Greystone Closes Two Freddie Mac Financings
Greystone ended October with a couple of varied transactions. First, Cary Tremper facilitated a Freddie Mac $43.98 million loan to support the acquisition of a 207-unit senior living community in Daly City, California (San Francisco MSA). The loan was originated on behalf of the borrower, Senior Resource Group and Welltower. Built between 2008 and 2011, the community has been managed by SRG since 2012. It offers independent living and assisted living units. Then, if seniors housing has an affordability problem, then maybe age-restricted manufactured housing communities are part of the solution. To that end, Greystone arranged a $33.7 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance one of those... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Announced Cape Cod Closing
Walker & Dunlop both structured and provided $28.3 million in acquisition financing for the new owner of a 194-bed senior care campus in the Cape Cod town of Brewster, Massachusetts. Coming with a two-year term and interest-only payments throughout the life of the loan, the financing covers about 90% of the acquisition costs, leaving the borrower with funds to execute on some renovations at the facility. That borrower was The Pointe Group, a private, family-owned and locally managed senior living and rehabilitation provider in Massachusetts. Previously owned and operated by Joshua Zuckerman, who wanted to retire from the business, the 135-bed SNF was built in 1995, while the 59-unit... Read More »
KeyBank Refinances Raleigh Senior Living Community
Peter Trazzera, Patrick Gilbreath and Megan Major of KeyBank Real Estate Capital structured a $40 million bridge loan to refinance a 183-unit senior living community in Raleigh, North Carolina. Developed, owned and operated by Singh Development, the community features 121 independent living, 39 assisted living and 23 memory care units, and operates under the Waltonwood brand. It opened in January 2019 at a cost of $60 million, or $327,900 per unit. Earlier this month, KeyBank also secured $10.6 million in financing for an affordable housing developer/operator to build a 60-unit Section 8 senior apartment community in Cincinnati, Ohio. The borrower, The Model Group, also obtained financing... Read More »
Of Ventas, Welltower and NIC
I know as one gets older, confusion can become more common. And today, I am a little confused about the state of the senior living industry. -Sponsored by The Senior Care Acquisition Reports NIC MAP has reported that maybe we have hit bottom in the third quarter, and that new construction starts are starting to decline, even though new openings remain high. Assisted living occupancy, while posting a small sequential increase, still remains far too low to get excited, but bottoming out would be welcome news. Then, Ventas reported its third quarter earnings, painting a not-so-pretty picture. Their RIDEA operating portfolio has not been performing well, posting a 5.0% decline in... Read More »
Dissecting the Jump in Average Assisted Living Values
It’s amazing the difference that one deal can make. We are talking about Welltower’s $1.76 billion sale of its entire Benchmark Senior Living portfolio to KKR and its impact on the average private per assisted living unit sold in the most recent four quarters. That sale, which came in at $425,400 per unit across the 48 properties, pushed the sector’s weighted average up to $252,900 per unit, a 23% increase from the most recent four-quarter period ($205,900 per unit) and 36% from calendar year 2018 ($186,400 per unit), according to The Seniors Housing Acquisition & Investment Report. We should note that this average is likely to change as more deals from 2019 float to the surface, and... Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Flips Ann Arbor Assisted Living Community
It’s only been two years since Capitol Seniors Housing acquired a 75-unit assisted living/memory care community in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but the time has come to sell. Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Sam Dylag and Chris Remeika of Cushman & Wakefield found a buyer in Kayne Anderson Real Estate, with Provision Living staying on as the operator. No purchase price was disclosed. Originally built in 2000, the community features 63 assisted living and 12 memory care units. When CSH purchased the community from Provision Living in January 2017, they committed to investing in resident care technology, additional common areas and unit renovations. Those projects also eventually included a brand-new... Read More »
JCH Gets High Price for Orange County Asset
JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage announced a big sale of a senior living community in Southern California in what is the second-largest single-asset transaction of 2019 (by price), so far. Totaling 214 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, the community is located in the high barrier to entry Orange County. Occupancy was a strong 94%, and the community reported a remarkable 53% operating margin. It was previously owned by a national owner/operator, which decided to sell based on the current cap rate environment. Given the drop in average cap rates for both the assisted living and independent living markets, that reasoning makes sense. After a confidential... Read More »HJ Sims Heads to Hawaii for Latest Financing
Two skilled nursing facilities in Hawaii refinanced their debt and lowered their interest rate by about 60% in a transaction led by HJ Sims. The facilities, both located in Honolulu, consisted of 92 beds and 75 beds, respectively. Before this refinancing, they were collateralized with a single, high-interest rate bridge loan that had both a short term and expensive extension provisions. Sims Mortgage Funding (SMF) underwrote a $14.08 million loan through HUD to take out as much of the bridge debt as possible, resulting in a loan at about 80% of the estimated market value. The loan came with a 35-year term and a 2.05x debt service coverage ratio. In addition, to round out the capital stack,... Read More »
Ventas Reports Third Quarter Results
Ventas’ third quarter results are in and were less than optimal for its seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP). Comparing the third quarter of 2019 with the same quarter in 2018, same-store cash NOI for its SHOP fell by 5.0%. Occupancy figures were not pretty either, with the quarter ending approximately 115 basis points lower than the end of the third quarter of 2018. The average third quarter occupancy compared with the average of Q3:18 was a less drastic 70-basis point drop. The company acknowledged that overbuilding in some markets led to price competition and pressure on revenues (a refreshingly honest admission when compared with other public companies), which contributed to the... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending October 25, 2019
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