• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »
Is Brookdale Bottoming Out

Is Brookdale Bottoming Out

Even though Brookdale Senior Living reported its lowest census levels ever in February, the month-to-month declines were low and may signal a bottom soon. As most of you know, I have been pretty negative about where things were going last year, and how long it might take for the industry to dig out of its hole. But my gut tells me things are beginning to turn around. Brookdale Senior Living just reported on its February occupancy, and I believe it is the first major seniors housing company to report average occupancy for the month below 70%. It hit 69.4%. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the monthly decline of 60 basis points was the smallest since last March. And the month-end... Read More »
SLIB Sells Underperforming Missouri Skilled Nursing Facility

SLIB Sells Underperforming Missouri Skilled Nursing Facility

Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage started March with the sale of a 137-bed nursing facility in Missouri. It was relatively large at 137 beds, but occupancy was near 50%. It was not too old, having been built in stages in 1984, 1989 and 1994, but 25 to 35 years old is still old.   Located in Ballwin (St. Louis MSA), it was sold because of the facility’s underperformance, despite its good location, by a large Missouri operator. The buyer plans on doing significant renovations and refreshing of some common areas, as it wants to expand its services into the St. Louis MSA. The buyer was selected in September from a pool of five... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Acquires Again

CareTrust REIT Acquires Again

On the back of its purchase of four CCRCs in California last week, CareTrust REIT jumped back in the buyer pool to acquire a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in Santa Barbara. In the off-market transaction, CareTrust also retained the operator, California-based Covenant Care, under an assumed long-term lease. That brings CareTrust and Covenant’s relationship to eight facilities.  The REIT spent approximately $15.86 million (excluding around $40,000 of transaction costs), or $105,700 per bed on the facility. The existing lease, which has approximately four years left on its term, with two five-year renewal options, produces about $1.5... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

Live Oak Bank Closes Two Financings

The team at Live Oak Bank arranged a couple of financings for two owner/operator clients. First, to refinance a newly built memory care community in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Live Oak provided a five-year, floating rate bridge loan totaling $12.3 million to the developer, Watercrest Senior Living. Opened in March 2018, the purpose-built community has 64 units and operates under Watercrest’s “Market Street” brand. Watercrest worked with Lument to arrange the financing. This brings Watercrest’s portfolio to 13 communities in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia.  The second transaction saw Live Oak Bank provide a $28.5... Read More »
Berkadia Refinances Portfolio of Florida Memory Care Communities

Berkadia Refinances Portfolio of Florida Memory Care Communities

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group refinanced a portfolio of six small memory care communities in central Florida. When we say small, we mean it, as each property featured six units. Occupancy was a combined 99% at the time of underwriting and has consistently been fully occupied with a waiting list.   Berkadia processed the transaction on behalf of the California-based sponsor as a scattered site loan through HUD. The $5.16 million loan represented a 60% loan-to-value ratio and came with a 34-year term. It retired a short-term bridge loan that was arranged in June 2020 to retire several small individual property loans. Ownership was also able to extract... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges HUD Financing for Seven SNFs

Walker & Dunlop Arranges HUD Financing for Seven SNFs

The Chicago-based Walker & Dunlop HUD Finance Team announced that it has structured a combined $126.65 million in financing for seven skilled nursing facilities located throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Joshua Rosen led the origination team on the deal. Four of the properties received financing from the LEAN program, while the three others went through the agency’s loan modification program. The loans included terms ranging from 30 to 34 years.   Three of the properties are located in Massachusetts (Brockton, Chelsea and Fall River), three in Illinois (Chicago, Niles and Northbrook) and one in Romeo, Michigan.  Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending March 5, 2021

Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending March 5, 2021

March began with a bevy of seniors housing and care M&A transaction announcements. Here are some highlights in our deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Owner/operatorAmber Glen Assisted Living & Memory Care$2.325 million CareTrust REIT, Inc.4 CCRCs$125.2 million Partnership buyerBeach House Assisted Living & Memory CareN/A Local not-for-profitColonial Place Assisted Living & Memory CareN/A Partnership buyerBrookdale Muscle... Read More »
Greystone Secures Bridge Financing for Missouri SNF

Greystone Secures Bridge Financing for Missouri SNF

The Greystone Seniors Housing Capital Markets team secured bridge financing to refinance a 147-bed skilled nursing facility in Missouri. Owned by RSF Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm focused primarily on the seniors housing sector, the facility was built around 10 years ago. There was previously a five-year term loan on the property, which is being taken out by a new $12 million loan with a two-year term.  Read More »
Newmark Sells Largest Community of the Year

Newmark Sells Largest Community of the Year

The investment sales team at Newmark sold one of the largest retirement communities we have seen in the market, and the new owners have plans to change it. Imperial Plaza in Richmond, Virginia was built in 1967 and has four towers on its 27.7-acre campus. Currently, there are 941 units broken out into 743 independent living, 146 assisted living and 32 memory care units. All the units are in the four high-rise towers. Occupancy had historically been between 88% and 91%, but it had slipped to about 75% as a result of the pandemic. Despite this, in-place cash flow remained relatively strong.   The purchase price was $68.85 million, or about $74,750 per unit, and... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges Several Sales

Walker & Dunlop Arranges Several Sales

The Walker & Dunlop Investment Sales team, including Joshua Jandris, Mark Myers, Brett Gardner and Jordyn Berger, is off to a good start to their year, already announcing a few closings with another four set to close in the next six weeks. In total, the team has about $1.0 billion of listings under contract and scheduled closings in its pipeline.   They first closed the sale of an independent living portfolio in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area. Operated by The Mansions Group and owned by a group of investors and developers, the four communities are newly built, considered to be “A” quality and combine for 559 units. Most were stabilized with occupancy above 90%, but the newest... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Acquires Rental CCRC Portfolio

CareTrust REIT Acquires Rental CCRC Portfolio

CareTrust REIT acquired four former Marriott rental CCRCs in Southern California for a combined purchase price of $125.2 million, or $196,500 per unit. That just about equals the average price per unit for seniors housing properties in the 2020 M&A market, according to 26th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report.  Originally developed by Marriott in 1999 and 2000, these communities total 360 assisted living units, 97 memory care units and 180 skilled nursing beds. They are all located in high-income markets in Camarillo, Carlsbad, Rancho Mirage and San Juan Capistrano. An institutional owner hired Evans Senior Investments to market and sell the... Read More »