• 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 »
60 Seconds with Ben Swett: M&A Hits a High in 2021

60 Seconds with Ben Swett: M&A Hits a High in 2021

When it rains, it pours in senior care M&A. First, we noticed a significant uptick in deal activity this month, with over 30 transactions announced since June 1st. Not December’s level of activity, but we’ll take it. Then, Harrison Street announced the largest purchase in the industry in two years, spending $1.2 billion on 24 Oakmont communities. But yesterday, when we were still digesting the sale of former SNF giant Kindred Healthcare to LifePoint, Welltower made the biggest splash of all, buying Holiday Retirement’s owned portfolio of 86 independent living properties for $1.58 billion. Not only that, but Atria Senior Living will acquire the operating business of Holiday for an... Read More »
Dissecting the Holiday Retirement Deal

Dissecting the Holiday Retirement Deal

Welltower announced the acquisition of Holiday Retirement’s owned portfolio of 86 independent living communities for $1.58 billion, or just about $152,000 per unit. Simultaneously, Atria Senior Living said that it was acquiring Holiday’s operating business for an undisclosed price. Either of these announcements would normally be major news, but they also come on the heels of Harrison Street’s $1.2 billion purchase of 24 properties operated by Oakmont Senior Living and a very busy June (so far) with more than 30 individual transactions already made public. Perhaps the tide has turned for investment activity in seniors housing and care.  The Welltower deal also represents yet another... Read More »
LifePoint Health & Kindred Healthcare Announce Merger

LifePoint Health & Kindred Healthcare Announce Merger

LifePoint Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kindred Healthcare, LLC, the two companies announced late Monday. The deal brings together two major players in the acute and post-acute healthcare market. LifePoint Health, a subsidiary of RCCH HealthCare Partners, owns and operates community hospitals, regional health systems, physician practices, outpatient centers and post-acute facilities across the country. Kindred Healthcare is the nation’s leading specialty hospital company delivering acute health services in its long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, acute rehabilitation units, and behavioral health line of business, all specializing in... Read More »
Oregon CCRC Expanding with Bond Financing

Oregon CCRC Expanding with Bond Financing

Friendsview, a Quaker-affiliated not-for-profit CCRC in Newburg, Oregon, is set to break ground on a new expansion and redevelopment project next month. To fund the project, the Type-A, entrance-fee-based community is set to receive $124.22 million in funding from bonds issued through the Yamhill County Hospital Authority and underwritten by Ziegler.   Greystone acted as the development consultant for the project, providing all necessary planning services to implement the project.   Bond financing is expected to be used toward three segments of Friendsview’s redevelopment project – Springbrook Meadows North, Sutton Terrace at University Village... Read More »
LCS Hires Joe Weisenburger from Welltower

LCS Hires Joe Weisenburger from Welltower

LCS has picked up a noteworthy hire from Welltower, welcoming Joe Weisenburger as their new vice president, senior director of business development.  Mr. Weisenburger brings 23 years of industry experience to LCS, one of the country’s largest senior care operators with over 130 properties in its portfolio. He has developed multibillion-dollar senior housing deals and previously served as Welltower’s senior vice president of business development.   At Welltower, he worked on the management team that brought the company’s assets from $1 billion to $30 billion dollars. He will now be tasked with creating business development strategies aimed at increasing revenue across all LCS... Read More »
National Health Investors Issues Another Update

National Health Investors Issues Another Update

National Health Investors is continuing its steady census progress, but the rent deferrals for Bickford Senior Living just will not end. The silver lining is that the deferral amounts are decreasing, from $3 million in both March and April of this year and $2 million in June. Now, the two parties have agreed to $1.5 million in rent deferrals per month in June and July. That will bring Bickford’s total deferred rents with NHI to $11.75 million for the year, so far, which is expected to be repaid over a period of 18 months commencing on October 1, 2021, at an interest rate of 8% from the date of the deferral. That is on top of the $3.75 million of Bickford deferred rent from Q4:20 and... Read More »
Another Family Owner/Operator Exits the Industry

Another Family Owner/Operator Exits the Industry

As Covid-19 has led to overall decreases in senior housing occupancy levels, Sherer Management joined several of its peers by closing down its multigenerational family business with the sale of its last two CCRCs in Iowa.  These properties include a total of 188 beds at Rose Vista in Woodbine and Longview Home in Missouri Valley. They offer skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living services, in addition to hospice services through Generations Hospice. The Sherer family had owned and operated these businesses for over 60 years. Kevin Laidlaw and Dominic Porretta of Lument Securities led the transaction and advised Sherer on the sale of their businesses.... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Michigan Provider

HJ Sims Refinances Michigan Provider

It took a couple of tries, but HJ Sims arranged $41.9 million in financing for Sunset Retirement Communities, a multi-campus, not-for-profit senior living provider in Michigan. The company has grown its holdings over the past decade, starting development on its Jenison campus in 2009 and completing it in 2015. Then, after completing a market study in March 2020, Sunset determined to add a Phase III with 62 independent living apartments, 20 IL villas and amenity spaces. That was not an ideal time to begin filling a new community. After approaching potential lenders in May 2020, Sunset delayed the financing in order to focus on its existing operations. However, HJ Sims continued to explore... Read More »

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending June 18, 2021

Senior care M&A is soaring back this month across all sectors. Check out our recent M&A deal chart. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Beacon Health10 skilled nursing facilities in Iowa$24.2 million Regional operator/private capital providerRose Vista in Woodbine and Longview Home in Missouri ValleyN/A Ciena HealthcareLincoln Park Manor$6 million Livingston Street CapitalHaven at Lewisville... Read More »
Drinking the Kool-Aid in Washington (State), Again

Drinking the Kool-Aid in Washington (State), Again

The people of the state of Washington are getting closer to having to make a decision about a new payroll tax to fund a “long-term” care benefit, that is anything but long term. The 58-cent tax withholding for every $100 of salary and bonus may not seem like much, but the benefit is not much either.  This reminds us (sort of) of the Class Act that was part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, except there does not appear to be any funding deception in this new legislation coming from the West Coast. The Class Act, you may remember, was canceled after even those members of Congress who voted for it realized it was a financial sham. The premiums for those first five years were actually... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Dayton Senior Care Facility

Evans Senior Investments Sells Dayton Senior Care Facility

A newly renovated senior care facility in Dayton, Ohio that was struggling with census issues sold to a Midwest-based owner/operator with the help of the team at Evans Senior Investments. Featuring 60 skilled nursing beds and 30 assisted living units, the facility was previously owned by an independent owner/operator looking to exit the long-term care industry. It was originally built in 1988 but received a $1.3 million renovation from 2019 to 2020.   The updated physical plant and number of private rooms certainly helped its attractiveness, but the facility was averaging just 37% occupancy at the SNF and 45% in the assisted living portion. Plus, the previous owner had not licensed the SNF... Read More »