• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
Benchmark Senior Living Acquires New Hampshire Seacoast Senior Living

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 »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 20, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 20, 2020

Another week, another couple of skilled nursing portfolio deals (plus a few others). Check out our recent senior care M&A deal chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice CareTrust REIT4 skilled nursing facilities in TX$47.6 million Priority Healthcare Group5 skilled nursing facilities in VT$46.6 million United Church Homes, Inc.Harbor Woods Living at Brunswick & Harbor Woods Living at NilesN/A Benchmark Senior LivingEvoLve at... Read More »
The New Skilled Nursing Investment Landscape

The New Skilled Nursing Investment Landscape

How have skilled nursing valuations changed, and when (if ever) will we get back to normal? Those were a couple of key questions in our November 19th webinar titled “Valuing SNFs During The Pandemic.” Our Managing Editor, Steve Monroe, hosted a panel with panelists Laca Wong-Hammond, Managing Director of M&A at Lument, Dan Booth, Chief Operating Officer of Omega Healthcare Investors, and David Reis, Chief Executive Officer of Senior Care Development, in which they discussed a range of topics on how the skilled nursing M&A market has been affected by COVID-19. Another question may be how has the business not changed?  First, looking... Read More »
Merrill Commercial Real Estate Closes Another Oregon Transaction

Merrill Commercial Real Estate Closes Another Oregon Transaction

The second property in the receivership sale of a four-facility portfolio in Oregon has sold, with Mike Merrill of Merrill Commercial Real Estate representing the receiver in the deal. This transaction involved a 69-unit independent living community in North Bend, near Coos Bay where the first property of the portfolio sold in August (handled by Tyler Merrill). In fact, the four properties represented a continuum of care for the local area.   The North Bend community was built in 1986 and its census steadily improved throughout due diligence to reach 80% at the time of the sale. It was bringing in around $340,000 in NOI on approximately $1.74 million of trailing 12-month revenues... Read More »
Harborview Arranges Bridge Financing

Harborview Arranges Bridge Financing

Harborview Capital Partners arranged a bridge-to-HUD loan for a seniors housing community in Oregon. The property consists of 55 beds of assisted living and memory care. It received a $10.275 million loan, which comes out to $186,800 per bed.   The loan features a 24-month, interest-only term, with a historically low rate. We know the demand for that sort of relatively cheap debt is out there, but the supply has been hit somewhat by the heightened caution surrounding the pandemic. Eli Osdoba of Harborview originated the transaction.  Read More »
Another Bank Bond Financing From Ziegler

Another Bank Bond Financing From Ziegler

The bank bond financings keep coming from Ziegler, which recently closed another one on behalf of Presbyterian Village North located in Dallas, Texas. The not-for-profit CCRC was originally built in 2007 and now includes 89 buildings with 253 independent living units, 101 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a skilled nursing facility with 106 operating beds and 172 licensed beds, all on a 66-acre campus.   Its sponsor is Presbyterian Communities and Services, Inc., d/b/a Forefront Living, which is planning an expansion project that will include 112 independent living units in a new five-story building, in addition to renovations to the existing campus common... Read More »
Where Are The Gray Panthers?

Where Are The Gray Panthers?

Seniors in and out of seniors housing communities need to mobilize, and AARP has not been doing its job representing their members. Where are the Gray Panthers when you need them? Many of you may not remember this 1970s activist group that got its start when someone really objected to forced retirement at 65. This was a full 50 years ago today. As winter approaches and senior living providers prepare for another round of potential shutdowns, lockdowns, admission and tour bans because this pandemic is not going away, when will our senior citizens rise up and revolt? Senior living communities are “their” homes, and it is about time they stood up and said, hands off our homes. Yes, we... Read More »
Welltower Provides Update Amid COVID Spread

Welltower Provides Update Amid COVID Spread

Once again, we are not picking on Welltower, but as the largest healthcare REIT, and the one with the largest seniors housing owned portfolio (or SHOP/RIDEA), we believe they represent a pretty decent proxy as to what is happening.   Occupancy in its SHOP portfolio has been steadily declining since February, but the rate of decline seemed to be abating. Gone are the days of 100+ basis point monthly drops, but October was the first month where the rate of decline (-40 basis points) actually increased since April. Month to date in November, it has already dropped by another 30 basis points (to 77.7%), so if that trend continues, we could see November at a 50-basis point... Read More »
Private Equity Investor Acquires Dallas Seniors Housing Community

Private Equity Investor Acquires Dallas Seniors Housing Community

Joshua Salzman, Michael Segal and Alex Florea of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented a REIT in its divestment of a 170-unit seniors housing community in Dallas, Texas. Originally built in 1987, community received a thorough renovation in 2013 and additional capital improvements since 2016.   Following a previous operator transition, the REIT owner converted the remaining assisted living units to independent living, resulting in the community being fully focused on independent living. Occupancy had initially dropped after the conversion, but the community was repositioned as an affordable independent living option, and census steadily improved as a... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Reports Active Month

Meridian Capital Group Reports Active Month

The last month has seen the team at Meridian Capital Group close $672.4 million in transaction volume across 56 total properties. Comprising both financings and investment sales, that’s some impressive action. The Meridian team for these transactions comprised Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch and David Gottlieb.  First, Meridian handled the sale of five skilled nursing facilities and 527 beds in Vermont for $46.6 million, or $88,400 per bed. Gleaned from local news reports, the seller was Genesis HealthCare. Four years ago, the large provider acquired the Vermont portfolio for $39 million from Revera, Inc. Located in Bennington,... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 20, 2020

Another Major SNF Acquisition Closes

When it rains, it pours, we suppose. Last week, Eagle Arc Partners acquired a portfolio of 20 skilled nursing facilities in the Southeast, the largest SNF deal that we had seen for some time. Just a day later, Evans Senior Investments announced that it handled the sale of 21 skilled nursing facilities across three separate transactions in three Midwest states. The combined purchase price for the portfolio was $86 million, or around $54,000 per functional bed.  Eleven of the facilities are located in Indiana and combined for 751 licensed skilled nursing beds (692 functional beds) and 109 senior living units. At the time of marketing, average occupancy was around 78%, with total revenues... Read More »