• 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 »
Another Major SNF Acquisition Closes

Another Major SNF Acquisition Closes

When it rains, it pours, we suppose. Last week, Eagle Arc Partners acquired a portfolio of 20 skilled nursing facilities in the Southeast, the largest SNF deal that we had seen for some time. Just a day later, Evans Senior Investments announced that it handled the sale of 21 skilled nursing facilities across three separate transactions in three Midwest states. The combined purchase price for the portfolio was $86 million, or around $54,000 per functional bed.  Eleven of the facilities are located in Indiana and combined for 751 licensed skilled nursing beds (692 functional beds) and 109 senior living units. At the time of marketing, average occupancy was around 78%, with total revenues... Read More »
Keybank Finances Renovation of Senior Apartment Community

Keybank Finances Renovation of Senior Apartment Community

KeyBank Real Estate Capital and KeyBanc Capital Markets worked on behalf of National Church Residences to secure acquisition financing for the not-for-profit’s renovation of an affordable senior apartment community in Cleveland, Ohio. Built in 1976, the community sits on two acres next to the Cleveland Clinic. It features 12 stories and 171 total Section 8 units, which came in one- or two-bedroom configurations. National Church Residences’ renovation project will preserve the building as affordable housing in the long term.  So, KeyBank provided $14 million in HUD construction financing, with a 40-year term, and also sold $17 million of required tax-exempt bonds. In addition, KeyBank... Read More »
CIBC Bank Funds Indiana SNF Acquisition

CIBC Bank Funds Indiana SNF Acquisition

CIBC Bank USA facilitated acquisition financing for a regional operator’s purchase of 11 senior care facilities in Indiana. If this deal sounds familiar, that’s because it is part of the larger 21-facility portfolio sale announced by Evans Senior Investments last week. Matthew Tyler and Daniela Miranda of CIBC closed the $51.2 million loan for a regional operator, which purchased the facilities from a local operator. The loan comes with a five-year term on the real estate, and a $5.0 million revolving line of credit was provided to support working capital needs.  The portfolio consists of 751 skilled nursing beds and 109 assisted living units. Those 11 facilities have an effective... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending November 13, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deal Chart, Week Ending November 13, 2020

Senior care M&A seems to be picking up, with a couple of large skilled nursing portfolio deals announced. Check out our recent deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice CareTrust REITApple Rehab Cooney & Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation$16.5 million Omega Healthcare Investors7 skilled nursing facilities in VAN/A Radiant Senior Living3 seniors housing communitiesN/A 2 regional owner/operators21 skilled nursing$86... Read More »
Eagle Arc Partners Acquires 20 Skilled Nursing Facilities

Eagle Arc Partners Acquires 20 Skilled Nursing Facilities

Eagle Arc Partners, formerly known as BM Eagle Holdings, has made yet another large investment in the skilled nursing industry, acquiring 20 skilled nursing facilities, with 18 in Florida and one each in Mississippi and Georgia. All will be leased to local operators going forward.   To fund the deal, Eagle Arc, which is run by Elliott Mandelbaum, worked with Capital Funding Group (CFG) to close a $317.5 million bridge-to-HUD financing package. CFG provided the financing through its new credit venture, CFG Credit Partners, LLC, an off-balance sheet credit venture managed by CFG Asset Management.   The new venture expands the company’s bridge-to-HUD lending capacity, a welcome sign... Read More »
The Pennant Group Swinging For The Pennant

The Pennant Group Swinging For The Pennant

We don’t know what is in the water out west (well, yes, we do) that makes The Pennant Group and its former parent, The Ensign Group, so successful. As readers know, Ensign returned the federal CARES Act funds they had received and posted another good quarter. Taking in COVID patients at its nursing facilities, and the higher rates that come with that, certainly helped.   But the spin-off Pennant Group also had a solid quarter, when its seniors housing friends did not fare as well. But Pennant’s home health and hospice business performed quite well, as did most of that sector, benefitting from the desire to be treated at home when institutional care seemed a... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Sentara Healthcare’s SNF Exit

Blueprint Handles Sentara Healthcare’s SNF Exit

We covered Virginia-based hospital system Sentara Healthcare’s exit from the skilled nursing business in September and recently learned of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ involvement in the deal. Sentara’s exit was brought about because of its planned merger with North Carolina-based Cone Health; however, the combined business will still maintain two PACE facilities in southeastern Virginia.   The skilled nursing portfolio consists of seven facilities located throughout southern Virginia, with five surrounding the Norfolk/Virginia Beach market. They were mostly built in the late-1980s and early 1990s, with one opening more recently in 2017. They range in size from 84 beds to 216... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Refinances Phoenix CCRC

Cushman & Wakefield Refinances Phoenix CCRC

Several years after financing the acquisition of a CCRC in Phoenix, Arizona, Cushman & Wakefield is returning to refinance the property in a $13 million deal. Featuring a total of 327 units, made up of 100 independent living units, 171 assisted living units, 29 memory care beds and 60 skilled nursing beds, the community is set on a 14-acre campus in northern Phoenix.   A joint venture between an affiliate of Westport Capital Partners LLC and Integro Healthcare Consulting, LLC acquired it in 2017 for an undisclosed sum, with the help of a $15.1 million financing commitment from PNC Bank and arranged by Cushman & Wakefield. The debt also helped fund immediate renovations and a... Read More »
Ziegler Structures Debt For Radiant Senior Living Acquisition

Ziegler Structures Debt For Radiant Senior Living Acquisition

Ziegler served as exclusive capital structuring advisor on a debt placement for the borrower, Radiant Senior Living, to acquire a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the Pacific Northwest. Two of the properties are located near Seattle, Washington, while the third is in Bozeman, Montana.   Previously owned by a publicly traded REIT, they combine for 36 independent living and 204 assisted living units and generate in-place, stabilized cash flow. However, there is an opportunity to add value through economies of scale, which suits Radiant and its 18-property portfolio in the Pacific Northwest.  The $42.6 million in financing consisted of both senior and mezzanine debt,... Read More »
Valuing SNFs During The Pandemic

Valuing SNFs During The Pandemic

With occupancy at historic lows, and expenses in flux, it has been difficult to value nursing homes in today’s market. But it is happening every day despite the uncertainty. With occupancy still in turmoil and many nursing homes reliant on federal aid to pay the bills, it must be quite difficult to underwrite and value individual nursing facilities, let alone a portfolio of them. But it is happening every day.  What assumptions do you make for occupancy, and census mix? What is a normalized level of PPE expenses, and will this be indefinite? And then you have labor costs and supply. With a Biden/Harris administration, is a $15 national minimum wage around the corner, and will... Read More »
SLIB Handles CBRF Sale in Wisconsin

SLIB Handles CBRF Sale in Wisconsin

Ryan Saul and Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a 50-unit assisted living community in Racine, Wisconsin, five years after the community last sold. The buyer back then (and the current seller) was Meridian Senior Living and its joint venture partner Blue Vista Capital. They paid $6.5 million, or $130,000 per unit, for the community, although we do not know the 2020 sale price.  Originally built in the 1960s but gutted, renovated and converted to a Community-Based Residential Facility (assisted living community) in 2008, the community was around 94% occupied at the time of the November 2015 sale. The operating margin also stood at 25% at that time,... Read More »