Ensign Adds Two Colorado Skilled Nursing Operators

Ensign Adds Two Colorado Skilled Nursing Operators

The Ensign Group added a couple of Colorado skilled nursing facilities to its portfolio. Both located in Commerce City (Denver area), the facilities include a 105-bed SNF (Ridgeview Post Acute) and an 83-bed SNF (Irondale Post Acute). The deal included just the operations of the facilities, bringing Ensign’s portfolio to 216 skilled nursing operations. The company has stated it wishes to own more of the real estate in its portfolio, and currently does at 91 facilities, but if a deal makes sense, why not? Ensign’s Colorado-based subsidiary Endura Healthcare took over management subject to long-term, triple-net leases effective March 1. Read More »
Love Funding Secures HUD Construction Financing For New Jersey Projects

Love Funding Secures HUD Construction Financing For New Jersey Projects

Love Funding arranged financing for the construction of two new senior apartment buildings in Paterson, New Jersey. Love’s Leonard Lucas (say that five times fast) secured the HUD loans which totaled $55.6 million and came with low rates for the duration of construction and for a subsequent 40-year term. One location will feature 81 units in four stories, with two elevators, that will also offer a community room with a kitchen, on-site management and maintenance offices, lounge areas, an outdoor patio and garden space. A central laundry facility will be located on each floor. Social services will also be provided on-site via the Housing Authority of the City of Paterson, as well as... Read More »
Assisted Living Values Break Record

Assisted Living Values Break Record

With cheap and abundant capital in hand, and plenty of brand-new properties built during the recent construction boom hitting the M&A market in 2019, buyers pushed assisted living values to the highest per-unit average ever recorded. The average price for assisted living communities rose to $248,400 per unit, or 33% higher than 2018’s average of $186,400 per unit and 12% higher than the previous high of $221,250 per unit in 2017, according the the Senior Care Acquisition Report. The median price per unit also reached a new high of $233,183 per unit, or 54% higher than 2018’s median and 8% higher than 2017’s. So, what explains this significant jump? First, investor interest in seniors... Read More »
Reis Sells Stockton, California SNF

Reis Sells Stockton, California SNF

Rob Reis of Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a 75-bed skilled nursing facility in Stockton, California, yielding multiple offers and ultimately closing over the asking price at $8.3 million, or $110,700 per bed. Mr. Reis represented the seller, a local single-asset owner that decided to sell the property to a new partnership looking to do business in California. Built in 1989 and renovated in 2009, the facility was occupied in the high-80s, with a quality mix around 20%. There are three private rooms and 36 semiprivate rooms on a 1.77-acre lot. It operated at a 15% margin on nearly $8 million of revenues and, under the previous tenant, generated more than $710,000 in triple-net... Read More »
Ziegler Finances Wingate Healthcare Acquisition

Ziegler Finances Wingate Healthcare Acquisition

Ziegler successfully closed $42.5 million in rental senior housing bonds, consisting of both taxable and tax-exempt bonds, to support Wingate Healthcare’s acquisition of two senior living communities in New England. The Pittsfield, Massachusetts community has 125 beds in 118 units, while the Providence, Rhode Island community has 96 beds in 93 units. Both offer assisted living and memory care services and were previously operated and leased by an affiliate of Wingate, which should make for an easier ownership transition. Wingate will also reposition the properties, including converting the previously closed skilled nursing beds at the Providence property into early-stage memory care units... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Closes Two Refinances

Live Oak Bank Closes Two Refinances

A couple of senior living communities refinanced with the help of the team at Live Oak Bank . In the first deal, KSL Seniors, a developer/owner focused on the western United States, secured a five-year loan with a floating interest rate to refinance its newly built 71-unit assisted living/memory care community in Greely, Colorado. Opened in Q4:19, the property is operated by Cadence Senior Living and offers common areas and amenities with an appeal to not only the community’s residents, but their extended families. The loan totaled $8.1 million and took out a construction line of credit. It also allowed KSL to recapture a line of credit capacity to pursue future projects. Then, Live Oak... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard’s Recent Fannie Mae Activity

Lancaster Pollard’s Recent Fannie Mae Activity

Lancaster Pollard secured two Fannie Mae financings for senior living clients across the country. The first was an $11 million fixed-rate loan provided to a senior living community in Dover, Pennsylvania (York County). Featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care services, the one-story community has amenities such as gazebos, walking paths, a café and therapy suite offering occupational, physical and speech therapies. Miles Kingston, Doug Harper and Casey Moore led the transaction. Then, Messrs. Moore and Harper were joined by Grant Goodman to arrange a $7.2 million loan for a memory care community in Edmonds, Washington (Seattle MSA). Operated by Northwest Care... Read More »
PMB Turns Copper Into Gold

PMB Turns Copper Into Gold

What do you do with a former copper mill that once produced 25% of the world’s copper but also produced substantial toxic waste? Well, after 30 years of remediation and being removed as an EPA Superfund site, you build a luxury senior living community, of course. That is exactly what San Diego-based PMB, a healthcare real estate developer and GenCare Lifestyle are planning in Tacoma, Washington.  The two companies are developing GenCare Lifestyle at Point Ruston, a 144,000 square foot retirement community with 155 units. It is located in a mixed-use waterfront resort-inspired village on the southern edge of Puget Sound in Point Ruston, a master-planned urban... Read More »
Milwaukee Senior Care Complex Sells

Milwaukee Senior Care Complex Sells

A large (67,000 square feet) and old (built-in 1964) Residential Care Apartment Complex (“RCAC”) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sold after falling on hard times. Known as St. Clare Terrace, it is made up of 59 units in a large building that sits on 2.4 acres. At the time of sale, occupancy was just 64%.  The property was placed into receivership after the former not-for-profit owner/operator defaulted on their outstanding bonds. The receiver appointed BAKA Enterprises to manage the community until it was sold. Annualized revenues were just under $1.1 million, which would put average monthly rates close to $2,400. Before debt payments, there was a negative cash flow of about $175,000.   Next... Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT’s Private Pay Push

Sabra Health Care REIT’s Private Pay Push

Sabra Health Care REIT has another 10 months to pull the trigger on its purchase option to buy the remaining 51% of Enlivant still owned by private equity giant TPG. Sabra closed on its 49% interest at the beginning of 2018, when occupancy at Enlivant was just 82%. This was a sharp improvement from the 60% census when TPG hired financially and operationally distressed Assisted Living Concepts in 2013. TPG brought in Jack Callison to run it and turn it around. Going from 60% to 82% in less than five years was no small feat, especially after the bridges that the former ALC management burned with several state regulators.  When Sabra bought its 49%... Read More »