Greystone Soars in Upstate New York Sale
A publicly traded REIT divested two of its seniors housing assets in upstate New York, hiring Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors to facilitate the transaction. Located in the towns of Clifton Park (Albany MSA) and Orchard Park (Buffalo MSA), the communities each feature 46 memory care units on roughly five acres. The twin properties were also both built in 1998. Operated by Peregrine Senior Living (which will stay on as operator after the acquisition), they reported strong occupancy, combining for about 94%. A private equity firm paid $17 million, $184,800 per unit, for the pair. Read More »
$196 Million HUD Refinance Closed By Harborview Capital Partners
Harborview Capital Partners arranged a $196 million HUD refinance for a portfolio of 13 skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities. Comprising 1,700 licensed beds, the portfolio is owned by a large regional operator. To replace the existing short-term debt, Ephraim and Jonathan Kutner of Harborview arranged multiple loans with 30 and 35-year terms, adding up to the $196 million. Read More »
Occupancy And Active Adult Communities
Seniors housing occupancy hits a low because of new supply, while active adult communities begin to take off. As you know, occupancy in seniors housing now stands at a low point since the Great Recession, especially on the assisted living side. Eighteen months ago, “the market” was looking for a turn around by the second half of 2018. Not happening. Now it is the second half of 2019, with some looking at 2020. Maybe happening. New supply has obviously had its impact, and people keep on developing. But some developers are moving into what is variously called the 55+ market or “active adult” communities. They are easier to zone, cheaper to build and don’t require much staff, all important... Read More »
IPA Ratifies Constitution State Sale
Charlie Hilding, along with Mark Myers, Joshua Jandris and Alex Vice, of IPA Seniors Housing handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in rural Ohio. Representing the seller, IPA sold the facility, which features over 150 beds and several specialized care services (including a designated ventilator unit), for nearly $165,000 per occupied bed and approximately $116,000 per licensed bed, which is especially high for a rural location. The buyer is a growing regional owner/operator that is entering the Ohio market with this purchase. They recently purchased their first facility, an 80+ bed skilled nursing facility in northern Kentucky, with IPA also representing the seller in that... Read More »
Rock-Solid Relationship Leads to Lancaster Pollard’s Latest Financing
Three years after acquiring a 48-unit assisted living community in Shawnee, Kansas, Granite Investment Group is refinancing it. Ross Holland of Lancaster Pollard led the way on the transaction (not LP’s first with Granite), securing a $6.9 million Fannie Mae loan with a seven-year term and a variable interest rate. Granite had bought the community in February 2015 from a local partnership that had originally developed the community in 2000. It was 90% occupied and operated at a 25% margin on approximately $2.4 million of revenues at the time of the transaction. It sold for $7.2 million, or $150,000 per unit, with an all-in cap rate of 8.4%. HUD bridge financing provided by GE Capital,... Read More »
Medicaid to the Rescue
The time came for a private equity firm to exit their investment in Shaker Heights, Ohio (Cleveland MSA), only after investing in substantial renovations and stabilizing the census. Situated downtown near a brand-new commercial development, the community was built in 1995 and features 122 assisted living and 50 licensed skilled nursing beds. It was originally acquired by the PE firm in 2012 as a value-add opportunity and has since improved its operations, with occupancy climbing from around 70% to 85%. Operations at the assisted living community in particular improved dramatically, as a steadier stream of residents who were enrolled in Ohio’s Assisted Living Waiver Program (now... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital Completes Illinois HUD Refinance
After Cambridge Realty Capital Companies announced that it funded a $32.75 million acquisition loan through HUD for a 211-unit affordable seniors housing property in Baltimore, Maryland, the firm followed up by refinancing a 162-bed skilled nursing facility in Glenwood, Illinois, also going through HUD. The owner, an Illinois limited liability company, obtained an $11.6 million loan, with a fully amortizing 30-year term. Located about 30 minutes outside of Chicago, the facility features a short-term rehab unit for Medicare and private insurance patients, and dialysis services, in addition to providing long-term care. Read More »
The Warning Signs Were There
With assisted living occupancy now at an eight-year low, the reasons seemed very obvious a few years ago. I am a hoarder. I like to keep reports, articles, magazines and anything else of interest pertaining to seniors housing and care. So, last night I was cleaning up some papers stacked in my office and came across one of Jerry Doctrow’s first blogs since retiring from Stifel Nicolaus in 2015. Dated January 6, 2016, it was called, “Why Near-Term Trends Could Spell Trouble for Senior Housing.” As I re-read it, all I thought was, why didn’t more people see the problem back then? NIC MAP had just come out with its most recent quarterly data on occupancy and construction, and while not... Read More »
Live Oak Bank Growing Its Senior Care Business
Still just less than a year after forming its senior care lending division (and hiring Adam Sherman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors as the new division’s industry expert), Live Oak Bank closed two more loans for seniors housing properties. First, working on behalf of a local owner/operator in Georgia, Live Oak provided a $5 million SBA 7a loan and a companion balance sheet loan to fund the construction of a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in the town of Cartersville. The loans came with floating rates and fully amortize over 25 years, with no balloon payments. For the developer, this isn’t their first rodeo in northwest Atlanta (a market we have heard has seen... Read More »
HHC Finance Sizzles This Summer
The Capital Advisory Group at Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) has impressed so far this summer, closing $157 million across eight loans in the last two months. Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, who lead the group, went to Pennsylvania to close the largest transaction. Vita Healthcare Group was the borrower, after acquiring eight skilled nursing facilities and 1,050 total beds that were deemed to be non-core by the undisclosed seller, in a transaction handled by Ben Firestone, Christopher Hyldahl, Michael Segal and Gideon Orion of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. HHC Finance closed a $100.3 million bridge loan to fund the purchase. For another skilled nursing portfolio... Read More »Schedule a demo
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