Welltower Announces New Investments
At the same time it released first quarter earnings results, Welltower announced a major recapitalization of HC-One, the largest UK-based seniors housing platform, where it previously had a mezzanine loan investment with one of the owners. Formation Capital has been a 50-50 owner in HC-One, along with partner Safanad. Formation rolled most of its capital into the recapped company. Welltower has provided a $750 million secured loan and a $76 million equity investment into HC-One. The loan will refinance existing debt and will help to simplify the company’s capital structure. It has a five-year term and is fully collateralized by HC-One’s real... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires Former Brookdale Community in Florida
Owner/operator Inspirit Senior Living and investment/asset management firm Venue Capital co-sponsored a joint venture with Drake Real Estate Partners to acquire a seniors housing community in Lecanto, Florida. Immediately after the deal, the three parties are also planning a substantial renovation and rebranding of the property. Built in 1988, the community consists of 79 assisted living and memory care units. Welltower previously owned the property, with Brookdale Senior Living operating it. However, Inspirit will take over management going forward, bolstering its presence in the Southeast. In early 2020, Inspirit and Venue Capital also acquired a portfolio of four... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Another Ohio Transaction
Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors have been on a roll lately, closing transaction after transaction in the state of Ohio. The latest one features a skilled nursing/assisted living facility located near the University of Akron campus. Originally built in 1917 and comprehensively renovated in the mid-2000s, the facility was previously owned by a regional owner/operator that decided to focus on other aspects of their portfolio. Straightforward transactions have been few and far between during the last year, and Messrs. Doherty and Kelly did encounter some acquirer hesitancy. However, negotiations continued, and the deal closed in early April. A... Read More »
Greystone Refinances Long Island SNF
Greystone’s HUD streak continues in the Northeast, following up on its refinance of a Yonkers, New York skilled nursing facility with a financing closed for a large skilled nursing facility on Long Island. Featuring 214 beds, the facility was originally built in 1972 on Long Island’s North Shore. It provides care for high-acuity, medically complex patients, with services ranging from cardiac care and post-surgery orthopedic rehab to physical and occupational therapy. Fred Levine arranged a $17.3 million HUD loan through the agency’s Section 223(a)(7) program, thereby lowering the borrower’s interest rate and extending their amortization period. The borrower was also able to raise... Read More »
Waiting To Sell, Or Buy, Or Lend
If census has indeed bottomed in the senior care industry, investors may still want to wait for several months of sustained growth before buying again. Although “consensus” on anything is dangerous to rely on, it does seem that either we have hit that bottom of the occupancy plunge, and if not, we are very close to it. After a year of turmoil and uncertainty, a rising national occupancy level for seniors housing will be quite a relief. What we are hearing is that some lenders want to see at least three months of consistent, increasing census for their new loans, and we suspect some buyers will want to see that as well. I guess you could say they want to see it before they will believe it.... Read More »
CBRE Closes Two Financings
CBRE has secured a couple of financings for seniors housing clients on opposite sides of the country. First, in the Northeast, the team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Matthew Kuronen arranged a Fannie Mae loan to refinance a 269-unit rental CCRC located near Providence, Rhode Island. The property received a $39 million loan, or $145,000 per unit, with a seven-year term, fixed interest rate and two years of interest only. The same CBRE team also arranged construction financing for a to-be-built seniors housing community in Portland, Oregon. Set in a 16-story high-rise in the city’s Pearl District, the community will feature 177 independent living, 77 assisted living and 20 memory care... Read More »
Mitchell Family Office Takes Over American Health Partners’ SNF Portfolio
Mitchell Family Office (MFO) has acquired the skilled nursing division of American Health Partners, which was formerly owned by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Having experience with ESOPs, with their transaction closed for a major Midwest senior care operator last week, Lument arranged a $168 million bridge loan to support MFO’s acquisition. Conner Girdley and Brandon Gill handled the transaction for Lument and were brought on in late summer 2020 to act as placement agents. Proceeds of the loan were used to acquire the skilled nursing portion of the acquisition for an undisclosed price. In addition to its 29 skilled nursing facilities, the company is also focused on inpatient... Read More »
CIBC Closes Cash-Out Financing In Illinois
Working on behalf of a local owner/operator, CIBC Bank USA has closed a cash-out refinance of a portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities in Illinois. Totaling $11 million, the loan comes with a five-year term. Neal Netzel and Mathew Tyler handled the transaction for CIBC. These facilities, which have an effective age of 30 years, total 260 beds. They have been historically well occupied around 85%, which is a solid figure for the sector in the last several years. Also, EBITDAR margins have been strong in the mid-teens. Most operators would happily take that. With those good operations, we imagine the owner was able to extract some equity from the... Read More »
Capital Funding Hits Impressive Mark For Q1 Closings
News of Capital Funding Group’s first quarter activity trickled out throughout the first three months of the year, but the firm recently confirmed that they financed in excess of $800 million for its clients across 13 bridge loans and 31 HUD loans. Even under “normal” circumstances, a quarter like that is certainly one to show off. We already profiled a couple of the transactions, the largest being a $285 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the acquisition of 16 skilled nursing facilities in the Mid-Atlantic. Erik Howard and Tim Eberhardt originated the transaction for Capital Funding Group, and Capital Funding, LLC, a subsidiary of CFG Bank, participated in the transaction. Another notable... Read More »
CCRCs Still Leading In Occupancy
Ziegler just came out with its quarterly analysis of occupancy trends for CCRC (LPCs) in conjunction with the NIC MAP data, and while census is still slipping, the sub-sector has fared better than the other components of the senior living spectrum. The data set used includes 1,134 CCRCs in both primary and secondary markets, as defined by NIC MAP. It is not clear how the other 800 or so CCRCs have performed. All CCRCs posted an average occupancy rate of 84.3% in the first quarter 2021, a drop of 720 basis points from the first quarter of 2020. While somewhat shocking, that performance is better than assisted living and skilled nursing. And, starting from an average... Read More »Schedule a demo
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