Commonwealth Senior Living Adds to Dominion State Portfolio
Commonwealth Senior Living expanded its Virginia portfolio with the addition of a 72-unit senior living community in Chesapeake, located near the North Carolina border. This represents the 27th community in Virginia for Commonwealth and 33rd overall in its portfolio. There are eight communities in the Norfolk MSA, so the company should be able to take advantage of some economies of scale. Chesapeake Regional Healthcare built the property in 2001, and it currently features 60 assisted living and 12 memory care units. However, Commonwealth will immediately begin renovations to the building, expand its capacity to 68 assisted living and 32 memory care beds, and rebrand the property as... Read More »
Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing
Ziegler has been on a roll lately, closing one bank bond financing after another for CCRC clients across the country. Its latest closing, working with Truist and Hancock Whitney, was for a not-for-profit CCRC in Fort Myers, Florida. Founded in 1995, the community has grown over the years to include 333 independent living units, 44 IL villas, 44 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a 64-bed/unit skilled nursing facility. It sits adjacent to HealthPark Medical Center and close to both Estero Bay Preserve State Park and Fort Myers Beach. To replace outstanding debt, reimburse and fund certain capital expenditures and fund a debt service reserve... Read More »
Being Thankful In A Bummer Year
With a pandemic and too many other problems, it is hard to be thankful at the end of 2020. But there are reasons to be. There is no question, it has been a bummer of a year on many fronts. Without trying to be too cute, however, there are many things to be thankful for in this year of trauma. First of all, if you are reading this, you are alive, and presumably well, so that is a good start. You are not in a hospital on a ventilator at death’s door where far too many have been this year. You still have a job when so many are without. Hopefully, you have not lost a family member to COVID, or a close friend, which we can be thankful for. But I am sure many of you have lost residents and... Read More »
PGIM Closes Freddie Mac Financing For Colorado Community
A Denver-area senior living community refinanced with a Freddie Mac loan arranged by PGIM Real Estate. Spectrum Retirement Communities developed the community in 2009 and has been operating it ever since. It currently features 130 independent living, 60 assisted living and 18 memory care units. Amenities include a beauty sale, bistro, fitness center, lounges and a movie theater. To take out a previous PGIM loan, Trace Wilson, who led the transaction on PGIM’s behalf, secured a $60 million loan with a 10-year term, five years of interest only and a 30-year amortization period. There was also a floating rate. Read More »
Bridge Loan Closed in Boonville, New York
Greystone has provided a $10.37 million bridge loan for the refinance of a skilled nursing facility in Boonville, New York, about 25 miles north of Utica. Opened in 1947 but expanded in 1958, 1964 and 1985, the facility features 120 beds and an outpatient occupational therapy program. It was renovated in 2008 and now consists of 54 semiprivate and 12 private units in one story. It is the only skilled nursing facility in a 15-mile radius. The facility’s third-generation family owner/operator wished to refinance existing recourse senior debt and eventually obtain a permanent mortgage, so they worked with Greystone’s Fred Levine to secure a $10.37 million bridge loan. That came with a... Read More »
Truist Provides Refinance to National Senior Campuses
The Obligated Group of National Senior Campuses, Inc. (Obligated Group), which consists of five large CCRCs located throughout the Mid-Atlantic and New England, is currently embarking on a $517 million refinancing that will replace existing debt with long-term financing. Truist Financial Corporation announced that it provided a $136 million loan as part of the package. The communities feature a total of 7,731 independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units and are located in New Jersey (Pompton Plains and Tinton Falls), Pennsylvania (Warminster), Massachusetts (Peabody) and Virginia (Springfield). They are owned by the... Read More »
Senior Care Stocks Stay High After Vaccine News
After Pfizer’s vaccine announcement on November 9, pretty much every publicly traded senior care provider and REIT saw their share prices jump significantly. We believe that much of the exuberance was mainly from the removal of uncertainty surrounding both the vaccine and the election, but as we said earlier this month, it is not like no one thought a vaccine would not be available in the months ahead. And there was still the fact that the Pfizer vaccine needs to go through the FDA approval process, not to mention manufacturing tens of millions of doses, and then distributing them. But we also wondered if investors had gotten a little ahead of themselves,... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Adds Skilled Nursing Portfolio
The skilled nursing portfolio deals keep on coming, this time from a familiar source. CareTrust REIT announced its acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities in Texas, around the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. Totaling 554 skilled nursing beds and 24 assisted living beds, they are currently leased to operating affiliates of The Ensign Group, and have been since Ensign took over operations more than a year ago from Senior Care Centers, which was going through bankruptcy proceedings at the time. The facilities include Beacon Harbor Healthcare & Rehabilitation in Rockwall, Rowlett Health & Rehabilitation Center in Rowlett, Crestwood Health & Rehabilitation in Wills Point and... Read More »
CIBC Finances New Jersey SNF Acquisition
There was another acquisition financing closed by CIBC Bank USA, following the bank’s funding of an Indiana skilled nursing portfolio acquisition and cash-out refinance of a SNF in eastern Kentucky earlier this month. The recent transaction was arranged for a 55-bed skilled nursing facility in northeastern New Jersey. With an effective age of 10 years and occupancy in the 90% range, the facility was operating strongly at EBITDAR margins around 15%. That makes for quite a desirable acquisition. So, a local operator that had been leasing the facility bought it for an undisclosed price but utilizing a $6.3 million acquisition loan from CIBC. As a result of the... Read More »
Benchmark Senior Living Acquires New Hampshire Seacoast Senior Living
Benchmark Senior Living added to its Northeast portfolio with the acquisition of an assisted living community that has been in operation in Rye, New Hampshire for over 20 years. The property last sold in 2017, when EvoLve Senior Living acquired it for $12 million, or $300,000 per unit, with the help of a $10 million mortgage provided by National Health Investors. That loan featured an initial term of five years with renewal options and an interest rate of 8.0%, which NHI funded from its revolving credit facility. Built in 2013, it features 40 units with 64 licensed beds of memory care. It was developed by Sanctuary Care for approximately $13 million and is licensed for 64 beds. However,... Read More »Schedule a demo
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