Capital One Releases Survey Results
Capital One released its annual survey results from more than 150 senior executives about the 12-month outlook for various issues in seniors housing and skilled nursing. Despite record-high acquisition prices, 37% of the respondents believe acquisitions of existing facilities represent the biggest opportunity, with 30% believing repositioning existing properties represents the best opportunity. In addition, 89% believe the level of M&A activity will remain the same or increase in the next 12 months, split almost equally between the two. Regarding challenges in the next 12 months, 33% cited labor cost pressures and 32% cited supply/demand imbalances. Fewer than 10% were concerned about... Read More »
Sagora Senior Living Adds Two Senior Living Communities To Portfolio
A prominent senior living provider in the Lone Star State, Sagora Senior Living, acquired two more communities, bringing its total portfolio to 31 properties across four southern states. Both properties were developed in late-2014/early-2015 by Dallas-based South Bay Partners under the “Watercrest” brand. The Sugar Land location features 180 units and 12 cottages of independent living, plus an adjacent community with 77 assisted living and 43 memory care units. That is similar to the San Antonio location, with 192 IL units, 26 cottages, 72 AL units and 50 MC units. Once again, the AL/MC building was located on an adjacent property. Based in Fort Worth, Sagora has so far concentrated its... Read More »
Belmont Village Teams With Blue Moon Capital
Belmont Village Senior Living and Blue Moon Capital Partners are teaming up for their first ground-up construction project together, albeit their third venture overall, with a planned 157-unit assisted living/memory care community in Aliso Viejo, California. A master planned community located in the San Joaquin Hills of southern Orange County, Aliso Viejo boasts high home values and high incomes, which should help to fill the luxury community. Featuring both studio and one-bedroom units, the community also comes with a town hall, fitness center, salon and heated salt-water pool. Upon completion in 2018, Belmont Village will operate the community. To fund the project, the venture turned to... Read More »
Welcome to NIC 2017
Welcome to the 2017 Fall NIC Conference, where the buzz is Sabra’s latest acquisition activity, REIT concerns, labor and overdevelopment. Read More »Enlivant, Brookdale Senior Living and Hawthorn Retirement
After the announcement of Sabra Health Care REIT’s 49% investment in the majority of Enlivant’s assisted living properties at a value of $195,000 per unit, the market chatter started anew. The common theme was that if Enlivant’s properties, which were designed and built in areas assuming a 20% to 40% Medicaid census, could sell for that high a price, surely someone would belly up to the bar and take Brookdale Senior Living private, which generally has nicer properties. Not so fast. Like Hawthorn Retirement before it, which went for a high price, these two companies are relatively “clean,” meaning there are not complex issues to work out, such as landlord permissions, ADA... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Divestitures Continue
Large skilled nursing divestitures seem to be in vogue these days, as another institutional skilled nursing owner sold 23 of its non-core facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, with the help of Evans Senior Investments. Consisting of 1,682 total licensed beds, the portfolio was approximately 84% occupied, but five facilities were 90% occupied or higher. Some facilities were also operationally underperforming, and their EBITDAR margins took a hit. So, there is clearly some work to do, and some value to add. It certainly helps that most of the facilities are located in major metro areas in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The buyer, an owner/operator based on the East Coast, paid $94 million, or about... Read More »Sabra Health Care REIT Buys Again
Fresh off the heels of its $3.0 billion merger with Care Capital Properties in August and its $430 million joint venture acquisition of most of Enlivant’s assisted living properties for an investment of $371 million, Sabra Health Care REIT announced a $430 million acquisition of 24 skilled nursing facilities with 2,216 beds, or a price of $194,000 per bed. That price will certainly help bolster what has been a mostly down year for SNF pricing, where we have seen more below-average facilities sold than in the previous two years. But this portfolio is certainly not average, with a 92% occupancy rate and a 59% skilled mix, which is huge for a portfolio of this size. In addition, 21 of the... Read More »
Ziegler Arranges Bond Financing For First Vermont CCRC
When Vermont’s first CCRC, Wake Robin, was ready to expand its services and its campus to accommodate for its growing demand, it turned to Ziegler to arrange a $67.1 million bond financing to fund the project. Situated near Lake Champlain in a wooded 123-acre campus with many walking trails, the not-for-profit community got its start in 1984 and currently features 212 independent living, 51 skilled nursing and 31 residential care units. However, strong demand led the owners to expand each of the CCRC’s offerings, adding 38 new independent living units, 10 residential care units, six skilled nursing units, in addition to renovating the common areas and the existing skilled nursing facility.... Read More »Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending September 22, 2017
Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Bridge Investment GroupSymphony at Oak Lawn$29.25 million Welltower Inc.The Orchard KatyN/A East Coast owner/operator23 skilled nursing facilities$94... Read More »KeyBank, Kindred and BlueMountain
BlueMountain Capital Management has been steadily working to close its large acquisition of 96 skilled nursing facilities from Kindred Healthcare (a deal valued at approximately $700 million). For its latest tranche of closings, the firm received $128 million in acquisition financing originated by Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Mortgage Group. The term loan funded the purchase of 13 facilities including nine in California, three in Massachusetts (that are nearing approval) and one in Nashua, New Hampshire. Of the California facilities, five are located in San Francisco, plus one each in Salinas, Stockton, Walnut Creek and Livermore. This marks... Read More »Schedule a demo
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