• 60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Is on a Roll

    Welltower came out with its first quarter earnings on Tuesday, and surprise, surprise, it was yet another great quarter, and its share price jumped 3.5% immediately upon the news. It was the tenth consecutive quarter in which same store SHOP NOI growth exceeded 20%, at 21.7% in the first quarter. Guidance for same store NOI growth also rose by... Read More »
  • DHC Closes Freddie Mac Financing

    Diversified Healthcare Trust closed a nine-figure Freddie Mac financing secured by seven seniors housing communities in five states. Totaling 1,184 units, the assets are managed by Five Star Senior Living, the operating division of AlerisLife Inc.  The $109 million loan comes with a 10-year term and a 6.22% fixed interest rate, with interest... Read More »
  • CFG Provides Interim Financing

    Last month, Capital Funding Group closed a $53.4 million bridge-to-HUD loan, providing interim financing to facilitate the refinancing of a maturing loan supporting two skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Victorville, California. CFG intends to refinance the loan into permanent, long-term debt through HUD. Patrick... Read More »
  • Greystone Provides Bridge Financing to Oxford Capital Group

    Greystone provided $41 million in bridge financing to Oxford Capital Group for the acquisition of six assisted living communities totaling 372 beds in Minnesota. The financing was originated by Christopher Clare with assistance from David Young, Ryan Harkins, Ben Rubin, Parker Nielsen and Liam Gallagher. Greystone’s $41 million interest-only,... Read More »
  • Multifamily Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty facilitated the sale of a RCAC in Northeast Wisconsin on behalf of a long-term operator. The RCAC had been family owned/operated since inception, and the seller decided to pass the torch and enter retirement. Purpose built in 2014 and expanded in 2017, this well-maintained community features 19 individual... Read More »
Trust In Arbor Realty Trust

Trust In Arbor Realty Trust

It was revealed that Arbor Realty Trust funded the recent acquisition of a 440-bed skilled nursing facility in Syracuse, New York. Alexander Kaushansky of Arbor worked on behalf of the borrower, VestraCare, to arrange a $41.6 million bridge loan, with Evan Goldenberg of EBEX Holdings and Ari Dobkin of Meridian Capital Group also assisting in the financing. The facility had a history of operational challenges, but since being acquired in 2015 by a partnership between a New-Jersey based skilled nursing operator and an Illinois lawyer, occupancy had improved from 64% to 89% in just a year. Now, VestraCare, which is controlled by Long Island-based Edward Farbenblum, is taking over at a cost of... Read More »
Wingate Healthcare Gets Financing From Gemino Healthcare Finance

Wingate Healthcare Gets Financing From Gemino Healthcare Finance

Gemino Healthcare Finance, a specialty finance company and portfolio company of Solar Senior Capital Ltd. that is focused on providing senior secured loans to healthcare service providers, recently funded a $6 million senior secured credit facility on behalf of an affiliate of New England senior living operator, Wingate Healthcare. Family-owned for nearly 30 years, Wingate operates over 35 senior living communities mostly in Massachusetts (where it is based) but also in New York and Rhode Island. The company used the loan proceeds to pay off existing debt and for working capital purposes, gaining additional liquidity as it continues to grow. Read More »
Will New Records Be Set in 2018?

Will New Records Be Set in 2018?

On Thursday, February 15, our Editor Steve Monroe moderated a 90-minute webinar titled “Will New Records Be Set? The Numbers, the Deals, the Stats on all Seniors Housing and Care M&A,” with a panel of experts to discuss the 2017 seniors housing and care M&A market, with pricing statistics from our upcoming Senior Care Acquisition Report, to be published next month. There were a few records set in 2017 (for details on those records, check out either the webinar or the Report), but with labor, occupancy, overdevelopment and interest rate headwinds facing the seniors housing and care industry, would that robust M&A market continue into 2018? That’s what our panel of experts,... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Southern Illinois Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments Sells Southern Illinois Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments is on a tear in 2018, having just closed a portfolio sale in southern Illinois on behalf of the independent owner/operator seller after already closing three other deals earlier this month. The “Legacy Place” portfolio consists of four assisted living/memory care communities and 200 total units (149 AL and 51 MC) spread out across southern Illinois. Each community was purpose-built in the last eight years and operated well, with a combined 95% occupancy, 100% private pay census and 34.3% EBITDAR margin on approximately $7.72 million of trailing revenues, portfolio-wide. A regional owner/operator stepped in as the buyer, paying $32.63 million, or about $163,000 per... Read More »
Partnership Purchases Signature HealthCARE-Operated Skilled Nursing Facility

Partnership Purchases Signature HealthCARE-Operated Skilled Nursing Facility

A Signature HealthCARE-operated property was divested by a publicly traded REIT owner, amid rumors that Signature has recently had issues making payments to its REIT landlords. Located outside of Tampa, Florida, the 120-bed skilled nursing facility was built in 1983, renovated in 2009 and was well maintained. It was ideally located, a few blocks from a major hospital, but census issues and escalating liability insurance costs affected operations. Trent Gherardini, Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented the seller and led a bidding process that yielded 13 qualified offers. A partnership between a high-net-worth investor and an experienced... Read More »
Marcus & Millichap’s Latest Team Effort

Marcus & Millichap’s Latest Team Effort

A 60-unit assisted living community traded in Pensacola, Florida, with Marcus & Millichap involved on both sides of the transaction. Brooks Mindord (out of the Miami office) and Rob Reis (based in San Francisco) represented the limited liability company seller, while Rod Llanos (in the Houston office) secured and represented the buyer, a private investment group from Texas. The target, which is licensed for 85 beds, was over 90% occupied as of January 2018 and operated at a 28% margin on approximately $1.8 million of revenues. It sold for $7.0 million, or about $117,000 per unit, with a cap rate of 7.1%. Read More »
Assisted Living Prices Hit Record

Assisted Living Prices Hit Record

Despite multiple headwinds, assisted living prices hit record levels in 2017, while skilled nursing facility prices slumped for the first time in six years. There is an interesting phenomenon going on right now in the seniors housing and care acquisition market. Both the skilled nursing sector and the private pay seniors housing side of the business are facing multiple headwinds.  Yet, one side is seeing prices decline while the other keeps on going up, setting some new records on the way. Last year, after five straight years of rising prices, the average price per bed for skilled nursing facilities plunged by 18% to $81,350. Your first question might be, what took so long? The average cap... Read More »
Invesque Invests In Dallas-Area Memory Care Communities

Invesque Invests In Dallas-Area Memory Care Communities

Invesque Inc. (formerly Mainstreet Health Investments) followed up on the completion of its acquisition of Care Investment Trust earlier this month by closing on three memory care communities in the Dallas, Texas area for $21.5 million, or about $188,600 per unit. All three communities total 114 units and are fully stabilized, with all private pay residents. Invesque added the properties to a new absolute net master lease agreement with Constant Care Management Company, featuring an initial 15-year term and two five-year extension options. The relationship doesn’t stop there, with Invesque also receiving a first right to fund and acquire the next three seniors housing projects developed... Read More »
HFF Posts Another Texas Post-Acute Facility Sale

HFF Posts Another Texas Post-Acute Facility Sale

Having just handled the sale of a 140-bed post-acute care facility in the Austin, Texas area, HFF’s David Fasano, Ryan Maconachy and Chad Lavender represented a different owner in the sale of its 144-bed skilled nursing facility near San Antonio’s Medical Center district. Built in 2008, the facility was owned by Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors and leased to Senior Care Centers. There are more than 4,300 licensed hospital beds within a three-mile radius of the facility, making it a prime target. HFF procured an affiliate of O&M Investments, LLC as the buyer, which was coming off of a strong 2017 when it announced three skilled nursing acquisitions in Ohio (2) and Tennessee after... Read More »
Shenandoah SNF Sells

Shenandoah SNF Sells

A skilled nursing facility in the Shenandoah Valley changed hands with the help of Andrew Hilding, Charlie Hilding, Josh Jandris and Mark Myers of IPA Seniors Housing. Featuring 120 licensed beds, the facility was the last long-term care facility of the regional owner/operator, which still maintains a significant senior living portfolio in the area. A private investor with a senior care portfolio in the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast stepped in as the buyer, with hopes of benefitting from the property’s Medicaid reimbursement potential. The purchase price was not disclosed. Read More »
Another Big Sale For Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Another Big Sale For Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Fresh off their top spot in our 2017 broker rankings (in terms of number of deals, properties and units/beds transacted), Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors seems to be eyeing that top spot for 2018 too, announcing that it represented a public REIT in its recent disposition of 20 Genesis Healthcare-operated skilled nursing facilities. The REIT ended up being Sabra Health Care REIT, and the deal itself doesn’t come as a surprise, as Sabra announced earlier in 2017 that, in an attempt to diversify its operator base (and lessen its share of Genesis properties), it was marketing for sale 35 properties under a memorandum of understanding with Genesis. These 20 facilities (part of the... Read More »