• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
REITs Start To Cut Dividends

REITs Start To Cut Dividends

The healthcare Real Estate Investment Trusts have been the hardest hit in our sector during the recent stock market plunge. Many are worried about their own liquidity and drew down on their credit facilities, even if they didn’t need the funds now. Some just went and raised new debt to bolster their liquidity. They are obviously worried about their tenants’ future financial performance, and they know that wages, utilities and food bills have to be paid before rent. One REIT, Ventas (NYSE: VTR), has already offered to defer 25% of April’s rent until October. They had the largest credit facility drawdown of $2.7 billion. May is just a month away, and the environment will surely be... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Closes Two Seattle-Area SNF Sales

Evans Senior Investments Closes Two Seattle-Area SNF Sales

Selling a SNF in Washington State (let alone near Seattle) these days seems like a fruitless task, yet Evans Senior Investments sold two of them (yes, two) in early April. First, in Seattle itself, an East Coast capital group formed a joint venture with a Los Angeles-based operator to acquire a 165-bed facility for $10.5 million, or $64,000 per bed. To add to the deal’s complexity, the facility was placed into receivership in June 2019 after the local not-for-profit owner defaulted on their existing HUD loan.   At the time of the sale, the facility, which was built in 1974, was 77% occupied and was losing over $500,000 in annual NOI. An abundance of contracted staff at the facility... Read More »
Blueprint’s April Activity Continues

Blueprint’s April Activity Continues

Continuing Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ busy deal activity in the last week, which included three skilled nursing closings on April 1st, the team of Amy Sitzman, Dan Mahoney and Blake Bozett sold a 36-unit assisted living community in Kennewick, Washington, in the eastern part of the state. Built in 1995 and featuring all private rooms, the private pay community recently struggled with occupancy because of key leadership turnover.   The seller did work to increase census to over 90% throughout the transaction process, which created some good faith between parties that almost surely allowed for a smooth closing in the middle of the COVID-19... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending April 3, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending April 3, 2020

Yes, deals are still getting done during these times. Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Regional owner/operatorMurray Highland Memory Care$5.2 million Not disclosedWelbrook ArlingtonN/A East Coast capital group/Los Angeles-based operatorof Washington Care Services$10.5 million East Coast capital group/Los Angeles-based operatorHeartwood Extended Healthcare$8 million Regional owner/operatorHallmark House Nursing Center$1.5... Read More »
April Rules for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

April Rules for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Shout out to Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, which closed four deals this week. The deals were likely all but closed in the last month, but buyers and lenders have every reason to hit the pause button. So, to get a deal across the finish line is a feat.   We’ll start with the skilled nursing deals. The team of Christopher Hyldahl, Gideon Orion, Michael Segal and Ben Firestone first sold a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in Kerrville, a central Texas town. It was built in 2006 and enrolled in the Texas Quality Incentive Payment Program (QIPP). Occupancy was in the low-50% range, but cash flow (before the QIPP revenue) was near-stable and trending upwards.   After... Read More »
Senwell Facilitates Two SNF Bed License Sales

Senwell Facilitates Two SNF Bed License Sales

Ben Bohland of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors arranged a couple of skilled nursing bed license sales in the second half of Q1. First in Hamilton County, Ohio, Mr. Bohland sourced beds from two sellers in the area for one of the country’s largest SNF operators that was looking to increase capacity at one of its facilities in the region. The sellers were both downsizing their bed counts, one to repurpose a wing and the other to address low occupancy.   Then in Franklin County, Ohio, Mr. Bohland represented a national seniors housing and care operator in its sale of a number of skilled nursing bed licenses due to a planned repurposing of its building. A regional... Read More »
SLIB Succeeds With Two Recent Closings

SLIB Succeeds With Two Recent Closings

Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced two closings this week, one seniors housing and one skilled nursing. Starting with the SNF, Ryan Saul represented a private California-based owner in the sale of their 71-bed facility in Pekin, Illinois. A regional owner/operator with other facilities in Illinois paid $1.5 million or $21,100 per bed, for the property.  Originally built in 1964, the facility was just 62% occupied at the time of the sale but boasted a 57% quality mix, including a 52% private pay census. Cash flow was negative at the time of the sale on nearly $4.24 million of revenues. The seller had inherited the day-to-day management of the facility from her late... Read More »
Two Industry Veterans Launch New Finance Firm

Two Industry Veterans Launch New Finance Firm

Seniors housing industry veterans Kass Matt and Steve Kennedy, formerly of Lancaster Pollard, have launched a new finance venture, VIUM Capital. It probably wasn’t the timing they were picturing, but a new lender in the senior care world can only help right now.  The company is an independent financial service firm that will be exclusively focused on providing capital to the seniors housing and healthcare sectors, offering HUD/GNMA financing, bridge loans, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loans (as a corresponding lender) and advisory services. The business is up and running across all product lines, and their bank partner will support VIUM’s bridge loan offering. Municipal advisory services for... Read More »
Dwight Capital Closes Two HUD Refinances

Dwight Capital Closes Two HUD Refinances

At the end of March, Dwight Capital announced a HUD refinance of a senior care campus in Andover, Kansas. Built in 2004 and 2010, respectively, the assisted living and skilled nursing buildings feature 164 total beds on 7.2 acres. Clint Miller of Dwight Capital originated a $14 million loan with a 35-year term and amortization to refinance the facility.  Earlier in the month, Dwight Capital’s Kevin Lifshitz also got a HUD financing closed in West Jordan, Utah (Salt Lake City MSA). The target was a Beehive Homes community built in 1996 and 2007 on over 1.5 acres. It currently consists of 50 beds in 50 units and is located less than a mile from Jordan Valley Medical Center. The license... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Finally Reports

Capital Senior Living Finally Reports

After a two-week delay, Capital Senior Living reports fourth quarter results, and a little of first quarter. After delaying its fourth quarter earnings release by two weeks, Capital Senior Living finally produced the results. And they were not as bad as we expected. Phew. To be honest, I was thinking it could be so bad that bankruptcy would be floated as an option. Not this quarter. The bottom line is that the fourth quarter was not good, with same-community year-over-year occupancy declining by 290 basis points to 81.4%, and the operating margin falling by 600 basis points to 29%. Both are very large drops in a 12-month time frame. And both are worse than their peer group. The good news... Read More »
MonticelloAM Funds Large Virginia Acquisition

MonticelloAM Funds Large Virginia Acquisition

MonticelloAM and its affiliates just announced a large first lien debt financing to fund the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in Virginia. The borrower, an experienced owner/operator with an established relationship with Monticello (having received acquisition financing for several other facilities in 2019), obtained $97.2 million in debt, including an $8 million working capital loan provided to its operating companies. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, provided the working capital.   The acquisition featured 856 beds located primarily around Richmond, bringing the owner’s portfolio to a total of 1,155 licensed beds. The... Read More »