Ziegler Picks Up Loan Activity with Two More Financings
Ziegler has picked up its loan activity for the second week in a row, closing two large bond financings in Virginia and Florida. Virginia United Methodist Homes of Williamsburg, dba WindsorMeade, a not-for-profit corporation in Williamsburg, Virginia, received the first of the series of bonds totaling $58.24 million. WindsorMeade operates a CCRC in Virginia, consisting of 181 independent living units, 14 assisted living units, 18 memory care units and 22 skilled nursing beds. WindsorMeade filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2013 following liquidity and occupancy challenges, but since the restructuring its overall performance has improved. The current refinancing package include... Read More »
Real Estate Developer Enters Seniors Housing Space
Harbor Custom Development, a real estate development company, closed on the purchase of approximately 2.34 acres of land in Burien, Washington, for $2.6 million. The purpose? They will now develop a 112-unit senior condo complex located less than 15 minutes from downtown Seattle. There will be studio, one- and two-bedroom options priced between $395,000 and $495,000, providing a more middle-market housing option for seniors in a market where home prices keep climbing. In King County alone, home prices rose 25% in the last year, with the median selling price of a home rising to $871,000. The community will be under the “Mira” brand of condominiums, but this represents Harbor Custom... Read More »
SilverPoint Senior Living Enters Oklahoma Market
SilverPoint Senior Living has assumed operations of Fountainbrook Assisted Living, a 74-unit community in Midwest City, Oklahoma. SilverPoint currently operates six other communities throughout Texas, so this assumption represents its entry into the Sooner State. SilverPoint will implement their Engaged Life program at Fountainbrook, which encourages residents to become members of the outside community and impact the lives of others. Personalized care plans will also be developed for each resident. Read More »
Brookdale and Welltower See Occupancy Gains
Brookdale Senior Living and Welltower continue to show occupancy gains in their senior living portfolios. For both companies, the peak increase was from May to June, with Welltower’s SHOP portfolio posting a 120-basis point increase, while Brookdale was slightly lower at 100 basis points, based on month-end census numbers. Brookdale ended August at 73.7% while Welltower’s U.S. portfolio ended the month at 75.9%. While Brookdale has posted six straight months of occupancy increases, the rate of growth has been slowing since its peak increase. From June to July, month-end occupancy grew by 70 basis points, but from July to August the increase was just 40 basis points. In... Read More »
Interview with Jay Wagner and Aaron Rosenzweig of Cushman & Wakefield
The SeniorCare Investor Editor Ben Swett sits down with Jay Wagner and Aaron Rosenzweig to discuss the current state of the construction lending market. Read More »
DigitalBridge Sells Healthcare Real Estate Assets
The seniors housing and care M&A market was hit with another major deal announcement a couple of days ago when DigitalBridge Group, formerly known as Colony Capital, disclosed that it was selling its healthcare real estate assets for approximately $3.21 billion. The decision is part of DigitalBridge’s strategy to focus solely on “digital infrastructure,” a strategy that has so far yielded a number of dispositions of “non-core assets” in the last two years and concludes with this deal. The healthcare assets include MOBs, senior care facilities and hospitals. There are 106 managed MOBs with 3.8 million square feet that were 82.6% occupied as of the end of March 2021. The senior care... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Three Large Bond Financings
Ziegler has had a busy start to the month by underwriting three separate bond financings. The first set of bonds was issued to Lifecare, Inc., a not-for-profit operator of Friendship Village in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It consists of an $8.685 million bond issued through the Michigan Strategic Fund and an $11.965 million bond issued through the Economic Development Corporation of the City of Kalamazoo. The proceeds will be used to refund outstanding debt, terminate an interest rate swap and reimburse cost of capital expenditures. The bonds have a 30-year maturity with a weighted average yield-to-call of 3.42% and a weighted average yield-to-maturity of 4.08%. The call provisions included... Read More »
Greystone Secures Construction Financing For Missouri Project
Greystone’s Matt Miller and Tyler Armstrong secured a $35.9 million construction loan on behalf of a joint venture between Shelbourne Healthcare and Cedarhurst for the new development of Shelbourne at Chesterfield in Chesterfield, Missouri. The 8.2-acre lot was acquired by Shelbourne Healthcare in 2018 for $4.4 million. The 150-unit senior housing development will contain 96 independent living units, 37 assisted living units and 17 memory care units. There will be studio, one- and two- bedroom options. The Greystone Senior Housing Capital Markets team facilitated the financing, which includes a five-year loan funded by a large regional bank. Moseley Architects is designing the... Read More »60 Seconds With Ben Swett: The New Senior Living Rankings
U.S. News & World Report announced that it is getting into the business of ranking seniors housing communities, after already doing the same for nursing homes. We’re happy to see the initiative since improved transparency for the sector and recognition of the services that operators provide is a good thing. We are also pleased that apparently, U.S. News will dedicate one journalist to cover the sector and help educate consumers on the differences between seniors housing and SNFs, which national and local media fail to do all too often. After working with some industry leaders and associations to create a rankings methodology, Activated Insights, run by CEO Jacquelyn Kung, is... Read More »
SLIB Facilitates Sale of Pennsylvania SNF
The owner of a large skilled nursing facility in Scranton, Pennsylvania decided to sell the property when its tenant announced that it desired to exit operations in the Keystone State. Another Pennsylvania-based skilled nursing owner emerged as the buyer, for an undisclosed purchase price. Built in 1974, the facility is licensed for 272 beds and underwent an addition in 1997. It has been well maintained over the years. Bradley Clousing and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage procured 12 offers in early 2021 and closed the sale on September 1. Read More »Schedule a demo
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