Solving the Affordability and Aging Inventory Issues
Two growing problems in the senior care industry, aging inventory and a lack of middle-income/affordable seniors housing options, may actually be solved (at least, partially) with one initiative. That has been on the mind of Bill Pomeranz, Managing Director at Cain Brothers, who with the help of David Johnson, CEO of 4SightHealth, recently published his thoughts on converting aging senior living properties to affordable housing. Their main point is that the industry will have to be adaptable: adaptable to aging physical plants; adaptable to a large portion of the population that cannot comfortably afford what is being built now; adaptable providing more services and utility in a... Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT Grows Its Southern California Portfolio
Sabra Health Care REIT has teamed up with Scottsdale, Arizona-based owner/operator Cadence Living to grow its senior living portfolio with the purchase of an assisted living/memory care community in Poway, California (San Diego MSA). Located adjacent to a 149-bed skilled nursing facility and near the Palomar Hospital, the community is spread out on 32 acres with seven separate buildings. It is unique in that it offers a horticultural-therapy program that grows more than 20,000 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables on several fields and greenhouses located throughout the property. There are of course many benefits to this program, from the obvious farm-to-table meals to providing excess... Read More »
OREC Securities Leads Cape Cod Sale
Late last month, we learned of Walker & Dunlop’s involvement in structuring acquisition financing for a senior care campus on Cape Cod. Now, it’s revealed that the OREC Securities team of Laca Wong-Hammond, Chad Elliott, Kevin Laidlaw and Aaron Becker led the sale on behalf of the seller. Located in the town of Brewster, Massachusetts, the property consists of a 135-bed skilled nursing facility built in 1995 and a 59-unit assisted living community that was added in 2007. Both were well occupied, but the owner/operator, Joshua Zuckerman, wanted to retire from the business. OREC, the investment banking affiliate of Lancaster Pollard, was originally brought on to sell the SNF and AL... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Structures Sale of Brand-New Tampa Community
A publicly traded REIT picked up a brand-new senior living community in Tampa, Florida, and we mean brand-new. Opened just this summer, the community was developed by Lindell Investments Inc. and Solutions Advisors, whose affiliate Solvere Living was also the operator. Featuring 64 assisted living and 38 memory care units, its total development cost was estimated to be $27.5 million, or around $270,000 per unit. The census, although still in fill-up, is 100% private pay. Amenities include a bistro and bar, a fitness center, and a salon and spa. The REIT buyer paid $28.75 million, or $281,900 per unit, for the community and will bring in a regional operator to manage it. The first task,... Read More »
Greystone Gets Freddie Mac Funding for To-Be-Built Community
A new seniors housing community for low-income residents is being developed in Covington, Georgia, thanks to Freddie Mac financing arranged by PJ McDevitt of Greystone. Dominium Holdings, one of the largest affordable housing development/management companies in the country, is building the community, which will feature 198 total units with one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. The properties will be located near the Newton County Senior Center, considered to be one of the most active senior centers in the state. That can only help both the fill-up and also the residents’ experience. Completion is expected sometime in 2021. To fund the project, Dominium obtained a $15.8 million Freddie Mac... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 22, 2019
Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Publicly traded REITTessera of Westchase$28.75 million Cambridge Retirement LivingTrinity OaksN/A Reign Residence Management, LLCThe Residences of United Home Care$16.5 million The NHP FoundationEdwin Berry Manor Apartments$4.9... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Hits 10-Year Low
After the earnings reports over the past four weeks, it was unclear whether the seniors housing sector had hit operational bottom or not. Unfortunately, Capital Senior Living’s share price is still trying to find a bottom. But November 19th’s low of $3.45 per share was also the lowest price in more than 10 years, when in March 2009 it hit a low of $2.36 per share. This is not what new CEO Kim Lody wants to see. It is not what shareholders are expecting to see. In March of 2013, the shares hit a peak of $27.90, and hovered below that for the next few years. Acquisition activity was strong, and some shareholders thought they should sell and not wait to see higher values. Within five years,... Read More »
SNF Providers Are on a PDPM Learning Curve
It’s been less than two months since the new Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) was implemented across all SNFs participating in Medicare Part A, and while no one can make definitive conclusions on the results and success of the program yet, some consistent themes have already emerged according to Zimmet Healthcare’s PDPM Reimbursement Analysis for the month of October. In the lead-up to October 1st, the consensus largely was that PDPM would be a windfall to some SNFs, particularly those caring for high-acuity, medically complex patients whose conditions, and the extra work that comes with them, would finally be recognized by CMS, and reimbursed. To them, the change was far better than... Read More »
Berkadia Brings on the Financings
Berkadia announced an impressive array of financings it closed in the past three months, ranging from HUD mortgages, to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac deals and a couple of bridge loans, all totaling nearly $160 million in volume. The largest deal was a $107.6 million Fannie Mae master credit facility closed for a portfolio of eight senior living communities in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. Ed Williams and Rafael Nobo (serenaded with Happy Birthday last July on a flight from Chattanooga) secured the 10-year, fixed rate financing, with an interest-only period, on behalf of the portfolio’s Louisiana-based developer, owner and operator to refinance the properties, consolidate debt into... Read More »
NHP Foundation Grows Its Chicago Holdings
The NHP Foundation, a New York-based not-for-profit organization known for preserving and developing affordable housing, just acquired its first Chicago-area senior apartment building, and fourth property overall in the metro area. Built in 1991, the Section 8 community has 57 total units in the Woodlawn neighborhood, near the new Obama library. It sold for $4.933 million, or about $86,500 per unit. To fund the purchase, NHP secured $4.515 million in financing from Low Income Investment Fund and $817,000 of its own equity from NHPF Equity. The $400,000 above the purchase price was for transaction and closing costs, plus HUD-required repairs. Through partnerships with financial... Read More »Schedule a demo
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