Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge
Dwight Capital had a busy February for bridge loans, closing four separate loans for more than $13.7 million. The bridge loans included $3.96 million for a 12-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas and a $3.7 million loan for a three-facility, 193-bed portfolio that was sold by a not-for-profit to a repeat client of Dwight Capital. In addition, the Dwight team closed a $3.77 million bridge loan on a 116-bed SNF in New Jersey for a buyer that owns and operates several facilities in the state. Finally, they closed a $2.34 million bridge loan on a 32-bed assisted living community in New York. Once the HUD refinancing is completed, Dwight Capital will be providing a supplemental loan for the... Read More »
Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan
Leonard Lucas of Love Funding closed a $10.5 million bridge-to-HUD construction loan for a transitional rehab facility in Yuma, Arizona. The new facility will have 32,000 square feet and 41 private rooms. It will be 100% Medicare and managed care with no Medicaid patients. The bridge loan was placed with Love Funding’s parent company, Midland States Bank. This is the second bridge-to-HUD construction loan obtained through Love Funding in the developer/operator’s portfolio. Read More »
Meridian Gets It Done in Virginia
The team of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson of Meridian Capital Group closed a large financing for the acquisition of a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities located throughout Virginia. Totaling 1,346 beds, the portfolio is now owned by a private skilled nursing investor. A finance company provided the $90 million loan. Read More »
Capital Senior Living Jumps
After plunging to a low of $3.82 per share after fourth quarter earnings were released, shares of Capital Senior Living are showing some bounce. We are sure the market has noticed that the C-Suite has been buying. The price is now up 26% in less than a week. Timing is everything, and the CEO added to her holdings with the purchase of 10,000 shares at $3.954 on March 7 and the CFO 5,135 shares at $3.886 the next day. Even two directors added to their holdings at the same time. I guess they all thought enough was enough. Investors always want to see insiders making purchases, especially on the price downturn, which demonstrates confidence in future performance. Activist investor Cove... Read More »
New York Real Estate Firm Enters SNF Market
Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a pair of southern skilled nursing facilities to a Northeast-based real estate investment firm. Totaling 243 beds, the facilities were built between 1986 and 1990 and combined for 75% occupancy. The seller, an independent owner/operator, decided to exit the long-term care industry, after the problems started mounting at the Kentucky facility. Litigation concerns and rising insurance premiums caused cash flow to plummet at the location. The Tennessee facility was essentially operating at breakeven, and combined, they brought in nearly $14.1 million in revenues. Around 36% of the census came from private pay and Medicare patients (not... Read More »
Harborview’s HUD Haul
Despite the backlog caused by the government shutdown earlier this year, Harborview Capital Partners’ HUD pipeline has been particularly active lately, totaling over $46 million in two March transactions. The larger transaction featured a $23.9 million loan closed on behalf of a brand-new 180-bed skilled nursing facility in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The team then closed a $22.25 million HUD loan for a 164-bed SNF in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, Harborview flew down to sunny Florida to arrange two transactions for assisted living clients. First, for a 136-bed community on the Gulf Coast of Florida, they closed a $6.7 million loan with a five-year term, 20-year amortization and 12... Read More »
HHC Finance Refinances New York-Area SNF
Several years after acquiring a 160-bed skilled nursing facility, an experienced owner/operator is refinancing with the help of Housing & Healthcare Finance. Working through HUD, HHC Finance closed a $28 million loan for the greater New York area facility, replacing higher-rate and shorter-term debt in the process. Since the acquisition, the owner has significantly improved operations and obtained a five-star rating from CMS. Still, renovations were needed at the 20-year old facility, and the HUD loan will provide for around $7 million in improvements. Read More »Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending March 8, 2019
Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Real estate investment firm2 skilled nursing facilities in KY & TN$12.15 million Granite Investment GroupRn Villa Care Center$8.5 million Publicly-traded REITFrontier Four portfolioN/A The Ensign Group, Inc.Downey Care... Read More »
What Happened To Assisted Living Prices?
The assisted living sector fell back to earth in 2018 and dragged the rest of the seniors housing sector with it, according to the soon-to-be-published Seniors Housing Acquisition & Investment Report. Following three successive years of steady increases and a record-high price per unit in 2017 of $221,250, assisted living properties sold on average for just $186,400 per unit in 2018, a 15.8% decline. What could have happened in only a year to cause such a fall? Partially, it was because the share of communities with either 100% or some component of memory care units (which are usually valued higher for their higher rents and more need-based residents) fell from 70% of all communities... Read More »
Ensign Expands California SNF Portfolio
One of the reasons big seniors housing and senior care operators (by big, we mean Brookdale- or HCR ManorCare-big) so often run into problems is that the business is difficult to scale. It is still largely a local business, with the Executive Directors and Marketing/Sales Directors responsible for filling units and maximizing cash flow. When you have a large firm, your key staff at the community-level, who may not be receiving enough attention or enough incentive to do well, could be inclined to jump ship. Just look at the number of Brookdale ED resumes floating around following the Emeritus acquisition. One company that seems to have figured out how to scale correctly is The Ensign Group,... Read More »Schedule a demo
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