Brookdale Senior Living Reports
Even in the depths of a pandemic and a disrupted economy, there is always the bright side of things, right? Brookdale Senior Living, the largest seniors housing provider in the country, reported its third quarter earnings results and certainly had some positive things to say about where the company is today and how it will improve in the future. Always lead with your best. Unfortunately, shareholders focused on the problems and sent the share price down by 15% right off the bat. The good news for the future is that they completed a major lease restructuring with Ventas, reducing future cash rent by about $500 million over the remaining lease term ending in December 2025.... Read More »
Healthpeak Properties Heading Out of Seniors Housing
Healthpeak Properties jolted the senior care industry when it announced it is in the process of unloading its entire seniors housing RIDEA portfolio (135 communities with 15,992 units) as well as its triple net lease portfolio (62 communities with 5,848 units). So far, $1.5 billion of assets are under binding and non-binding letters of intent in eight transactions, while $2 billion is under letter of intent in six deals. The rest of the communities are being actively marketed. The RIDEA assets, if they close, will sell at about a 5.8% cap rate based on trailing 12-months EBITDA ended March 31, 2020 (pre-pandemic), but closer to 3% based on third quarter performance annualized.... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Sells Value-Add SNF in Kansas
In a deal that went to market in mid-August and closed at the end of October, Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a skilled nursing facility in Conway Springs, Kansas. Situated in the south-central part of the state, the facility was built in 1964, with additions made in 1988 and 1996. It is licensed for 45 beds, with about 27 of those occupied at the time of the sale. This was the only facility owned by the Winter family, who has owned the SNF since opening, but Wichita, Kansas-based Axiom Healthcare Services had been operating it over the last year. As of June 2020, the facility was losing more than $400,000 in EBITDAR on nearly $2.45... Read More »
Oxford Finance Funds Wisconsin SNF Acquisition
Oxford Finance secured a senior credit facility and revolving line of credit for a partnership to acquire two skilled nursing facilities and a combined 158 beds in Wisconsin. That partnership is between AB Asset Management LLC, a vertically integrated real estate company based in Miami Beach, and Vitalogy Property Holdings LLC, a growing owner/operator founded in 2015 by Levi Rudd and Louis Kass. Vitalogy is expanding its existing operating platform in the Midwest and also partnered with Symmetry Healthcare, a provider of back office support services in the healthcare industry, to acquire the properties. To fund the deal, Oxford closed both the... Read More »
Senior Care Campus Sells Near Philadelphia
A not-for-profit, faith-based operator of senior care services in the Philadelphia area sold its flagship senior care campus in North Wales, Pennsylvania. That seller, Abramson Senior Care, has over 150 years of experience caring for the Jewish elderly in the area and opened this community in 2001 on 78 acres. The campus includes 324 private skilled nursing beds, 46 personal care (assisted living) units and two independent living units. Well-maintained, it also received over $5 million in renovations since 2008 and carries a five-star rating from CMS. Abramson Senior Care made the decision to sell the campus but still wanted to see a continuation of its mission and religious programming,... Read More »
Ensign Acquires Former Omega Healthcare Investors SNF
The Ensign Group acquired a skilled nursing facility in Amarillo, Texas, picking up both the real estate and operations in the deal. Featuring 82 beds, the facility was formerly owned by Omega Healthcare Investors, which acquired it in a portfolio deal in June 2010. It was part of the 57-facility portfolio operated by Daybreak Venture, LLC that OHI was in the process of divesting after Daybreak paid less than $1 million in rent in the third and fourth quarters of 2019. This Amarillo location was just 45% occupied at the time of the sale. Ensign paid an undisclosed sum for the property and will rename it The Medical Lodge of Amarillo. Its subsidiary Keystone Care LLC will take over... Read More »
M&T Realty Finances Avanath Acquisition
Avanath Capital Management bought an affordable senior apartment complex in Sterling, Virginia (Washington, D.C. MSA) with the help of a loan provided by M&T Realty Capital Corporation. Developed in 2001 with low-income housing tax credits, this community has 150 units and was owned by a private local investor. It offers one- and two-bedroom unit options, and there are amenities such as a fitness center, billiards table, beauty salon and entertainment room, among others. Greysteel represented the seller in the transaction, which resulted in a $27.25 million, or $181,000 per unit, purchase price. M&T’s Matthew Hodson arranged a $17.1 million Fannie Mae Multifamily Affordable... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Large Bank/Bond Financing
Ziegler closed a huge financing package for HumanGood California Obligated Group to take out outstanding debt, advance refund other previous bond series and fund various campus improvements across the 14 CCRCs owned and operated by the Obligated Group in California. Altogether, the bank capital totaled $125 million. There were $15.48 million in Series 2020A revenue and refunding bonds that refinanced an existing tax-exempt bank placement and came with a commitment period of 16 years, matching the previous placement. The Obligated Group received a variable rate based on 79% of one-month LIBOR plus a bank spread and also entered into an interest rate cap with a strike price of... Read More »
Is The Election Over Yet?
No matter who wins, there will be violence and we still have not dealt with Social Security and Medicare. Pathetic. Unfortunately, I am writing this just after I voted today, but before we will know the outcome for the White House and the Senate. I think it is a safe bet that the House will remain where it is, more or less. It was the first time I have ever had to wait in line, 30 minutes. I have now voted in 12 presidential elections, and I am sad to say that I voted for the winner in just four of them, with one still unknown. Not a good track record, or am I out of step with the rest of the country? Perhaps, but I don’t like to think so. But in those 12 elections, this is the first time... Read More »
The “Post-COVID” Assisted Living M&A Market Takes Shape
It is safe to say the senior care M&A market in 2020 is quite different from that of 2019, in terms of the number of acquisitions closed, the values for senior care properties and perhaps most importantly, the types of properties actually put up for sale. Value-add and distressed communities have so far dominated the market since the onset of COVID-19, as owners of newer, stabilized communities are largely sitting on the sidelines to wait for a seller’s market again. Who knows when that will happen? Assisted living communities have been hit hard across the board, census-wise and with cash flow too. As a result, we have seen the sales of many struggling communities, which brought... Read More »Schedule a demo
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