2001 when construction began, The Village was financed through a North Carolina... Read More »
Jacksonville Community Refinances
Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranged $19.5 million in financing for Starling at San Jose, a seniors housing community in Jacksonville. The transaction retired a bridge loan with Grandbridge’s parent company, Truist Bank. Built in 2017, the community features 66 assisted living and 24 memory care units. It was developed by Starling, with Choate Construction serving as the contractor. No other details about the property were disclosed. Richard Thomas and the Grandbridge’s Atlanta-based Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance team arranged the financing. Read More »
Five Star Senior Living Rebrands As AlerisLife
Five Star Senior Living is rebranding itself as AlerisLife Inc. effective immediately. With the name change, the company’s common shares will now trade on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol “ALR.” “Aleris” is a Latin word meaning “to foster, nourish and develop,” and is intended to signify the company’s intent to continue fostering, developing and expanding its lifestyle services. It also follows its desire to offer lifestyle services to younger “choice-based” consumers while exiting the skilled nursing business entirely in November 2021. Other recent developments include growing its Ageility rehabilitation and fitness products, entering into a dining services collaboration... Read More »
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 »Schedule a demo
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