DigitalBridge Divests Two Kansas Communities
DigitalBridge Group, formerly known as Colony Capital, recently announced it was divesting its healthcare real estate assets in order to focus on its digital infrastructure business. Two of the seniors housing properties have found a new owner with the help of Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Lauren Nagle of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. The two communities, located in the Kansas City, Kansas MSA, were built in the early 2000s but have received subsequent renovations. Leawood Gardens is a 70-unit assisted living/memory care community in Johnson County, and Blackhawk Assisted Living has 48 units of AL and MC in Miami County. According to our M&A... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Benedictine Health System
Benedictine Health System, a Minnesota-based not-for-profit organization affiliated with the Catholic church, recently obtained $132.4 million in financing arranged by HJ Sims. Historically, the organization and its affiliates were financed on a standalone basis, resulting in 36 separate series of outstanding debt for 19 different borrowers. Plus, the series were held by eight different banks or servicers with disparate terms, covenants and reporting requirements. As such, the board and executive leadership team wanted to restructure its capital framework, change its service mix and invest in improvements at existing campuses, and engaged HJ Sims in August 2020. Sims built an initial... Read More »
Connecticut Community Gets Construction Financing
Senior Living Development LLC secured a $16 million construction loan for KindCare at Bristol, a to-be-built, middle-market assisted living community in Bristol, Connecticut (Hartford MSA). The community, which will feature 117 beds of both assisted living and memory care, is situated on one acre in downtown Bristol. It will be the first of Senior Living Development LLC’s KindCare assisted living brand, which caters to the middle market. Rates average 20% less than luxury AL options, and this specific project is also taking advantage of the tax benefits being in a Qualified Opportunity Zone. Construction is expected to start this October and finish in early 2023. The developer... Read More »
Lument Finds New Owner for Philly CCRC
A CCRC outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, changed hands with the help of Laca Wong-Hammond and Dominic Porretta of Lument Securities. In addition to facilitating the confidential sale, the Lument team also handled the assumption of the property’s HUD mortgage. Built in 1967 but renovated multiple times over the years, including a major refurbishment in 2014, Bryn Mawr Terrace is located about 10 miles from downtown Philly on the Main Line. It features 109 functional skilled nursing beds (with a license for 120 beds), 25 memory care units and eight personal care units. It had operated well historically, but the pandemic caused cash flow to fall, and there was no positive NOI by the... Read More »
HHC Finance Wraps Up HUD’s FY21
Housing & Health Finance (HHC Finance) is finishing up HUD’s fiscal year 2021 with a few transactions. First, the firm closed a $13 million refinance of an existing HUD loan for a 200+ bed skilled nursing facility in Illinois. In the transaction, HHC Finance substantially lowered the interest rate. HHC Finance also closed on a new $8 million HUD loan for a 90-bed skilled nursing facility in northern California. Lastly, the firm added to its tally of loan modifications for the year by lowering the interest rate on a $4 million loan for one of its clients. Read More »
Missouri Seniors Housing Development Goes Ahead with Regions Bank Loan
Shelburne Healthcare Development, an undisclosed REIT and a Missouri-based developer/operator are collaborating on a new seniors housing construction project, and the venture now has financing in hand from Regions Bank. Two of those three parties have worked with Regions in the past, helping ensure a smooth transaction process. Chris Honn and Jack Boulder originated the loan on behalf of the bank. Located in Chesterfield, the community will feature 96 independent living, 37 assisted living and 17 memory care units. The $35.9 million construction loan, resulting in about $239,000 per unit of debt, comes with a five-year initial term, four years of interest only and a staged reduction in... Read More »
Berkadia Adds New Hire to Investment Sales Team
Berkadia has added Director Simona Wilson to the Seniors Housing & Healthcare team, serving on the investment sales platform led by Tim Cobb. Ms. Wilson has 19 years of industry experience, previously founding Crescent Capital LLC where she advised seniors housing capital providers and operators on investment and portfolio strategies. She also spent 15 years on the Healthpeak investment team, serving as Vice President of Strategy & Business Development and Vice President of Acquisitions & Valuations. Ms. Wilson graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Southern California, and spent two years at PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving to a career in healthcare... Read More »
Blueprint Teams Close Two Transactions
M&A continues at a steady clip, and Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors obliged with a couple of recent closings. First was the sale of a skilled nursing facility located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Totaling 120 beds, the facility was built in the 1960s and thoroughly renovated in the 1990s. Historically, it did bring in stable cash flow, and it showed well for a facility last fully renovated more than 20 years ago. However, it did not fit into the regional Ohio-based owner’s operating model. That’s where Blueprint came in, approaching a New York-based private equity group that has an existing presence in Ohio. They saw an opportunity to add value... Read More »
New York Times Hits SNFs, Again
The New York Times hit one of its favorite punching bags again with an article titled “Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes.” In it, the Times alleges that a loophole not requiring nursing homes to report antipsychotic prescriptions for three uncommon conditions, including schizophrenia, has led doctors associated with the facilities to false diagnose schizophrenia in patients with dementia. Since these patients require much more time and attention from an already overworked and underpaid staff, the Times reasons that SNFs would rather drug them than provide real dementia care. Some of the stats seemed damning. An analysis of Medicare data showed that schizophrenia... Read More »
New Proposal for Capital Senior Living
As we get closer to the voting date for shareholders to approve of the recapitalization proposal of Capital Senior Living by Conversant Capital, with the full support of Cap Senior’s management and board, at long last an alternative plan has been put forward. We didn’t think that Ortelius Advisors had much of a leg to stand on in their proxy fight without any alternative for shareholders to consider. Now we have one, as loosey-goosey as it may be. Ortelius has proposed a new equity rights offering, which they will backstop and subscribe to well beyond their current pro rata holdings of about 12.7%. They believe that raising up to $70 million of new... Read More »Schedule a demo
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