• Healthcare REIT Divests SNF to In-Place Operating Partner

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage returned to West Des Moines, Iowa, to sell a skilled nursing facility that it had previously sold in 2019. A healthcare REIT was the buyer back then and is now selling the facility to its in-place regional operating partner. Built in 2004, Arbor Springs features 56 beds on an attractive four-acre campus about 10... Read More »
  • Near-Stabilized AL/MC Community Lands Refinance

    Carnegie Capital closed a bridge refinance for a 50-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Houston, Texas MSA. Four years ago, the property was bought by a California-based operator with a growing footprint in Texas. Performance was approximately two to three months from stabilization, but with the acquisition loan maturity looming, a... Read More »
  • Record-Setting HUD Express Lane Application to Commitment

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided a $6.15 million loan to refinance Avalon Memory Care Keller, a 50-bed stand-alone memory care community in Keller, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth MSA). The fully amortized, 35-year HUD loan was provided for the owner, a Texas limited liability company, that wished to recast bank debt into a long-term non-recourse... Read More »
  • Large Healthcare Owner Receives Financing

    An owner of more than 80 healthcare properties spanning nine states secured bridge and working capital financing for its skilled nursing portfolio in Washington. The financing includes a $40 million bridge loan and a $6 million working capital line of credit, with a 36-month initial term. MONTICELLOAM provided the funding. Read More »
  • Out-of-State Owner Divests to Investor

    A couple of assisted living and memory care communities in Eastern Tennessee recently traded hands. The two properties comprise more than 100 units. A Chicago-based investor aligned with the seller’s long-term vision for the communities acquired the assets, and partnered with a regional operator that was looking to grow their presence in the... Read More »
The Ensign Group Expands in South Texas with Senior Care Campus

The Ensign Group Expands in South Texas with Senior Care Campus

The Ensign Group may have just spun off its senior living assets into a new entity named The Pennant Group, but the firm can’t fully shake the seniors housing business, acquiring a senior care campus with 38 assisted living and 92 independent living units, along with 60 skilled nursing beds. Located in the town of Harlingen, the campus complements five other Ensign operations in south Texas, including another 82-bed skilled nursing facility in Harlingen that the company acquired from The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society in 2009. Ensign acquired both the operations and real estate in this transaction, bringing its portfolio to 198 skilled nursing operations, 27 of which also... Read More »

Dwight Capital Arranges Loan for Long Island Facility

Dwight Capital followed up on a productive Spring to close a bridge loan for a Long Island assisted living community. Sitting on over eight acres in Port Jefferson Station, this community features 181 beds of Medicaid-funded assisted living on the same campus as a 143-bed skilled nursing facility. Kevin Lifshitz from Dwight Capital closed a $12.8 million bridge loan for the community. Read More »
Solvere Living Adds Three More Communities

Solvere Living Adds Three More Communities

After 10 years in business, Solvere Living continues to expand its portfolio of managed senior living communities, recently adding three more in Texas and Florida to bring its total to 15 properties across eight states. The Texas community is located in Plano near three major medical centers. It features 44 assisted living and 21 memory care units on a four-acre campus. Then, Solvere added two Florida facilities. One, with 83 assisted living and 38 memory care units, is located in Jensen Beach (Port St. Lucie area) and features amenities including a pool, salon, spa, putting green and an outdoor entertainment center, among others. There is also an in-house rehabilitation clinic for... Read More »
The Skilled Nursing M&A Market

The Skilled Nursing M&A Market

Have we hit bottom, or will values continue to decline? Join us next Thursday as we try to decipher what the market holds for investors over the next several years. Depending on who you talk to, skilled nursing facility values, and the SNF M&A market in general, are going to be troubled for a while. Or, we have hit bottom, and with the new PDPM reimbursement system starting in a few months, SNFs will claim their rightful spot in the healthcare delivery food chain, with values increasing. That is quite a difference in opinion, and one where billions of dollars are at stake. Next Thursday, we are hosting a webinar on the skilled nursing acquisition market to try to decipher where it is... Read More »
Ventas Doubles Down on Canadian Seniors Housing Market

Ventas Doubles Down on Canadian Seniors Housing Market

The Big-3 REITs are back as buyers, with Ventas making the biggest splash of them all by acquiring 31 senior living communities in Quebec for approximately C$2.4 billion, or US$1.8 billion. Made in an 85/15% partnership with the in-place operator, Le Groupe Maurice, the acquisition is expected to generate compound annual NOI growth of 4% over the next five years. The stabilized portfolio, consisting of 28 communities located in core urban markets, has 7,885 units, an occupancy of 97%, an average age of seven years and more than C$2,600 in monthly revenue per-occupied unit. It certainly helps that the penetration rate for seniors housing in Quebec is twice that of the rest of Canada at 18%.... Read More »
NHI Acquires Discovery Senior Living Portfolio from Kayne Anderson

NHI Acquires Discovery Senior Living Portfolio from Kayne Anderson

National Health Investors, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Discovery Senior Living to acquire six senior living communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana from affiliates of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors. The venture, of which NHI is a 97.5% owner, spent close to $126.850 million, or about $212,800 per unit, on the portfolio that totaled 145 independent living, 356 assisted living and 95 memory care units. Discovery, the existing operator, leased the portfolio under a 10-year agreement, with a 6.5% initial annual cash yield, a CPI-based escalator with a 2% floor and 3% cap beginning in year-two, and two five-year extension options. In addition to the base purchase... Read More »
Matt Alley Closes Another Texas Transaction

Matt Alley Closes Another Texas Transaction

Matt Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage is on a tear in Texas, selling his third skilled nursing facility there in a month. The latest sale involved a value-add SNF in Gainesville selling to a Texas-based owner/operator for $1.5 million, or $17,900 per operational bed. Licensed for 116 beds, this older facility (built in 1971) struggled with local competition and was a geographical outlier for the regional owner/operator seller. Occupancy averaged just 49% in 2018, and the facility operated with just 84 beds, with an 8% margin on about $3.475 million of revenues. However, it has a few things going for it, like being located one mile from North Texas Medical Center of Gainesville,... Read More »
Greystone Acquires St. Augustine SNF

Greystone Acquires St. Augustine SNF

Greystone Healthcare Management Corp. acquired a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in St. Augustine, Florida. Located on eight acres about a mile from Flagler Hospital, the facility received $3 million of renovations to its 24 private and 48 semi-private rooms. That brings Greystone’s north Florida portfolio to four facilities. Read More »
Busy May For Meridian

Busy May For Meridian

Meridian Capital’s Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson are fast closing in on a billion-dollar year in loan closings, and we’re not even halfway through 2019. Across 29 transactions so far, the team has arranged more than $955 million in financing for skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living properties across 18 states. Most notably, Meridian arranged $200 million in bridge financing for more than 25 skilled nursing facilities and over 2,500 beds. There were a couple of construction financings, including a $24 million loan (plus $9.1 million in equity) for a to-be-built 104-bed independent living/assisted living community in Arizona and an $11.5 million loan to fund... Read More »