• Joint Venture Acquires Four AL/MC Communities

    Following an active year of M&A with five separate deals totaling 21 properties, Stacked Stone Ventures has kicked off its 2026 growth with a portfolio acquisition in the Southeast. In a joint venture with Praxis Capital and an undisclosed family office, Stacked Stone, which was founded by Kent Eikanas, bought four assisted living/memory care... Read More »
  • Another Publicly Traded REIT Joins the M&A Mix

    Another well-capitalized institutional player is stepping into the seniors housing fray, adding fuel to an already aggressive bidding environment. And based on its initial acquisitions, with one closed at more than $1 million per unit, the target seems to be high-quality assets. Prices are rising fast in that segment, and as the buyer pool... Read More »
  • Distressed AL/MC Community Gets New Owner

    Scott Frazier, Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes of Blueprint advised a special servicer in the seniors housing sector on the sale of Spanish Vines, a well-maintained assisted living/memory care community. It sits in a densely populated Pocket-Greenhaven neighborhood of southwest Sacramento, California. The 88-unit community was generating negative... Read More »
  • Underperforming Community Sells and Secures Financing

    A buyer recently acquired an underperforming seniors housing community in Charleston, South Carolina, and Blueprint Capital Markets secured the debt financing. Blueprint also represented the undisclosed seller in its divestment. The asset comprises 84 units of assisted living and memory care. There is room for occupancy growth and expense cuts,... Read More »
  • Standalone MC Communities Secure Acquisition Financing

    Berkadia recently announced three financings on behalf of three different sponsors. In one of the closings, Steve Muth and Ed Williams arranged $25.8 million in acquisition financing for Peregrine Senior Living at Clifton Park and Peregrine Senior Living at Orchard Park. The bridge financing was provided through Berkadia’s Proprietary Lending... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Lancaster Pollard Secures HUD Construction Debt

Jason Dopoulos of Lancaster Pollard secured construction financing through HUD on behalf of Sunshine Retirement Living to expand its presence in southern California. Already with two senior living communities in the San Diego area, the Oregon-based Sunshine, along with Welbrook Senior Living, is working on building its first in the Los Angeles MSA. The Fountain Valley community will feature 106 assisted living and 39 memory care units when it opens in 2020. Situated about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles, it is also ideally located next to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, which certainly adds to the property’s appeal. With its low interest rate, the $36 million HUD loan should help... Read More »
What’s In A Bridge Loan?

What’s In A Bridge Loan?

On December 6, 2018, we hosted the webinar “Bridge Loans: The Hottest Lending Product for Seniors Housing & Care.” In the wide-ranging 90-minute discussion, our panelists touched on some of the key details anyone interested in obtaining bridge financing should know. Here they are, exclusively for The SeniorCare Investor subscribers: Read More »
The Battle For The Post-Acute Patient

The Battle For The Post-Acute Patient

LTACs did not look too good in a recent OIG report, but SNFs fared better. Last month we hosted a timely webinar on who was going to win the battle for the post-acute patient, when and how. The “when” is still a subject of debate, but the “who” and “how” much less so. The who is definitely leaning towards skilled nursing facilities. But part of the problem is the name, which is just one reason why providers are changing their names to transitional care, post-acute care, rehab care…anything to get the reference to “nursing home” out of the equation. How many 35-year old’s would go to a nursing home for their post-op rehab? Not many. Transitional care? No problem. The “how” is a no-brainer:... Read More »
Brookdale Activist Saga Goes On

Brookdale Activist Saga Goes On

Here we go again. Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC is stirring up the pot with shareholders yet again after meeting with several members of Brookdale Senior Living’s board in what appears to be a very friendly meeting. Everyone would like Brookdale’s share price to be much higher than it is, and Land and Buildings is still pursuing the concept of spinning out the owned real estate assets into a new REIT using the RIDEA structure. But in a new twist, they want the best properties spun out into this REIT. They claim that it would produce $1.00 per share of cash flow (adjusted funds from operations), and that the market multiple on that would be in the mid to high teens,... Read More »
A Sign To Come?

A Sign To Come?

Here’s something we may be hearing more of next year. Increased competition, lowered census and staffing issues prompted one owner of an assisted living/personal care community in Southwest Pennsylvania to retire early from the business. Built in 1965 and renovated in 1997, the 58-unit community had a history of strong profits and high occupancy until 2015 when the aforementioned trifecta of issues hit the business. Working on behalf of the seller, Joe and Jim Knapp of Marcus & Millichap’s Knapp Group and Robert Villeneuve of M&M’s Washington, D.C. office found a buyer with experience in value-add projects in western Pennsylvania. They paid $3.6 million, or $62,000 per unit, in... Read More »
BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

BMO Secures Two Acquisition Financings

As joint venture partners TH Real Estate (an affiliate of Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA) and LCS continue their acquisition activity, BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group got in on the action and arranged acquisition financing for two of the deals. First, the firm acted as sole lender for a $14.4 million term facility for a CCRC in Palm City, Florida with 225 independent living units, 20 assisted living units and 36 skilled nursing beds. They again acted as sold lender for another $12.3 million term facility arranged for a CCRC in Essex, Connecticut with 189 independent living units (including 13 cottages) and 45 skilled nursing beds. Read More »
HFF’s Sizzling Skilled Nursing Month

HFF’s Sizzling Skilled Nursing Month

HFF showed its strength in the skilled nursing M&A market, closing three transactions at the end of last month. Dave Fasano sold four Florida SNFs currently in receivership to New York-based TL Management for $24 million, or $66,850 per bed. Built between 1965 and 1996, the facilities averaged 87% occupancy but operated at just a 5.7% margin on about $26 million of combined revenues. However, TL Management believes EBITDA could be increased to $3.5 million, which if true would yield a very conservative cap rate of 14.6% on the purchase price. TL, with its over-100 SNF portfolio across 10 states, will have to use all of its experience to get the job done.   Mr. Fasano then teamed up... Read More »
New York Investment Fund Wins Bid For Knoxville Property

New York Investment Fund Wins Bid For Knoxville Property

In late November, the team of Mike Surak, Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, closed on the sale of a 69-unit assisted living and memory care community in Knoxville, Tennessee. The community opened in early 2017 with 54,000 square feet on 6.91 acres. Of the total, 51 units are assisted living and 18 are memory care. Occupancy had reached 90% by closing, and was forecasted to reach 95%. The IPA team obtained five offers, and the winning bid was $16.8 million from an upstate New York investment fund. This came to just over $243,000 per unit, and a 6.6% cap rate on annualized EBITDA.    Read More »
Diversicare Divests Three Kentucky Properties

Diversicare Divests Three Kentucky Properties

After a “challenging quarter” when Diversicare Healthcare Services reported a net loss of $7.4 million, (compared with a $600,000 loss last third quarter), a drop in average occupancy to 79.3% (down from 80.1%) a $6.4 million contingent liability fund regarding potential false claims violations, AND the departure of their CEO Kelly Gill, the company completed the sale of three skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky earlier this month. As required by bank agreements, the company used the net proceeds to entirely pay off the associated indebtedness and are probably pretty happy to move on and concentrate on bigger problems. The facilities in question were in Fulton (60 beds), Glasgow (94... Read More »
Alliance Moving Forward at Massachusetts SNF

Alliance Moving Forward at Massachusetts SNF

The not-for-profit senior care operator, Alliance Health & Human Services, secured both a permanent refinance of its 101-bed skilled nursing facility in Braintree, Massachusetts, and a more stable financial future to further its mission there. The $14.2 million HUD loan, arranged by Aaron Becker of Lancaster Pollard, is the sixth overall closed in the relationship. It refinanced existing debt and reimbursed Alliance for prior capital expenditures. Alliance will now be able to file a Determination of Need with the state in order to invest another $3 million to renovate the facility. Under the program, the state would reimburse Alliance the renovation funds through a future increase in... Read More »