• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »

Dwight Capital Arranges Loan for Long Island Facility

Dwight Capital followed up on a productive Spring to close a bridge loan for a Long Island assisted living community. Sitting on over eight acres in Port Jefferson Station, this community features 181 beds of Medicaid-funded assisted living on the same campus as a 143-bed skilled nursing facility. Kevin Lifshitz from Dwight Capital closed a $12.8 million bridge loan for the community. Read More »
Solvere Living Adds Three More Communities

Solvere Living Adds Three More Communities

After 10 years in business, Solvere Living continues to expand its portfolio of managed senior living communities, recently adding three more in Texas and Florida to bring its total to 15 properties across eight states. The Texas community is located in Plano near three major medical centers. It features 44 assisted living and 21 memory care units on a four-acre campus. Then, Solvere added two Florida facilities. One, with 83 assisted living and 38 memory care units, is located in Jensen Beach (Port St. Lucie area) and features amenities including a pool, salon, spa, putting green and an outdoor entertainment center, among others. There is also an in-house rehabilitation clinic for... Read More »
The Skilled Nursing M&A Market

The Skilled Nursing M&A Market

Have we hit bottom, or will values continue to decline? Join us next Thursday as we try to decipher what the market holds for investors over the next several years. Depending on who you talk to, skilled nursing facility values, and the SNF M&A market in general, are going to be troubled for a while. Or, we have hit bottom, and with the new PDPM reimbursement system starting in a few months, SNFs will claim their rightful spot in the healthcare delivery food chain, with values increasing. That is quite a difference in opinion, and one where billions of dollars are at stake. Next Thursday, we are hosting a webinar on the skilled nursing acquisition market to try to decipher where it is... Read More »
Ventas Doubles Down on Canadian Seniors Housing Market

Ventas Doubles Down on Canadian Seniors Housing Market

The Big-3 REITs are back as buyers, with Ventas making the biggest splash of them all by acquiring 31 senior living communities in Quebec for approximately C$2.4 billion, or US$1.8 billion. Made in an 85/15% partnership with the in-place operator, Le Groupe Maurice, the acquisition is expected to generate compound annual NOI growth of 4% over the next five years. The stabilized portfolio, consisting of 28 communities located in core urban markets, has 7,885 units, an occupancy of 97%, an average age of seven years and more than C$2,600 in monthly revenue per-occupied unit. It certainly helps that the penetration rate for seniors housing in Quebec is twice that of the rest of Canada at 18%.... Read More »
NHI Acquires Discovery Senior Living Portfolio from Kayne Anderson

NHI Acquires Discovery Senior Living Portfolio from Kayne Anderson

National Health Investors, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Discovery Senior Living to acquire six senior living communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana from affiliates of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors. The venture, of which NHI is a 97.5% owner, spent close to $126.850 million, or about $212,800 per unit, on the portfolio that totaled 145 independent living, 356 assisted living and 95 memory care units. Discovery, the existing operator, leased the portfolio under a 10-year agreement, with a 6.5% initial annual cash yield, a CPI-based escalator with a 2% floor and 3% cap beginning in year-two, and two five-year extension options. In addition to the base purchase... Read More »
Matt Alley Closes Another Texas Transaction

Matt Alley Closes Another Texas Transaction

Matt Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage is on a tear in Texas, selling his third skilled nursing facility there in a month. The latest sale involved a value-add SNF in Gainesville selling to a Texas-based owner/operator for $1.5 million, or $17,900 per operational bed. Licensed for 116 beds, this older facility (built in 1971) struggled with local competition and was a geographical outlier for the regional owner/operator seller. Occupancy averaged just 49% in 2018, and the facility operated with just 84 beds, with an 8% margin on about $3.475 million of revenues. However, it has a few things going for it, like being located one mile from North Texas Medical Center of Gainesville,... Read More »
Greystone Acquires St. Augustine SNF

Greystone Acquires St. Augustine SNF

Greystone Healthcare Management Corp. acquired a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in St. Augustine, Florida. Located on eight acres about a mile from Flagler Hospital, the facility received $3 million of renovations to its 24 private and 48 semi-private rooms. That brings Greystone’s north Florida portfolio to four facilities. Read More »
Busy May For Meridian

Busy May For Meridian

Meridian Capital’s Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson are fast closing in on a billion-dollar year in loan closings, and we’re not even halfway through 2019. Across 29 transactions so far, the team has arranged more than $955 million in financing for skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living properties across 18 states. Most notably, Meridian arranged $200 million in bridge financing for more than 25 skilled nursing facilities and over 2,500 beds. There were a couple of construction financings, including a $24 million loan (plus $9.1 million in equity) for a to-be-built 104-bed independent living/assisted living community in Arizona and an $11.5 million loan to fund... Read More »

Did Capital Senior Living Reject Acquisition Offer From TPG?

Fresh off closing its $3.7 billion opportunistic real estate fund this March, TPG may have to wait a bit to make its next big acquisition in the senior living space, as its rumored offers to acquire the struggling Capital Senior Living Corporation have all apparently been rebuffed by the company, according to Bloomberg. The approaches were supposedly made in the past few months. The news, however, caused the CSU share price to jump as much as 24% to $4.47. Considering the company’s four-year trend, falling from a peak of $27.50 in April 2015 to below $4.00 per share in May, there is still a long way to go. But at its current value, a buy-out has to be looking more and more attractive. And... Read More »