• 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 »
MonticelloAM Closes Acquisition Financing

MonticelloAM Closes Acquisition Financing

To support the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities, MONTICELLOAM, LLC (Monticello) announced that it provided $20.0 million in first lien debt financing. Also included in the financing was one unencumbered skilled nursing facility. The three properties total 251 beds and are located in Kansas and Ohio. They average nearly fifty years in age.  An experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of nearly 1,200 licensed beds was the borrower, having worked with Monticello before, including securing financing for the acquisition of a number of facilities in 2020. Relationships have been key to getting acquisition debt this year, and it seems to be paying off for these two... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending December 18, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending December 18, 2020

As the year is wrapping up, there has been a burst of senior care M&A activity. Check out our recent deal chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Private investorBrookdale Walnut$10.9 million Oregon-based operatorEmerson House Portland$6.25 million Prime Value Asset Management Limited4 retirement communities in Australia$67.32 million Regional owner/operatorSkilled nursing facility in... Read More »
Navigating the Senior Care Lending Market with Don Kelly of Locust Point Capital

Navigating the Senior Care Lending Market with Don Kelly of Locust Point Capital

Ben Swett, the Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sits down with Don Kelly, Managing Director of Locust Point Capital, to discuss the current state of the seniors housing and care lending environment. Ben Swett, Editor of The SeniorCare Investor – Don Kelly is the Managing Director of Locust Point Capital where he is responsible for loan originations and structuring. Don has more than 25 years of experience in the seniors housing and skilled nursing industry and he’s also been involved in the originating, structuring and underwriting of approximately $5 billion in transactions. So, Don, you seem like the right person to turn to for all our lending... Read More »
Will Brookdale Sell Its Home Health Business?

Will Brookdale Sell Its Home Health Business?

Rumors were afloat this week that Brookdale Senior Living might be running a sales process for its home health and hospice business. Quietly, it became one of the largest home health providers in the country, with revenues of $447 million in 2019, inclusive of hospice and a very small therapy business.   We happen to think home health and hospice is a natural for large senior living providers with a built-in customer base off of which to leverage growth outside their communities. It is also a nice lead-in for full time residence into some of their communities. Today, about 50% of the home health and hospice revenues are “in-house,” while 50% are outside of Brookdale’s... Read More »
SLIB Handles Oregon Memory Care Sale

SLIB Handles Oregon Memory Care Sale

An Oregon-based senior living operator is leaning into the COVID crisis by acquiring a 29-unit memory care community in Portland and temporarily converting it to a COVID recovery facility for the state. We imagine the rates for taking care of COVID patients are much higher than traditional SNF Medicare rates, so it could be a very profitable operation.  Originally built in 1999 and remodeled in 2013, the community features 55 beds in the 29 units. It is located in a high traffic corridor of Portland and had historically enjoyed high occupancy. But census recently dropped to 71%. Cash flow was also dropping from around $580,000 from January to June 2020 (annualized) on over $3.22... Read More »
Diversicare Healthcare Services Exits Florida Market

Diversicare Healthcare Services Exits Florida Market

Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Wauchula, Florida (about 40 miles southeast of Tampa). Consisting of 79 beds, the facility was originally built in 1980 and expanded in 1990. Owned by a REIT, this was the last facility operated by Diversicare Healthcare Services in the state, according to public records.   Historically, it had consistent operations, which were trending positively before COVID-19 hit and did not deteriorate during the pandemic. But being a non-core asset in Diversicare’s portfolio, the facility was slated for sale to a pre-identified buyer looking to... Read More »
Lument Hires David Boitano

Lument Hires David Boitano

David Boitano, formerly of Ventas, has made the move to Lument, where he’ll be a managing director and responsible for delivering an array of debt and structured products to the firm’s seniors housing and healthcare clients. Mr. Boitano will be based in the Tacoma, Washington office and part of Lument’s western region seniors housing and healthcare production team, which is co-led by Casey Moore and Doug Harper.  With 25 years of experience in seniors housing financing, Mr. Boitano was previously a senior vice president at Ventas, where he completed over $15 billion in healthcare real estate transactions. Before that, he was CFO and then senior vice president of finance and acquisitions... Read More »
The Vaccine Is Here, Now What

The Vaccine Is Here, Now What

The coronavirus vaccine appeared sooner than most people expected, but the roll out may be bumpy.  Senior care providers and residents are about to be the first people vaccinated against COVID-19. That is great news, and putting your politics aside, no one, me included, thought this would happen before year end. But it did. Now what? The media loves to film the first person getting a shot, but the full roll out will be a bit more cumbersome than the staff at a single hospital. Nursing homes and assisted living communities are on the priority list, but because their residents are healthier, IL communities are not. They will have to wait. And that is wrong. The big unknown is how many... Read More »
Newmark Sells Major SNF Portfolio

Newmark Sells Major SNF Portfolio

Last week we wrote that Newmark (formerly Newmark Knight Frank) was going to have a big fourth quarter. And they have, with five sales transactions worth well in excess of $400 million, plus a few financings, and we still have a few weeks to go before the end of the year.  The largest sale, which we previously reported on, was the six communities in Massachusetts that sold for about $200 million in a recap of the portfolio previously owned by Welltower. Most recently (early December), however, was one of the larger skilled nursing portfolio sales of the year. With nine facilities and 1,014 beds in Virginia, this portfolio was sold for just over $150,000 per... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending December 18, 2020

Iowa CCRC Finds New Not-For-Profit Owner

A struggling CCRC in Perry, Iowa traded from one not-for-profit owner to another, with Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors facilitating the sale. Set on over 20 acres about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines, the campus was originally built in the late 1950s, with eight independent living cottages added in the 1980s. A more recent $20 million expansion/replacement project in 2014 added 16 assisted living units and 57 new skilled nursing and transitional care beds, plus an eight-unit memory care unit in 2015.  It was owned by a Board of Directors through the Grand Lodge of Iowa, with a trust agreement administered by the District Court of Dallas... Read More »
The Stahler Group Announces First Seniors Housing Closing

The Stahler Group Announces First Seniors Housing Closing

The Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap, headed by JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage alum Nick Stahler, has its first deal under its belt. Mr. Stahler and Mike Mooney sold an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Walnut, California, representing the private investor seller.   Built in 1987, the community was originally leased to Summerville Senior Living, then to Emeritus, and finally to Brookdale Senior Living after its 2014 merger with Emeritus. There was limited competition in the area, and some positive cash flow, but the property was considered to be a value-add/turnaround opportunity. Brookdale had chosen not to renew its lease, so the sale process was... Read More »