• Omega Beats Estimates

    Omega Healthcare Investors released its second quarter results, beating estimates and demonstrating resilience amid the bankruptcy of Genesis Healthcare, one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country. The REIT reported AFFO of $0.77 per common share, which was above the estimate of $0.75. Revenue also came in higher than expected,... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Seniors Housing Communities to SNF Company

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Vince Viverito, Nick Cacciabando, Jeff Binder and Lucas Doll handled the sale of two seniors housing communities in Oklahoma. The communities are located in Mustang and Oklahoma City, both built in stages from the late-1990s to the late-2000s. They total 135 units of independent living, assisted living and... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Recapitalizes Massachusetts Class-A Portfolio

    Northbridge Companies and Taurus Investment Holdings recapitalized their portfolio of six Class-A seniors housing communities in the Boston suburbs for $227 million, or $447,700 per unit. The recap comes five years after the joint venture acquired the portfolio for approximately $200 million, or $394,500 per unit, which was Taurus’ first... Read More »
  • Ziegler Places Two Bank Loans for Phorcys Capital Partners

    Ziegler served as the capital structure advisor in the placement of two bank loans totaling $21.795 million on behalf of Phorcys Capital Partners. The first financing was used to acquire Superior Residences of Clermont, a not-for-profit assisted living/memory care community in Clermont, Florida that was held and operated through a court-appointed... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profit Secures Refinancing

    Ziegler announced the closing of a large bond financing on behalf of Sequoia Living, a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation that serves seniors throughout Northern California. Sequoia, originally known as Northern California Presbyterian Homes, and its related entities own four CCRCs and three affordable housing communities. The... Read More »
It Takes a Village to Find Construction Funding

It Takes a Village to Find Construction Funding

Construction financing is still not easy to find these days, although it is better than one year ago, so it takes a lot of patience and persistence for the developers, advisors and ultimate lenders to get the job done. One project in Dublin, California (Bay Area), called The Whitford is now set to get off the ground with an $80 million financing package provided by Live Oak Bank and Nuveen Green Capital, with Tremper Capital Group facilitating the transaction.  The borrower, a joint venture between Harbert Senior Housing Fund II and Harbert South Bay Partners, was looking for non-recourse financing to build a 140-unit, Class-A assisted living/memory care community, which limited the... Read More »
Pines Senior Living Divests to an Investor in East Texas

Pines Senior Living Divests to an Investor in East Texas

Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint facilitated the sale of an East Texas assisted living community, marking Blueprint’s 12th and final Texas closing of 2024. The seller was Pines Senior Living. A purchase agreement was signed just five days after LOI execution, and closing occurred on December 30th, 40 days after LOI execution.  Built in 1996, the community features 30 units. Pines invested $600,000 in renovations between 2022 and 2023 to modernize the common areas, add updated amenities, fully renovate resident units and enhance the community’s exterior. Operations turned around, and a focus on strong programs and clinical care revenues increased the value. And as a result... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Ziegler announced the closing of Masonicare’s Series 2024 Taxable Loan totaling $17 million for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The loan closed December 16, 2024. Masonicare finalized an affiliation with United Methodist Homes (of Connecticut), which owns/operates five communities in Connecticut and owns The Long Hill Company, which has current operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Oregon. Together, UMH and Long Hill care for approximately 2,000 residents. The combined organization will feature over 4,000 owned and managed units, which would make it one of the largest not-for-profit senior living providers in the Northeast region.  Masonicare entered into a purchase and sale agreement... Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: First off, Happy New Year Everyone.

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: First off, Happy New Year Everyone.

I suspect many of you think I am going to talk about the record setting M&A year in 2024 for long-term care, but I believe Ben has fully covered that and will continue to do so in the coming weeks as the stats are finalized. Plus, he now knows more than I do on the topic. No. I am going to talk about a book I just read, called The Big 100 by William Kole. All we have heard about for years, even decades, is the growth in the 80+ and 85+ population and what it will do for the seniors housing industry. This book is about the 100+ population, called centenarians, and super-centenarians, those who have attained 110 years and older. The centenarian group is the fastest growing age cohort,... Read More »
Berkadia’s Recent Transaction Activity

Berkadia’s Recent Transaction Activity

Berkadia announced the financing of four seniors housing communities totaling $29.9 million in Mississippi, Florida and Indiana, with all the deals closing since November. Berkadia also announced the sale of two seniors housing communities.  In November, Steve Muth and Andrew Lanzaro leveraged HUD’s 232/223(f) program to close two loans totaling $8.9 million for a first time HUD borrower. The loan proceeds retired maturing bank debt on two Mississippi communities: a 40-unit assisted living community and a 47-unit assisted living and memory care community. At underwriting, one community was fully occupied, while the other had an occupancy rate of 86%. Both properties are located in... Read More »
Blueprint’s Q4 Closings

Blueprint’s Q4 Closings

Blueprint announced a couple of its Q4 closings. In one, a not-for-profit organization took over a seniors housing community in the Hartford, Connecticut MSA, from a publicly traded REIT. The buyer appears to be Masonicare, which announced its acquisition of Atria Greenridge Place in the town of Rocky Hill. Built in 1998, the 108-unit assisted living/memory care community now operates as Masonicare at Greenridge Place. Historically, it was well occupied and boasted strong cash flow, but there was near-immediate upside through strategic capital investment and marketing. The listing received five or six offers, including from private equity firms and a publicly traded company, before... Read More »
Allaire Healthcare Acquires PA CCRC

Allaire Healthcare Acquires PA CCRC

A majority-skilled nursing CCRC in Coal Township, Pennsylvania, was sold by a private PA-based owner divesting his last owned building. Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction, which saw Allaire Healthcare, a New Jersey-based owner/operator with a strong presence in eastern Pennsylvania, emerge as the buyer. Built in the 1970s, Mountain View featured 271 skilled nursing beds and eight independent living units, enough to qualify for a CCRC license. It was occupied in the 60s and operated at a significant loss. The offering was originally marketed in the winter of 2022 but took multiple years to structure the HUD TPA, CCRC licensure, and working with two... Read More »
Florida Trio Trades to AEW

Florida Trio Trades to AEW

A seniors housing portfolio that includes Watercrest Buena Vista, Watercrest Spanish Springs and Watercrest Winter Park in Florida sold to AEW Capital Management. The three communities total 416 units in The Villages and Winter Park. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team represented the seller, Titan Development, in the transaction, which saw AEW retain the current operator, Watercrest Senior Living, as the third-party operator. JLL is also handling the acquisition financing on two of the assets for the buyer, which will close in January 2025. Completed in 2018, Watercrest Buena Vista offers 224 units in a three-story, Class-A building, including 118 independent living, 74 assisted... Read More »
It Takes a Village to Find Construction Funding

Joint Venture Secures Construction Financing

Live Oak Bank announced a couple of construction loans closed on behalf of seniors housing borrowers. First, in December, Live Oak Bank provided a $40 million senior loan in partnership with a $39.6 million CPACE loan provided by Nuveen Green Capital for a joint venture between Harbert Senior Housing Fund II and Harbert South Bay Partners. The loan provides financing for the ground-up construction of a 140-unit Class A assisted living and memory care community in California and features a five-year term with 42 months of interest-only payments.  We also learned that Live Oak Bank led, jointly arranged with Huntington National Bank, and closed a construction loan for a joint venture... Read More »
Struggling SNF Sells in Michigan

Struggling SNF Sells in Michigan

Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of the Villages of Lapeer, a skilled nursing facility in Lapeer, Michigan, approximately 50 miles northwest of Detroit. It was built in 1959, comprises 87 beds, and sits on 5.6 acres. Like many SNFs, the Villages of Lapeer faced operational and compliance challenges during the pandemic, which impacted census and overall performance. The seller was an independent owner/operator seeking to transition out of the skilled nursing industry. Recognizing the seller’s need to exit, ESI expedited the process by bringing in a regional ownership group active in Michigan, which executed the deal within four months from start to finish. Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two Financings

Northland Networks Arranges Two Acquisition Loans

Northland Networks, a member of the First National of Nebraska family, ended 2024 on a high note, closing two acquisition financings for skilled nursing clients in the last several months. One was for a 59-bed skilled nursing facility in rural southern Kentucky that was built in the late-1970s by the same family that is now selling it. The facility could improve its operations, and that will be the task of a Northeast-based real estate investment firm to turn around with an operating partner. Seth Kahn of Northland arranged an acquisition loan with a bank, structuring it with a five-year term, one year of interest only, an attractive interest rate and at 80% loan-to-value. ... Read More »