• Knapp-Stahler Handles Receivership Sale in Utah

    After a prolonged receivership process, an assisted living/memory care community in Sandy, Utah, successfully sold with the help of Chad Mundy and Nick Stahler of The Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap. Built around 2000, the community features an assisted living component with 44 units and 58 licensed beds plus a memory care community... Read More »
  • Green Courte Acquires Active Adult Community

    CBRE National Senior Housing acted as the exclusive advisor on the sale and debt placement of 55 Resort at Water Valley, a 120-unit active-adult community in Windsor, Colorado, just north of Denver. John Sweeny and Aron Will represented the seller, while Will and Adam Mincberg originated a 10-year fixed-rate loan through CBRE’s Fannie Mae DUS... Read More »
  • Ziegler Works on Financings for Two Not-For-Profits

    Ziegler worked on two financings for separate not-for-profits. First, Ziegler closed $39.24 million Series 2025 tax-exempt, fixed rate bonds for Bethesda Senior Living Communities (BSLC). The bonds were issued through the Colorado Health Facilities Authority. It has been seven years since its last financing in 2018.  BSLC and its parent... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Florida to Expand Relationship with SRI

    Ventas acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Jacksonville, Florida, in partnership with SRI Management as the operating company. The deal is an expansion of the relationship between the REIT and the Tallahassee-based operator. Brad Clousing, Dan Geraghty and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction... Read More »
  • IRA Capital Buys San Diego Community

    Ziegler served as exclusive financial advisor in the successful sale of St. Paul’s Plaza, a 155-unit seniors housing community located in Chula Vista, California. The seller was St. Paul’s Senior Services, a not-for-profit organization that was looking to expand in PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) as well as provide more... Read More »
Two REITs Close Couple of Loans

Two REITs Close Couple of Loans

A couple of REITs in good financial shape (and still open to making new investments) announced a couple of loans closed for senior care facilities. CareTrust REIT completed a $15 million secured mezzanine loan for Next Healthcare’s acquisition of a nine-property skilled nursing portfolio with approximately 1,000 beds in Virginia. The loan came with a five-year term and annual interest rate of 12%, with CareTrust funding it from its $600 million unsecured revolving credit facility. White Oak Healthcare Finance was the senior lender on the deal. Then, National Health Investors funded a $22.2 million construction loan for the development of a 110-unit senior living community in Sussex,... Read More »
Colliers International Handles Two Transactions

Colliers International Handles Two Transactions

Colliers International has been busy this week, closing the sale of a Section 8 senior apartment community in New Jersey and also a trio of HUD mortgages for three market-rate senior co-ops in the Midwest. First, to the sale. Colliers represented Squiretown Properties LLC in its disposition of a 405-unit community in this Newark suburb of East Orange. Built in 1980, but with no major renovations since then, the community’s affordability status was set to expire in 10 years. However, a partnership between Community Preservation Partners and L+M Development Partners has extended that to 30-years with their acquisition of the community. The purchase price totaled $94 million, or $232,100 per... Read More »
National HealthCare Corporation Divests St. Louis-Area SNF

National HealthCare Corporation Divests St. Louis-Area SNF

After an attempt to replace its 282-bed skilled nursing facility in Town and Country, Missouri (St. Louis MSA) with a senior living community, and then running into zoning and planning problems earlier this year, National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) decided to sell the facility instead to a St. Louis-based owner/operator. Census challenges and quality of care issues plagued the SNF for several years.   Like so many facilities across the country, this was also an older property (built in 1962). So, NHC worked with Ryan Companies to develop a new 187-unit senior living community which would feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The cost was estimated to be... Read More »
Virginia SNF Sells With Monticello Financing

Virginia SNF Sells With Monticello Financing

MONTICELLOAM, LLC (Monticello) has provided $42.08 million in first lien debt to support the acquisition of a large skilled nursing facility in Virginia. The buyer was an experienced owner/operator that has previously worked with Monticello, including the funding of several other skilled nursing acquisitions in 2020. Monticello also provided a $3.5 million working capital loan to the facility’s operating company.  Read More »
An Interview with Hamilton Insurance

An Interview with Hamilton Insurance

Nearly 20 years ago, the insurance industry faced a major crisis as many insurers removed themselves from the general liability market, leaving providers naked from a coverage perspective. As a result, entire portfolios were sold off due to overpriced liability coverage and its lack of availability.   We sat down with Keith Parnell and Jason Zuccari of Hamilton Insurance Agency to discuss the state of the market as the pandemic looms over the country. Hamilton is a family-owned operation and one of the nation’s largest independent insurance brokerage firms that has specialized in the senior housing and long-term care space for more than 40... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 26, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 26, 2020

It was a short week, but there were still a number of senior care deals announced. Here’s our latest deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice In-state provider & Large national owner-operator4 skilled nursing facilities in TXN/A Owner/operatorSkilled nursing facility in VA$42.1 million+ Local operatorSkilled nursing facility in NJN/A Commonwealth Senior LivingCedar Manor Assisted LivingN/A SRZ ManagementNHC Healthcare Town &... Read More »
South Florida CCRC Funds Multi-Phase Expansion Project

South Florida CCRC Funds Multi-Phase Expansion Project

HJ Sims secured long-term, fixed-rate bond financing for a CCRC in Pompano Beach, Florida (Fort Lauderdale MSA). Set on 70 acres, not-for-profit John Knox Village has been serving the local community for more than 50 years. It features nearly 1,000 units of mostly independent living, with a 64-unit assisted living community and a 194-bed skilled nursing facility.   It is continuing to grow, with a $3.9 million welcome center with sales, marketing and discovery rooms, in addition to conference rooms and a nearly 2,500-square foot open-air space for communal gatherings, going up this spring. A massive aquatic center is replacing a small pool area with a resort-style... Read More »
Virginia SNF Sells With Monticello Financing

Regions Banks Secures Balance Sheet Loans

Regions Bank announced a couple of balance sheet refinances for senior care clients. The first was closed for an 84-unit assisted living/memory care community in the suburbs of Honolulu, Hawaii, and we hope a site visit (or two) was required. Developed in 2016 by a large, senior living owner/operator based in southern California, the community was about 92% occupied at closing.   It received a $29 million non-recourse balance sheet loan, which comes out to approximately $297,000 per unit, to repay an existing HUD loan and provide low leverage loan proceeds for an adjacent land parcel. It came with a floating rate and initial term of three years, plus an interest-only period... Read More »
Commonwealth Senior Living Adds to Dominion State Portfolio

Commonwealth Senior Living Adds to Dominion State Portfolio

Commonwealth Senior Living expanded its Virginia portfolio with the addition of a 72-unit senior living community in Chesapeake, located near the North Carolina border. This represents the 27th community in Virginia for Commonwealth and 33rd overall in its portfolio. There are eight communities in the Norfolk MSA, so the company should be able to take advantage of some economies of scale.  Chesapeake Regional Healthcare built the property in 2001, and it currently features 60 assisted living and 12 memory care units. However, Commonwealth will immediately begin renovations to the building, expand its capacity to 68 assisted living and 32 memory care beds, and rebrand the property as... Read More »
Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing

Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing

Ziegler has been on a roll lately, closing one bank bond financing after another for CCRC clients across the country. Its latest closing, working with Truist and Hancock Whitney, was for a not-for-profit CCRC in Fort Myers, Florida.   Founded in 1995, the community has grown over the years to include 333 independent living units, 44 IL villas, 44 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a 64-bed/unit skilled nursing facility. It sits adjacent to HealthPark Medical Center and close to both Estero Bay Preserve State Park and Fort Myers Beach.  To replace outstanding debt, reimburse and fund certain capital expenditures and fund a debt service reserve... Read More »
Being Thankful In A Bummer Year

Being Thankful In A Bummer Year

With a pandemic and too many other problems, it is hard to be thankful at the end of 2020. But there are reasons to be. There is no question, it has been a bummer of a year on many fronts. Without trying to be too cute, however, there are many things to be thankful for in this year of trauma. First of all, if you are reading this, you are alive, and presumably well, so that is a good start. You are not in a hospital on a ventilator at death’s door where far too many have been this year. You still have a job when so many are without.  Hopefully, you have not lost a family member to COVID, or a close friend, which we can be thankful for. But I am sure many of you have lost residents and... Read More »