• Stand-Alone MC Community Trades in Arizona

    Blueprint represented an institutional seller in the sale of its stand-alone memory care community in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona MSA. Built in 2009, the asset features 48 units with 60 beds and received approximately $2 million in recent capital improvements. There is opportunity for occupancy growth and rental rate optimization. ... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Its Acquisition Streak

    Clarion Partners continued on its acquisition streak, adding two communities in California to its growing portfolio. The latest deal featured The Commons on Thornton and The Commons at Union Ranch, two seniors housing communities totaling 198 units in California’s Central Valley. They were previously owned and operated by MBK Senior Living, which... Read More »
  • Multiple Senior Care Acquisition Financings Close

    M&A transactions are getting done at a near-historic pace, and CIBC Bank USA recently financed three deals. The largest was $43.3 million in acquisition financing for two senior care assets in the Nashville area of Tennessee. The properties include a combined 310 independent living units, 273 skilled nursing beds and 93 assisted living/memory... Read More »
  • Olympus Retirement Living Expands

    The Zett Group closed the sale of a 63-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Boise, Idaho market. Set in the town of Emmett, Meadow View Senior Living was trending positively in its operations, but there was still some work to be done. An owner/operator engaged Blake Bozett and Spud Batt to sell the community to an undisclosed buyer.... Read More »
  • Large Senior Care Portfolio Trades Hands

    A portfolio comprising senior care assets across Washington State recently sold with the help of JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage. At first, only one of the assets was brought to market, but an offer emerged for the entire nine-facility portfolio. The price for the skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses ranged... Read More »
Knapp-Stahler Group Closes Sale in Northern California

Knapp-Stahler Group Closes Sale in Northern California

Nick Stahler and Justin Knapp of Marcus & Millichap’s Knapp-Stahler Group recently closed the sale of a 57-unit assisted living/memory care community in rural Northern California. The community struggled through the pandemic, like many other senior care businesses, but it also found itself in a declining demographic market before the pandemic.   Owned by a public REIT, the community was leased by a regional operator from its inception. A seasoned regional owner/operator bought it and has plans to complete significant capital upgrades and expand the property with affordable housing units.  Read More »
HJ Sims Arranges Financing for Two Pennsylvania Communities

HJ Sims Arranges Financing for Two Pennsylvania Communities

HJ Sims arranged two financings for Landis Communities in Lititz, Pennsylvania. The first was $25 million for Landis Place on King, a to-be-built affordable housing project, and the second was $53 million for Landis Homes Retirement Community (LHRC), which operates a CCRC.   Landis Place on King will contain 79 units, with Orrstown Bank providing draw-down capital financing for the property, with a 15-year commitment. There is a 30-year amortization period and a fixed rate of 2.35% for the first 10 years of the 15-year commitment.  LHRC serves 850 residents currently as of 2021 across residential, personal care, memory support and skilled nursing units. It refinanced three... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Atlanta CCRC

Ziegler Closes Financing for Atlanta CCRC

Ziegler closed $124.8 million in Series 2021A/B fixed-rate bonds and $45,800,000 in Series 2021C Direct Bank Bonds for an Atlanta, Georgia-area CCRC. Opened in the early 1960s, Canterbury Court is a CCRC located in the Buckhead-Brookhaven neighborhood. It was started by the All Saints Episcopal Church and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church when they noticed a need for “persons of mature years to live in comfort, with a secure future.” Since opening its doors in 1965, Canterbury Court has grown to include 187 independent living units, 18 personal care (assisted living) units and 42 skilled nursing beds. It is undergoing a major expansion project that will replace the existing healthcare... Read More »
NIC Data Shows Slow Occupancy Recovery

NIC Data Shows Slow Occupancy Recovery

According to most recent aggregated NIC data, occupancy in the third quarter rose to 80.1%, after having stagnated in the previous two quarters at 78.7%. It’s great to see this positive movement, but we are still a long way away from pre-pandemic occupancy levels, and we would have hoped to see more growth heading into the holiday and flu season. This average is also not an indicator of how other institutional operators and REITs are performing, or the industry as a whole, but there are just no other comprehensive sector-wide statistics out there. As we reported last month, Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. disclosed a 716-basis point increase in occupancy between February and July 2021. Senior... Read More »
SLIB Handles Two Transactions in Oregon

SLIB Handles Two Transactions in Oregon

Senior Living Investment Brokerage closed a slew of sales at the end of September, including two in Oregon. Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito worked on behalf of a local ownership group in Oregon to sell their only two seniors housing properties. There was an 87-unit independent/assisted living community in Grants Pass and a 61-unit AL community in Medford. Both were built in the early 2000s and were around 87.5% occupied. Combined EBITDAR totaled $1.44 million on about $6.77 million of revenues, resulting in a margin around 21%. An Oregon-based owner/operator purchased the communities for $17 million, or $114,900 per unit, at an 8.5% cap rate. Messrs. Punzel, Goodsell and... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Louisiana SNF

Evans Senior Investments Sells Louisiana SNF

An owner/operator is exiting the long-term care industry with the sale of its 189-bed skilled nursing facility in Lafayette, Louisiana. Selling for $30 million, or $159,000 per bed, this transaction represents the highest per-bed price ever in the state of Louisiana, according to our M&A database, LevinPro LTC. Evans Senior Investments handled the transaction. Built in 1992 and expanded/renovated in 2009 and 2012, the facility has a modern physical plant with 125 private rooms and 32 semiprivate units. Historically, it has been well occupied between 93% and 95%, with a quality mix of 26%. Before the pandemic, in FY2019, the facility generated $14.7 million in revenues, but operations... Read More »
Ziegler Finances Community Expansion Project in Arizona

Ziegler Finances Community Expansion Project in Arizona

Ziegler closed a large bond financing for Friendship Village of Tempe to refinance its Series 2012 bonds and fund an expansion project known as Phase II of the campus’ master plan. Totaling $104.135 million, the bonds consist of A, B and C bonds issued through the Industrial Development Authority of the City of Tempe, Arizona. The A and B bonds are non-rated, tax-exempt, fixed-rate serial and term bonds that amortize over 35 years. They will also wrap around the Series 2019 bonds to create aggregate-level annual debt service. The Series 2021C-1 and C-2 Bonds are non-rated, tax-exempt short-term TEMPS-85SM and TEMPS-60SM Bonds, expected to be redeemed with initial entrance fees of the... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Financing for Atlanta CCRC

MidCap Closes Acquisition Loan for Community in Georgia

MidCap Financial announced the closing of an acquisition loan for a 92-unit assisted living/memory care community on St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. We learned of the deal at the end of September when Newmark disclosed its involvement as the broker representing the seller, a joint venture between AIG Global Real Estate and Thrive Senior Living (also the operator) that had originally developed the property in 2015. Occupancy had fluctuated between 50% and 70% in the last several years, with some key employee turnover prior to COVID contributing to the sub-par census. Winterpast Capital Partners, its affiliate Vitality Living and Broadview Real Estate Partners acquired the property, with... Read More »
The Battle Continues for Capital Senior Living

The Battle Continues for Capital Senior Living

The saga continues for Capital Senior Living. Days after CSU announced that it had entered into an amended and restated agreement with Conversant Capital, a vocal opponent to the deal (and 12.7% stockholder of CSU) Ortelius Advisors, L.P. issued a letter to stockholders urging them to vote against the amended transactions at the October 22 special meeting. Ortelius made it clear that they thought the CSU Board’s deals with Conversant have been flawed from Day One. They called it exceedingly costly, highly dilutive, and only stood to benefit a few parties, including management, two large investors (Arbiter and Silk) and Conversant. Let’s get to the details. First, Ortelius made clear that... Read More »
Eclipse Senior Living Is Closing

Eclipse Senior Living Is Closing

Eclipse Senior Living will soon be no more, as the company, which was founded in 2017, stated that it plans to permanently shut down its operation, effective (if it goes according to plan) by the end of the first quarter of 2022. Ventas owns a 34% stake in the company and announced that it plans to transition the operations of its 90 communities managed by Eclipse to other providers. In perhaps another way of saying “good riddance,” the REIT stated that the communities “were not contributors to [Ventas’] overall NOI or its SHOP NOI in the second quarter 2021.” Ventas expects to incur certain one-time transition costs as it moves the communities to eight new operators.  This will end... Read More »
SLIB Handles Sale of Three Communities

SLIB Handles Sale of Three Communities

Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated two sales at the end of September in Missouri and Kansas.  The first, handled by Jack Kemper and Jeff Binder, is for the sale of two sister residential care (assisted living) properties in Kennett, Missouri for $7.5 million. The two communities were fully occupied in 2020, with The Haven participating in the Department of Mental Health network of facilities, allowing it to always maintain nearly-full census. The Haven was built in 2011, while its affordable sister property Southaven, was constructed in 2005.  The communities contain a total of 100 beds across 31,500 square feet, with the price-per-bed coming to $75,000. Combined revenues... Read More »