• National Real Estate Investment Group Acquires 24-Property Portfolio

    Ikaria Capital Group announced the successful funding of a $270 million term loan and $30 million preferred equity investment for a national private healthcare real estate investment group to support the acquisition of a 24-property skilled nursing and seniors housing portfolio located in the Pacific Northwest. First Citizens Bank led the bank... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Sells Idaho Portfolio

    A trio of small, well-performing assisted living communities in rural Idaho sold with the help of Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group. The pair represented a mom & pop who were looking to retire after nearly 25 years of operating. Terri and Carl Pendleton built the first 16-unit assisted living community in Gooding, Idaho, and added... Read More »
  • JV Buyer Acquires Two Communities From Separate Sellers

    Helios Healthcare Advisors structured the sale and arranged joint venture equity for the acquisition of two assisted living/memory care communities in Alabama on behalf of separate sellers. Helios was initially engaged by the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast to identify a buyer that would preserve the legacy of Murray House Assisted... Read More »
  • Detroit Redevelopment Sees Senior Apartment Conversion

    KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment provided $43.6 million in construction loans and arranged $7.6 million in permanent loans for the acquisition and rehabilitation of Lee Plaza in Detroit, Michigan. The 15-story, Art Deco historical landmark will be converted to affordable senior apartments. The building will include a total of... Read More »
  • Montana Not-For-Profit Secures Bond Financing

    Ziegler announced the closing of Immanuel Living at Buffalo Hill’s $50.88 million Series 2025ABC bonds through the City of Kalispell, Montana. The Montana not-for-profit operates a senior care community in Kalispell, Montana, that is located on a 13-acre campus with 171 independent and assisted living units as well as 155 licensed skilled nursing... Read More »
The Prestige Group Sells Shuttered Senior Living Community

The Prestige Group Sells Shuttered Senior Living Community

A purpose-built, 62-unit senior living community located in suburban Philadelphia was shuttered over a year ago, but new ownership will soon reopen it as a market-rate apartment building. Joe Shallow and Jim Baranello of The Prestige Group represented the seller in the sale, which came to $3 million, or $48,400 per unit.  Originally built in 1989 as Sunrise Assisted Living, the Jenkintown community featured both personal care (assisted living) and memory care services. Chelsea Senior Living bought it around 2010 as part of an expansion outside of its New York and New Jersey footprint. However, this was Chelsea’s first and ultimately only facility in Pennsylvania, and after a few years any... Read More »
HJ Sims Closes Bank Financing for Not-For-Profit’s Independent Living Expansion

HJ Sims Closes Bank Financing for Not-For-Profit’s Independent Living Expansion

Thanks to a two-part bank financing arranged by HJ Sims, not-for-profit Presbyterian SeniorCare Network (PSCN) will open a new independent living community in North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania, adding to its significant presence in the western part of the state.   PSCN, which already provides senior care services to over 6,500 seniors through 53 senior living communities, affordable housing facilities and at-home programs/services, is partnering with Senior Housing Partners, a subsidiary of Presbyterian Homes & Services.  HJ Sims had worked with PSCN and its related entities before, including the 2017 construction financing for a memory care expansion and its Washington, PA campus,... Read More »
You Can’t Make This Up

You Can’t Make This Up

California’s nursing home inspectors aren’t being tested for COVID-19. Say what? Nursing homes have been vilified in the media for the number of deaths in their facilities due to the coronavirus. Yes, infection control protocols were not up to snuff at many of them, and certainly not for this virus. But when asymptomatic staff and visitors arrive and unknowingly infect the residents, well, there was not much you could do about it, especially in the early months of the pandemic. Testing has been crucial, as we have all learned. But then we come to find out there was one group that somehow didn’t get the memo. Apparently, the state health inspectors who are visiting all of the... Read More »
Brookdale Breaks Bread With Ventas

Brookdale Breaks Bread With Ventas

Perhaps the two most powerful women in seniors housing, Debbie Cafaro of Ventas and Cindy Baier of Brookdale Senior Living, had to make some decisions with regard to Brookdale’s under water leases that have a maturity date in 2025. If there can be any silver lining with the current pandemic, it most likely pushed the two sides to come to an agreement to do something now before the leases drowned in more red ink. And while there are benefits to both companies, the newly revised lease agreements provide a cash-flow lifeline to Brookdale.  The triple-net leased portfolio now has 120 communities, but when the lease was last negotiated back in 2018, combining several leases into one master... Read More »
Berkadia’s HUD Bonanza

Berkadia’s HUD Bonanza

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group has been hard at work with HUD deals so far this summer, with over $50 million in closings in June and July. The transactions were all closed for skilled nursing clients in three states across the country. Jay Healy and Bianca Andujo first secured a $22.24 million loan to take out existing debt at a 157-bed skilled nursing facility in Worchester County, Maryland. About 25% of the facility’s census was made up of Medicare patients at the time of the financing.   The 35-year loan came out to 80% loan-to-value, which puts the facility’s value at about $177,000 per bed. That is high even by Maryland standards, which typically surpasses most... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Secures First Lien Financing for Florida Communities

MONTICELLOAM Secures First Lien Financing for Florida Communities

On the back of a busy spring, MONTICELLOAM, LLC and its affiliates announced yet another first lien debt financing for a senior care client. This transaction featured a $20.2 million loan that refinanced two assisted living/memory care communities in Florida. The properties total 171 beds. Their owner (and the borrower) is an experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of more than 1,300 licensed beds.  This deal follows a Memphis-area refinance of two skilled nursing facilities, both a working capital loan and first-lien debt financing for three skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina and Kentucky, and a refinance of a Kansas senior care... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Values Drop In Last Four Quarters

Skilled Nursing Values Drop In Last Four Quarters

It still may be too early to tell, but according to our rolling-four quarter M&A statistics, it appears that skilled nursing values have started their descent in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We say it may be too early simply because of how few transactions have been negotiated and closed since the onset of the virus, and we base our statistics on closed transactions, not just announced ones. The rolling-four quarter average also still consists of three quarters of prices that were not affected by the pandemic and that represent a larger share of the past 12 months of deals than normal because of the dearth of deals in Q2:2020.   Nevertheless, the average price... Read More »
Acts Retirement-Life Communities Disposes Non-Core Property

Acts Retirement-Life Communities Disposes Non-Core Property

Acts Retirement-Life Communities decided to shed a non-core property located near Baltimore, Maryland, working with Ben Firestone and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to get the deal done. Built in 1994, the property features 66 skilled nursing beds and 60 assisted living/memory care units in the town of Sykesville, about 20 miles west of Baltimore.   Acts picked up the property in May 2019 as part of a merger with Integrace, another not-for-profit senior care provider with four communities in Maryland. However, the community did not fit in with Acts’ CCRC business model and was slated for sale.  The Blueprint team procured 12 competitive offers during a 30-day... Read More »
Concerto Adds Dialysis Service In Missouri SNF

Concerto Adds Dialysis Service In Missouri SNF

Skilled nursing patients are obviously some of the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus, and providers have been working hard to minimize their exposure to it. In-house dialysis can be one service that helps that cause by bringing dialysis to the patients, rather than bringing the patients to a dialysis center and exposing them to different environments from the shuttle bus to the center itself three days a week. On top of that, in-house dialysis is just a better and less tiring experience for the patients themselves.  Concerto Renal Services expanded its in-house dialysis offering to a skilled nursing facility in Kansas City, Missouri that is owned by Ignite Medical Resorts. This... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending July 24, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending July 24, 2020

The summer M&A market continues its doldrums, but there were a few deals that closed. Check out our recent senior care M&A deal chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Icade9 skilled nursing facilities in Germany and France$167.9 million New York-based owner/operatorShire Senior LivingN/A Not disclosedSkilled nursing/assisted living facility in MD$20 million The Springs LivingLancaster Village$31.5... Read More »
Ardent Senior Living Sells Rochester ALP Community

Ardent Senior Living Sells Rochester ALP Community

Seven years after acquiring an assisted living/independent living community in Rochester, New York, Ardent Senior Living is selling the property to a New York-based owner/operator. Originally built in 1974, the community features 115 assisted living units (with 200 licensed beds) and a 42-unit independent living building. The campus participates in New York’s Assisted Living Program (ALP), which provides a higher level of care (close to skilled nursing) in an assisted living setting for Medicaid residents.   It’s a win for the state, which can reimburse nearly skilled nursing level care at a lower rate, and for the providers, which can take in Medicaid residents at a... Read More »