• Berkadia Secures Large Portfolio Refinance

    Berkadia closed $627.2 million in agency financing for Project Raven. Project Raven is a 35-asset seniors housing portfolio with 4,395 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The portfolio spans 15 states. Austin Sacco, Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld handled the financing on behalf of an institutional borrower.... Read More »
  • What Does Brookdale’s Proxy Fight Cost?

    It seems that hardly a day goes by without yet another SEC filing by Brookdale Senior Living detailing why its slate of Board candidates is far better for shareholders than the slate submitted by activist investor Ortelius Advisors. But how much are they spending on this? It would be nice to know, and we are sure shareholders would rather have... Read More »
  • Do We Hear $30 Per Hour as the New Minimum Wage?

    We know we have the People’s Republic of California, and after New York’s Democratic Party primary, we may have the People’s Republic of New York City by November. The surprise winner of the primary was 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani. He is a self-professed Socialist, and more. In addition to free bussing, freezes on apartment rents, higher taxes on... Read More »
  • BMO and TCG Refinance Florida CCRC

    BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group acted as sole lender on a real estate term loan refinancing for La Posada, a Class-A, 333-unit CCRC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Originally opened in 2014 and with a major renovation and addition completed in 2018, the campus offers independent living (245 units), assisted living (30 units), memory... Read More »
  • 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 »
People on the Move, October 2018

People on the Move, October 2018

After four years of investing in seniors housing communities with Silverstone Health Care Real Estate, an investment platform she co-founded which produced equity returns over of 250%, Stephanie Anderson is now a national sales director with Housing & Healthcare Finance, based in the Boston area. Before Silverstone she was with Health Care REIT, GE Healthcare Finance and Ventas, all of which provided a great background for her new position….Walker & Dunlop has hired Michael Davis as senior vice president in its FHA finance group, who will be working on HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans for W&D’s seniors housing and care clients. Justin Hill has joined JLL Capital Markets as... Read More »
Capital One Refinances Illinois Supportive Living Facility

Capital One Refinances Illinois Supportive Living Facility

Joshua Rosen of Capital One successfully refinanced a large supportive living facility in Des Plaines, Illinois (Chicago MSA). Originally built in 1967 as an independent/supportive living facility, its owners decided to upgrade the independent living portion to assisted living in 2015. They then built a 71-bed skilled nursing wing in 2018, adding to the existing 162 AL and 150 supportive living units. The refinance wasn’t straightforward, as part of the property was in a floodway. But Mr. Rosen identified an opportunity to legally change the survey plat to carve out a floodway, enabling the refinance to continue. The borrower, a repeat Capital One customer, received a $28.4 million HUD... Read More »
Genesis’ Texas Exodus

Genesis’ Texas Exodus

Genesis HealthCare is nearing its total exit from the state of Texas, completing the sale of 16 skilled nursing facilities (15 owned and one leased) in the state. Genesis had also previously exited the operations on another leased facility and now has just seven SNFs under operation in Texas. All are expected to be sold in the fourth quarter of 2018 as part of a greater process by Genesis to divest underperforming or non-strategic assets. Aggregate revenues and EBITDA for the entire Texas portfolio (24 facilities) was approximately $175 million and $7 million, respectively. The exit is expected to reduce indebtedness by about $94 million, a significant step for the company that is still... Read More »
Ensign At It Again

Ensign At It Again

Amid the deal frenzy at the start of October, the ever-prolific Ensign Group (NASDAQ: ENSG) added another seniors housing community to its portfolio. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, the community features 53 assisted living and 20 memory care units. Occupancy was just 74%, but that is typical for an Ensign acquisition. Its subsidiary, Bridgestone Living, acquired both the real estate and operations of the community for an undisclosed price, bringing Ensign’s portfolio to 52 assisted/independent living communities and 186 skilled nursing facilities. Read More »
Near-Record Third Quarter M&A Volume

Near-Record Third Quarter M&A Volume

Heavy demand continues for properties across the seniors housing and care spectrum. I know I have been a little negative on the market in the past year or so, given all the problems we have seen and written about, not to mention peak pricing a year ago. I am not sure how to take it, but I guess people have not been listening. The acquisition activity continues unabated, with back to back quarters with more than 100 announced acquisitions each. This is a very strong market with heavy demand across the seniors housing and care spectrum. With 102 deals in the third quarter, we have now posted 293 transactions through September 30. That puts us on track for a record year, beating out 2015 as... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Rises This Fall

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Rises This Fall

As September turned to October, Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced an impressive run of transactions. First, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito sold two memory care communities in California for $17 million, or $347,000 per unit, with a 9.5% cap rate. With that high price, you might assume the facilities had just opened or were fully occupied, or both. Instead, the communities were built in the mid-1980s (one was renovated in 2001) and were occupied in the mid-80s. They were small too, totaling just 49 units across the two locations (in Menlo Park and Sunnyvale). The operating margin was a solid 32% on nearly $5 million of revenues, and rents were high (close to... Read More »
Not-For-Profits Swap Minnesota Senior Living Communities

Not-For-Profits Swap Minnesota Senior Living Communities

Ray Giannini and John Klement of Marcus & Millichap’s Milwaukee Seniors Housing Group represented a not-for-profit in the sale of its two senior living communities in Buffalo, Minnesota (Minneapolis MSA). The buyer? It was another not-for-profit. The portfolio includes one purpose-built memory care community with 24 units (48 beds) and one repurposed 67-unit assisted living community, both built (or repurposed) in the early-1990s, centrally located and well occupied. They sold for a combined $9.3 million, or $102,200 per unit, with an $11.6% cap rate. Read More »
Ziegler Issues Bonds For Large CCRC Acquisition

Ziegler Issues Bonds For Large CCRC Acquisition

A large CCRC portfolio sold to The Trousdale Foundation, a Boston-based not-for-profit owner/operator, thanks in part to a $200.57 million bond financing arranged by Ziegler. Totaling nearly 1,600 beds and units, the portfolio features three CCRCs in Dayton, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee, and Sebring, Florida, and one skilled nursing/assisted living facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were originally acquired from 2001 to 2011 by the seller, Covington Senior Living. In those transactions, the CCRCs sold for between $35,000 and $40,000 per bed/unit, while the fourth facility was originally purchased for close to $100,000 per bed/unit. The communities are on the older side (built in the 1970s... Read More »
Berkadia Bonanza

Berkadia Bonanza

Berkadia closed over $200 million in loans this month, in both its Proprietary Bridge Lending and Commercial Mortgage platforms. Beginning with its agency transactions, Berkadia’s Jay Healy secured HUD loans totaling over $36 million for two skilled nursing facilities clients. The larger loan, at $29.5 million, was arranged on behalf of a repeat client of Berkadia to retire bridge debt used to acquire three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado, Kansas and Nevada. Acquired in 2017, the facilities total 110 beds and average 94% occupancy. The smaller $6.7 million loan refinanced a 47-bed, 11-year old SNF in New Mexico owned and operated by two other repeat clients of Berkadia. Then, Rafael... Read More »
Is the SNF Market Bottoming Out?

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 »