• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »
JLL Handles Healthpeak’s SHOP Sale

JLL Handles Healthpeak’s SHOP Sale

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of JLL Capital Markets announced their involvement in Healthpeak Properties’ sale of 16 of its SHOP communities operated by several provider partners. White Oak Healthcare REIT joint ventured with Discovery Senior Living to acquire the portfolio for $230 million, or roughly $128,000 per unit. However, Healthpeak didn’t exit entirely, providing the buyer with $150 million in financing to fund the deal.    With 14 locations in Texas and one each in North Carolina and New Mexico, the communities totaled around 1,800 units of assisted living and independent living, split between majority- or all-IL... Read More »
LCS’ Westchester Development Hits 60% Presales

LCS’ Westchester Development Hits 60% Presales

A massive independent living development in the works on the campus of Purchase College SUNY in Purchase, New York is already 60% presold. And the ground has yet to be broken. Set on a 40-acre neighborhood, the development is expected to cost around $320 million. That’s nearly $1.5 million per unit. This isn’t Manhattan real estate, but building on a college campus in Westchester County must come at a cost.   It was originally conceived back in 2008, when the state legislature approved a plan for the college to lease some of its land for senior living purposes. The governor at the time, David Paterson, vetoed the bill, but current Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law in... Read More »
Greystone Refinances Indiana CCRC

Greystone Refinances Indiana CCRC

A not-for-profit CCRC in Elkhart, Indiana received a HUD refinance courtesy of Greystone. Lisa Fischman originated the $23.9 million loan, which came with a 30-year term and amortization. Bringing on the refinance was a recent expansion of the 220-unit property that offers independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, short-term rehab services and, most recently, memory care services.   The community was founded in 1977 and features amenities such as a wellness center, chapel, two restaurant-style dining venues and a two-acre landscaped park. The new memory care expansion comprises four houses, with nine units in each, all surrounding a central atrium.  There was a previous... Read More »
Avanath Capital Management Moves Into Orange County

Avanath Capital Management Moves Into Orange County

Avanath Capital Management, an investment firm that acquires, owns, renovates and operates affordable housing across the country, added another property to its portfolio in California, and its first in Orange County.   Originally built in 1959 in the town of Garden Grove, the target features 85 units in four stories. It is located adjacent to the Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center, and that probably helps the property’s popularity, as it has been consistently 100% occupied. The seller, Los Angeles-based Meta Housing, originally developed the building but has now sold it for $19.85 million, or $233,500 per unit.  Read More »
Fairstead Acquires Naples Senior Community

Fairstead Acquires Naples Senior Community

Fully-integrated real estate firm Fairstead secured several sources of financing to fund its purchase of a 250-unit affordable senior apartment community in Naples, Florida. Chicago-based developer Full Circle Communities sold the 45-year-old community for $59.5 million, or $238,000 per unit.   Currently, there are a variety of supportive services including health and wellness programs, on-site meals, van transportation to doctor’s appointments, pharmacy visits, education programs and other activities. Fairstead is also planning a $25 million renovation of the property, which will include improvements made to common areas and every residential unit, with a... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending February 12, 2021

Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending February 12, 2021

The senior care M&A market keeps chugging along, here is our most recent deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Private investorSachem Adult Home & South Bay Adult Home$9.0 million Avanath Capital ManagementThe Grove Senior Apartments$19.85 million Hill Valley Healthcare3 skilled nursing facilitiesN/A Tryko Partners, LLCRegina Community Nursing... Read More »
SLIB Sells Two More ALPs in New York

SLIB Sells Two More ALPs in New York

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Dave Balow has been crisscrossing the state of New York lately, selling an upstate ALP (Assisted Living Program) facility last week and represented the seller of two ALP facilities just this week on Long Island. CIBC Bank USA also provided $6.75 million in acquisition financing to support the purchase. CIBC’s Fritz Kieckhefer arranged the debt.  Located in Holbrook and Center Moriches, the two properties combine for 85 beds in 46 units. The private seller had owned them for over 40 years and was able to produce consistently strong cash flow over the years. In fact, it operated at a roughly 40% margin on more than $2.56 million... Read More »

Tryko Partners Adds Pennsylvania SNF to Portfolio

Tryko Partners acquired a 121-bed skilled nursing facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the greater Philadelphia region and is planning a significant capital investment project to the 40-year-old building. Set on five acres, the four-star facility is located about 12 miles from downtown Philadelphia and is within a 10-mile radius of nine short-term acute-care hospitals. It had been previously owned by a faith-based not-for-profit for 50 years, and Timothy Bonjo has been the facility’s administrator for 36 years. It’s not often you see that kind of tenure in this industry.   Planned upgrades to the three-story building, which should cost around $2.5 million,... Read More »
Hill Valley Healthcare Announces Tidewater Transaction

Hill Valley Healthcare Announces Tidewater Transaction

The team at Meridian Capital Group consisting of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson secured acquisition financing for a portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities in Virginia.   Located along the Chesapeake Bay coast in Warsaw, West Point and Hampton, the facilities feature 80, 60 and 130 beds, respectively. Built between 1975 and 2001, they were all previously owned and operated by Riverside Health System, a not-for-profit based in Newport News, Virginia. Hill Valley Healthcare, a national skilled nursing operator, was able to acquire the facilities with the help of a $21.7 million loan from a commercial bank, plus a $3.5 million A/R line and... Read More »
Boosting Your Census Now

Boosting Your Census Now

Occupancy levels continue to decline, yet demand seems to be increasing as customers are coming back to take a look. There is a disconnect between the seller and the buyer that needs to be fixed now. The public companies are about to start releasing their earnings and census reports, and it may not be pretty. But, it does not have to stay that way. My gut tells me that a lot of sales staff have been blaming the virus on their inability to sell and fill units. Makes sense, right? But what if how they are selling, and communicating, or not communicating with customers, is the real problem?  Do you think management and salespeople have adapted to the new environment, the new mentality of... Read More »
Healthpeak Properties Completes More Sales

Healthpeak Properties Completes More Sales

As the healthcare REITs start their quarterly reporting season, of course all eyes will be on the occupancy trend, which for most of them will not be so great. But one aspect about what is happening, and often little noticed, is that the news is showing that the demand for seniors housing assets is still quite strong, pandemic be damned.   Obviously, Healthpeak Properties would rather not be selling off its seniors housing portfolios, especially if they had been performing well, since in years past they provided the highest yield to support the REIT’s dividend and growth. But performance had suffered, and the decision was made to sell. No one is crying for them,... Read More »