Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending February 15, 2019
Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice LTC Properties, Inc.English Meadows Abingdon Campus$17 million Rosemont Healthcare Group LLC7 skilled nursing facilities$70 million CareTrust REIT, Inc.4 skilled nursing facilities$43.5 million CareTrust REIT, Inc.Metron of Forest Hills$4.36... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Continues Growth Strategy with Covenant Care
While many REITs have been net sellers in the last couple of years, especially in the skilled nursing market, CareTrust REIT has been quite the opposite, growing its portfolio to nearly 200 healthcare properties by the start of 2019. In its latest deal, the REIT announced a large sale/leaseback acquisition in the state of California. Involving four skilled nursing facilities and 503 beds, this portfolio has been owned and operated by Covenant Care. CareTrust already had a relationship with Covenant, having previously acquired two other skilled nursing and assisted living assets from a private landlord in 2016 and leased them back to the California-based operator under three separate... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Shows Off Its Variety
Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company is keeping busy, having announced two transactions for senior care assets in the Midwest. First, Brad Competty, Casey Moore and Doug Harper closed a $42 million Fannie Mae loan with a 12-year term and fixed interest rate for a CCRC client. Mr. Competty and Brendan Healy followed that up with a HUD refinance for two senior care properties in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by Riverview Health, the properties getting refinanced include a 176-bed skilled nursing facility and a 196-bed SNF. Riverview was also reimbursed for prior capital expenditures and replacement reserves. Finally, Lancaster Pollard arranged a bridge loan to fund the acquisition of a 125-bed... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s All-Agency Transaction Trifecta
The Walker & Dunlop team of Kevin Giusti, Michael Davis and Jeff Ringwald ran the agency gamut this month, closing one Freddie Mac, one Fannie Mae and one HUD loan, all totaling $42.6 million. W&D started with a $13.5 million refinance closed through Freddie Mac for a brand-new, 52-unit memory care community in Springfield, Oregon. The borrower, Onelife Investments was able to recapitalize 100% of its equity and obtained a 15-year loan with a fixed rate. Next, another recently-built senior living community refinanced with Fannie Mae, thanks to the Walker & Dunlop team. Operated by Avista Senior Living, the 108-unit assisted living community opened in 2017 within a larger active... Read More »
IPA Sells “A” Property in California
High-quality “A” level assisted living communities may have taken a back seat to the “B” properties in the 2018 M&A market, according to new statistics in our soon-to-be-published Seniors Housing Acquisition and Investment Report, but the team at IPA Seniors Housing (a division of Marcus & Millichap) sold one in a Sacramento, California suburb. Opened in September 2015, it was previously owned by a family company based in the Northwest. Its 85 assisted living and 32 memory care units were occupied in the mid-90s, and the community produces strong cash flow. An owner/operator with a strong presence on the West Coast that was looking to add high-end assets to its portfolio ended up... Read More »
Capital One Finances Caddis Construction Project
A large senior living community being developed by Caddis in partnership with operator Solvere Senior Living is going up in Venice, Florida thanks in part to a construction loan provided by Capital One. Totaling $35.7 million, the loan will finance the 181-unit project, which will feature independent living, assisted living and memory care services upon completion in Summer 2020. Although managed by Solvere, the three-story community will operate under Caddis’ “Heartis” brand. It boasts water views, and will feature large common areas, a beauty/barber shop and game rooms, among other amenities. Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield’s Strong Start to February
Cushman & Wakefield’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team has been closing a lot of business in the shortest month of the year, negotiating the sale of a couple of portfolio transactions on opposite sides of the country. First, out West, the team of Rick Swartz and Jay Wagner advised Focus Healthcare Partners in their sale of two seniors housing communities in Portland, Oregon. Including a 127-unit independent living community built in 2006 and a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community built in 2007, these communities both recently received significant capital improvements. The AL community interestingly was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company went into... Read More »
Blueprint Keeps the Closings Coming
Fresh off them taking the top spot in our broker rankings for number of deals closed in 2018 (with 85), Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced a slew of transactions at the start of February, including two large portfolio sales. First, Ben Firestone and Michael Segal handled the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in northeast Wisconsin as part of a larger portfolio restructuring by the publicly traded REIT seller. Totaling 250 beds, the facilities were the only ones managed by the national operator in the state of Wisconsin, which prompted the sale. One location in downtown Green Bay is the largest licensed SNF in its market with 136 beds, while the other 114-bed facility... Read More »
Dwight Capital Dials in On Bridge Lending
Dwight Capital closed over $80 million in healthcare transactions in the last couple of months. The closings included four bridge loans arranged for skilled nursing facilities across the country. A large 240-bed SNF in Memphis, Tennessee obtained the largest one totaling $22.7 million, while a 109-bed facility in Atlanta, Georgia and an 82-bed SNF in Salina, Kansas received $5.3 million and $3.7 million loans, respectively. Dwight wrapped up its bridge activity with a $13.2 million arranged on behalf of two skilled nursing facilities with 256 combined beds in Ohio. Dwight Capital spread its wings and secured several other types of loans in the same span. The team refinanced a 90-bed... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Closes in Connecticut
Evans Senior Investments traveled to Danbury, Connecticut to sell an assisted living community with a lot of room for improvement, operationally. Built in 2000, the 48-unit community was independently owned and operated but ran with unusually high expenses. Cash flow was still positive, but the operating margin fell just below 12%. Occupancy averaged 85% over the last 12 months, with a 100% private pay census. The new Maryland-based owner/operator expects to immediately improve profitability and paid $9.75 million, or $203,000 per unit, for the property. Read More »Schedule a demo
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