• 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 »
Senior Care Soars

Senior Care Soars

What happened on November 9 was a bit of a shock, but in a good way. Senior care and REIT stocks soared after a year of forgettable foibles. The reason? Pfizer’s announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, and that it could be available very soon, combined with the apparent end of the presidential election with Joe Biden the victor. We believe it was the end of the uncertainty on both accounts that pushed the market up.  For those not paying attention, the Dow Jones Industrial Average at one point during the day hit a record high of 29,933, up 5.68% from the previous close. It ended the day up 2.95%. But it was the senior care market and its related REITs... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges Montana SNF Sale

Walker & Dunlop Arranges Montana SNF Sale

Walker & Dunlop announced its involvement in the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Montana to CareTrust REIT. We recently covered the transaction, which represented CareTrust’s first since the pandemic began earlier this year.   The facilities include Apple Rehab Cooney, an 80-bed facility located on the campus of the St. Peter’s Health Regional Medical Center in Helena, and Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation, a 70-bed facility in nearby Clancy. Eduro Healthcare took over operations.  Using cash on hand, CareTrust paid around $16 million, or $106,700 per bed, for the facilities, inclusive of transaction costs. Tony Cassie and Sam Thompson of Walker & Dunlop... Read More »
CIBC Secures Cash-Out Refinance and Working Capital

CIBC Secures Cash-Out Refinance and Working Capital

Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel of CIBC Bank USA closed a cash-out refinance of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in eastern Kentucky. With an effective age of 20 years, the facility has been managed by a local operator for a number of years. Its historical occupancy hovered around 75%.  Ownership obtained a $13.5 million loan, with a five-year term, on the real estate. In addition, CIBC arranged a $1.0 million revolving line of credit to support working capital needs.  Read More »
Capital Senior Living Continues to Shrink

Capital Senior Living Continues to Shrink

As many of you know, for several years we have been pressing Brookdale Senior Living to reduce its size further than what it has already accomplished. In the meantime, Capital Senior Living is getting smaller by the day, and while we understand why, we certainly hope Brookdale does not go down this somewhat extreme path in size (very doubtful). Cap Senior is now forecasting to be one-half the size it was two years ago, with 60 owned communities and eight managed. The leases will be gone.  During the course of the third quarter, like other operators, Capital Senior Living has been improving its capital structure, shedding unprofitable leases, handing properties over... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Handles Michigan Sale

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Handles Michigan Sale

Hands-off management led to a decline in occupancy at a senior care campus in Bay City, Michigan, and an ensuing sale was handled by Bradley Clousing, Ryan Saul and Joe Young of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The campus consists of a 151-bed skilled nursing facility that was built in 1955 and completely renovated in 2007, and a 38-unit assisted living community added in 2001. The seller was retiring from the family business and exiting the industry after operating in it for more than 50 years.   Regulatory changes, new competition in the market and the health of the remaining family member made operating the asset more difficult in recent years. As such, the SNF was facing occupancy... Read More »
Ventas Reports Third Quarter Results

Ventas Reports Third Quarter Results

Ventas reported its third quarter results, and despite average census dropping below 80% for the first time, it remained on firm financial footing thanks to both federal relief grants and earlier moves to bolster its liquidity.   In fact, Ventas improved its cash NOI from $402 million in the second quarter of 2020 to $545 million in the third quarter. Much of the gain came from its triple-net portfolio and mostly as a result of the agreement made with Brookdale Senior Living to reduce the provider’s annual cash rent to $100 million in return for consideration of approximately $235 million (including $162 million in cash) up-front. All of the $235 million in consideration is being amortized... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 6, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 6, 2020

Senior care M&A continues to chug along, check out our recent chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice NY-based groupCarriage House & Health Care Center & Colonnades Assisted Living$6 million Regional NY-based owner/operatorSpring View Manor$1.125 million Imperial Healthcare GroupMadlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish LifeN/A The Ensign GroupThe Medical Lodge of... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Reports

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 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

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 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 »