• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Republican Budget and Medicaid Cuts

    There will be significant political interest in what happens to Medicaid funding as Republicans work to pass a budget and tax bill with their very slim majority. Touching entitlements remains politically risky, and the party is divided on whether any Medicaid cuts would be acceptable heading into an election cycle. At this stage, per-capita caps... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Continues Upward Trend

    We are at the end of the first quarter 2025 earning roll call, and Sonida Senior Living posted another solid quarter. Weighted average occupancy for its same-community portfolio (56 communities) increased by 100 basis points year over year to 86.8%, which is at the top end of many of its competitors. In addition, same-community RevPOR increased... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Purchases Turnaround SNF

    Evans Senior Investments was engaged by a regional owner in a partnership with the University of Michigan Health-West Hospital to facilitate the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Wyoming, Michigan. Opened nearly 10 years ago, Healthbridge Post Acute comprises 65 beds and was experiencing operational challenges, including an annual net... Read More »
  • Family Owner Divests CCRC to Not-For-Profit

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold a family-owned/operated CCRC in Maumee, Ohio, to a not-for-profit organization. The community had been in the seller’s family for 75 years, but they are divesting to enter retirement. Established in 1949, Elizabeth Scott Community spans 51 acres and offers independent living, assisted living, memory care... Read More »
  • HUD-Backed Seniors Housing Community Opens on Long Island

    A HUD-financed seniors housing project has celebrated its grand opening in Bay Shore, New York. Netherbay at Bay Shore is a state-of-the-art assisted living/memory care community located at the historic Gulden family’s summer homestead on Long Island. It features 72 units and is operated by Meridian Senior Living. Greystone’s Lisa Fischman had... Read More »
Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Regions Bank Healthcare Real Estate Group announced a balance sheet loan closing at the start of February for a client in northern California. Originally built in 1975 in Carmichael, the property being refinanced is a 98-unit independent living community. Auctus Capital Partners acquired it in 2015, with plans to invest in capital improvements. So, it underwent a significant renovation and conversion project in 2018, and is now in the final stages of lease-up. Auctus put an operating affiliate, Altum Senior Living, in place to manage the community. Working with a new customer for the bank, Chris Honn secured a $5 million loan, with a three-year term and three years of interest only, to... Read More »
Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates provided $15.8 million in first lien debt to finance the acquisition of three assisted living/memory care communities in Tennessee. Totaling 126 units, the communities will also be renovated thanks to funds from this transaction. The borrower was an experienced owner/operator of seniors housing communities with a portfolio of more than 1,100 units, inclusive of recent acquisitions. This is the second Tennessee transaction closed by Monticello this month. The earlier deal consisted of $16.68 million of first lien debt for the refinance of two skilled nursing facilities and 303 total beds in the state. That transaction also included a $3 million... Read More »
California-Based REIT Buys in Fresno Market

California-Based REIT Buys in Fresno Market

Evans Senior Investments handled the sale of a 112-unit senior living community in the Fresno, California market, representing its independent owner in the transaction. Built in 2005 in the town of Madera, the community presented an opportunity to improve operations through synergies and expense management. It offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and was 87.6% occupied in the 12 months prior to the sale, with a 100% private pay census. A California-based REIT stepped in as the buyer, paying an undisclosed price. The transaction comes amid a flurry of activity from Evans Senior Investments, which recently closed deals in Georgia, Indiana, Utah, Minnesota and... Read More »
Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Cushman & Wakefield Closes Carmichael, California Refinance

After recently renovating its senior living community in Carmichael, California (Sacramento MSA), Auctus Capital Partners is refinancing the property, retaining the team of Aaron Rosenzweig, Sam Dylag, Rick Swartz and Jay Wagner of Cushman & Wakefield to get the deal done. Originally built in 1975 and renovated in 2000, it was sold in 2003 to Nicol Investment for $6 million, or $71,400 per unit, and then in 2015 to Auctus for an undisclosed price. Cushman & Wakefield arranged first mortgage financing for that purchase, with Owens Financial, a San Francisco-based lender, providing the loan. Since Auctus took over, it has executed on a strategic renovation and unit conversion... Read More »
Punzel Sells in Portland

Punzel Sells in Portland

It wasn’t a complete exit, but a local owner/operator in Portland, Oregon sold its assisted living community with the help of Brad Goodsell, Jason Punzel and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. This was the seller’s only senior living community, but they will stay on as a consultant post-closing. A regional operator with several communities in Washington acquired the property, its first in the state. Originally built in 2012 and expanded in 2018, the 47-unit/50-bed community catered to a high-acuity population. It was operating well, with 96% occupancy and a 39% margin on over $2.9 million of annual revenue. So, the incoming owner won’t change much, and why should they?... Read More »
Ziegler Finances SNF Repositioning/Renovation Project

Ziegler Finances SNF Repositioning/Renovation Project

Ziegler worked on behalf of St. Ann’s of Greater Rochester, a seniors housing and health services provider in the Rochester, New York area, to fund a campus-wide improvement project that started in 2015. The first phase involved the relocation of 34 post-acute rehabilitation beds from one facility to the ninth floor of its largest skilled nursing facility, St. Ann’s Community. Phase II will be comprised of a renovation to floors three through eight of St. Ann’s Community, and will result in a net-reduction of 96 beds. Together with other available funds, St. Ann’s received $108.825 million in tax-exempt, fix-rate bonds to finance the project, capitalized interest, outstanding indebtedness... Read More »
Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

The 25th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report is almost ready, but get your sneak preview and analysis in our upcoming webcast. We are diligently working on the 2020 edition of the Senior Care Acquisition Report, which we hope to have ready for publication by the end of the month. It will be the 25th edition of this market-leading report, and it has valuable M&A statistics that you will not find anywhere else, including trends over multi-year periods. Well, that is not exactly true. Next week we will be releasing some of those statistics in our annual webcast on the state of the seniors housing and care M&A market. Our panel will include brokers from Cushman &... Read More »
Genesis HealthCare Sheds More SNFs

Genesis HealthCare Sheds More SNFs

Genesis HealthCare continues to pare down its skilled nursing portfolio, putting the leaner company on surer financial and operational footing. The provider entered into a series of agreements with New Generation Health, LLC to transition operational responsibility for 19 facilities in California, Washington and Nevada. For six of those facilities, Genesis sold both the real estate and operations, while just transferring the operations of the 13 remaining skilled nursing, behavioral health and assisted living facilities, for a total of $79 million. Genesis will still retain an indirect 50% interest in the portfolio, but for day-to-day operations, it’s out. The company will still provide... Read More »
Greystone Takes Over Rosewood Care Centers Portfolio

Greystone Takes Over Rosewood Care Centers Portfolio

Greystone Healthcare Management Corp. formally took over ownership of a portfolio of 13 senior care facilities in Illinois and Missouri, and entered two new states as a result. Before February 3, the skilled nursing owner/operator managed over 30 long-term care and rehab facilities, all in Florida. But it has expanded into two new states in a big way. Comprising 1,662 total beds, there are 11 skilled nursing facilities and one supportive living community in Illinois, and one SNF in St. Louis, Missouri, all of which have been renamed. They were formerly operated by Rosewood Care Centers but were taken over by HUD after Rosewood defaulted on $146 million in FHA-backed loans. The default made... Read More »
PGIM Simplifies Capital Stack at NOLA Facility

PGIM Simplifies Capital Stack at NOLA Facility

Refinancing a complicated capital stack, PGIM Real Estate Finance secured a $10.7 million HUD loan for a 112-bed skilled nursing facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. The facility was built by the not-for-profit St. Margaret’s Foundation in 2013 on the site of the former Lindy Boggs Medical Center, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Its $33 million construction was initially funded using New Market Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, OCD Loan Funds, FEMA grant money, a bank loan and sponsor equity. PGIM simplified things and significantly reduced the amount of debt with the HUD loan. Located within five miles of seven acute-care hospitals, the facility features 100 units in... Read More »