• 1st Quarter Investor Call

    On Thursday April 24th, The SeniorCare Investor was joined by three expert panelists from the M&A and financing worlds to discuss case studies on deals that are closing right now (but would not have closed 12 months ago). Watch the webinar here. Read More »
  • Southeast Owner/Operator Secures HUD Refinancing

    Berkadia’s Steve Muth and Andrew Lanzaro closed two loans totaling $5.1 million using HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a Southeast-based owner/operator of seniors housing communities and a repeat Berkadia client. The refinancing paid off the remaining bank debt for a crossed pool of four assets in Mississippi comprising 157 total units (149 assisted... Read More »
  • Dwight Capital’s Closes Impressive Q1:25 Activity

    Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust, closed $521 million in seniors housing financings during the first quarter. The transactions included significant bridge and HUD loans for skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities in multiple states. DMT provided a $54.6 million bridge loan to finance the acquisition... Read More »
  • Maryland-Based Owner Receives Two Separate HUD Financings

    Berkadia arranged two loans totaling $18 million through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a Maryland-based owner of skilled nursing facilities and a repeat Berkadia client. First, Bianca Andujo secured a $6.4 million HUD loan for a 110-bed SNF in South Carolina. The loan proceeds were utilized to pay off previous bank debt and partnership debt... Read More »
  • PE Group Acquires in Kentucky

    Kyle Hallion, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint facilitated the sale of an assisted living community in Richmond, Kentucky. The community was built in 2009 and comprises 49 private units. The seller was a New York-based regional owner/operator divesting to strengthen its portfolio.  The buyer was a Midwest-based private equity group... Read More »
Newmark’s Coast-to-Coast Closings

Newmark’s Coast-to-Coast Closings

Newmark crisscrossed the country to find buyers for a few seniors housing communities at the end of August. First, representing Healthpeak Properties in another one of the REIT’s divestments, the Newmark team sold a 160-unit CCRC in Northridge, California that was formerly operated by Brookdale Senior Living. Originally built in 2001, the community has grown over the years to include 91 assisted living, 24 memory care and 45 skilled nursing units. Pacifica Senior Living bought it for $29 million, or $181,000 per unit. Next, Newmark reported the sale of two Fort Myers-area assisted living/memory care communities to Lone Star Funds for $51.5 million, or $192,900 per unit. Previously owned by... Read More »
Alta Senior Living Acquires North Tampa Community

Alta Senior Living Acquires North Tampa Community

Brad Clousing and Daniel Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in North Tampa, Florida. Developed in 2015 by the seller and operated by their affiliate management company, the community was an operational outlier for them, which prompted the sale. This was their last seniors housing asset in the Southeast. Alta Senior Living stepped in to acquire the property for an undisclosed price, building their operating presence in the state. Read More »
ISL Assumes Operations of Six Midwest Communities

ISL Assumes Operations of Six Midwest Communities

Integral Senior Living has assumed the operations of five new seniors housing communities in Indiana and one in Michigan. The communities are owned by Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc. Meridian Senior Living previously managed these communities. Along with this announcement, Adam Parton has been named as regional vice president of Operations and Brandy Ross as regional director of Sales and Management. Mr. Parton has decades of successful experience managing seniors housing communities and brings knowledge and expertise of the Midwestern market to this role. Ms. Ross also has years of experience growing and managing seniors housing communities in the Midwest, previously serving in... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Garden State SNF

Evans Senior Investments Sells Garden State SNF

Evans Senior Investments represented the seller of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in New Jersey, which traded for $24 million, or $200,000 per bed. The facility was built in 2000 and has seen multiple renovations since then, with the 65 rooms being private or semi-private. Its residents primarily pay through Medicare and Medicaid. Occupancy at the time of marketing was 77%, leading to subpar operations for the community. Prior to the pandemic, the community averaged a 90% census with 41 short-term rehabilitation residents contributing to $15.6 million in revenue. But the facility also had a high expense structure and was not very profitable even before the pandemic. ESI marketed the... Read More »
Cambridge Secures Loans for Two Illinois SNFs

Cambridge Secures Loans for Two Illinois SNFs

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has secured HUD loans to refinance two skilled nursing facilities in Illinois. The first, Alden Town Manor, is a 249-bed facility in Cicero. It is receiving a $12.72 million loan, which is fully amortized with a 25-year term. The other facility is Alden Princeton Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Chicago, which has 225 beds and will receive $7.84 million. The loan is fully amortized and comes with a 40-year term. Both facilities are owned by a limited liability company in Illinois. Read More »

60 Seconds With Steve Monroe: The Biden Administration Does It Again

The new requirement issued by the Biden Administration to force all nursing home workers to be vaccinated by late September, or else the facility will lose all Medicaid and Medicare funding, has unintended consequences that even a moron could see. The rationale was to “level the playing field,” by which I assume they mean preventing workers from leaving one facility with a vaccine mandate policy for another that does not have one. So gee, make all employees get vaccinated or the facility loses 90% of its revenue sources. If they don’t have staff, they can’t take care of people anyway. The problem is that by picking on nursing homes, the employees who don’t want to get jabbed can go work... Read More »
Alta Senior Living Acquires North Tampa Community

Monticello Refinances Florida SNF Portfolio

An owner/operator of around 35 senior care facilities across Florida recently refinanced five of its skilled nursing facilities in the Sunshine State with the help of $58.13 million of first-lien debt provided by MONTICALLOAM, LLC and its affiliates (Monticello). The five facilities consist of 607 beds and were acquired as part of a larger portfolio deal in 2018. Monticello had helped fund that transaction too. The facilities were built on average more than 35 years ago. Read More »
HTG Handles Assisted Living Sale in Maryland

HTG Handles Assisted Living Sale in Maryland

Mark Davis of Healthcare Transactions Group handled the sale of Weinburg Park, a not-for-profit, Jewish assisted living community in Baltimore, Maryland. Previously, the community was affiliated with The Harry and Jeanette Weinburg Foundation, Baltimore’s largest charitable foundation, and Comprehensive Housing Assistance, a community development organization in northwest Baltimore.  It provided affordable assisted living for low-income elderly, but the new owner will run the community as a market-rate, for-profit operation. That buyer was a Lakewood, New Jersey-based SNF owner/operator with many years of experience managing assisted living communities in the New York City... Read More »
ISL Assumes Operations of Six Midwest Communities

Strawberry Fields Acquires Six SNFs in Kentucky and Tennessee

Strawberry Fields REIT, a large owner and lessor of long-term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities across the country, added six more SNFs to its portfolio, at a cost of nearly $81 million. The portfolio totals 521 beds and are located in two states. The one Kentucky facility has 65 beds and was built in 1968 in Kuttawa. It will join the REIT’s Landmark portfolio, which has locations throughout Kentucky, as well as in Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Michigan.  The other five properties are spread across Tennessee and will be branded as “The Waters” facilities, with Infinity Healthcare of Tennessee providing consulting services. Two of the... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Seattle-Area Seniors Housing Community

CBRE Refinances Seattle-Area Seniors Housing Community

Five years after acquiring a Seattle-area senior living community, a joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing(CSH) and a large university endowment refinanced the property. Aron Will of CBRE helped fund both the acquisition and this current transaction. He was joined by Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg on the refinance. Purpose-built in phases in 2000 and 2004, the community features 106 units of assisted living and memory care. Located in Mukilteo it was 90% occupied (and rising) when CSH purchased the property from a local operator in late 2015 for $29.125 million, or $215,300 per unit. CBRE secured a five-year, $20.12 million loan from a national bank to fund the deal,... Read More »
A CMS Study Not “Common Sense” Checked

A CMS Study Not “Common Sense” Checked

Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a study comparing Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes (about 1.4 million of them) to those Medicare beneficiaries in the general community at large (60.6 million) between March and December of 2020. They were trying to see if there was a difference between the two groups in terms of becoming infected with COVID-19, hospitalized as a result, and then death from it.  One article about the story was titled “Medicare nursing home residents more likely to be diagnosed, hospitalized and die from COVID-19 than beneficiaries not in facilities.” Thank you, Captain Obvious. And surprisingly, this did not come from The New York... Read More »