Is the SNF Market Bottoming Out?
On September 27, our Editor Steve Monroe and a panel of experts that included Ryan Chase of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, Eli Kutner of Harborview Capital Partners and Stefan Oh of American Healthcare Investors, debated an important question: is the skilled nursing market approaching a bottom? And if it is, how do we value those facilities considering Medicare Advantage plans are shortening lengths of stay, Medicaid reimbursement dollars are getting squeezed and SNF censuses across the country are steadily declining? After hitting a peak of nearly $100,000 per bed in 2016, SNF values have dropped off about 20%. But demand is still high, and new buyers (big buyers) are hitting... Read More »
There’s a New Investor in the Skilled Nursing Market
Northwind Group, a Manhattan-based real estate owner/operator, entered the skilled nursing market in a major way, announcing its $182.5 million acquisition of eight skilled nursing and assisted living properties from a large institutional seller. All of the facilities, which include seven skilled nursing facilities (with 1,037 beds) and one 110-unit assisted living community in Ohio and northern Kentucky, are operated by Ohio-based Carespring Health Care under a new long-term triple-net lease. Occupancy averaged 92% across the portfolio, and revenues topped $100 million. To help fund the deal, KeyBank underwrote and closed a $132.7 million loan, in a transaction led by Henry Alonso and... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Refinances Large Pennsylvania Skilled Nursing Facility
Nearly 10 years after acquiring a large skilled nursing facility in Coal Township, Pennsylvania, Complete Healthcare Resources successfully refinanced the property with the help of Tony Ruberg of Lancaster Pollard. The facility, which features 271 total beds and 115 total units, including eight independent living units, was substantially renovated and added a dementia care wing since the 2009 acquisition. With the $16.8 million HUD loan, Complete Healthcare reduces its overall debt service, improves cash flow and provides funds for future improvements. Read More »
Zom Living Enters the Senior Living Market
A major seniors housing development is about to break ground in Palm Beach County, Florida, after the developers finalized the purchase of a 46-acre plot in a transaction handled by Charlie Hilding, Mark Myers and Josh Jandris of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap. Additionally, Ryan Nee of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office was the broker of record for the transaction. Originally owned by a partnership and entitled for 462 units of seniors housing, the land sold for $23.25 million to a joint venture between Zom Living and Liberty Senior Living. This is multifamily developer Zom’s first seniors housing deal, and North Carolina-based Liberty’s... Read More »
Pricing SNFs After A Market Peak
Average skilled nursing values have dropped by 20% since the market peak in 2016, and by this time next year we will have a new Medicare reimbursement protocol. How will that figure into valuing skilled nursing facilities today? Is the skilled nursing market approaching a bottom? We know when it peaked in terms of acquisition values, and that was in 2016 at $99,000 per bed. But pricing has dropped by 20% since then, despite continued strong demand for nursing facilities. Now, after a few years of Medicare Advantage plans squeezing cash flow by cutting rates and shortening lengths of stay, a new reimbursement system will become effective a year from now. While the industry has responded... Read More »
KeyBank Plays Key Role In Record Oregon Acquisition
A few weeks ago, we reported the closing of the highest-priced single-asset seniors housing sale in the state of Oregon. Now, we’ve learned that KeyBank Real Estate Capital financed it with a $63.2 million Freddie Mac loan, which Charlie Shoop arranged with a fixed rate, 10-year term, four years of interest only and a 30-year amortization period. Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale on behalf of the original developer/owner, eventually securing a $92 million, or $321,700 per unit, purchase price from the buyer, Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust. That represented a 6.4% cap rate based on estimated trailing EBITDAR. Integral Senior Living, the property’s... Read More »
CBRE’s Late-Summer Surge
CBRE’s Aron Will has been on a roll lately, having just closed his fifth transaction in under a month. The latest helped fund the acquisition of four seniors housing communities in the Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana MSAs. They actually represent the stabilized properties within a seven-property portfolio acquisition (totaling 688 units) that CBRE also provided financing for. Totaling 360 units, of which 278 are dedicated to assisted living and the remainder to memory care, the stabilized portfolio has been third-party managed by LCS since 2015 and will continue to be. The buyer, a joint venture between LCS and TH Real Estate, the real estate private equity affiliate of... Read More »
Regions Bank Repeats In Midwest
The Regions Healthcare Real Estate group closed yet another acquisition financing, following its recent Ohio deal that involved a joint venture buying a 100-unit assisted living/memory care community. The latest transaction saw Trilogy Health Services receive a $47.5 million three-year bridge loan to fund its purchase of four senior living campuses and over 400 beds in Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. After a seasoning period, Regions Real Estate Capital will underwrite and permanently finance all the properties with HUD. Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending 9/21/18
Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Local owner/operatorIndependent living community$8.165 million Impact Healthcare REITYew Tree Care Centre$3.66 million Millennium Management LLC2 skilled nursing facilities$29.6 million Local owner/operatorRichman... Read More »
Knapp Group Closes Maryland and Michigan Transactions
The Knapp Group of Marcus & Millichap, led by Jim and Justin Knapp, closed two deals in succession, one in Maryland and one in Michigan. First, after yielding five offers that pushed the selling price $1.75 million over list, Messrs. Knapp sold a 145-bed skilled nursing facility in Burtonsville, Maryland, for around $17.25 million, or just under $119,000 per bed. That price is impressive, considering the 20-year old facility was losing over $500,000 annually. Occupancy was actually above average at 85%, but given that the current average of the national skilled nursing census just plunged to a new record-low of 81.7%, according to NIC, “above average” doesn’t mean what it once did. The... Read More »Schedule a demo
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