• 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 »
CIBC Finances New Jersey SNF Acquisition

CIBC Finances New Jersey SNF Acquisition

There was another acquisition financing closed by CIBC Bank USA, following the bank’s funding of an Indiana skilled nursing portfolio acquisition and cash-out refinance of a SNF in eastern Kentucky earlier this month. The recent transaction was arranged for a 55-bed skilled nursing facility in northeastern New Jersey. With an effective age of 10 years and occupancy in the 90% range, the facility was operating strongly at EBITDAR margins around 15%. That makes for quite a desirable acquisition.  So, a local operator that had been leasing the facility bought it for an undisclosed price but utilizing a $6.3 million acquisition loan from CIBC. As a result of the... Read More »
Benchmark Senior Living Acquires New Hampshire Seacoast Senior Living

Benchmark Senior Living Acquires New Hampshire Seacoast Senior Living

Benchmark Senior Living added to its Northeast portfolio with the acquisition of an assisted living community that has been in operation in Rye, New Hampshire for over 20 years. The property last sold in 2017, when EvoLve Senior Living acquired it for $12 million, or $300,000 per unit, with the help of a $10 million mortgage provided by National Health Investors. That loan featured an initial term of five years with renewal options and an interest rate of 8.0%, which NHI funded from its revolving credit facility.   Built in 2013, it features 40 units with 64 licensed beds of memory care. It was developed by Sanctuary Care for approximately $13 million and is licensed for 64 beds. However,... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 20, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 20, 2020

Another week, another couple of skilled nursing portfolio deals (plus a few others). Check out our recent senior care M&A deal chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice CareTrust REIT4 skilled nursing facilities in TX$47.6 million Priority Healthcare Group5 skilled nursing facilities in VT$46.6 million United Church Homes, Inc.Harbor Woods Living at Brunswick & Harbor Woods Living at NilesN/A Benchmark Senior LivingEvoLve at... Read More »
The New Skilled Nursing Investment Landscape

The New Skilled Nursing Investment Landscape

How have skilled nursing valuations changed, and when (if ever) will we get back to normal? Those were a couple of key questions in our November 19th webinar titled “Valuing SNFs During The Pandemic.” Our Managing Editor, Steve Monroe, hosted a panel with panelists Laca Wong-Hammond, Managing Director of M&A at Lument, Dan Booth, Chief Operating Officer of Omega Healthcare Investors, and David Reis, Chief Executive Officer of Senior Care Development, in which they discussed a range of topics on how the skilled nursing M&A market has been affected by COVID-19. Another question may be how has the business not changed?  First, looking... Read More »
Merrill Commercial Real Estate Closes Another Oregon Transaction

Merrill Commercial Real Estate Closes Another Oregon Transaction

The second property in the receivership sale of a four-facility portfolio in Oregon has sold, with Mike Merrill of Merrill Commercial Real Estate representing the receiver in the deal. This transaction involved a 69-unit independent living community in North Bend, near Coos Bay where the first property of the portfolio sold in August (handled by Tyler Merrill). In fact, the four properties represented a continuum of care for the local area.   The North Bend community was built in 1986 and its census steadily improved throughout due diligence to reach 80% at the time of the sale. It was bringing in around $340,000 in NOI on approximately $1.74 million of trailing 12-month revenues... Read More »
Harborview Arranges Bridge Financing

Harborview Arranges Bridge Financing

Harborview Capital Partners arranged a bridge-to-HUD loan for a seniors housing community in Oregon. The property consists of 55 beds of assisted living and memory care. It received a $10.275 million loan, which comes out to $186,800 per bed.   The loan features a 24-month, interest-only term, with a historically low rate. We know the demand for that sort of relatively cheap debt is out there, but the supply has been hit somewhat by the heightened caution surrounding the pandemic. Eli Osdoba of Harborview originated the transaction.  Read More »
Another Bank Bond Financing From Ziegler

Another Bank Bond Financing From Ziegler

The bank bond financings keep coming from Ziegler, which recently closed another one on behalf of Presbyterian Village North located in Dallas, Texas. The not-for-profit CCRC was originally built in 2007 and now includes 89 buildings with 253 independent living units, 101 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a skilled nursing facility with 106 operating beds and 172 licensed beds, all on a 66-acre campus.   Its sponsor is Presbyterian Communities and Services, Inc., d/b/a Forefront Living, which is planning an expansion project that will include 112 independent living units in a new five-story building, in addition to renovations to the existing campus common... Read More »
Where Are The Gray Panthers?

Where Are The Gray Panthers?

Seniors in and out of seniors housing communities need to mobilize, and AARP has not been doing its job representing their members. Where are the Gray Panthers when you need them? Many of you may not remember this 1970s activist group that got its start when someone really objected to forced retirement at 65. This was a full 50 years ago today. As winter approaches and senior living providers prepare for another round of potential shutdowns, lockdowns, admission and tour bans because this pandemic is not going away, when will our senior citizens rise up and revolt? Senior living communities are “their” homes, and it is about time they stood up and said, hands off our homes. Yes, we... Read More »
Welltower Provides Update Amid COVID Spread

Welltower Provides Update Amid COVID Spread

Once again, we are not picking on Welltower, but as the largest healthcare REIT, and the one with the largest seniors housing owned portfolio (or SHOP/RIDEA), we believe they represent a pretty decent proxy as to what is happening.   Occupancy in its SHOP portfolio has been steadily declining since February, but the rate of decline seemed to be abating. Gone are the days of 100+ basis point monthly drops, but October was the first month where the rate of decline (-40 basis points) actually increased since April. Month to date in November, it has already dropped by another 30 basis points (to 77.7%), so if that trend continues, we could see November at a 50-basis point... Read More »
Private Equity Investor Acquires Dallas Seniors Housing Community

Private Equity Investor Acquires Dallas Seniors Housing Community

Joshua Salzman, Michael Segal and Alex Florea of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented a REIT in its divestment of a 170-unit seniors housing community in Dallas, Texas. Originally built in 1987, community received a thorough renovation in 2013 and additional capital improvements since 2016.   Following a previous operator transition, the REIT owner converted the remaining assisted living units to independent living, resulting in the community being fully focused on independent living. Occupancy had initially dropped after the conversion, but the community was repositioned as an affordable independent living option, and census steadily improved as a... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Reports Active Month

Meridian Capital Group Reports Active Month

The last month has seen the team at Meridian Capital Group close $672.4 million in transaction volume across 56 total properties. Comprising both financings and investment sales, that’s some impressive action. The Meridian team for these transactions comprised Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch and David Gottlieb.  First, Meridian handled the sale of five skilled nursing facilities and 527 beds in Vermont for $46.6 million, or $88,400 per bed. Gleaned from local news reports, the seller was Genesis HealthCare. Four years ago, the large provider acquired the Vermont portfolio for $39 million from Revera, Inc. Located in Bennington,... Read More »