• Omega Beats Estimates

    Omega Healthcare Investors released its second quarter results, beating estimates and demonstrating resilience amid the bankruptcy of Genesis Healthcare, one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country. The REIT reported AFFO of $0.77 per common share, which was above the estimate of $0.75. Revenue also came in higher than expected,... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Seniors Housing Communities to SNF Company

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Vince Viverito, Nick Cacciabando, Jeff Binder and Lucas Doll handled the sale of two seniors housing communities in Oklahoma. The communities are located in Mustang and Oklahoma City, both built in stages from the late-1990s to the late-2000s. They total 135 units of independent living, assisted living and... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Recapitalizes Massachusetts Class-A Portfolio

    Northbridge Companies and Taurus Investment Holdings recapitalized their portfolio of six Class-A seniors housing communities in the Boston suburbs for $227 million, or $447,700 per unit. The recap comes five years after the joint venture acquired the portfolio for approximately $200 million, or $394,500 per unit, which was Taurus’ first... Read More »
  • Ziegler Places Two Bank Loans for Phorcys Capital Partners

    Ziegler served as the capital structure advisor in the placement of two bank loans totaling $21.795 million on behalf of Phorcys Capital Partners. The first financing was used to acquire Superior Residences of Clermont, a not-for-profit assisted living/memory care community in Clermont, Florida that was held and operated through a court-appointed... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profit Secures Refinancing

    Ziegler announced the closing of a large bond financing on behalf of Sequoia Living, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation that serves seniors throughout Northern California. Sequoia, originally known as Northern California Presbyterian Homes, and its related entities own four CCRCs and three affordable housing communities. The... Read More »
January M&A Activity Was the Busiest On Record – 60 Seconds With Ben Swett

January M&A Activity Was the Busiest On Record – 60 Seconds With Ben Swett

January 2022 is in the books, and seniors housing and care M&A activity hit an all-time record in the month, according to our LevinPro LTC database. There were 66 individual deals announced, beating the previous record set in December 2020 with 60 deals, which was a bit of an outlier back then. Our LevinPro database counts deals based on when they are publicly announced either by a press release or to us directly, so a large number of these 66 transactions actually closed at the end of 2021. But December’s M&A total reached 56 transactions, the third-highest monthly total on record, so we are indeed in the middle of the busiest M&A period ever seen in our industry. And based on... Read More »
Two Communities Sell By Ziegler Team

Two Communities Sell By Ziegler Team

Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden arranged a couple of recent seniors housing sales. First, the Reserve at Arlington Heights, a 42-unit memory care community located in Arlington Heights, Illinois, sold to Inspired Healthcare Capital (IHC). IHC is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based private real estate investment firm that focuses on the healthcare sector, which also purchased eight assisted living communities across Oregon and Washington in 2020. Built in 2014 by The LaSalle Group as an “Autumn Leaves” community, this campus has over 30,000 square feet and sold for $12.6 million, or $300,000 per unit. It was performing very well at the time of sale, with occupancy near 100%. The... Read More »
NHI Funds Construction for Wisconsin AL/MC Community

NHI Funds Construction for Wisconsin AL/MC Community

Development has slowed, but we all know it has not stopped. One of the main barriers to getting development projects off the ground these days has been securing financing for them, considering the risks of funding a project amid soaring construction costs and an uncertain stabilization period. But certain projects are going ahead, and National Health Investors, Inc. announced that it will fund a $28.5 million construction loan to build The Courtyard of Fitchburg, a 108-unit assisted living/memory care community in Fitchburg, Wisconsin (Madison area). The four-year loan comes with an annual interest rate of 8.5% and two one-year extensions. Plus, NHI has a purchase option on the property... Read More »
New York Investment Firm Buys Four Massachusetts SNFs

New York Investment Firm Buys Four Massachusetts SNFs

A New York-based investment firm purchased four skilled nursing facilities in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Vantage Point Capital, LLC, a real estate investment firm with a focus on the healthcare and multifamily sectors, made the purchases through a subsidiary, which totaled around $40.4 million, or $68,600 per bed, according to local news sources.   The acquisition includes the 162-bed Parsons Hill Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Worcester, the 135-bed Webster Manor Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Webster, the 96-bed Lanessa Extended Care also in Webster and the 196-bed Marlborough Hills Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Marlborough. All were previously... Read More »
Toll Brothers Invests in Active Adult Communities Nationwide

Toll Brothers Invests in Active Adult Communities Nationwide

On the heels of a busy 2021 for new development projects, Toll Brothers, Inc. unveiled plans for its first Regency 55+ active adult community in the Pacific Northwest. Regency at Ten Trails will be a community of 403 single-level homes set within the Ten Trails master plan in South King County in Washington state. The community will offer four housing options ranging from approximately 1,300 to 2,200 square feet, with pricing anticipated from the low $700,000s. Amenities will include a 10,000-square-foot resort-inspired clubhouse and fitness center, an 11,000-square-foot dog park with washing station and sheltered areas with fireplaces.  But this isn’t the only recent news from the... Read More »
Genesis Exits Idaho

Genesis Exits Idaho

Genesis HealthCare decided to exit the Idaho market, prompting its REIT landlord, National Health Investors, to divest its senior care property in Nampa (Boise MSA). The single-story community, which features 107 independent living units, 18 assisted living units and 42 licensed skilled nursing beds, was Genesis’ only asset in the state.   Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Michael Segal, Blake Bozett and Lauren Nagle positioned the property as a value-add opportunity, with the potential to realign the different care levels. Cascades Healthcare, a skilled nursing operator started by four healthcare clinicians in 2014 that has now grown to 15 SNFs in Utah and Idaho, emerged as the... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Community in North Carolina Changes Hands

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

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 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

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 »