• The Lenders Roundtable: A Capital Markets Update

    On Thursday, June 26th, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett sat down with a group of expert panelists to dive into the evolving financing process of M&A deals. Panelists included Dave Boitano, EVP & CIO of LTC Properties, Cary Tremper, President & CEO of Tremper Capital Group, and Patrick Gilbreath, Sr. Relationship... Read More »
  • Maryland Assisted Living Portfolio Trades Hands

    In its first out-of-state transaction, Michigan-based Meiser Commercial Real Estate facilitated the sale of a five-property seniors housing portfolio in the Baltimore, Maryland market, on behalf of a family seller. The portfolio includes 79 assisted living units with 80 beds and was 95% occupied at the time of closing. Renovations were completed... Read More »
  • Distinctive Healthcare Recaps Class-A Naples Community

    Cushman & Wakefield secured an all-cash, $40 million equity raise for the recapitalization of the Seascape at Naples, offering an attractive basis with strong upside potential.  Built in 2018, this Class-A seniors housing community is in Naples, Florida, with 196 independent living, assisted living and memory care units.  John... Read More »
  • Newmark Secures Refinancing for Virginia Class-A Communities

    The Newmark Seniors Housing Team announced the closing of the refinance of two newer-vintage seniors housing communities in Virginia. Both communities saw strong leasing activity during the marketing process, and Newmark closed with a regional bank that provided non-recourse financing at competitive terms. The total loan was around $88... Read More »
  • Financing Secured for New Jersey SNF Acquisition

    MONTICELLOAM announced the financing of a $33.6 million senior bridge loan for the acquisition of a skilled nursing facility in New Jersey. The floating-rate loan has a 30-month initial term for the borrower group, a longstanding client of MONTICELLOAM, that will use the financing towards the purchase of a northeastern New Jersey facility... Read More »
SLIB Heads Southeast to Sell Sunlink SNF

SLIB Heads Southeast to Sell Sunlink SNF

A 100-bed skilled nursing facility in the affluent northern Georgia town of Ellijay was purchased by a private Northeast-based group looking to expand their current Peach State presence. Being the only facility in an area with a growing number of retirees, this SNF was consistently well occupied above 90%. Plus, once the adjacent hospital relocated in 2016, this 50-year old facility was able to expand into much of the old building, adding more resident rooms, a senior day care center, new administrative offices and outpatient rehab. It also operated at a solid 14% margin; pretty good these days. Its previous owner, Sunlink Health Systems Inc., was looking to redeploy capital and focus on... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two Large Skilled Nursing Deals

Blueprint Closes Two Large Skilled Nursing Deals

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors closed a couple of sales in the Old Northwest. First, Amy Sitzman and Michael Segal represented Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society in the not-for-profit’s sale of three Wisconsin skilled nursing facilities. Considered to be non-core, these facilities feature 162 skilled nursing beds, 19 independent living units and 12 age-restricted apartments. They were originally built in 1960s but had maintained a good reputation. In addition, occupancy and quality mix were strong, but despite high per-resident-day revenues, expenses ran too high. Expense management will be the job of the new owner/operator, which is... Read More »
Dwight Capital Stays Active in 2019

Dwight Capital Stays Active in 2019

Dwight Capital has closed a slew of bridge financings in the last couple of months totaling more than $17 million. These transactions included a $3.96 million bridge loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Overland Park, Kansas, a $2.34 million loan for a 32-bed assisted living community in Hinsdale, New York and a $3.77 million acquisition loan for a 116-bed SNF in Cape May Court House, New Jersey that was bought by an owner/operator of several other facilities in the state. Dwight Capital also funded the acquisition of a skilled nursing portfolio in Wisconsin (in a sale led by Amy Sitzman and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors) with a $3.7 million loan... Read More »
Monticello Funds Tennessee SNF Purchase

Monticello Funds Tennessee SNF Purchase

Following up on several other acquisition financings closed on behalf of a previous borrower in the past three years, Monticello Asset Management funded the purchase of two more skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee. Totaling $16 million in first lien debt that Monticello expects to refinance through HUD in the coming years, the transaction was arranged for an experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of more than 3,700 licensed beds. This latest acquisition totaled 303 beds across the two Tennessee locations. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, also provided a $3 million working capital loan to the operating companies. Read More »
Genesis Occupancy Stabilizes, Finally

Genesis Occupancy Stabilizes, Finally

After several years of declining occupancy, operations seem to be stabilizing at the largest skilled nursing provider in the country. It has not been an easy past few years for Genesis Healthcare, or for the entire skilled nursing sector. But we always thought there would be some light at the end of the tunnel, and that nursing facilities would not go away, despite predictions of that for two or three decades. Genesis had seen its occupancy decline pretty steadily for several years. But in the 2018 fourth quarter, census actually increased by 90 basis points from the year-ago quarter, to 85.6% based on operating beds. Genesis also posted sequential and same-facility increases. The company... Read More »
Blueprint Closes New England Assisted Living Sale

Blueprint Closes New England Assisted Living Sale

The husband and wife owners of an assisted living community in Dover, New Hampshire started on their path to retirement with the help of Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Originally a historic colonial home that was converted to assisted living, the unique community still has a bed a breakfast feel to it. However, a local operator/developer saw the chance to refurbish and expand the property, purchasing it for an undisclosed amount. The husband and wife team will remain as the operator under a lease until the development project is completed, at which point operations will transfer to the new real estate owner. The transaction closed with an assist from former... Read More »
Breaking News

Breaking News

Chicago-based JLL announced it is buying HFF, Inc. in a $2 billion cash and stock deal. We wonder whether HFF management was so distraught after the seniors housing team jumped ship two months ago that they just had to sell. All kidding aside, the combination of these two firms will create one sizable company that will compete on many fronts. Read More »
Does Size Matter in Seniors Housing?

Does Size Matter in Seniors Housing?

Last week, we took a look at the relationship between the size of the skilled nursing facility and the price it sold at, according to statistics from our just-published Skilled Nursing Acquisition & Investment Report. And like skilled nursing facilities, the larger the seniors housing property, the higher price paid for it, generally. That is because larger institutional properties can take advantage of scale to boost cash flow and thus its value. In addition, the majority IL communities tend to be large and IL has commanded high prices in most years. There are indeed smaller “boutique” memory care communities that can command a high per-unit price because of the rents they can charge... Read More »
Did Skilled Nursing Investors Pay for Size in 2018?

Did Skilled Nursing Investors Pay for Size in 2018?

The skilled nursing market has been going through many changes in recent years as it adapts to new reimbursement policies, shorter lengths of stay and more medically-complex patients. But did all of that affect what buyers will pay for size in 2018? Well, according to the 2019 Skilled Nursing Acquisition & Investment Report (available soon), there was a perfect correlation between size of nursing facility sold and the average price per bed for the second year in a row. Historically, larger facilities have commanded the higher prices because of their ability to scale, lower the per patient costs and fill beds with Medicaid patients at will. However, those advantages may soon backfire... Read More »
Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge

Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge

Dwight Capital had a busy February for bridge loans, closing four separate loans for more than $13.7 million. The bridge loans included $3.96 million for a 12-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas and a $3.7 million loan for a three-facility, 193-bed portfolio that was sold by a not-for-profit to a repeat client of Dwight Capital. In addition, the Dwight team closed a $3.77 million bridge loan on a 116-bed SNF in New Jersey for a buyer that owns and operates several facilities in the state. Finally, they closed a $2.34 million bridge loan on a 32-bed assisted living community in New York. Once the HUD refinancing is completed, Dwight Capital will be providing a supplemental loan for the... Read More »