• 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 »
Blueprint Handles Tacoma, Washington Transaction

Blueprint Handles Tacoma, Washington Transaction

A well performing assisted living community in Tacoma, Washington found a new owner with the help of Dan Mahoney and Blake Bozett of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. The seller has owned and operated the community for two decades, and is leaving behind a community with strong operations and cash flow. The 110-unit community caters to the middle market.   Blueprint sourced a number of small owner/operators in Washington to take over and eventually found a local company with two other Tacoma communities. They worked with Harvest Bank to secure acquisition financing at 85% of the purchase price, which was not disclosed. The buyer plans to utilize its economies of scale in the Tacoma... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Tennessee Senior Living Community

CBRE Refinances Tennessee Senior Living Community

The team at CBRE was in tune working through a Freddie Mac refinance of a senior living campus in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Nashville MSA). According to our public M&A database, Deal Search Online, the borrower, a joint venture between Venue Capital LLC and Inspirit Senior Living, acquired the property from a local doctor and operator in January 2018 for $12.45 million, or $132,500 per unit. Built in 2001 with 68 assisted living and 26 memory care units, the community was around 85% occupied and operated at a 22% margin on $4.03 million of revenues at the time of that sale.   There was an opportunity to especially improve the memory care census, so in came Inspirit and Venue... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending October 9, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending October 9, 2020

The start of the fourth quarter came with a slew of senior care M&A closings, check out our recent deal chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Real estate investor3 skilled nursing facilities in Houston, TX area$27 million Capri CommunitiesAster Senior Communities of Cottage Grove & Drumlin ResidenceN/A Private buyerRockport Senior Living$4.8 million Regional owner/operatorAmara Place$5.5... Read More »
McFarlin Group Raises Fund For Distressed Debt Deals

McFarlin Group Raises Fund For Distressed Debt Deals

One result of the pandemic that we are sure of will be a rise in the number of sales for distressed assets in the next couple of years. Many communities that were already struggling before COVID-19, because of overbuilding, increased labor costs and other factors, will certainly have difficulty generating the cash flow necessary to service their debt or lease obligations, especially if the occupancy recovery is as slow as some at the NIC Conference are estimating. One company, McFarlin Group, has already announced that they will be committing $100 million to the purchase of distressed loans for seniors housing communities and has so far closed on two deals.  McFarlin Group, which was... Read More »
SLIB Closes Columbia, South Carolina Transaction

SLIB Closes Columbia, South Carolina Transaction

Bradley Clousing and Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a senior living community in Columbia, South Carolina. Its private partnership owner was looking to exit the sector, which prompted the transaction.   Originally built in 1996, this community was extensively renovated in 2006, 2013 and finally 2016, the last of which saw $2 million invested. It now features 38 independent living, 32 assisted living and 22 memory care units, with a full range of amenities and an attractive physical plant. There are seven buildings on the 6.86-acre site. Occupancy was just 66%, while the community operated at an 8% margin on nearly $2.1 million of... Read More »
Blueprint Sells SNF Portfolio in Receivership

Blueprint Sells SNF Portfolio in Receivership

After already serving as interim manager of a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities in receivership, an East Coast-based skilled nursing operator found a capital partner to acquire the portfolio. Steve Thomes, Chris Hyldahl and Gideon Orion of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors were engaged by the Massachusetts-based court-appointed receiver to handle the sales process.   All built between 1967 and 1975, these facilities total 572 beds and are located throughout eastern Massachusetts. Following a slight rebound in operations when the current operator stepped into its role in mid-2019, COVID-19 negatively impacted operations across the portfolio (no surprise there given the... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Announces Two Deals

Evans Senior Investments Announces Two Deals

Evans Senior Investments kicked off the fourth quarter with a couple of deals involving seniors housing properties. The first involved a 154-unit campus in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin that has grown over the last 15 years to include 60 independent living, 70 assisted living and 24 memory care units. It initially opened in 2006 with the AL community, then added the memory care in 2016 and finally the independent living community in January 2018. Occupancy exceeded 93% across the campus for the past few years, and even higher at the brand-new IL portion.   Revenues and EBITDAR consistently hovered over $6 million and $2.2 million on an annualized basis, respectively, although we imagine there... Read More »
Helios Handles Houston-Area Portfolio Deal

Helios Handles Houston-Area Portfolio Deal

A skilled nursing portfolio located around the Houston, Texas metro area with some operational and financial struggles found a new owner and operator with the help of the team at Helios Healthcare Advisors. Totaling 390 beds, these facilities were built in the last 10 years by the seller, a regional developer. However, newer vintage is no guarantee for successful operations, and the regional operator that leased the facilities faced difficulty maintaining high census and a good quality mix. There were also some clinical issues that further depressed referrals. These problems resulted in negative lease coverage and cash flow at the time of the sale.  So, Helios sourced a real estate... Read More »
Wishing Tom Well(tower)

Wishing Tom Well(tower)

An unexpected announcement by Welltower that CEO Tom DeRosa stepped down with COO Shankh Mitra named as his replacement. I was not the only one surprised by Welltower’s announcement that CEO Tom DeRosa was stepping down effective immediately. My cell phone was buzzing Monday night with questions, mostly centered around why. Whatever the reason, we wish him well. No one was surprised, however, that COO, Vice Chair and Chief Investment Officer Shankh Mitra has been named as CEO, but will retain his CIO role. He has been spearheading the REIT’s portfolio realignment the past two years, a process that has given Welltower $2.2 billion of cash on its balance sheet and a revolver with $3.0... Read More »
Blueprint Sells SNF Portfolio in Receivership

CBRE Handles Sarasota-Area Sale and Financing

It was all hands on deck at CBRE for the sale of an Englewood, Florida (Sarasota MSA) senior living community. We wrote about the deal earlier this week when Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF) announced its acquisition of the property. Featuring 118 units of assisted living and memory care, this community opened in 2017. It is located just minutes from the water and a number of shopping centers and medical facilities. There is also an adjacent 50-acre plot that CPF also acquired to add independent living units and cottages. After leasing up at a rate of approximately six move-ins per month until stabilizing in 2019, the community was 93% occupied at the time of closing. Grace Management will... Read More »
Sinai Residences of Boca Raton Embarks on IL Expansion

Sinai Residences of Boca Raton Embarks on IL Expansion

Sinai Residences of Boca Raton, a 366-bed/unit CCRC in southeast Florida managed by Life Care Services, obtained a large bond financing to fund an independent living expansion that will grow its IL offering by nearly 50%. Just four years ago, the community opened with 234 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 24 memory care units and a 60-bed skilled nursing facility, all at a cost of $265 million, or nearly $725,000 per unit/bed.   Upon the ribbon cutting, all of the IL residences were already sold, and about $90 million of entrance fee principal redemption bonds helped fund the project in addition to another $124 million fixed-rate bond financing, both arranged by HJ Sims.... Read More »