• 60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Is on a Roll

    Welltower came out with its first quarter earnings on Tuesday, and surprise, surprise, it was yet another great quarter, and its share price jumped 3.5% immediately upon the news. It was the tenth consecutive quarter in which same store SHOP NOI growth exceeded 20%, at 21.7% in the first quarter. Guidance for same store NOI growth also rose by... Read More »
  • DHC Closes Freddie Mac Financing

    Diversified Healthcare Trust closed a nine-figure Freddie Mac financing secured by seven seniors housing communities in five states. Totaling 1,184 units, the assets are managed by Five Star Senior Living, the operating division of AlerisLife Inc.  The $109 million loan comes with a 10-year term and a 6.22% fixed interest rate, with interest... Read More »
  • CFG Provides Interim Financing

    Last month, Capital Funding Group closed a $53.4 million bridge-to-HUD loan, providing interim financing to facilitate the refinancing of a maturing loan supporting two skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Victorville, California. CFG intends to refinance the loan into permanent, long-term debt through HUD. Patrick... Read More »
  • Greystone Provides Bridge Financing to Oxford Capital Group

    Greystone provided $41 million in bridge financing to Oxford Capital Group for the acquisition of six assisted living communities totaling 372 beds in Minnesota. The financing was originated by Christopher Clare with assistance from David Young, Ryan Harkins, Ben Rubin, Parker Nielsen and Liam Gallagher. Greystone’s $41 million interest-only,... Read More »
  • Multifamily Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty facilitated the sale of a RCAC in Northeast Wisconsin on behalf of a long-term operator. The RCAC had been family owned/operated since inception, and the seller decided to pass the torch and enter retirement. Purpose built in 2014 and expanded in 2017, this well-maintained community features 19 individual... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending January 8, 2021

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending January 8, 2021

The start of the year came with a slew of seniors housing and care M&A announcements. Here is out latest deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Operating groupManorCare Health Services-AppletonN/A The Ensign Group, Inc.3 skilled nursing facilitiesN/A Prosper Life Care Inc.Landmark at Monastery HeightsN/A Prosper Life Care Inc.Landmark at Fall RiverN/A Global Healthcare REIT, Inc.Family Care Center of... Read More »
Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Greystone Arranges Two Agency Financings

Fred Levine of Greystone arranged a HUD refinance for a skilled nursing facility in Cortlandt, New York. Built in 1984 and featuring 127 beds in 96 units, the facility offers both short- and long-term rehabilitation, along with physician services and complex medical care. Offered therapies include occupational, physical, cardiac, speech, post-surgical orthopedic care, stroke recovery, hip repair/joint replacement recovery, amputee recovery and training, off-site dialysis, bariatric rehabilitation, wound care, and IV antibiotic therapy. The $22.217 million loan came with a low, fixed interest rate and a 35-year term.  Matt Miller of Greystone followed that up... Read More »
Cambridge Ends Year With 13 Closings

Cambridge Ends Year With 13 Closings

Cambridge Realty Capital just announced its fourth quarter closings, which numbered 13 transactions valued at $100 million. That brings the firm’s 2020 total activity to 40 closings and $415 million in dollar volume, the second-highest number of annual closings in Cambridge’s history. The 40 properties that were financed were primarily nursing facilities and totaled 5,254 beds or units across several states.  The largest deal was a $16.9 million loan closed for a senior care facility in Peru, Illinois, with 94 skilled nursing beds, 68 assisted living units and 36 sheltered care beds. Other highlights include a $9.7 million loan for 164-bed skilled nursing facility in the... Read More »
Average Occupancy Falls To (Yet Another) New Low

Average Occupancy Falls To (Yet Another) New Low

Most of us saw it coming, but the seniors housing industry hit new occupancy lows in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to new data from NIC MAP. The sector experienced a drop of 130 basis points from the third quarter average of 82.0% to 80.7%, based on the reporting communities in 31 primary markets. Across the entire industry, including those properties that do not report their occupancy figures, the average census could be lower.  The assisted living market continues to feel the pain of higher move-out rates and fewer move-ins because of the lockdowns, impacts to demand and, of course, the holiday season. That dropped the sector’s average occupancy by 1.3 percentage points to 77.7%,... Read More »
HCR ManorCare Exits Wisconsin Market

HCR ManorCare Exits Wisconsin Market

Ryan Saul and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage have sold HCR ManorCare’s (now ProMedica Senior Care) last skilled nursing facility in the state of Wisconsin. The decision to sell came back in the summer of 2019, when the property was originally marketed. A buyer was found, and the property put under LOI, but the operating partner could not get comfortable with the deal.   So, the process started again, and the building went under LOI again in the spring of 2020 with a buyer group looking to grow its already strong presence in Wisconsin. The pandemic hit, and the building suffered from a COVID outbreak, but the parties involved remained patient and stuck to the original... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Takes Over Buffalo-Area Seniors Housing

Not-For-Profit Takes Over Buffalo-Area Seniors Housing

Helios Healthcare Advisors handled the sale of an independent/assisted living community in Lockport, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. Consisting of 40 AL units in one building and the remaining 24 IL units across 12 duplexes, the campus was originally built in 1989 by a group of local businessmen, who are the current seller. Historically, occupancy has remained above 90%, with a 100% private pay census. Its financial performance wasn’t bad either, with north of $500,000 of EBITDAR on nearly $2.1 million of revenues.   But as many communities felt across the country, state-mandated lockdowns hit and took a serious toll on both census and cash flow, the latter being closer to breakeven by... Read More »
Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisor Announces Another Acquisition

Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisor Announces Another Acquisition

Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden represented the seller of a 120-unit seniors housing community in Kansas. Featuring 60 assisted living, 40 memory care and 20 physician-directed care units, the sale also included an adjacent vacant lot where the new owner, a joint venture between Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisors, plans to develop independent living cottages.   Foster Senior Living will manage the community for the joint venture, which has already acquired six communities since forming in June, with other assets in Nebraska and South Carolina. Fundamental Advisors, in partnership with Scribner Capital, also provided the joint venture... Read More »
Active Adult: Is Now The Time

Active Adult: Is Now The Time

The active adult market may fill a lot of voids in seniors housing, including price points and attracting younger “seniors.” Join our webinar as we dissect the market with industry leaders and see how these new properties are trading in the market. First of all, Happy New Year. It has got to be better than the last one. The coronavirus pandemic has certainly disrupted the senior living industry, at least for now. Are consumers going to be afraid of moving into a senior living community once the vaccine is widely distributed? Will cost become a more  important factor for choosing the type of community to move into? How about paying for what you only want or need? These will... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Closes Out 2020 In Style

Meridian Capital Group Closes Out 2020 In Style

To say that Meridian Capital Group had a strong 2020 would be an understatement. Amid all sorts of obstacles that were only compounded by COVID-19 and widespread lockdowns, the firm closed more than $3 billion in transaction volume in 2020, with $776 million for 76 seniors housing and healthcare facilities in 16 states closed over the last six weeks of the year. To reach that kind of volume in a year like 2020 is quite the accomplishment, and we congratulate Senior Managing Directors Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin, Managing Director Josh Simpson, Vice Presidents Matt Lesnik and Jesse Rauch, and Associate David Gottlieb on their efforts.  Acquisition financings seemed to dominate... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Finances Large SNF Portfolio Acquisition

MONTICELLOAM Finances Large SNF Portfolio Acquisition

MONTICELLOAM, LLC (Monticello) made a splash at the start of 2021, announcing that it provided $368.0 million of first lien debt and $99.0 million of mezzanine financing to support the $507.0 million acquisition of a skilled nursing portfolio in the Southeast. Not a bad way to start the year.  Two other skilled nursing facilities received acquisition financing courtesy of Monticello, which provided $20.0 million in first lien debt. Also included in the financing was one unencumbered skilled nursing facility. Located in Kansas and Ohio, the three properties total 251 beds and average nearly fifty years in age.   An experienced owner/operator with a current... Read More »
Three More HUD Deals From PGIM Real Estate

Three More HUD Deals From PGIM Real Estate

PGIM Real Estate announced $36.7 million in HUD financings in the last six weeks of the year. Christopher Fenton and Catherine Eby first originated a $3.9 million loan for a 49-unit assisted living community in Ohio that was built in 1988 and renovated in 1994. Next, Mr. Fenton and Mrs. Eby were joined by Corley Audorff and Josh Williams to secure an $18.2 million loan for a six-year-old assisted living community in Minnesota.  Finally, Mr. Audorff and Mr. Williams arranged a $14.7 million interest rate reduction loan for a 126-unit skilled nursing/assisted living facility in Colorado, which was built in 2012. These three refinances saved PGIM’s clients a combined $426,000 in... Read More »