Ziegler Refinances Virginia CCRC With Bank Placement
Ziegler announced another bank financing after a spate of recent closings, including a construction financing for a Michigan CCRC, a refinance of a Pennsylvania CCRC and one for a CCRC in Texas, just to name a few. The most recent deal was arranged for Warm Hearth Village, a not-for-profit CCRC in Blacksburg, Virginia that was founded in 1974. It has since grown to 259 independent living units, 55 active adult units, 150 assisted living units and 60 skilled nursing beds on a 220-acre campus. There were nine outstanding direct bank placements with three different banks on the property, so ownership sought to consolidate debt and also fund about $2 million in planned campus... Read More »
Connecticut CCRC Plans Independent Living Expansion
A large not-for-profit CCRC located outside of Hartford, Connecticut is expanding its independent living offering with a $68 million project. Set on a 125-acre campus in the town of Simsbury, the community, owned by McLean Affiliates, currently consists of 88 independent living units split between 48 apartments, 13 villas and 27 cottages. There are also 74 assisted living/memory care units and 89 skilled nursing beds, bringing the total to 251 units/beds across the property. However, the expansion will add 55 new IL apartments while also taking away 12 cottages. The new units will average around 1,242 square feet in size, with monthly fees coming in at about $4,184 on... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending July 17, 2020
Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice The Springs LivingLancaster Village$31.5 million Local owner/operatorSkilled nursing facility in KYN/A Americana SeniorsBrookdale DavisonN/A Regional owner/operatorIndependent living community in... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Three Senior Care Closings
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors previously announced a total of six transactions closing at the end of June and beginning of July, and now the details on a few of those are coming out. Michael Segal and Ben Firestone have now sold every skilled nursing facility in the eastern Kentucky town of Pikeville. Two years ago, the pair sold a 106-bed SNF located near the 250-bed Pikeville Medical Center, representing the publicly traded REIT seller. Earlier this month, they sold the other. Built in 1979 and renovated in 1987, the 120-bed facility features mostly semi-private rooms. It maintained steady occupancy above 90% and generated consistent revenues over $9... Read More »
Grandbridge Finances Florida Assisted Living Sale
Earlier this year, we learned of the sale of an 89-unit assisted living/memory care community in Pensacola, Florida. Now, it has been revealed that Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group arranged the acquisition financing for the deal. Previously owned by CNL Healthcare Properties II, the property was sold alongside a 92-unit AL/MC community in Tampa to Waypoint Residential for a combined $48.85 million, or about $270,000 per unit, at a roughly 5.5% cap rate. These were the last two properties owned by CNL II, whose shareholders had approved the company’s plan for dissolution in September 2019. Both communities were... Read More »
Engel Burman Opens 15th Long Island Community
The Bristal Assisted Living just opened its 20th seniors housing community, and 15th on Long Island alone. The property is located in Mount Sinai, adjacent to Port Jefferson, and features 76 assisted living units and 44 memory care units within the “Reflections” neighborhood. Engel Burman, the developer/owner, will also include a movie theater, card room and a fitness center. Programming will also include creative arts, physical fitness classes and educational seminars, among others. Residents will be able to choose from studio to two-bedroom options, with rents ranging from $5,200 a month to $8,400 per month. Plus, there will be a memory care component in... Read More »
Second Quarter Healthcare M&A Drops
The decline in second quarter healthcare M&A probably won’t surprise many of our readers. The second quarter was the first full quarter of healthcare M&A in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, and deal making took a hit as a result, as shown in results from our Deal Search Online database. Compared with Q1:20, Q2:20 dropped 20%, with 322 transactions on the books. Compared with Q2:19 (486 transactions), deal volume in Q2:20 declined even further at 34%. Source: Health Care M&A, July 2020 Long-Term Care and Physician Medical Groups were among the hardest hit sectors, declining 40% and 50% in activity compared with Q1:20, respectively. Year-over-year, the difference... Read More »
What’s Wrong with Whistleblower Lawsuits
Consulate Health Care will have to defend itself again over a 2017 judgment. Three years ago, after a 22-day trial, a jury issued a $347.8 million judgment against Consulate Health Care, Florida’s largest nursing home chain. A year later it was overturned. Now, an Appeals court partially reversed the judgment, lowering it to $255 million. While a huge drop, it is still meaningless, because it will never be paid. Consulate was accused of upcoding therapy billing at a few of its nursing facilities. Except that at the time, these facilities were apparently operated by a different company that subsequently purchased Consulate and took on its name. I hate to say it,... Read More »
Seven-Property Portfolio Sold At Steep Discount
Some more information has come out on MedCore Partners’ off-market acquisition of seven senior living communities from Ventas, and it may preview how far values may fall in the wake of COVID-19. A release from Kong Capital, which partnered with MedCore to acquire the portfolio, shows that the purchase price negotiated with Ventas fell from the originally agreed upon $70 million to $52 million as a result of declining NOI and the new realities that come with owning senior care properties these days. The purchase comes to just under $90,000 per unit, and represents a 26% decline, certainly on the high end of people’s predictions for a valuation correction across the seniors housing industry.... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Carries On With Large Transaction Volume
The last six weeks has been slow, to say the least, but Meridian Capital Group’s seniors housing and healthcare team closed over $470 million in transaction volume during that period. That’s an impressive figure considering the hurdles to get all parties involved across the finish line in the last several months. Well done to Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson for getting the deals done. There were a number of acquisition financings, the largest being closed to support the purchase of nine skilled nursing facilities and 921 total beds in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. That loan came to $183.5 million and was provided by a finance company. Then, two New Jersey facilities... Read More »Schedule a demo
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